* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest: (30 commits)
ktest: Ask for the manditory config options instead of just failing
ktest: Copy the last good and bad configs in config_bisect
ktest: For grub reboot, use run_ssh instead of run_command
ktest: Added force stop after success and failure
ktest: Parse off the directory name in useconfig for failures
ktest: Use different temp config name for minconfig
ktest: Updated the sample.conf for the latest options
ktest: Added compare script to test ktest.pl to sample.conf
ktest: Added config_bisect test type
ktest/cleanups: Added version 0.2, ssh as options
ktest: Output something easy to parse for failure or success
ktest: Allow a test case to undefine a default value
ktest: Use $output_config instead of typing $outputdir/.config
ktest: Write to stdout if no log file is given
ktest: Use oldnoconfig instead of yes command
ktest: Update the sample config file with more documentation
ktest: New TEST_START instead of using [], and use real SHA1s
ktest: Add poweroff after halt and powercycle after reboot
ktest: Add POST_INSTALL to allow initrds to be created
ktest: Added sample.conf, new %default option format
...
MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS first became available on Westmere Xeon.
It is implemented in all Sandy Bridge processors -- mobile, desktop and server.
It is expected to become increasingly important in subsequent generations.
x86_energy_perf_policy is a user-space utility to set the
hardware energy vs performance policy hint in the processor.
Most systems would benefit from "x86_energy_perf_policy normal"
at system startup, as the hardware default is maximum performance
at the expense of energy efficiency.
See x86_energy_perf_policy.8 man page for more information.
Background:
Linux-2.6.36 added "epb" to /proc/cpuinfo to indicate
if an x86 processor supports MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS,
without actually modifying the MSR.
In March, 2010, Venkatesh Pallipadi proposed a small driver
that programmed MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS, based on
the cpufreq governor in use. It also offered
a boot-time cmdline option to override.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/4/457
But hiding the hardware policy behind the
governor choice was deemed "kinda icky".
In June, 2010, I proposed a generic user/kernel API to
generalize the power/performance policy trade-off.
"RFC: /sys/power/policy_preference"
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/16/399
That is my preference for implementing this capability,
but I received no support on the list.
So in September, 2010, I sent x86_energy_perf_policy.c to LKML,
a user-space utility that scribbles directly to the MSR.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/28/246
Here is that same utility, after responding to some review feedback,
to live in tools/power/, where it is easily found.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
turbostat is a Linux tool to observe proper operation
of Intel(R) Turbo Boost Technology.
turbostat displays the actual processor frequency
on x86 processors that include APERF and MPERF MSRs.
Note that turbostat is of limited utility on Linux
kernels 2.6.29 and older, as acpi_cpufreq cleared
APERF/MPERF up through that release.
On Intel Core i3/i5/i7 (Nehalem) and newer processors,
turbostat also displays residency in idle power saving states,
which are necessary for diagnosing any cpuidle issues
that may have an effect on turbo-mode.
See the turbostat.8 man page for example usage.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Before we had sym_counter, it was initialized to zero and we used that
as an index in the global attrs variable, now we have a list of evsel
entries, and sym_counter became sym_evsel, that remained initialized to
zero (NULL): b00m.
Fix it by initializing it to the first entry in the evsel list.
Bug-introduced: 69aad6f
Reported-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Tested-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We need to defer calling perf_evsel_list__delete() till after atexit
registered routines, because we need to traverse the events being
recorded at that time at least on 'perf record'.
This fixes the problem reported by Thomas Renninger where cmd_record
called by cmd_timechart would not write the tracing data to the perf.data
file header because the evsel_list at atexit (control+C on 'perf timechart
record') time would be empty, being already deleted by run_builtin(),
and thus 'perf timechart' when trying to process such perf.data file would
die with:
"no trace data in the file"
Problem introduced in 70d544d.
Reported-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In this if statement:
if (head + event->header.size >= mmap_size) {
if (mmaps[map_idx]) {
munmap(mmaps[map_idx], mmap_size);
mmaps[map_idx] = NULL;
}
page_offset = page_size * (head / page_size);
file_offset += page_offset;
head -= page_offset;
goto remap;
}
With, for instance, these values:
head=2992
event->header.size=48
mmap_size=3040
We end up endlessly looping back to remap. Off by one.
Problem introduced in 55b4462.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Bisected-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Tested-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
And a test for it:
[acme@felicio linux]$ perf test
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
2: detect open syscall event: Ok
3: detect open syscall event on all cpus: Ok
[acme@felicio linux]$
Translating C the test does:
1. generates different number of open syscalls on each CPU
by using sched_setaffinity
2. Verifies that the expected number of events is generated
on each CPU
It works as expected.
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -v
tracing/slab: Move kmalloc tracepoint out of inline code
slub: Fix slub_lock down/up imbalance
slub: Fix build breakage in Documentation/vm
slub tracing: move trace calls out of always inlined functions to reduce kernel code size
slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c
on ppc64:
/usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:#define PTHREAD_STACK_MIN 131072
therefore following set of commands:
gives:
perf.2.6.37test: builtin-sched.c:493: create_tasks: Assertion `!(err)' failed.
So make sure we do not set stack size lower than PTHREAD_STACK_MIN.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110110160417.GB2685@psychotron.brq.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
For unsupported events (e.g., H/W events when running in a VM)
perf stat currently fails with the error message:
Error: open_counter returned with 2 (No such file or directory).
/bin/dmesg may provide additional information.
Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
dmesg is of no help and it is not clear as to why it fails to
open the counter. This patch changes the error message to
Error: cache-misses event is not supported.
Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
LPU-Reference: <1294597272-17335-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Since commit 69aad6f1(perf tools: Introduce event selectors), only
perf_event_attr::type and ::config are passed to event selector, which
makes perf tool not work correctly.
For example, PEBS does not work because perf_event_attr::precise_ip is
not passed to the syscall.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1294369869.20563.19.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1436 commits)
cassini: Use local-mac-address prom property for Cassini MAC address
net: remove the duplicate #ifdef __KERNEL__
net: bridge: check the length of skb after nf_bridge_maybe_copy_header()
netconsole: clarify stopping message
netconsole: don't announce stopping if nothing happened
cnic: Fix the type field in SPQ messages
netfilter: fix export secctx error handling
netfilter: fix the race when initializing nf_ct_expect_hash_rnd
ipv4: IP defragmentation must be ECN aware
net: r6040: Return proper error for r6040_init_one
dcb: use after free in dcb_flushapp()
dcb: unlock on error in dcbnl_ieee_get()
net: ixp4xx_eth: Return proper error for eth_init_one
include/linux/if_ether.h: Add #define ETH_P_LINK_CTL for HPNA and wlan local tunnel
net: add POLLPRI to sock_def_readable()
af_unix: Avoid socket->sk NULL OOPS in stream connect security hooks.
net_sched: pfifo_head_drop problem
mac80211: remove stray extern
mac80211: implement off-channel TX using hw r-o-c offload
mac80211: implement hardware offload for remain-on-channel
...
I found when specifying all tracepoints with -e to one of subcommand,
such as 'stat', the program will trigger a buffer overflow error, like
this:
*** buffer overflow detected ***: ./perf terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x382cefb2c7]
....
The tracepoints are separated by comma, something like this:
$ perf stat -a -e `perf list |grep Tracepoint|awk -F'[' '{gsub(/[[:space:]]+/,"",$1);array[FNR]=$1}END{outputs=array[1];for (i=2;i<=FNR;i++){ outputs=outputs "," array[i];};print outputs}'`
The root reason of this problem is that store_event_type() is called for all
events, and will overflow the 'filename' at:
strncat(filename, orgname, strlen(orgname));
This patch fixes it by calling store_event_type() only when the event name has
been found.
LKML-Reference: <20110106093922.GB6713@hpt.nay.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Han Pingtian <phan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch fixes the usage of the perf_event.h header file
between command modules and the supporting code in util.
It is necessary to ensure that ALL files use the SAME
perf_event.h header from the kernel source tree.
There were a couple of #include <linux/perf_event.h> mixed
with #include "../../perf_event.h".
This caused issues on some distros because of mismatch
in the layout of struct perf_event_attr. That eventually
led perf stat to segfault.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4d233cf0.2308e30a.7b00.ffffc187@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Linus Torvalds
Len Brown
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Jiri Pirko
David Ahern
Pekka Enberg
Lin Ming
Frederic Weisbecker
Han Pingtian
Stephane Eranian