GCC often introduces new warnings with lots of false positives -
breaking -Werror builds. WERROR=0 allows one to build perf without much
fuss - while still encouraging people to send patches to avoid the fuss
of having to type WERROR=0.
Bisecting back to commits that produce a (mostly harmless) warning on
some compilers is more difficult. With WERROR=0 one could bisect without
worrying about harmless warnings.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/eac06c7cc4920e5d4830417d466161fb26c7359c.1315514559.git.dvhart@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Buildid can vary in size. According to the man page of ld, buildid can
be 160 bits (sha1) or 128 bits (md5, uuid). Perf assumes buildid size of
20 bytes (160 bits) regardless. When dealing with md5 buildids, it would
thus read more than needed and that would cause mismatches and samples
without symbols.
This patch fixes this by taking into account the actual buildid size as
encoded int he section header. The leftover bytes are also cleared.
This second version fixes a minor issue with the memset() base position.
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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4cc1af3c.8ee7d80a.5a28.ffff868e@mx.google.com
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently, analyzing PPC data files on x86 the cpu field is always 0 and
the tid and pid are backwards. For example, analyzing a PPC file on PPC
the pid/tid fields show:
rsyslogd 1210/1212
and analyzing the same PPC file using an x86 perf binary shows:
rsyslogd 1212/1210
The problem is that the swap_op method for samples is
perf_event__all64_swap which assumes all elements in the sample_data
struct are u64s. cpu, tid and pid are u32s and need to be handled
individually. Given that the swap is done before the sample is parsed,
the simplest solution is to undo the 64-bit swap of those elements when
the sample is parsed and do the proper swap.
The RAW data field is generic and perf cannot have programmatic knowledge
of how to treat that data. Instead a warning is given to the user.
Thanks to Anton Blanchard for providing a data file for a mult-CPU
PPC system so I could verify the fix for the CPU fields.
v3 -> v4:
- fixed use of WARN_ONCE
v2 -> v3:
- used WARN_ONCE for message regarding raw data
- removed struct wrapper around union
- fixed whitespace issues
v1 -> v2:
- added a union for undoing the byte-swap on u64 and redoing swap on
u32's to address compiler errors (see git commit 65014ab3)
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315321946-16993-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
I took a profile that suggested 60% of total CPU time was in the
hypervisor:
...
60.20% [H] 0x33d43c
4.43% [k] ._spin_lock_irqsave
1.07% [k] ._spin_lock
Using perf stat to get the user/kernel/hypervisor breakdown contradicted
this.
The problem is we merge all unresolved samples into the one unknown
bucket. If add a comparison by sample type to sort__sym_cmp we get the
real picture:
...
57.11% [.] 0x80fbf63c
4.43% [k] ._spin_lock_irqsave
1.07% [k] ._spin_lock
0.65% [H] 0x33d43c
So it was almost all userspace, not hypervisor as the initial profile
suggested.
I found another issue while adding this. Symbol sorting sometimes shows
multiple entries for the unknown bucket:
...
16.65% [.] 0x6cd3a8
7.25% [.] 0x422460
5.37% [.] yylex
4.79% [.] malloc
4.78% [.] _int_malloc
4.03% [.] _int_free
3.95% [.] hash_source_code_string
2.82% [.] 0x532908
2.64% [.] 0x36b538
0.94% [H] 0x8000000000e132a4
0.82% [H] 0x800000000000e8b0
This happens because we aren't consistent with our sorting. On
one hand we check to see if both symbols match and for two unresolved
samples sym is NULL so we match:
if (left->ms.sym == right->ms.sym)
return 0;
On the other hand we use sample IP for unresolved samples when
comparing against a symbol:
ip_l = left->ms.sym ? left->ms.sym->start : left->ip;
ip_r = right->ms.sym ? right->ms.sym->start : right->ip;
This means unresolved samples end up spread across the rbtree and we
can't merge them all.
If we use cmp_null all unresolved samples will end up in the one bucket
and the output makes more sense:
...
39.12% [.] 0x36b538
5.37% [.] yylex
4.79% [.] malloc
4.78% [.] _int_malloc
4.03% [.] _int_free
3.95% [.] hash_source_code_string
2.26% [H] 0x800000000000e8b0
Acked-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110831115145.4f598ab2@kryten
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events does not create anonymous mmap events
even though the kernel does. As a result an already running application
with dynamically created code will not get profiled - all samples end up
in the unknown bucket.
This patch skips any entries with '[' in the name to avoid adding events
for special regions (eg the vsyscall page). All other executable mmaps
are assumed to be anonymous and an event is synthesized.
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110830091506.60b51fe8@kryten
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf-record currently creates events enabled. When doing a system wide
collection (-a arg) this causes data collection for perf's
initialization activities -- eg., perf_event__synthesize_threads().
For some events (e.g., context switch S/W event or tracepoints like
syscalls) perf's initialization causes a lot of events to be captured
frequently generating "Check IO/CPU overload!" warnings on larger
systems (e.g., 2 socket, quad core, hyperthreading).
perf's initialization phase can be skipped by creating events
disabled and then enabling them once the initialization is done.
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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314289075-14706-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
kallsyms__parse assumes that /proc/kallsyms is sorted and sets the end
of the previous symbol to the start of the current one.
Unfortunately module symbols are not sorted, eg:
ffffffffa0081f30 t e1000_clean_rx_irq [e1000e]
ffffffffa00817a0 t e1000_alloc_rx_buffers [e1000e]
Some symbols end up with a negative length and others have a length
larger than they should. This results in confusing perf output.
We already have a function to fixup the end of zero length symbols so
use that instead.
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110824065242.969681349@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
ARM: pm: avoid writing the auxillary control register for ARMv7
ARM: pm: some ARMv7 requires a dsb in resume to ensure correctness
ARM: pm: arm920/926: fix number of registers saved
ARM: pm: CPU specific code should not overwrite r1 (v:p offset)
ARM: 7066/1: proc-v7: disable SCTLR.TE when disabling MMU
ARM: 7065/1: kexec: ensure new kernel is entered in ARM state
ARM: 7003/1: vexpress: Add clock definition for the SP805.
ARM: 7051/1: cpuimx* boards: fix mach-types errors
ARM: 7019/1: Footbridge: select CLKEVT_I8253 for ARCH_NETWINDER
ARM: 7015/1: ARM errata: Possible cache data corruption with hit-under-miss enabled
ARM: 7014/1: cache-l2x0: Fix L2 Cache size calculation.
ARM: 6967/1: ep93xx: ts72xx: fix board model detection
ARM: 6965/1: ep93xx: add model detection for ts-7300 and ts-7400 boards
ARM: cache: detect VIPT aliasing I-cache on ARMv6
ARM: twd: register clockevents device before enabling PPI
ARM: realview: ensure visibility of writes during reset
ARM: perf: make name of arm_pmu_type consistent
ARM: perf: fix prototype of release_pmu
ARM: fix perf build with uclibc toolchains
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/cpupowerutils:
cpupower: use man(1) when calling "cpupower help subcommand"
cpupower: make NLS truly optional
cpupower: fix Makefile typo
cpupower: Make monitor command -c/--cpu aware
cpupower: Better detect offlined CPUs
cpupower: Do not show an empty Idle_Stats monitor if no idle driver is available
cpupower: mperf monitor - Use TSC to calculate max frequency if possible
cpupower: avoid using symlinks
Instead of printing something non-formatted to stdout, call
man(1) to show the man page for the proper subcommand.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Upstream glibc commit 295e904 added a definition for __attribute_const__
to cdefs.h. This causes the following error when building perf:
util/include/linux/compiler.h:8:0: error: "__attribute_const__"
redefined [-Werror] /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:226:0: note: this is the
location of the previous definition
Wrap __attribute_const__ in #ifndef as we do for __always_inline.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110818113720.GL2227@zod.bos.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There was a problem with the parse_events() code not printing the
correct event name when an event was unknown and starting with an 'r'.
The source of the problem was the way raw notation was parsed.
Without the patch:
$ perf stat -e retired_foo
invalid event modifier: 'tired_foo'
With the patch:
$ perf stat -e retired_foo
invalid or unsupported event: 'retired_foo'
This also covers the case where the name of the event was not printed at
all when perf was linked with libpfm4.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110723021043.GA20178@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When no event is given to perf record, perf top, a default event is
initialized (cycles). However, perf_evlist__add_default() was not
setting the symbolic name for the event. Perf top worked simply because
it was reconstructing the name from the event code. But it should not
have to do this. This patch initializes the evsel->name field properly.
This second version improves the code flow on the non error path.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110607161936.GA8163@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[committer note: Use perf_evsel__delete() instead of plain free()]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This allows for example:
cpupower -c 2-4,6 monitor -m Mperf
|Mperf
PKG |CORE|CPU | C0 | Cx | Freq
0| 8| 4| 2.42| 97.58| 1353
0| 16| 2| 14.38| 85.62| 1928
0| 24| 6| 1.76| 98.24| 1442
1| 16| 3| 15.53| 84.47| 1650
CPUs always get resorted for package, core then cpu id if it could get read out
(or however you name these topology levels...).
Still this is a nice way to keep the overview if a test binary is bound to
a specific CPU or if one wants to show all CPUs inside a package or similar.
Still missing: Do not measure not available cores to reduce the overhead
and achieve better results.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Jiri Olsa
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Darren Hart
Stephane Eranian
David Ahern
Anton Blanchard
Masami Hiramatsu
Linus Torvalds
Dominik Brodowski
Dave Jones
Lin Ming
Josh Boyer
Thomas Renninger