Add a --branch-history option to perf report that changes all the
settings necessary for using the branches in callstacks.
This is just a short cut to make this nicer to use, it does not enable
any functionality by itself.
v2: Change sort order. Rename option to --branch-history to
be less confusing.
v3: Updates
v4: Fix conflict with newer perf base
v5: Port to latest tip
v6: Add more comments. Remove CCKEY_ADDRESS setting. Remove
unnecessary branch_mode setting. Use a boolean.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415844328-4884-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently branch stacks can be only shown as edge histograms for
individual branches. I never found this display particularly useful.
This implements an alternative mode that creates histograms over
complete branch traces, instead of individual branches, similar to how
normal callgraphs are handled. This is done by putting it in front of
the normal callgraph and then using the normal callgraph histogram
infrastructure to unify them.
This way in complex functions we can understand the control flow that
lead to a particular sample, and may even see some control flow in the
caller for short functions.
Example (simplified, of course for such simple code this is usually not
needed), please run this after the whole patchkit is in, as at this
point in the patch order there is no --branch-history, that will be
added in a patch after this one:
tcall.c:
volatile a = 10000, b = 100000, c;
__attribute__((noinline)) f2()
{
c = a / b;
}
__attribute__((noinline)) f1()
{
f2();
f2();
}
main()
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 1000000; i++)
f1();
}
% perf record -b -g ./tsrc/tcall
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.044 MB perf.data (~1923 samples) ]
% perf report --no-children --branch-history
...
54.91% tcall.c:6 [.] f2 tcall
|
|--65.53%-- f2 tcall.c:5
| |
| |--70.83%-- f1 tcall.c:11
| | f1 tcall.c:10
| | main tcall.c:18
| | main tcall.c:18
| | main tcall.c:17
| | main tcall.c:17
| | f1 tcall.c:13
| | f1 tcall.c:13
| | f2 tcall.c:7
| | f2 tcall.c:5
| | f1 tcall.c:12
| | f1 tcall.c:12
| | f2 tcall.c:7
| | f2 tcall.c:5
| | f1 tcall.c:11
| |
| --29.17%-- f1 tcall.c:12
| f1 tcall.c:12
| f2 tcall.c:7
| f2 tcall.c:5
| f1 tcall.c:11
| f1 tcall.c:10
| main tcall.c:18
| main tcall.c:18
| main tcall.c:17
| main tcall.c:17
| f1 tcall.c:13
| f1 tcall.c:13
| f2 tcall.c:7
| f2 tcall.c:5
| f1 tcall.c:12
The default output is unchanged.
This is only implemented in perf report, no change to record or anywhere
else.
This adds the basic code to report:
- add a new "branch" option to the -g option parser to enable this mode
- when the flag is set include the LBR into the callstack in machine.c.
The rest of the history code is unchanged and doesn't know the
difference between LBR entry and normal call entry.
- detect overlaps with the callchain
- remove small loop duplicates in the LBR
Current limitations:
- The LBR flags (mispredict etc.) are not shown in the history
and LBR entries have no special marker.
- It would be nice if annotate marked the LBR entries somehow
(e.g. with arrows)
v2: Various fixes.
v3: Merge further patches into this one. Fix white space.
v4: Improve manpage. Address review feedback.
v5: Rename functions. Better error message without -g. Fix crash without
-b.
v6: Rebase
v7: Rebase. Use NO_ENTRY in memset.
v8: Port to latest tip. Move add_callchain_ip to separate
patch. Skip initial entries in callchain. Minor cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415844328-4884-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds optional pagefault tracing support to 'perf trace'.
Using -F/--pf option user can specify whether he wants minor, major or
all pagefault events to be traced. This patch adds only live mode,
record and replace will come in a separate patch.
Example output:
1756272.905 ( 0.000 ms): curl/5937 majfault [0x7fa7261978b6] => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.26.0.0@0x85288 (d.)
1862866.036 ( 0.000 ms): wget/8460 majfault [__clear_user+0x3f] => 0x659cb4 (?k)
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403799268-1367-3-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There are a number of benchmarks that do single runs and as a result
does not really help users gain a general idea of how the workload
performs. So the user must either manually do multiple runs or just use
single bogus results.
This option will enable users to specify the amount of runs (arbitrarily
defaulted to 10, to use the existing benchmarks default) through the
'--repeat' option. Add it to perf-bench instead of implementing it
always in each specific benchmark.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402942467-10671-2-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
[ Kept the existing default of 10, changing it to something else should
be done on separate patch ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull perf/core improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
User visible:
* Improve 'perf probe' error messages, moving some diagnostic messages to
only appear in --verbose mode and fixing up some error reporting related
to variables and struct members. (Masami Hiramatsu)
* Reflow 'perf timechart' man page. (Stanislav Fomichev)
Developer stuff:
* Be more precise when reporting missing libraries in a static tool build.
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
* Show error messages from the multiple make invoked from 'make build-test'.
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In perf's 'mem-mode', one can get access to a whole bunch of details specific to a
particular sample instruction. A bunch of those details relate to the data
address.
One interesting thing you can do with data addresses is to convert them into a unique
cacheline they belong too. Organizing these data cachelines into similar groups and sorting
them can reveal cache contention.
This patch creates an alogorithm based on various sample details that can help group
entries together into data cachelines and allows 'perf report' to sort on it.
The algorithm relies on having proper mmap2 support in the kernel to help determine
if the memory map the data address belongs to is private to a pid or globally shared.
The alogortithm is as follows:
o group cpumodes together
o group entries with discovered maps together
o sort on major, minor, inode and inode generation numbers
o if userspace anon, then sort on pid
o sort on cachelines based on data addresses
The 'dcacheline' sort option in 'perf report' only works in 'mem-mode'.
Sample output:
#
# Samples: 206 of event 'cpu/mem-loads/pp'
# Total weight : 2534
# Sort order : dcacheline,pid
#
# Overhead Samples Data Cacheline Command: Pid
# ........ ............ ...................................................................... ..................
#
13.22% 1 [k] 0xffff88042f08ebc0 swapper: 0
9.27% 1 [k] 0xffff88082e8cea80 swapper: 0
3.59% 2 [k] 0xffffffff819ba180 swapper: 0
0.32% 1 [k] arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace_handler_na.23901+0xffffffffffffffe0 swapper: 0
0.32% 1 [k] timekeeper_seq+0xfffffffffffffff8 swapper: 0
Note: Added a '+1' to symlen size in hists__calc_col_len to prevent the next column
from prematurely tabbing over and mis-aligning. Not sure what the problem is.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401208087-181977-8-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
The --fields option is to allow user setup output field in any order.
It can receive any sort keys and following (hpp) fields:
overhead, overhead_sys, overhead_us, sample and period
If guest profiling is enabled, overhead_guest_{sys,us} will be
available too.
More more information, please see previous patch "perf report:
Add -F option to specify output fields"
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400480762-22852-15-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
The -F/--fields option is to allow user setup output field in any
order. It can receive any sort keys and following (hpp) fields:
overhead, overhead_sys, overhead_us, sample and period
If guest profiling is enabled, overhead_guest_{sys,us} will be
available too.
The output fields also affect sort order unless you give -s/--sort
option. And any keys specified on -s option, will also be added to
the output field list automatically.
$ perf report -F sym,sample,overhead
...
# Symbol Samples Overhead
# .......................... ............ ........
#
[.] __cxa_atexit 2 2.50%
[.] __libc_csu_init 4 5.00%
[.] __new_exitfn 3 3.75%
[.] _dl_check_map_versions 1 1.25%
[.] _dl_name_match_p 4 5.00%
[.] _dl_setup_hash 1 1.25%
[.] _dl_sysdep_start 1 1.25%
[.] _init 5 6.25%
[.] _setjmp 6 7.50%
[.] a 8 10.00%
[.] b 8 10.00%
[.] brk 1 1.25%
[.] c 8 10.00%
Note that, the example output above is captured after applying next
patch which fixes sort/comparing behavior.
Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400480762-22852-12-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Jiri Olsa
Andi Kleen
Stephane Eranian
Masanari Iida
Avi Kivity
Namhyung Kim
Adrian Hunter
Jiri Olsa
Alexander Yarygin
Stanislav Fomichev
Davidlohr Bueso
Ingo Molnar
Don Zickus
Anshuman Khandual