Instruction tracing will typically have access to information about the
instruction being executed for a particular ip sample. Some of that
information will be available in the 'flags' member of struct
perf_sample.
With the addition of transactions events synthesis to Instruction
Tracing options, there is a need to be able easily to see the flags
because they show whether the ip is at the start, commit or abort of a
tranasaction.
Consequently add an option to display the flags.
The flags are "bcrosyiABEx" which stand for branch, call, return,
conditional, system, asynchronous, interrupt, transaction abort, trace
begin, trace end, and in transaction, respectively.
Example using Intel PT:
perf script -fip,time,event,sym,addr,flags
...
1288.721584105: branches:u: bo 401146 main => 401152 main
1288.721584105: transactions: x 0 401164 main
1288.721584105: branches:u: bx 40117c main => 40119b main
1288.721584105: branches:u: box 4011a4 main => 40117e main
1288.721584105: branches:u: bcx 401187 main => 401094 g
...
1288.721591645: branches:u: bx 4010c4 g => 4010cb g
1288.721591645: branches:u: brx 4010cc g => 401189 main
1288.721591645: transactions: 0 4011a6 main
1288.721593199: branches:u: b 4011a9 main => 4011af main
1288.721593199: branches:u: bo 4011bc main => 40113e main
1288.721593199: branches:u: b 401150 main => 40115a main
1288.721593199: transactions: x 0 401164 main
1288.721593199: branches:u: bx 40117c main => 40119b main
1288.721593199: branches:u: box 4011a4 main => 40117e main
1288.721593199: branches:u: bcx 401187 main => 40105e f
...
1288.722284747: branches:u: brx 401093 f => 401189 main
1288.722284747: branches:u: box 4011a4 main => 40117e main
1288.722284747: branches:u: bcx 401187 main => 40105e f
1288.722285883: transactions: bA 0 401071 f
1288.722285883: branches:u: bA 401071 f => 40116a main
1288.722285883: branches:u: bE 40116a main => 0 [unknown]
1288.722297174: branches:u: bB 0 [unknown] => 40116a main
...
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428594864-29309-26-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add --purge FILE to remove all caches of FILE.
Since the current --remove FILE removes a cache which has
same build-id of given FILE. Since the command takes a
FILE path, it can confuse user who tries to remove cache
about FILE path.
-----
# ./perf buildid-cache -v --add ./perf
Adding 133b7b5486d987a5ab5c3ebf4ea14941f45d4d4f ./perf: Ok
# (update the ./perf binary)
# ./perf buildid-cache -v --remove ./perf
Removing 305bbd1be68f66eca7e2d78db294653031edfa79 ./perf: FAIL
./perf wasn't in the cache
-----
Actually, the --remove's FAIL is not shown, it just silently fails.
So, this patch adds --purge FILE action for such usecase.
perf buildid-cache --purge FILE removes all caches which has same FILE
path.
In other words, it removes all caches including old binaries.
-----
# ./perf buildid-cache -v --add ./perf
Adding 133b7b5486d987a5ab5c3ebf4ea14941f45d4d4f ./perf: Ok
# (update the ./perf binary)
# ./perf buildid-cache -v --purge ./perf
Removing 133b7b5486d987a5ab5c3ebf4ea14941f45d4d4f ./perf: Ok
-----
BTW, if you want to purge all the caches, remove ~/.debug/* .
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150227045026.1999.64084.stgit@localhost.localdomain
[ s/dirname/dir_name/g to fix build on fedora14, where dirname is a global ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Extend 'perf list --raw-dump' to 'perf list --raw-dump [hw|sw|cache
|tracepoint|pmu|event_glob]' in order to show the raw-dump of a certain
kind of events rather than all of the events.
Example:
Before this patch:
$ perf list --raw-dump hw
branch-instructions branch-misses bus-cycles cache-misses
cache-references cpu-cycles instructions stalled-cycles-backend
stalled-cycles-frontend
alignment-faults context-switches cpu-clock cpu-migrations
emulation-faults major-faults minor-faults page-faults task-clock
...
...
writeback:writeback_thread_start writeback:writeback_thread_stop
writeback:writeback_wait_iff_congested
writeback:writeback_wake_background writeback:writeback_wake_thread
As shown above, all of the events are printed.
After this patch:
$ perf list --raw-dump hw
branch-instructions branch-misses bus-cycles cache-misses
cache-references cpu-cycles instructions stalled-cycles-backend
stalled-cycles-frontend
As shown above, only the hw events are printed.
Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425032491-20224-5-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently, the perf diff only works with same binaries. That's because
it compares the symbol start address. It doesn't work if the perf.data
comes from different binaries. This patch matches the symbol names.
Actually, perf diff once intended to compare the symbol names. The
commit as below can look for a pair by name.
604c5c9297 (perf diff: Change the default sort order to "dso,symbol")
However, at that time, perf diff used a global list of dsos. That means
the binaries which has same name can only be loaded once. That's a
problem for comparing different binaries.
For example, we have an old binary and an updated binary. They very
likely have same name and most of the functions, so only dsos from old
binary will be loaded. When processing the data from updated binary,
perf still use the symbol information from old binary. That's wrong.
Then the commit as below used IP to replace symbol name.
9c443dfdd3 ("perf diff: Fix support for all --sort combinations")
>From that time, perf diff starts to compare the symbol address.
The global dsos is discarded from a patch in 2010.
a1645ce12a ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance
from host")
However, at that time, perf diff already compared by address. So perf
diff cannot work for different binaries as well.
This patch actually rolls back the perf diff to original design. The
document is also changed, so everybody knows the original design is to
compare the symbol names.
Here are some examples:
The only difference between example_v1.c and example_v2.c is the
location of f2 and f3. There is no change in behavior, but the previous
perf diff display the wrong differential profile.
example_v1.c
noinline void f3(void)
{
volatile int i;
for (i = 0; i < 10000;) {
if(i%2)
i++;
else
i++;
}
}
noinline void f2(void)
{
volatile int a = 100, b, c;
for (b = 0; b < 10000; b++)
c = a * b;
}
noinline void f1(void)
{
f2();
f3();
}
int main()
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
f1();
}
example_v2.c
noinline void f2(void)
{
volatile int a = 100, b, c;
for (b = 0; b < 10000; b++)
c = a * b;
}
noinline void f3(void)
{
volatile int i;
for (i = 0; i < 10000;) {
if(i%2)
i++;
else
i++;
}
}
noinline void f1(void)
{
f2();
f3();
}
int main()
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
f1();
}
[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ gcc example_v1.c -o example
[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf record -o example_v1.data ./example
[ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.813 MB example_v1.data (~35522 samples) ]
[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ gcc example_v2.c -o example
[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf record -o example_v2.data ./example
[ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.824 MB example_v2.data (~36015 samples) ]
Old perf diff result:
[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf diff example_v1.data example_v2.data
Event 'cycles'
Baseline Delta Shared Object Symbol
........ ....... ................ ...............................
[kernel.vmlinux] [k] __perf_event_task_sched_out
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] apic_timer_interrupt
[kernel.vmlinux] [k] idle_cpu
[kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_pstate_timer_func
[kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_read_msr_safe
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_read_tsc
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe
[kernel.vmlinux] [k] ntp_tick_length
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] rb_erase
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] tick_sched_timer
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] unmap_single_vma
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_wall_time
0.00% example [.] f1
46.24% example [.] f2
53.71% -7.55% example [.] f3
+53.81% example [.] f3
0.02% example [.] main
New perf diff result:
[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf diff example_v1.data example_v2.data
[kernel.vmlinux] [k] __perf_event_task_sched_out
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] apic_timer_interrupt
[kernel.vmlinux] [k] idle_cpu
[kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_pstate_timer_func
[kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_read_msr_safe
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_read_tsc
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe
[kernel.vmlinux] [k] ntp_tick_length
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] rb_erase
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] tick_sched_timer
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] unmap_single_vma
0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_wall_time
0.00% example [.] f1
46.24% -0.08% example [.] f2
53.71% +0.11% example [.] f3
0.02% example [.] main
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1423460384-11645-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add new buildid cache if the update target file is not cached.
This can happen when an old binary is replaced by new one after caching
the old one. In this case, user sees his operation just failed.
But it does not look straight, since user just pass the binary "path",
not "build-id".
----
# ./perf buildid-cache --add ./perf
(update ./perf to new binary)
# ./perf buildid-cache --update ./perf
./perf wasn't in the cache
#
----
This patch adds given new binary to cache if the new binary is
not cached. So we'll not see the above error.
----
# ./perf buildid-cache --add ./perf
(update ./perf to new binary)
# ./perf buildid-cache --update ./perf
#
----
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150226065440.23912.1494.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adding 'perf data convert' to convert perf data file into different
format. This patch adds support for CTF format conversion.
To convert perf.data into CTF run:
$ perf data convert --to-ctf=./ctf-data/
[ perf data convert: Converted 'perf.data' into CTF data './ctf-data/' ]
[ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 11.268 MB (100230 samples) ]
The command will create CTF metadata out of perf.data file (or one
specified via -i option) and then convert all sample events into single
CTF stream.
Each sample_type bit is translated into separated CTF event field apart
from following exceptions:
PERF_SAMPLE_RAW - added in next patch
PERF_SAMPLE_READ - TODO
PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN - TODO
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK - TODO
PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER - TODO
PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER - TODO
$ perf --debug=data-convert=2 data convert ...
The converted CTF data could be analyzed by CTF tools, like babletrace
or tracecompass [1].
$ babeltrace ./ctf-data/
[03:19:13.962125533] (+?.?????????) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1 }
[03:19:13.962130001] (+0.000004468) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1 }
[03:19:13.962131936] (+0.000001935) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 8 }
[03:19:13.962133732] (+0.000001796) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 114 }
[03:19:13.962135557] (+0.000001825) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 2087 }
[03:19:13.962137627] (+0.000002070) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF81361938, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 37582 }
[03:19:13.962161091] (+0.000023464) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8124218F, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 600246 }
[03:19:13.962517569] (+0.000356478) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF811A75DB, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1325731 }
[03:19:13.969518008] (+0.007000439) cycles: { }, { ip = 0x34080917B2, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1144298 }
The following members to the ctf-environment were decided to be added to
distinguish and specify perf CTF data:
- domain
It says "kernel" because it contains a kernel trace (not to be
confused with a user space like lttng-ust does)
- tracer_name
It says perf. This can be used to distinguish between lttng and perf
CTF based trace.
- version
The kernel version from stream. In addition to release, this is what
it looks like on a Debian kernel:
release = "3.14-1-amd64";
version = "3.14.0";
[1] http://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.tracecompass
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424470628-5969-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
User visible changes:
- No need to explicitely enable evsels for workload started from perf, let it
be enabled via perf_event_attr.enable_on_exec, removing some events that take
place in the 'perf trace' before a workload is really started by it.
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Fix to handle optimized not-inlined functions in 'perf probe' (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Update 'perf probe' man page (Masami Hiramatsu)
- 'perf trace': Allow mixing with tracepoints and suppressing plain syscalls
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Infrastructure changes:
- Introduce {trace_seq_do,event_format_}_fprintf functions to allow
a default tracepoint field list printer to be used in tools that allows
redirecting output to a file. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- The man page for pthread_attr_set_affinity_np states that _GNU_SOURCE
must be defined before pthread.h, do it to fix the build in some
systems (Josh Boyer)
- Cleanups in 'perf buildid-cache' (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Fix dso cache test case (Namhyung Kim)
- Do Not rely on dso__data_read_offset() to open DSO (Namhyung Kim)
- Make perf aware of tracefs (Steven Rostedt).
- Fix build by defining STT_GNU_IFUNC for glibc 2.9 and older (Vinson Lee)
- AArch64 symbol resolution fixes (Victor Kamensky)
- Kconfig beachhead (Jiri Olsa)
- Simplify nr_pages validity (Kaixu Xia)
- Fixup header positioning in 'perf list' (Yunlong Song)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Masami Hiramatsu
Adrian Hunter
Namhyung Kim
Jiri Olsa
Peter Zijlstra
David Ahern
Yunlong Song
Kan Liang
Andi Kleen
Ingo Molnar