Previously these were being ignored, sometimes silently.
Stop doing that, emitting debug messages and handling the errors.
Testing it:
$ cat ~/.perfconfig
cat: /home/acme/.perfconfig: No such file or directory
$ perf stat -e cycles usleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':
938,996 cycles:u
0.003813731 seconds time elapsed
$ perf top --stdio
Error:
You may not have permission to collect system-wide stats.
Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid,
<SNIP>
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
[acme@jouet linux]$ perf report --stdio
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ................. .........................
71.77% usleep libc-2.24.so [.] _dl_addr
27.07% usleep ld-2.24.so [.] _dl_next_ld_env_entry
1.13% usleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] page_fault
$
$ touch ~/.perfconfig
$ ls -la ~/.perfconfig
-rw-rw-r--. 1 acme acme 0 Jan 27 12:14 /home/acme/.perfconfig
$
$ perf stat -e instructions usleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':
244,610 instructions:u
0.000805383 seconds time elapsed
$
[root@jouet ~]# chown acme.acme ~/.perfconfig
[root@jouet ~]# perf stat -e cycles usleep 1
Warning: File /root/.perfconfig not owned by current user or root, ignoring it.
Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':
937,615 cycles
0.000836931 seconds time elapsed
#
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j2rq96so6xdqlr8p8rd6a3jx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The use_browser and perf_version_string variables are both declared in
perf.c but they are also referenced by other functions of libperf.a.
Therefore a user linking an own main() with libperf.a must declare those
two variables in their files even if the files never use the browser or
the version information.
This patch fixes this issue by moving use_browser and
perf_version_string out of perf.c to some other files.
Signed-off-by: Soramichi Akiyama <akiyama@m.soramichi.jp>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117002237.c1aec0ce3b4d675dca018deb@m.soramichi.jp
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Its similar to doing grep on a /proc/kallsyms, but it also shows extra
information like the path to the kernel module and the unrelocated
addresses in it, to help in diagnosing problems.
It is also helps demonstrate the use of the symbols routines so that
tool writers can use them more effectively.
Using it:
$ perf kallsyms e1000_xmit_frame netif_rx usb_stor_set_xfer_buf
e1000_xmit_frame: [e1000e] /lib/modules/4.9.0+/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko 0xffffffffc046fc10-0xffffffffc0470bb0 (0x19c80-0x1ac20)
netif_rx: [kernel] [kernel.kallsyms] 0xffffffff916f03a0-0xffffffff916f0410 (0xffffffff916f03a0-0xffffffff916f0410)
usb_stor_set_xfer_buf: [usb_storage] /lib/modules/4.9.0+/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko 0xffffffffc057aea0-0xffffffffc057af19 (0xf10-0xf89)
$
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-79bk9pakujn4l4vq0f90klv3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The tools so far have been using the strerror_r() GNU variant, that
returns a string, be it the buffer passed or something else.
But that, besides being tricky in cases where we expect that the
function using strerror_r() returns the error formatted in a provided
buffer (we have to check if it returned something else and copy that
instead), breaks the build on systems not using glibc, like Alpine
Linux, where musl libc is used.
So, introduce yet another wrapper, str_error_r(), that has the GNU
interface, but uses the portable XSI variant of strerror_r(), so that
users rest asured that the provided buffer is used and it is what is
returned.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-d4t42fnf48ytlk8rjxs822tf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Many sub-commands use perf_config() but everytime perf_config() is
called, perf_config() always read config files. (i.e. user config
'~/.perfconfig' and system config '$(sysconfdir)/perfconfig')
But it is better to use the config set that already contains all config
key-value pairs to avoid this repetitive work reading the config files
in perf_config(). (the config set mean a static variable 'config_set')
In other words, if new perf_config__init() is called, only first time
'config_set' is initialized collecting all configs from the config
files. And then we could use new perf_config() like old perf_config().
When a sub-command finished, free the config set by perf_config__exit()
at run_builtin().
If we do, 'config_set' can be reused wherever perf_config() is called
and a feature of old perf_config() is the same as new perf_config() work
without the repetitive work that read the config files.
In summary, in order to use features about configuration,
we can call the functions at perf.c and other source files as below.
# initialize a config set
perf_config__init()
# configure actual variables from a config set
perf_config()
# eliminate allocated config set
perf_config__exit()
# destroy existing config set and initialize a new config set.
perf_config__refresh()
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466691272-24117-3-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
[ 'init' counterpart is 'exit', not 'finish' ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Make alias handler and sq_quote_argv to check the return value of strbuf
APIs.
In sq_quote_argv() calls die(), but this fix handles strbuf failure as a
special case and returns to caller, since the caller - handle_alias()
also has to check the return value of other strbuf APIs and those checks
can be merged to one if() statement.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160510054725.6158.84597.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently perf report only shows a help message "For a higher level
overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso" unconditionally (even if
the sort keys were used). Add more help tips and show randomly.
Load tips from ${prefix}/share/doc/perf-tip/tips.txt file.
$ perf report | tail
0.10% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] irq_exit
0.09% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] flush_smp_call_function_queue
0.08% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe
0.03% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] group_sched_in
0.01% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe
#
# (Tip: Search options using a keyword: perf report -h <keyword>)
#
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452166913-27046-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Renamed it to perf_tip() and the parameter dirname to dirpath to fix the build on older distros ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The perf configuration file contains many variables to change various
aspects of each of its tools, including output, disk usage, etc.
But looking at the state of configuration is difficult and there's no
documentation about config variables except for the variables in
perfconfig.example exist.
So this patch adds a 'perf-config' command with a '--list' option.
perf config [options]
display current perf config variables.
# perf config -l | --list
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447768424-17327-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
By introducing new rules in tools/perf/util/parse-events.[ly], this
patch enables 'perf record --event bpf_file.o' to select events by an
eBPF object file. It calls parse_events_load_bpf() to load that file,
which uses bpf__prepare_load() and finally calls bpf_object__open() for
the object files.
After applying this patch, commands like:
# perf record --event foo.o sleep
become possible.
However, at this point it is unable to link any useful things onto the
evsel list because the creating of probe points and BPF program
attaching have not been implemented. Before real events are possible to
be extracted, to avoid perf report error because of empty evsel list,
this patch link a dummy evsel. The dummy event related code will be
removed when probing and extracting code is ready.
Commiter notes:
Using it:
$ ls -la foo.o
ls: cannot access foo.o: No such file or directory
$ perf record --event foo.o sleep
libbpf: failed to open foo.o: No such file or directory
event syntax error: 'foo.o'
\___ BPF object file 'foo.o' is invalid
(add -v to see detail)
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
-e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
$
$ file /tmp/build/perf/perf.o
/tmp/build/perf/perf.o: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
$ perf record --event /tmp/build/perf/perf.o sleep
libbpf: /tmp/build/perf/perf.o is not an eBPF object file
event syntax error: '/tmp/build/perf/perf.o'
\___ BPF object file '/tmp/build/perf/perf.o' is invalid
(add -v to see detail)
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
-e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
$
$ file /tmp/foo.o
/tmp/foo.o: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, no machine, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
$ perf record --event /tmp/foo.o sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.013 MB perf.data ]
$ perf evlist
/tmp/foo.o
$ perf evlist -v
/tmp/foo.o: type: 1, size: 112, config: 0x9, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1
$
So, type 1 is PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, config 0x9 is PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY, ok.
$ perf report --stdio
Error:
The perf.data file has no samples!
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
$
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444826502-49291-4-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Namhyung Kim
Soramichi AKIYAMA
Jiri Olsa
Taeung Song
Masami Hiramatsu
Wang Nan
Namhyung Kim
Josh Poimboeuf