Intel PT timestamps are not provided for every branch, let alone every
instruction, so there can be many samples with the same timestamp. With
per-cpu contexts, decoding is done for each CPU in turn, which can make it
difficult to see what is happening on different CPUs at the same time.
Currently the interleaving from perf script --itrace=i0ns is quite coarse
grained. There are often long stretches executing on one CPU and nothing on
another.
Some people are interested in seeing what happened on multiple CPUs before
a crash to debug races etc.
To improve perf script interleaving for parallel execution, the
intel-pt-events.py script has been enhanced to enable interleaving the
output with the same timestamp from different CPUs. It is understood that
interleaving is not perfect or causal.
Add parameter --interleave [<n>] to interleave sample output for the same
timestamp so that no more than n samples for a CPU are displayed in a row.
'n' defaults to 4. Note this only affects the order of output, and only
when the timestamp is the same.
Example:
$ perf script intel-pt-events.py --insn-trace --interleave 3
...
bash 2267/2267 [004] 9323.692625625 563caa3c86f0 jz 0x563caa3c89c7 run_pending_traps+0x30 (/usr/bin/bash) IPC: 1.52 (38/25)
bash 2267/2267 [004] 9323.692625625 563caa3c89c7 movq 0x118(%rsp), %rax run_pending_traps+0x307 (/usr/bin/bash)
bash 2267/2267 [004] 9323.692625625 563caa3c89cf subq %fs:0x28, %rax run_pending_traps+0x30f (/usr/bin/bash)
bash 2270/2270 [007] 9323.692625625 55dc58cabf02 jz 0x55dc58cabf48 unquoted_glob_pattern_p+0x102 (/usr/bin/bash) IPC: 1.56 (25/16)
bash 2270/2270 [007] 9323.692625625 55dc58cabf04 cmp $0x5d, %al unquoted_glob_pattern_p+0x104 (/usr/bin/bash)
bash 2270/2270 [007] 9323.692625625 55dc58cabf06 jnz 0x55dc58cabf10 unquoted_glob_pattern_p+0x106 (/usr/bin/bash)
bash 2264/2264 [001] 9323.692625625 7fd556a4376c jbe 0x7fd556a43ac8 round_and_return+0x3fc (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6) IPC: 4.30 (43/10)
bash 2264/2264 [001] 9323.692625625 7fd556a43772 and $0x8, %edx round_and_return+0x402 (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6)
bash 2264/2264 [001] 9323.692625625 7fd556a43775 jnz 0x7fd556a43ac8 round_and_return+0x405 (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6)
bash 2267/2267 [004] 9323.692625625 563caa3c89d8 jnz 0x563caa3c8b11 run_pending_traps+0x318 (/usr/bin/bash)
bash 2267/2267 [004] 9323.692625625 563caa3c89de add $0x128, %rsp run_pending_traps+0x31e (/usr/bin/bash)
bash 2267/2267 [004] 9323.692625625 563caa3c89e5 popq %rbx run_pending_traps+0x325 (/usr/bin/bash)
...
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221020152509.5298-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It can be convenient to put a string value into a ptwrite payload as
a quick and easy way to identify what is being printed.
To make that useful, if the Intel ptwrite payload value contains only
printable ASCII characters padded with NULLs, then print it also as a
string.
Using the example program from the "Emulated PTWRITE" section of
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt:
$ echo -n "Hello" | od -t x8
0000000 0000006f6c6c6548
0000005
$ perf record -e intel_pt//u ./eg_ptw 0x0000006f6c6c6548
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.016 MB perf.data ]
$ perf script --itrace=ew intel-pt-events.py
Intel PT Branch Trace, Power Events, Event Trace and PTWRITE
Switch In 38524/38524 [001] 24166.044995916 0/0
eg_ptw 38524/38524 [001] 24166.045380004 ptwrite jmp IP: 0 payload: 0x6f6c6c6548 Hello 56532c7ce196 perf_emulate_ptwrite+0x16 (/home/ahunter/git/work/eg_ptw)
End
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220509152400.376613-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Deprecation warnings are useful only for the developer, not an end user.
Display warnings only when requested using the python -W option. This
stops the display of warnings like:
tools/perf/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py:5102: DeprecationWarning:
an integer is required (got type PySide2.QtCore.Qt.AlignmentFlag).
Implicit conversion to integers using __int__ is deprecated, and
may be removed in a future version of Python.
err = app.exec_()
Since the warning can be fixed only in PySide2, we must wait for it to
be finally fixed there.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.3+
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210521092053.25683-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The 'Array' class is present in more than one python standard library.
In some versions of Python 3, the following error occurs:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tools/perf/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py", line 4702, in <lambda>
reports_menu.addAction(CreateAction(label, "Create a new window displaying branch events", lambda a=None,x=dbid: self.NewBranchView(x), self))
File "tools/perf/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py", line 4727, in NewBranchView
BranchWindow(self.glb, event_id, ReportVars(), self)
File "tools/perf/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py", line 3208, in __init__
self.model = LookupCreateModel(model_name, lambda: BranchModel(glb, event_id, report_vars.where_clause))
File "tools/perf/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py", line 343, in LookupCreateModel
model = create_fn()
File "tools/perf/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py", line 3208, in <lambda>
self.model = LookupCreateModel(model_name, lambda: BranchModel(glb, event_id, report_vars.where_clause))
File "tools/perf/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py", line 3124, in __init__
self.fetcher = SQLFetcher(glb, sql, prep, self.AddSample)
File "tools/perf/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py", line 2658, in __init__
self.buffer = Array(c_char, self.buffer_size, lock=False)
TypeError: abstract class
This apparently happens because Python can be inconsistent about which
class of the name 'Array' gets imported. Fix by importing explicitly by
name so that only the desired 'Array' gets imported.
Fixes: 8392b74b57 ("perf scripts python: exported-sql-viewer.py: Add ability to display all the database tables")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210521092053.25683-3-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Provide missing argument to prevent following error when copying a
selection to the clipboard:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tools/perf/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py", line 4041, in <lambda>
menu.addAction(CreateAction("&Copy selection", "Copy to clipboard", lambda: CopyCellsToClipboardHdr(self.view), self.view))
File "tools/perf/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py", line 4021, in CopyCellsToClipboardHdr
CopyCellsToClipboard(view, False, True)
File "tools/perf/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py", line 4018, in CopyCellsToClipboard
view.CopyCellsToClipboard(view, as_csv, with_hdr)
File "tools/perf/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py", line 3871, in CopyTableCellsToClipboard
val = model.headerData(col, Qt.Horizontal)
TypeError: headerData() missing 1 required positional argument: 'role'
Fixes: 96c43b9a7a ("perf scripts python: exported-sql-viewer.py: Add copy to clipboard")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210521092053.25683-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
