Now, cleanup the user/kernel KVP protocol by using the same structure
definition that is used for host/guest KVP protocol. This simplifies the code.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The current version of perf detects whether or not the perf.data file is
written in a different endianness using the attr_size field in the
header of the file. This field represents sizeof(struct perf_event_attr)
as known to perf record. If the sizes do not match, then perf tries the
byte-swapped version. If they match, then the tool assumes a different
endianness.
The issue with the approach is that it assumes the size of
perf_event_attr always has to match between perf record and perf report.
However, the kernel perf_event ABI is extensible. New fields can be
added to struct perf_event_attr. Consequently, it is not possible to use
attr_size to detect endianness.
This patch takes another approach by using the magic number written at
the beginning of the perf.data file to detect endianness. The magic
number is an eight-byte signature. It's primary purpose is to identify
(signature) a perf.data file. But it could also be used to encode the
endianness.
The patch introduces a new value for this signature. The key difference
is that the signature is written differently in the file depending on
the endianness. Thus, by comparing the signature from the file with the
tool's own signature it is possible to detect endianness. The new
signature is "PERFILE2".
Backward compatiblity with existing perf.data file is ensured.
Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328187288-24395-15-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently we can put the object files in a different directory by using
'O=' comand line argument.
However the generated documentation files don't honor this directive,
This patch fixes that. It's been tested for man target but the others
seems currently broken so no tests have been done on them so far.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328541443-18003-1-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So that we can get the perf bench exec stack fixes and then apply the
remaining fix for the files added after what is in perf/urgent.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch fixes an issue where perf report shows nan% for certain
perf.data files. The below is from a report for a do_fork probe:
-nan% sshd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
-nan% packagekitd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
-nan% dbus-daemon [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
-nan% bash [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
A git bisect shows commit f3bda2c as the cause. However, looking back
through the git history, I saw commit 640c03c which seems to have
removed the required initialization for perf_sample->period. The problem
only started showing after commit f3bda2c. The below patch re-introduces
the initialization and it fixes the problem for me.
With the below patch, for the same perf.data:
73.08% bash [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
8.97% 11-dhclient [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
6.41% sshd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
3.85% 20-chrony [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
2.56% sendmail [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
This patch applies over current linux-tip commit 9949284.
Problem introduced in:
$ git describe 640c03c
v2.6.37-rc3-83-g640c03c
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120203170113.5190.25558.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In some perf ancient versions we used '[kernel.kallsyms._text]' as the
name for the kernel map.
This got changed with commit:
perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host
commit a1645ce12a
Author: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
and we started to use following name '[kernel.kallsyms]_text'.
This name change is important for the report code dealing with ancient
perf data. When processing the kernel map event, we need to recognize
the old naming (dont match the last ']') and initialize the kernel map
correctly.
The subsequent call to maps__set_kallsyms_ref_reloc_sym deals with the
superfluous ']' to get correct symbol name.
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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/1328461865-6127-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The current KVP code carries some private connector related defines.
Update connector.h to have all the KVP defines. As part of this patch
get rid of some unused defines.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
distclean as an alias for clean was removed from the perf Makefile by
commit a3d1ee10d1
However, that commit neglected to remove it from the help output of
the perf Makefile, which could result in a user trying the following.
$ cd tools/perf/
$ make help | grep distclean
distclean - alias to clean
$ make distclean
make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop.
This patch removes it from the Makefile help output.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328134591-19851-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In recent versions of perf top, pressing the 'e' key to change the
number of displayed samples had no effect.
The number of samples was still dictated by the size of the terminal
(stdio mode). That was quite annoying because typically only the first
dozen samples really matter.
This patch fixes this.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120130105037.GA5160@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The event_type record has a max length for the event name.
It's called MAX_EVENT_NAME.
The name may be truncated to fit the max length. But the header.size still
reflects the original name length. If that length is > MAX_EVENT_NAME, then the
header.size field is bogus. Fix this by using the length of the name after the
potential truncation.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120120094912.GA4882@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
