When requesting multiple events, say:
# perf top -e instructions -e cycles -e cache-misses
The first screen lets the user chose what to see first, then to switch
one can either use the left key to get back to the event menu or simply
use TAB to go the next and shift+TAB to go the prev.
When using TAB/UNTAB the call to perf_evlist__set_selected(event) was
missing, fix it.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3xqqh3fwmt914gg43frey14y@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The perf report -n option was broken because it was not reporting the
correct number of samples depending on the sorting mode. By default,
samples are sorted by comm,dso,sym. That means that samples for the same
command (binary) get collapsed.
The hists__collapse_insert_entry() had a bug whereby it was aggregating
the number of events observed (periods) but not the number of samples.
Consequently, the number of samples reported could be below reality. The
percentage remained correct because based on the periods.
This patch fixes the problem by also aggregating the number of samples.
Here is an example:
$ perf report -n --stdio
12.38% 842 pong [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __lock_acquire
Here pong (a ctxsw stress test), is the only program running
and thus it is the only one responsible for the lock_acquire samples.
If we change the sorting mode:
$ perf report -n --stdio --sort=sym
12.38% 1732 [k] __lock_acquire
The actual number of samples is shown.
With the fix:
$ perf report -n --stdio
12.38% 1732 pong [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __lock_acquire
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111003093815.GA6393@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To disable it either:
1. Make sure newt-devel is not installed when building it
2. Use 'perf top --stdio' just like with report
3. Edit your ~/.perfconfig or system wide config and have this there:
[tui]
top = off
But you shouldn't, since the TUI is so much more powerful, has
integration with annotation and where lots more interesting features
will be developed, so if something annoys you (the colors?) just let me
know and I'll do my best to make it pleasant as a default.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cy2tn4uj1t7c3aqss5l25of5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This actually fixes several problems we had in the old 'perf top':
1. Unresolved symbols not show, limitation that came from the old
"KernelTop" codebase, to solve it we would need to do changes
that would make sym_entry have most of the hist_entry fields.
2. It was using the number of samples, not the sum of sample->period.
And brings the --sort code that allows us to have all the views in
'perf report', for instance:
[root@emilia ~]# perf top --sort dso
PerfTop: 5903 irqs/sec kernel:77.5% exact: 0.0% [1000Hz cycles], (all, 8 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
31.59% libcrypto.so.1.0.0
21.55% [kernel]
18.57% libpython2.6.so.1.0
7.04% libc-2.12.so
6.99% _backend_agg.so
4.72% sshd
1.48% multiarray.so
1.39% libfreetype.so.6.3.22
1.37% perf
0.71% libgobject-2.0.so.0.2200.5
0.53% [tg3]
0.48% libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.5
0.44% libstdc++.so.6.0.13
0.40% libcairo.so.2.10800.8
0.38% libm-2.12.so
0.34% umath.so
0.30% libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1800.9
0.22% libpthread-2.12.so
0.20% libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1800.9
0.20% librt-2.12.so
0.15% _path.so
0.13% libpango-1.0.so.0.2800.1
0.11% libatlas.so.3.0
0.09% ft2font.so
0.09% libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.2800.1
0.08% libX11.so.6.3.0
0.07% [vdso]
0.06% cyclictest
^C
All the filter lists can be used as well: --dsos, --comms, --symbols,
etc.
The 'perf report' TUI is also reused, being possible to apply all the
zoom operations, do annotation, etc.
This change will allow multiple simplifications in the symbol system as
well, that will be detailed in upcoming changesets.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xzaaldxq7zhqrrxdxjifk1mh@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
By using a mutex just for inserting and rotating two hist_entry rb
trees, so that when sorting we can get the last batch of entries created
from the ring buffer, merge it with whatever we have processed so far
and show the output while new entries are being added.
The 'report' tool continues, for now, to do it without threading, but
will use this in the future to allow visualization of results in long
perf.data sessions while the entries are being processed.
The new 'top' tool will be the first user.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9b05atsn0q6m7fqgrug8fk2i@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
For pretty output only (preserve column for cvs output), dont print
std-deviation when its 0.00. Do this based upon value, instead of
checking for --no-aggr, since the stats could conceivably be computed
over the runs on each CPU, and theres no reason to preclude that.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315437244-3788-4-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Without this patch, running:
$ sudo ./perf stat -r20 --no-aggr -a perl -e '$i++ for 1..100000'
I get computations like this:
CPU0 12.488247 task-clock # 1.224 CPUs utilized ( +- -nan% )
CPU1 12.488909 task-clock # 1.225 CPUs utilized ( +- -nan% )
CPU2 12.500221 task-clock # 1.226 CPUs utilized ( +- -nan% )
CPU3 12.481713 task-clock # 1.224 CPUs utilized ( +- -nan% )
but with patch, I get:
CPU0 8.233682 task-clock # 0.754 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.00% )
CPU1 8.226318 task-clock # 0.754 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.00% )
CPU2 8.210737 task-clock # 0.752 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.00% )
CPU3 8.201691 task-clock # 0.751 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.00% )
Note that without --no-aggr, I get non-0 statistics both before and after patch:
231.986022 task-clock # 4.030 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.97% )
212 context-switches # 0.001 M/sec ( +- 12.07% )
9 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 25.80% )
466 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 3.23% )
174,318,593 cycles # 0.751 GHz ( +- 1.06% )
I couldnt see anything wrong in the caller, so fixed it in
stddev_stats(). ISTM that 0.00 is better than nan, since perf stat was
passed -A (--no-aggr) so no standard deviation should be expected, and
nan is suggestive of a deeper error.
When running with --no-aggr, perhaps we should suppress the statistics
printing entirely, or do so when they are 0.00.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315437244-3788-3-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This perf stat option emulates valgrind's --log-fd option, allowing the
user to send perf results elsewhere, and leaving stderr for use by the
program under test. This complements --output file option, and is
mutually exclusive with it.
3>results perf stat --log-fd 3 -- $cmd
3>>results perf stat --log-fd 3 --append -- $cmd
The perl distro's make test.valgrind target uses valgrind's --log-fd
option, I've adapted it to invoke perf also, and tested this patch
there.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315437244-3788-2-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
