This patch adds an option (-o) to save the output of perf stat into a
file. You could do this with perf record but not with perf stat.
Instead, you had to fiddle with stderr to save the counts into a
separate file.
The patch also adds the --append option so that results can be
concatenated into a single file across runs. Each run of the tool is
clearly separated by a comment line starting with a hash mark. The -A
option of perf record is already used by perf stat, so we only add a
long option.
$ perf stat -o res.txt date
$ cat res.txt
Performance counter stats for 'date':
0.791306 task-clock # 0.668 CPUs utilized
2 context-switches # 0.003 M/sec
0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec
197 page-faults # 0.249 M/sec
1878143 cycles # 2.373 GHz
<not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
1083367 instructions # 0.58 insns per cycle
193027 branches # 243.935 M/sec
9014 branch-misses # 4.67% of all branches
0.001184746 seconds time elapsed
The option can be combined with -x to make the output file much easier
to parse.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110815202233.GA18535@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds two new options to perf annotate:
- --no-asm-raw : Do not display raw instruction encodings
- --no-source : Do not interleave source code with assembly code
We believe those options make the output of annotate more readable.
Systematically displaying source can make it hard to follow code and
especially optimized code.
Raw encodings are not useful in most cases.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110517153207.GA9834@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[committer note: Use the 'no-' option inverting logic]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Upstream glibc commit 295e904 added a definition for __attribute_const__
to cdefs.h. This causes the following error when building perf:
util/include/linux/compiler.h:8:0: error: "__attribute_const__"
redefined [-Werror] /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:226:0: note: this is the
location of the previous definition
Wrap __attribute_const__ in #ifndef as we do for __always_inline.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110818113720.GL2227@zod.bos.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There was a problem with the parse_events() code not printing the
correct event name when an event was unknown and starting with an 'r'.
The source of the problem was the way raw notation was parsed.
Without the patch:
$ perf stat -e retired_foo
invalid event modifier: 'tired_foo'
With the patch:
$ perf stat -e retired_foo
invalid or unsupported event: 'retired_foo'
This also covers the case where the name of the event was not printed at
all when perf was linked with libpfm4.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110723021043.GA20178@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When no event is given to perf record, perf top, a default event is
initialized (cycles). However, perf_evlist__add_default() was not
setting the symbolic name for the event. Perf top worked simply because
it was reconstructing the name from the event code. But it should not
have to do this. This patch initializes the evsel->name field properly.
This second version improves the code flow on the non error path.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110607161936.GA8163@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[committer note: Use perf_evsel__delete() instead of plain free()]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This allows for example:
cpupower -c 2-4,6 monitor -m Mperf
|Mperf
PKG |CORE|CPU | C0 | Cx | Freq
0| 8| 4| 2.42| 97.58| 1353
0| 16| 2| 14.38| 85.62| 1928
0| 24| 6| 1.76| 98.24| 1442
1| 16| 3| 15.53| 84.47| 1650
CPUs always get resorted for package, core then cpu id if it could get read out
(or however you name these topology levels...).
Still this is a nice way to keep the overview if a test binary is bound to
a specific CPU or if one wants to show all CPUs inside a package or similar.
Still missing: Do not measure not available cores to reduce the overhead
and achieve better results.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Before, checking for offlined CPUs was done dirty and
it was checked whether topology parsing returned -1 values.
But this is a valid case on a Xen (and possibly other) kernels.
Do proper online/offline checking, also take CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
option into account (no /sys/devices/../cpuX/online file).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Which makes the implementation independent from cpufreq drivers.
Therefore this would also work on a Xen kernel where the hypervisor
is doing frequency switching and idle entering.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
libio.h is not provided by uClibc, in order to be able to test the
definition of __UCLIBC__ we need to include stdlib.h, which also
includes stddef.h, providing the definition of 'NULL'.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
With gcc4.6, some instances of concrete inlined function looks redundant
and broken, because it appears inside of a concrete instance and its
call_file and call_line are same as the original abstruct's decl_file
and decl_line respectively.
e.g.
[ d1aa] subprogram
external (flag) Yes
name (strp) "add_timer"
decl_file (data1) 2 ;here is original
decl_line (data2) 847 ;line and file
prototyped (flag) Yes
inline (data1) inlined (1)
sibling (ref4) [ d1c6]
...
[ 11d84] subprogram
abstract_origin (ref4) [ d1aa] ; concrete instance
low_pc (addr) .text+0x000000000000246f <add_timer>
high_pc (addr) .text+0x000000000000248b <mod_timer_pending>
frame_base (block1) [ 0] call_frame_cfa
sibling (ref4) [ 11dd9]
[ 11d9f] formal_parameter
abstract_origin (ref4) [ d1b9]
location (data4) location list [ 701b]
[ 11da8] inlined_subroutine
abstract_origin (ref4) [ d1aa] ; redundant instance
low_pc (addr) .text+0x000000000000247e <add_timer+0xf>
high_pc (addr) .text+0x0000000000002480 <add_timer+0x11>
call_file (data1) 2 ; call line and file
call_line (data2) 847 ; are same as above
Those redundant instances leads unwilling results;
e.g. find probe points inside of functions even if we specify
a function entry as below;
$ perf probe -V add_timer
Available variables at add_timer
@<add_timer+0>
struct timer_list* timer
@<add_timer+15>
(No matched variables)
So, this filters out those redundant instances based on call-site and
decl-site information.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110811110317.19900.59525.stgit@fedora15
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
gcc 4.6 generates a concrete out-of-line instance when there is a
function which is implicitly inlined somewhere but also has its own
instance. The concrete out-of-line instance means that it has an
abstract origin of the function which is referred by not only
inlined-subroutines but also a concrete subprogram.
Since current dwarf_func_inline_instances() can find only instances of
inlined-subroutines, this introduces new die_walk_instances() to find
both of subprogram and inlined-subroutines.
e.g. without this,
Available variables at sched_group_rt_period
@<cpu_rt_period_read_uint+9>
struct task_group* tg
perf probe failed to find actual subprogram instance of
sched_group_rt_period().
With this,
Available variables at sched_group_rt_period
@<cpu_rt_period_read_uint+9>
struct task_group* tg
@<sched_group_rt_period+0>
struct task_group* tg
Now it found the sched_group_rt_period() itself.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110811110311.19900.63997.stgit@fedora15
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix variable searching logic to search one in inner than local scope or
global(CU) scope. In the other words, skip searching in intermediate
scopes.
e.g., in the following code,
int var1;
void inline infunc(int i)
{
i++; <--- [A]
}
void func(void)
{
int var1, var2;
infunc(var2);
}
At [A], "var1" should point the global variable "var1", however, if user
mis-typed as "var2", variable search should be failed. However, current
logic searches variable infunc() scope, global scope, and then func()
scope. Thus, it can find "var2" variable in func() scope. This may not
be what user expects.
So, it would better not search outer scopes except outermost (compile
unit) scope which contains only global variables, when it failed to find
given variable in local scope.
E.g.
Without this:
$ perf probe -V pre_schedule --externs > without.vars
With this:
$ perf probe -V pre_schedule --externs > with.vars
Check the diff:
$ diff without.vars with.vars
88d87
< int cpu
133d131
< long unsigned int* switch_count
These vars are actually in the scope of schedule(), the caller of
pre_schedule().
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110811110305.19900.94374.stgit@fedora15
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix perf probe to search local variables in appropriate local inlined
function scope. For example, pre_schedule() has only 2 local variables,
as below;
$ perf probe -L pre_schedule
<pre_schedule@/home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c:0>
0 static inline void pre_schedule(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
{
2 if (prev->sched_class->pre_schedule)
3 prev->sched_class->pre_schedule(rq, prev);
}
However, current perf probe shows 4 local variables on pre_schedule(),
because it searches variables in the caller(schedule()) scope.
$ perf probe -V pre_schedule
Available variables at pre_schedule
@<schedule+445>
int cpu
long unsigned int* switch_count
struct rq* rq
struct task_struct* prev
This patch fixes this issue by searching variables in the local scope of
the instance of inlined function. Here is the result.
$ perf probe -V pre_schedule
Available variables at pre_schedule
@<schedule+445>
struct rq* rq
struct task_struct* prev
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110811110259.19900.85664.stgit@fedora15
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
