Add "caller/callee" option to support inverted butterfly report,
in the inverted report (with caller option), the call graph start
from the callee's ancestor. Users can use such view to catch system's
performance bottleneck from a sysprof like view. Using this option
with specified sort order like pid gives us high level view of call
graph statistics.
Also add "-G" alias for inverted call graph.
Signed-off-by: Sam Liao <phyomh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tools/perf: Fix static build of perf tool
tracing: Fix regression in printk_formats file
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling interrupts
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
clocksource: Make watchdog robust vs. interruption
timerfd: Fix wakeup of processes when timer is cancelled on clock change
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, MAINTAINERS: Add x86 MCE people
x86, efi: Do not reserve boot services regions within reserved areas
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: Move RCU_BOOST #ifdefs to header file
rcu: use softirq instead of kthreads except when RCU_BOOST=y
rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression
rcu: Simplify curing of load woes
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
kbuild: Call depmod.sh via shell
perf: clear out make flags when calling kernel make kernelver
To build a statically linked version of the perf tool all needed
libraries must be added in the correct order to get the symbols
resolved. Currently this is broken when, e.g. python or newt
support is enabled -- libpython needs libpthread which is an
unconditional link dependency of the perf tool; libslang needs
libm, another unconditional dependency. To solve the problem in
the long run without the need to keep track of transitive
library dependencies, simply make the linker look at the EXTLIBS
multiple times until it has all symbols resolved.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308171818-20370-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When generating the perf version from the kernel version using 'make
kernelver' it is necessary to clear out any MAKEFLAGS otherwise they may
trigger additional output which pollute the contents.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
There has been too many times that I put in one too many SKIP
TEST_STARTs and start the test with the default randconfig by accident
that I added this to have ktest ask the user for which test they want to
run if no TEST_START is specified.
Now if I accidently start the test with all TEST_STARTs skipped, ktest
asks what test do I want to run, and I now have a chance to kill it
before it does a make mrproper on my build directory.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Several places had the following code:
get_grub_index;
get_version;
install;
start_monitor;
return monitor;
Creating a function "start_monitor_and_boot()" replaces these mulitple
uses with a single call.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Doing a patchcheck test, there may be warnings that gcc produces which
may be OK, and the test should not fail on that commit. By adding a
IGNORE_WARNINGS option to list a space delimited SHA1s that are ignored
lets the user avoid having the test fail on certain commits.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tar command to create the module directory is cjf, but the
extraction only had xf. This works on most versions of tar, but some
versions of tar require xjf for extraction as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As multiple tests may be executed by the same server, have the test
machine name add uniqueness to the value of the temp directory.
Otherwise the temp directories may overwrite each other's tests.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There are some cases that a patch may be needed to apply to the kernel
in patchcheck or bisect tests. Adding a PRE_BUILD option to apply the
patch and POST_BUILD to remove it, allows for this to be done easily.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread)
introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded
performance by about 40%.
The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed
high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has
64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second
which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of
the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks,
but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods.
This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite
a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related
processing to be done.
Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock
contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points
out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which
means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes,
perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not
going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around
this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.)
This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only
for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context,
so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the
common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to
skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When a config is set with CONFIG_MODULES=n, it does not mean that the
kernel does not need an initrd to boot. For systems that depend on LVM
and such, an initrd must run first.
If POST_INSTALL is defined, then run the post install regardless if
modules are needed or not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
After a bug is found, the STOP_AFTER_FAILURE timeout is used to
determine how much output should be printed before breaking out
of the monitor loop. This is to get things like call traces and
enough infromation about the bug to help determine what caused it.
The STOP_AFTER_FAILURE is usually much shorter than the TIMEOUT
that is used to determine when to quit after no more stdio is given.
But since the stdio read uses a wait on I/O, the STOP_AFTER_FAILURE is
only checked after we get something from I/O. But if the I/O does
not return any more data, we wait the TIMEOUT period instead, even
though we already triggered a bug report.
The wait on I/O should honor the STOP_AFTER_FAILURE time if a bug has
been found.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Using the build KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG environment variable to force
the min config may not always work properly. Since ktest is
written in perl, it is trivial to read and replace the current
config with the configs specified by the min config.
Now the min config (and add configs) are read by perl and before
a make is done, these configs in the .config file are replaced
by the version in the min config.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Searching through several tests, it gets confusing which test result
is for which test. By adding the TEST_NAME option, the user can tell
which test result belongs to which test.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the config_bisect compares the min config with the
CONFIG_BISECT config. There may be another config that we know
is good that we want to ignore configs on. By passing in this
config it will ignore the options that are set in the good config.
Note: This only ignores the config, it does not (yet) handle
options that are different between the two configs. If the good
config has "SLAB" set and the bad config has "SLUB" it will not
find the bug if the bug had to do with changing these two options.
This is something that I intend to implement in the future.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When a triple fault happens in a test, no call trace nor panic
is displayed. Instead, the system reboots to the good kernel.
Since the good kernel may display a boot prompt that matches the
success string, ktest may think that the test succeeded, when it
did not.
Detecting triple faults is tricky because it is hard to generalize
what a reboot looks like. The best that we can come up with for now
is to examine the Linux banner. If we detect that the Linux banner
matches the test we want to test, then look to see if we hit another
Linux banner with a different kernel is booted. This can be assumed
to be a triple fault.
We can't just check for two Linux banners because things like
early printk may cause the Linux banner to be displayed twice. Checking
for different kernel versions should be the safe bet.
If this for some reason detects a false triple boot. A new ktest
config option is also created:
DETECT_TRIPLE_FAULT
This can be set to 0 to disable this checking.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Different timeouts can cause the ktest monitor to break out of the
loop. It becomes annoying that one does not know the reason why
it exited the monitor loop. Display the cause of the reason why
the loop was exited.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
perf: Use make kernelversion instead of parsing the Makefile
kbuild: Hack for depmod not handling X.Y versions
kbuild: Move depmod call to a separate script
kbuild: Fix <linux/version.h> for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL
kbuild: Fix KERNELVERSION for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL
kbuild: silence Nothing to be done for 'all' message
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Fix comments in include/linux/perf_event.h
perf: Comment /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to be part of user ABI
perf python: Fix argument name list of read_on_cpu()
perf evlist: Don't die if sample_{id_all|type} is invalid
perf python: Use exception to propagate errors
perf evlist: Remove dependency on debug routines
perf, cgroups: Fix up for new API
