Command 'perf stat' doesn't enable counters when collecting an
existing (by -p) process or system-wide statistics. Fix the
issue.
Change the condition of fork/exec subcommand. If there is a
subcommand parameter, perf always forks/execs it. The usage
example is:
# perf stat -a sleep 10
So this command could collect statistics for 10 seconds
precisely. User still could stop it by CTRL+C. Without the new
capability, user could only use CTRL+C to stop it without
precise time clock.
Another issue is 'perf stat -a' consumes 100% time of a full
single logical cpu. It has a bad impact on running workload.
Fix it by adding a sleep(1) in the while(!done) loop in function
run_perf_stat.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Cc: <zhiteng.huang@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix the !drawf build.
This uses the existing NO_DWARF_SUPPORT mechanism we use for that,
but it's really fragile and needs a cleanup. (in a separate patch)
1) Such uses:
#ifndef NO_DWARF_SUPPORT
are double inverted logic a'la 'not not'. Instead the flag should
be called DWARF_SUPPORT.
2) Furthermore, assymetric #ifdef polluted code flow like:
if (need_dwarf)
#ifdef NO_DWARF_SUPPORT
die("Debuginfo-analysis is not supported");
#else /* !NO_DWARF_SUPPORT */
pr_debug("Some probes require debuginfo.\n");
fd = open_vmlinux();
is very fragile and not acceptable. Instead of that helper functions
should be created and the dwarf/no-dwarf logic should be separated more
cleanly.
3) Local variable #ifdefs like this:
#ifndef NO_DWARF_SUPPORT
int fd;
#endif
Are fragile as well and should be eliminated. Helper functions achieve
that too.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Before this patch we would not find a vmlinux, then try to pass
objdump "[kernel.kallsyms]" as the filename, it would get
confused and produce no output:
[root@doppio ~]# perf annotate n_tty_write
------------------------------------------------
Percent | Source code & Disassembly of [kernel.kallsyms]
------------------------------------------------
Now we check that and emit meaningful warning:
[root@doppio ~]# perf annotate n_tty_write
Can't annotate n_tty_write: No vmlinux file was found in the
path: [0] vmlinux
[1] /boot/vmlinux
[2] /boot/vmlinux-2.6.34-rc1-tip+
[3] /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc1-tip+/build/vmlinux
[4] /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.34-rc1-tip+/vmlinux
[root@doppio ~]#
This bug was introduced when we added automatic search for
vmlinux, before that time the user had to specify a vmlinux
file.
v2: Print the warning just for the first symbol found when no
symbol name is specified, otherwise it will spam the screen
repeating the warning for each symbol.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Before this patch this message would very briefly appear on the
screen and then the screen would get updates only on the top,
for number of interrupts received, etc, but no annotation would
be performed:
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s n_tty_write > /tmp/bla
objdump: '[kernel.kallsyms]': No such file
Now this is what the user gets:
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s n_tty_write
Can't annotate n_tty_write: No vmlinux file was found in the
path: [0] vmlinux
[1] /boot/vmlinux
[2] /boot/vmlinux-2.6.33-rc5
[3] /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc5/build/vmlinux
[4] /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.33-rc5/vmlinux
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
This bug was introduced when we added automatic search for
vmlinux, before that time the user had to specify a vmlinux
file.
Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When forking its target, perf record can capture data from
before the target application is started. Perf stat uses the
enable_on_exec flag in the event attributes to keep from
displaying events from before the target program starts, this
patch adds the same functionality to perf record when it is will
fork the target process.
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Provide generic perf_sample_data initialization
MAINTAINERS: Add Arnaldo as tools/perf/ co-maintainer
perf trace: Don't use pager if scripting
perf trace/scripting: Remove extraneous header read
perf, ARM: Modify kuser rmb() call to compile for Thumb-2
x86/stacktrace: Don't dereference bad frame pointers
perf archive: Don't try to collect files without a build-id
perf_events, x86: Fixup fixed counter constraints
perf, x86: Restrict the ANY flag
perf, x86: rename macro in ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE
perf, x86: add some IBS macros to perf_event.h
perf, x86: make IBS macros available in perf_event.h
hw-breakpoints: Remove stub unthrottle callback
x86/hw-breakpoints: Remove the name field
perf: Remove pointless breakpoint union
perf lock: Drop the buffers multiplexing dependency
perf lock: Fix and add misc documentally things
percpu: Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint
Fix probe_point array-size overrun problem. In some cases (e.g.
inline function), one user-specified probe-point can be
translated to many probe address, and it overruns pre-defined
array-size. This also removes redundant MAX_PROBES macro
definition.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100312232217.2017.45017.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
[ Note that only root can create new probes. Eventually we should remove
the MAX_PROBES limit, but that is a larger patch not eligible to
perf/urgent treatment. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>