perf trace: Add --max-summary option

The --max-summary option is to limit the number of output lines for
syscall summary stats.  The max applies to each entries like thread and
cgroups.  For total summary, it will just print up to the given number.

For example,

  $ sudo perf trace -as --max-summary 3 sleep 0.1

   ThreadPoolServi (1011651), 114 events, 14.8%

     syscall            calls  errors  total       min       avg       max       stddev
                                       (msec)    (msec)    (msec)    (msec)        (%)
     --------------- --------  ------ -------- --------- --------- ---------     ------
     epoll_wait            38      0    95.589     0.000     2.515    11.153     28.98%
     futex                  9      0     0.040     0.002     0.004     0.014     28.63%
     read                  10      0     0.037     0.003     0.004     0.005      4.67%

   sleep (1050529), 250 events, 32.4%

     syscall            calls  errors  total       min       avg       max       stddev
                                       (msec)    (msec)    (msec)    (msec)        (%)
     --------------- --------  ------ -------- --------- --------- ---------     ------
     clock_nanosleep        1      0   100.156   100.156   100.156   100.156      0.00%
     execve                 4      3     1.020     0.005     0.255     0.989     95.93%
     openat                36     17     0.416     0.003     0.012     0.029     10.58%

   ...

And this is for per-cgroup summary using BPF.

  $ sudo perf trace -as --max-summary 3 --summary-mode=cgroup --bpf-summary sleep 0.1

   cgroup /user.slice/user-657345.slice/user@657345.service/session.slice/org.gnome.Shell@x11.service, 12 events

     syscall            calls  errors  total       min       avg       max       stddev
                                       (msec)    (msec)    (msec)    (msec)        (%)
     --------------- --------  ------ -------- --------- --------- ---------     ------
     recvmsg                8      7     0.016     0.001     0.002     0.006     39.73%
     ppoll                  1      0     0.014     0.014     0.014     0.014      0.00%
     write                  2      0     0.010     0.002     0.005     0.008     61.02%

   cgroup /user.slice/user-657345.slice/session-4.scope, 73 events

     syscall            calls  errors  total       min       avg       max       stddev
                                       (msec)    (msec)    (msec)    (msec)        (%)
     --------------- --------  ------ -------- --------- --------- ---------     ------
     epoll_wait             8      0    13.461     0.010     1.683    12.235     89.66%
     ioctl                 20      0     0.204     0.001     0.010     0.113     54.01%
     writev                11      0     0.164     0.004     0.015     0.042     20.34%

Reviewed-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Namhyung Kim
2025-09-19 12:14:29 -03:00
committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent d120cb34c9
commit ece3c7754f
4 changed files with 38 additions and 20 deletions
+4
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@@ -249,6 +249,10 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
works well with -s/--summary option where no argument information is
required.
--max-summary=N::
Maximum number of lines in the summary mode. Note that this applies to
each entry (thread or cgroup).
PAGEFAULTS
----------
+9 -1
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@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ struct trace {
unsigned int max_stack;
unsigned int min_stack;
enum trace_summary_mode summary_mode;
int max_summary;
int raw_augmented_syscalls_args_size;
bool raw_augmented_syscalls;
bool fd_path_disabled;
@@ -4599,7 +4600,7 @@ out_disable:
if (!err) {
if (trace->summary) {
if (trace->summary_bpf)
trace_print_bpf_summary(trace->output);
trace_print_bpf_summary(trace->output, trace->max_summary);
else if (trace->summary_mode == SUMMARY__BY_TOTAL)
trace__fprintf_total_summary(trace, trace->output);
else
@@ -4822,6 +4823,7 @@ static size_t syscall__dump_stats(struct trace *trace, int e_machine, FILE *fp,
struct hashmap *syscall_stats)
{
size_t printed = 0;
int lines = 0;
struct syscall *sc;
struct syscall_entry *entries;
@@ -4866,7 +4868,11 @@ static size_t syscall__dump_stats(struct trace *trace, int e_machine, FILE *fp,
fprintf(fp, "\t\t\t\t%s: %d\n", perf_env__arch_strerrno(trace->host->env, e + 1), stats->errnos[e]);
}
}
lines++;
}
if (trace->max_summary && trace->max_summary <= lines)
break;
}
free(entries);
@@ -5443,6 +5449,8 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv)
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "force-btf", &trace.force_btf, "Prefer btf_dump general pretty printer"
"to customized ones"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "bpf-summary", &trace.summary_bpf, "Summary syscall stats in BPF"),
OPT_INTEGER(0, "max-summary", &trace.max_summary,
"Max number of entries in the summary."),
OPTS_EVSWITCH(&trace.evswitch),
OPT_END()
};
+23 -17
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@@ -138,11 +138,14 @@ static bool sc_node_equal(long key1, long key2, void *ctx __maybe_unused)
return key1 == key2;
}
static int print_common_stats(struct syscall_data *data, FILE *fp)
static int print_common_stats(struct syscall_data *data, int max_summary, FILE *fp)
{
int printed = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < data->nr_nodes; i++) {
if (max_summary == 0 || max_summary > data->nr_nodes)
max_summary = data->nr_nodes;
for (int i = 0; i < max_summary; i++) {
struct syscall_node *node = &data->nodes[i];
struct syscall_stats *stat = &node->stats;
double total = (double)(stat->total_time) / NSEC_PER_MSEC;
@@ -200,7 +203,7 @@ static int update_thread_stats(struct hashmap *hash, struct syscall_key *map_key
return 0;
}
static int print_thread_stat(struct syscall_data *data, FILE *fp)
static int print_thread_stat(struct syscall_data *data, int max_summary, FILE *fp)
{
int printed = 0;
@@ -213,18 +216,18 @@ static int print_thread_stat(struct syscall_data *data, FILE *fp)
printed += fprintf(fp, " (msec) (msec) (msec) (msec) (%%)\n");
printed += fprintf(fp, " --------------- -------- ------ -------- --------- --------- --------- ------\n");
printed += print_common_stats(data, fp);
printed += print_common_stats(data, max_summary, fp);
printed += fprintf(fp, "\n\n");
return printed;
}
static int print_thread_stats(struct syscall_data **data, int nr_data, FILE *fp)
static int print_thread_stats(struct syscall_data **data, int nr_data, int max_summary, FILE *fp)
{
int printed = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < nr_data; i++)
printed += print_thread_stat(data[i], fp);
printed += print_thread_stat(data[i], max_summary, fp);
return printed;
}
@@ -277,7 +280,7 @@ static int update_total_stats(struct hashmap *hash, struct syscall_key *map_key,
return 0;
}
static int print_total_stats(struct syscall_data **data, int nr_data, FILE *fp)
static int print_total_stats(struct syscall_data **data, int nr_data, int max_summary, FILE *fp)
{
int printed = 0;
int nr_events = 0;
@@ -291,8 +294,11 @@ static int print_total_stats(struct syscall_data **data, int nr_data, FILE *fp)
printed += fprintf(fp, " (msec) (msec) (msec) (msec) (%%)\n");
printed += fprintf(fp, " --------------- -------- ------ -------- --------- --------- --------- ------\n");
for (int i = 0; i < nr_data; i++)
printed += print_common_stats(data[i], fp);
if (max_summary == 0 || max_summary > nr_data)
max_summary = nr_data;
for (int i = 0; i < max_summary; i++)
printed += print_common_stats(data[i], max_summary, fp);
printed += fprintf(fp, "\n\n");
return printed;
@@ -333,7 +339,7 @@ static int update_cgroup_stats(struct hashmap *hash, struct syscall_key *map_key
return 0;
}
static int print_cgroup_stat(struct syscall_data *data, FILE *fp)
static int print_cgroup_stat(struct syscall_data *data, int max_summary, FILE *fp)
{
int printed = 0;
struct cgroup *cgrp = __cgroup__find(&cgroups, data->key);
@@ -351,23 +357,23 @@ static int print_cgroup_stat(struct syscall_data *data, FILE *fp)
printed += fprintf(fp, " (msec) (msec) (msec) (msec) (%%)\n");
printed += fprintf(fp, " --------------- -------- ------ -------- --------- --------- --------- ------\n");
printed += print_common_stats(data, fp);
printed += print_common_stats(data, max_summary, fp);
printed += fprintf(fp, "\n\n");
return printed;
}
static int print_cgroup_stats(struct syscall_data **data, int nr_data, FILE *fp)
static int print_cgroup_stats(struct syscall_data **data, int nr_data, int max_summary, FILE *fp)
{
int printed = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < nr_data; i++)
printed += print_cgroup_stat(data[i], fp);
printed += print_cgroup_stat(data[i], max_summary, fp);
return printed;
}
int trace_print_bpf_summary(FILE *fp)
int trace_print_bpf_summary(FILE *fp, int max_summary)
{
struct bpf_map *map = skel->maps.syscall_stats_map;
struct syscall_key *prev_key, key;
@@ -420,13 +426,13 @@ int trace_print_bpf_summary(FILE *fp)
switch (skel->rodata->aggr_mode) {
case SYSCALL_AGGR_THREAD:
printed += print_thread_stats(data, nr_data, fp);
printed += print_thread_stats(data, nr_data, max_summary, fp);
break;
case SYSCALL_AGGR_CPU:
printed += print_total_stats(data, nr_data, fp);
printed += print_total_stats(data, nr_data, max_summary, fp);
break;
case SYSCALL_AGGR_CGROUP:
printed += print_cgroup_stats(data, nr_data, fp);
printed += print_cgroup_stats(data, nr_data, max_summary, fp);
break;
default:
break;
+2 -2
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ enum trace_summary_mode {
int trace_prepare_bpf_summary(enum trace_summary_mode mode);
void trace_start_bpf_summary(void);
void trace_end_bpf_summary(void);
int trace_print_bpf_summary(FILE *fp);
int trace_print_bpf_summary(FILE *fp, int max_summary);
void trace_cleanup_bpf_summary(void);
#else /* !HAVE_BPF_SKEL */
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static inline int trace_prepare_bpf_summary(enum trace_summary_mode mode __maybe
}
static inline void trace_start_bpf_summary(void) {}
static inline void trace_end_bpf_summary(void) {}
static inline int trace_print_bpf_summary(FILE *fp __maybe_unused)
static inline int trace_print_bpf_summary(FILE *fp __maybe_unused, int max_summary __maybe_unused)
{
return 0;
}