lwn.git/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c, branch v2.6.38-rc5

perf tools: Fix 64 bit integer format strings

2011-01-23T01:41:57+00:00

Using %L[uxd] has issues in some architectures, like on ppc64. Fix it by making our 64 bit integers typedefs of stdint.h types and using PRI[ux]64 like, for instance, git does. Reported by Denis Kirjanov that provided a patch for one case, I went and changed all cases. Reported-by: Denis Kirjanov Tested-by: Denis Kirjanov LKML-Reference: <20110120093246.GA8031@hera.kernel.org> Cc: Denis Kirjanov Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Pingtian Han Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record,report,annotate,diff: Process events in order

2010-12-21T22:17:51+00:00

This patch changes perf report to ask for the ID info on all events be default if recording from multiple CPUs. Perf report, annotate and diff will now process the events in order if the kernel is able to provide timestamps on all events. This ensures that events such as COMM and MMAP which are necessary to correctly interpret samples are processed prior to those samples so that they are attributed correctly. Before: # perf record ./cachetest # perf report # Events: 6K cycles # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................. ............................... # 74.11% :3259 [unknown] [k] 0x4a6c 1.50% cachetest ld-2.11.2.so [.] 0x1777c 1.46% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .perf_event_mmap_ctx 1.25% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] restore 0.74% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ._raw_spin_lock 0.71% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .filemap_fault 0.66% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .memset 0.54% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .sha_transform 0.54% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .copy_4K_page 0.54% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .find_get_page 0.52% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .trace_hardirqs_off 0.50% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .__do_fault After: # perf report # Events: 6K cycles # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................. ............................... # 44.28% cachetest cachetest [.] sumArrayNaive 22.53% cachetest cachetest [.] sumArrayOptimal 6.59% cachetest ld-2.11.2.so [.] 0x1777c 2.13% cachetest [unknown] [k] 0x340 1.46% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .perf_event_mmap_ctx 1.25% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] restore 0.74% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ._raw_spin_lock 0.71% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .filemap_fault 0.66% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .memset 0.54% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .copy_4K_page 0.54% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .find_get_page 0.54% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .sha_transform 0.52% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .trace_hardirqs_off 0.50% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .__do_fault Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner LKML-Reference: <1291872833-839-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf session: Fallback to unordered processing if no sample_id_all

2010-12-21T22:17:51+00:00

If we are running the new perf on an old kernel without support for sample_id_all, we should fall back to the old unordered processing of events. If we didn't than we would *always* process events without timestamps out of order, whether or not we hit a reordering race. In other words, instead of there being a chance of not attributing samples correctly, we would guarantee that samples would not be attributed. While processing all events without timestamps before events with timestamps may seem like an intuitive solution, it falls down as PERF_RECORD_EXIT events would also be processed before any samples. Even with a workaround for that case, samples before/after an exec would not be attributed correctly. This patch allows commands to indicate whether they need to fall back to unordered processing, so that commands that do not care about timestamps on every event will not be affected. If we do fallback, this will print out a warning if report -D was invoked. This patch adds the test in perf_session__new so that we only need to test once per session. Commands that do not use an event_ops (such as record and top) can simply pass NULL in it's place. Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner LKML-Reference: <1291951882-sup-6069@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf session: Parse sample earlier

2010-12-05T01:05:19+00:00

At perf_session__process_event, so that we reduce the number of lines in eache tool sample processing routine that now receives a sample_data pointer already parsed. This will also be useful in the next patch, where we'll allow sample the identity fields in MMAP, FORK, EXIT, etc, when it will be possible to see (cpu, timestamp) just after before every event. Also validate callchains in perf_session__process_event, i.e. as early as possible, and keep a counter of the number of events discarded due to invalid callchains, warning the user about it if it happens. There is an assumption that was kept that all events have the same sample_type, that will be dealt with in the future, when this preexisting limitation will be removed. Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Ian Munsie Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker Cc: Ian Munsie Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Stephane Eranian LKML-Reference: <1291318772-30880-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add --tui and --stdio to choose the UI

2010-08-21T13:49:46+00:00

Relying just on ~/.perfconfig or rebuilding the tool disabling support for the TUI is too cumbersome, so allow specifying which UI to use and make the command line switch override whatever is in ~/.perfconfig. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf ui browser: Return the exit key in all browsers

2010-08-19T22:39:52+00:00

Make all browsers return the exit key uniformly and remove the newtExitStruct parameter, removing one more newt specific thing from the ui API. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate: Sort by hottest lines in the TUI

2010-08-10T19:11:42+00:00

Right now it will just sort and position at the hottest line, i.e. the one where more samples were taken. It will be at the center of the screen and later TAB/shift-TAB will cycle thru the hottest lines. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Make event__preprocess_sample parse the sample

2010-06-05T12:35:19+00:00

Simplifying the tools that were using both in sequence and allowing upcoming simplifications, such as Arun's patch to sort by cpus. Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tui: Reset use_browser if stdout is not a tty

2010-05-26T16:22:26+00:00

The newt initialization routines weren't being called because the output was a file (perf annotate > /tmp/bla) but use_browser was still 1, because ~/.perfconfig had it as 'on', so, later on newt routines segfaulted. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate: Add TUI interface

2010-05-22T14:25:40+00:00

When annotating multiple entries, for instance, when running simply as: $ perf annotate the right and left keys, as well as TAB can be used to cycle thru the multiple symbols being annotated. If one doesn't like TUI annotate, disable it by editing ~/.perfconfig and adding: [tui] annotate = off Just like it is possible for report. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo