From 4b715d24f4f14731c7b553cbb8604fe865cb8d3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:33:45 +0300
Subject: perf tools: Add example call-graph script
Add a script to produce a call-graph from data exported to a postgresql
database and derived from a processor trace event like intel_pt or intel_bts.
Refer to comments in the scripts call-graph-from-postgresql.py and
export-to-postgresql.py for more details on how to set up the environment,
install the required packages, etc.
Committer note:
From the scripts, for convenience while reading 'git log':
An example of using this script with Intel PT:
$ perf record -e intel_pt//u ls
$ perf script -s ~/libexec/perf-core/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py pt_example branches calls
2015-05-29 12:49:23.464364 Creating database...
2015-05-29 12:49:26.281717 Writing to intermediate files...
2015-05-29 12:49:27.190383 Copying to database...
2015-05-29 12:49:28.140451 Removing intermediate files...
2015-05-29 12:49:28.147451 Adding primary keys
2015-05-29 12:49:28.655683 Adding foreign keys
2015-05-29 12:49:29.365350 Done
$ python tools/perf/scripts/python/call-graph-from-postgresql.py pt_example
# The result is a GUI window with a tree representing a context-sensitive
# call-graph. Expanding a couple of levels of the tree and adjusting column
# widths to suit will display something like:
Call Graph: pt_example
Call Path |Object |Count|Time(ns)|Time(%)|Branch Count|Branch Count(%)
v- ls
v- 2638:2638
v- _start ld-2.19.so 1 10074071 100.0 211135 100.0
|- unknown unknown 1 13198 0.1 1 0.0
>- _dl_start ld-2.19.so 1 1400980 13.9 19637 9.3
>- _d_linit_internal ld-2.19.so 1 448152 4.4 11094 5.3
v-__libc_start_main@plt ls 1 8211741 81.5 180397 85.4
>- _dl_fixup ld-2.19.so 1 7607 0.1 108 0.1
>- __cxa_atexit libc-2.19.so 1 11737 0.1 10 0.0
>- __libc_csu_init ls 1 10354 0.1 10 0.0
|- _setjmp libc-2.19.so 1 0 0.0 4 0.0
v- main ls 1 8182043 99.6 180254 99.9
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437150840-31811-11-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
[ Added 'python-pyside qt-postgresql' to the yum cmdline installing required packages ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
(limited to 'tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py')
diff --git a/tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py b/tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py
index 4cdafd880074..84a32037a80f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py
+++ b/tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py
@@ -15,6 +15,53 @@ import sys
import struct
import datetime
+# To use this script you will need to have installed package python-pyside which
+# provides LGPL-licensed Python bindings for Qt. You will also need the package
+# libqt4-sql-psql for Qt postgresql support.
+#
+# The script assumes postgresql is running on the local machine and that the
+# user has postgresql permissions to create databases. Examples of installing
+# postgresql and adding such a user are:
+#
+# fedora:
+#
+# $ sudo yum install postgresql postgresql-server python-pyside qt-postgresql
+# $ sudo su - postgres -c initdb
+# $ sudo service postgresql start
+# $ sudo su - postgres
+# $ createuser <your user id here>
+# Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) y
+#
+# ubuntu:
+#
+# $ sudo apt-get install postgresql
+# $ sudo su - postgres
+# $ createuser <your user id here>
+# Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) y
+#
+# An example of using this script with Intel PT:
+#
+# $ perf record -e intel_pt//u ls
+# $ perf script -s ~/libexec/perf-core/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py pt_example branches calls
+# 2015-05-29 12:49:23.464364 Creating database...
+# 2015-05-29 12:49:26.281717 Writing to intermediate files...
+# 2015-05-29 12:49:27.190383 Copying to database...
+# 2015-05-29 12:49:28.140451 Removing intermediate files...
+# 2015-05-29 12:49:28.147451 Adding primary keys
+# 2015-05-29 12:49:28.655683 Adding foreign keys
+# 2015-05-29 12:49:29.365350 Done
+#
+# To browse the database, psql can be used e.g.
+#
+# $ psql pt_example
+# pt_example=# select * from samples_view where id < 100;
+# pt_example=# \d+
+# pt_example=# \d+ samples_view
+# pt_example=# \q
+#
+# An example of using the database is provided by the script
+# call-graph-from-postgresql.py. Refer to that script for details.
+
from PySide.QtSql import *
# Need to access PostgreSQL C library directly to use COPY FROM STDIN
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