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* perf lock: Fix and add misc documentally thingsHitoshi Mitake2010-02-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've forgot to add 'perf lock' line to command-list.txt, so users of perf could not find perf lock when they type 'perf'. Fixing command-list.txt requires document (tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt). But perf lock is too much "under construction" to write a stable document, so this is something like pseudo document for now. And I wrote description of perf lock at help section of CONFIG_LOCK_STAT, this will navigate users of lock trace events. Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> LKML-Reference: <1265267295-8388-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* perf buildid-cache: Add new command to manage build-id cacheArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2010-01-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For now it just has operations to examine a given file, find its build-id and add or remove it to/from the cache. Useful, for instance, when adding binaries sent together with a perf.data file, so that we can add them to the cache and have the tools find it when resolving symbols. It'll also manage the size of the cache like 'ccache' does. 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> LKML-Reference: <1264008525-29025-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf archive: Add documentationArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2010-01-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This also makes it appear on the 'perf --help' output, i.e. util/generate-cmdlist.sh now takes it into account. 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> LKML-Reference: <1263837559-24168-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf archive: Add helper script to package files needed to do analysisArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2010-01-161-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It uses 'perf buildid-list --with-hits' to create a tarball with what is needed to have in the destination machine ~/.debug hierarchy to properly decode the perf.data file specified. Here is an example where a perf.data file collected on a x86-64 machine running Fedora 12 is used and then the data is packaged, transferred and decoded on a PARISC64 machine running Debian Testing, 32-bit userspace: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# uname -a Linux doppio.ghostprotocols.net 2.6.33-rc4-tip+ #3 SMP Wed Jan 13 11:58:15 BRST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf archive [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* -rw------- 1 root root 737696 2010-01-14 23:36 perf.data -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8840025 2010-01-15 12:27 perf.data.tar.bz2 [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# scp perf.data.* parisc64:. Password: perf.data.tar.bz2 100% 8633KB 1.4MB/s 00:06 [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ssh parisc64 Password: Linux parisc 2.6.19-g2bbf29ac-dirty #1 Sun Dec 3 17:24:04 BRST 2006 parisc64 The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Last login: Thu Jan 14 11:23:24 2010 from d parisc:~# uname -a Linux parisc 2.6.19-g2bbf29ac-dirty #1 Sun Dec 3 17:24:04 BRST 2006 parisc64 GNU/Linux parisc:~# mkdir .debug parisc:~# tar xvf perf.data.tar.bz2 -C ~/.debug tar: Record size = 8 blocks .build-id/74/f9930ee94475b6b3238caf3725a50d59cb994b [kernel.kallsyms]/74f9930ee94475b6b3238caf3725a50d59cb994b .build-id/9f/fdcac0a7935922d1f04b6cc9029dfef0f066ef lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/arch/x86/crypto/aes-x86_64.ko/9ffdcac0a7935922d1f04b6cc9029dfef0f066ef .build-id/3a/af89c32ebfc438ff546c93597d41788e3e65f3 lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko/3aaf89c32ebfc438ff546c93597d41788e3e65f3 .build-id/19/f46033f73e1ec612937189bb118c5daba5a0c8 lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko/19f46033f73e1ec612937189bb118c5daba5a0c8 .build-id/17/72f014a7a7272859655acb0c64a20ab20b75ee lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko/1772f014a7a7272859655acb0c64a20ab20b75ee .build-id/eb/4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 .build-id/5c/68f7afeb33309c78037e374b0deee84dd441f6 lib64/libpthread-2.10.2.so/5c68f7afeb33309c78037e374b0deee84dd441f6 .build-id/e9/c9ad5c138ef882e4507d2605645b597da43873 bin/dbus-daemon/e9c9ad5c138ef882e4507d2605645b597da43873 .build-id/bc/da7d09eb6c9ee380dae0ed3d591d4311decc31 lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0/bcda7d09eb6c9ee380dae0ed3d591d4311decc31 .build-id/7c/c449a77f48b85d6088114000e970ced613bed8 usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8k/7cc449a77f48b85d6088114000e970ced613bed8 .build-id/fd/d1ccd1ff7917ab020653147ab3bacf0a85b5b9 lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2000.5/fdd1ccd1ff7917ab020653147ab3bacf0a85b5b9 .build-id/e4/417ebb8762e5f2eee93c8011a71115ff5edad8 lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2000.5/e4417ebb8762e5f2eee93c8011a71115ff5edad8 .build-id/93/1e49461f6df99104f0febcc52f6fed5e2efce6 usr/sbin/sshd/931e49461f6df99104f0febcc52f6fed5e2efce6 .build-id/da/b5f724c088f89fbd8304da553ed6cb30bbec96 usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.6/dab5f724c088f89fbd8304da553ed6cb30bbec96 .build-id/f2/037a091ef36b591187a858d75e203690ea9409 usr/sbin/openvpn/f2037a091ef36b591187a858d75e203690ea9409 .build-id/a8/e4f743b40fb1fd8b85e2f9b88d93b661472b8f bin/find/a8e4f743b40fb1fd8b85e2f9b88d93b661472b8f .build-id/81/120aada06e68b1e85882925a0fc6d7345ef59a home/acme/bin/perf/81120aada06e68b1e85882925a0fc6d7345ef59a parisc:~# perf report 2> /dev/null | head -25 9.07% find find [.] 0x0000000000fb0e 3.29% perf libc-2.10.2.so [.] __GI_strcmp 3.19% find [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore 2.70% find libc-2.10.2.so [.] __GI_memmove 2.62% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] vsnprintf 2.03% find libc-2.10.2.so [.] _int_malloc 2.02% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] format_decode 1.70% find [kernel.kallsyms] [k] n_tty_write 1.70% find [kernel.kallsyms] [k] half_md4_transform 1.67% find libc-2.10.2.so [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 1.66% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] audit_free_aux 1.62% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mwait_idle_with_hints 1.58% find [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __kmalloc 1.35% find [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_local 1.35% find [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ext4_check_dir_entry 1.35% find [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ext4_htree_store_dirent 1.35% find [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sys_write 1.35% find [e1000e] [k] e1000_clean 1.35% find [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _atomic_dec_and_lock 1.34% find [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __d_lookup parisc:~# Probably the next step is to have 'perf report' notice that there is a perf.data.tar.bz2 file in the same directory and look if it was already added to ~/.debug/. 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> LKML-Reference: <1263568672-30323-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf diff: Introduce tool to show performance differenceArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-12-151-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I guess it is enough to show some examples: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# rm -f perf.data* [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* ls: cannot access perf.data*: No such file or directory [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2699 samples) ] [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* -rw------- 1 root root 74440 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2692 samples) ] [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* -rw------- 1 root root 74280 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data -rw------- 1 root root 74440 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data.old [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff | head -5 1 -34994580 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 -15307806 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 +3665941 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 +23508995 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 +38538813 [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -p | head -5 1 +1.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 -1.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -v | head -5 1 361449551 326454971 -34994580 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 151009241 135701435 -15307806 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 101805328 105471269 +3665941 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 78041440 101550435 +23508995 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 59536172 98074985 +38538813 [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -vp | head -5 1 9.00% 8.00% +1.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 3.00% 3.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 2.00% 2.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 2.00% 2.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 1.00% 2.00% -1.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# This should be enough for diffs where the system is non volatile, i.e. when one doesn't updates binaries. For volatile environments, stay tuned for the next perf tool feature: a buildid cache populated by 'perf record', managed by 'perf buildid-cache' a-la ccache, and used by all the report tools. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.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: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1260828571-3613-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf kmem: Add help fileLi Zefan2009-11-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add Documentation/perf-kmem.txt Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org <linux-mm@kvack.org> LKML-Reference: <4B0B6EAF.80802@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probesIngo Molnar2009-11-171-0/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Resolved merge conflict in tools/perf/Makefile Merge reason: we want to queue up a dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * perf buildid-list: New plumbing commandArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-11-161-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With this we can list the buildids in a perf.data file so that we can pipe them to other, distro specific tools that from the buildids can figure out separate packages (foo-debuginfo) where we can find the matching symtabs so that perf report can do its job. E.g: [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf buildid-list | head -5 8e08b117e5458ad3f85da16d42d0fc5cd21c5869 520c2387a587cc5acfcf881e27dba1caaeab4b1f ec8dd400904ddfcac8b1c343263a790f977159dc 7caedbca5a6d8ab39a7fe44bd28c07d3e14a3f3f 379bb828fd08859dbea73279f04abefabc95a6a3 [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf buildid-list -v | head -5 8e08b117e5458ad3f85da16d42d0fc5cd21c5869 /sbin/init 520c2387a587cc5acfcf881e27dba1caaeab4b1f /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so ec8dd400904ddfcac8b1c343263a790f977159dc /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so 7caedbca5a6d8ab39a7fe44bd28c07d3e14a3f3f /sbin/udevd 379bb828fd08859dbea73279f04abefabc95a6a3 /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1258396365-29217-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * perf bench: Modify command-list.txt for the entry of perf-benchHitoshi Mitake2009-11-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch modifies command-list.txt for the entry of perf-bench. So perf will show 'bench' in command list. Example: % perf usage: perf [--version] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS] The most commonly used perf commands are: annotate Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display annotated code bench General framework for benchmark suites ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ list List all symbolic event types probe Define new dynamic tracepoints record Run a command and record its profile into perf.data report Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the profile sched Tool to trace/measure scheduler properties (latencies) stat Run a command and gather performance counter statistics timechart Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload top System profiling tool. trace Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display trace output See 'perf help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command. Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1257853855-28934-4-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | perf: Add perf-probe documentMasami Hiramatsu2009-10-171-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Add perf-probe subcommand document and add it to command-list. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20091017000827.16556.73539.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"Arjan van de Ven2009-09-191-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | As suggested by Ingo, add a timechart man page help text, as well as add it to the "perf help" overview. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20090919133604.3767fa35@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf: Add 'perf sched' toolIngo Molnar2009-09-131-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This turn-key tool allows scheduler measurements to be conducted and the results be displayed numerically. First baby step towards that goal: clone the new command off of perf trace. Fix a few other details along the way: - add (minimal) perf trace documentation - reorder a few places - list perf trace in the mainporcelain list as well as it's a very useful utility. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/Ingo Molnar2009-06-061-0/+10
Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the (new) tools/ directory. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>