Since it is freshly allocated just attribute it to a non-const pointer
and then change it via that pointer.
That way we avoid const-correctness warnings in recent glibc versions.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf_session__fprintf() prints only the host.
This has been changed to print details of host and all guests, by
traversing through the RB-Tree.
These are visible when using high verbosity (-vvvv) in KVM environments,
during perf report dumps.
Testing:
- Test 1: Record the local machine and guest VM using 'perf kvm record' and
generate the report using 'perf kvm report -vvvv -D'. The dump should show
the threads and other details related to local and guest machine.
- 1 Ubuntu VM running on Fedora host
- VM is running a noisy program =>
$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null
- On host run =>
$ sudo ./perf kvm --guestvmlinux=/tmp/shared/guest_vmlinux \
--guestkallsyms=/tmp/shared/guest_kallsyms \
--guestmodules=/tmp/shared/guest_modules \
record -a -g -o perf.data.guest
and exit after a few seconds.
[ perf record: Woken up 9 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 3.150 MB perf.data.guest \
(29311 samples) ]
- Generate dump =>
$ sudo ./perf kvm --guestkallsyms /tmp/shared/guest_kallsyms \
report -vvvv -D -i perf.data.guest > output.txt
- Check for threads associated with guest machine.
$ grep "Thread 0" output.txt
Thread 0 swapper
Thread 0 [guest/0]
PASS
- Test 2: Record the local machine and guest VM using 'perf kvm record' and
generate the report using 'perf kvm report'. The functions running on
guest VM should be seen in the report.
- Same setup as Test 1 but the test looks at the performance profile,
to check if the function names are visible.
- Peek into profile using =>
$ sudo ./perf kvm --guestkallsyms /tmp/shared/guest_kallsyms \
report -i perf.data.guest
- Samples: 29K of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 28711693142
Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol
35.69% 35.69% :5820 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] chacha_permute
11.56% 11.56% :5820 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] entry_SYSRETQ_unsXXX
11.12% 11.12% :5820 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] syscall_return_viXXX
7.36% 7.36% :5820 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] entry_SYSCALL_64_XXX
6.07% 6.07% :5820 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] chacha_block_generic
5.40% 5.40% :5820 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] _copy_to_iter
....
PASS
- Test 3: Record the local and 2 guest VMs using 'perf kvm record' and
generate the report using 'perf kvm report -vvvv -D'. The dump should show
the threads and other details related to local and guest machines.
- 1 Ubuntu and 1 Alpine VMs running on Fedora host.
- Find PIDs of qemu instances and use them during record and report
$ pgrep qemu
5816
25098
- Record the activity =>
$ sudo ./perf kvm record -p 5816,25098 -a -g -o perf.data.guests
Warning:
PID/TID switch overriding SYSTEM
[ perf record: Woken up 325927 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 3.692 MB perf.data.guests \
(57389 samples) ]
- Generate dump =>
$ sudo ./perf kvm report -vvvv -D -i perf.data.guests > output.txt
- Check if the threads related to the local machine and guest VMs
are present =>
$ grep "Thread 0" output.txt
Thread 0 swapper
Thread 0 [guest/0]
NOTE: Threads from Ubuntu and Alpine VMs are bundled together and
appear as one guest machine.
Looking into output.txt =>
Threads: 6
Thread 0 [guest/0]
Thread 5816 :5816
Thread 25098 :25098
Thread 5819 :5819
Thread 5820 :5820
Thread 25103 :25103
To conclude, information is collected for both VMs and not listed
as two different guest machines.
PASS
- Test 4: Check if any guest-related information is printed in
perf annotate. This test is included because the command calls
perf_session__fprintf() in its code path when using -vvvv option.
This could be explained by inability / lack of options for 'perf annotate'
to look into guest VM from host machine, due to no option to specify the
guest's kallsyms or modules. A similar explanation for 'perf mem' could
be used, as perf_session__fprintf() is also present in its code path.
- Run annotate =>
$ sudo ./perf annotate -i perf.data.guest -vvvv > output.txt
- Check for threads from local machine or guest VM =>
$ grep "Thread 0" output.txt
Thread 0 swapper
Threads from local machine are found while threads from guest VM
are not found. It is possibly because of a lack of a guest kallsyms
option for DSO matching in perf annotate.
PASS
- Test 5: Run kvm test available on perf path
- $ sudo ./perf test kvm
89: perf kvm tests : Ok
PASS
Signed-off-by: Hrishikesh Suresh <hrishikesh123s@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com>
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[ Declare 'nd' in the 'for' line and and 'pos' inside the loop body, to make it more compact ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
These are hard to interpret in the raw output because they are printed
as hex but are defined in perf_event.h as decimal. Make it much easier
to read the raw callchains by just printing their names.
For example:
$ perf report -D
1798195372321 0x4638 [0xb0]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4002): 44922/44922: 0x7c8046dd3400 period: 120218 addr: 0
... FP chain: nr:12
..... 0: fffffffffffffe00 (PERF_CONTEXT_USER)
..... 1: 00007c8046dd3400
..... 2: 00007c8046db86d3
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[ Add PERF_CONTEXT_USER_DEFERRED too, as per Namhyung's review comment ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It's possible that some kernel samples don't have matching deferred
callchain records when the profiling session was ended before the
threads came back to userspace. Let's flush the samples before
finish the session.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Save samples with deferred callchains in a separate list and deliver
them after merging the user callchains. If users don't want to merge
they can set tool->merge_deferred_callchains to false to prevent the
behavior.
With previous result, now perf script will show the merged callchains.
$ perf script
...
pwd 2312 121.163435: 249113 cpu/cycles/P:
ffffffff845b78d8 __build_id_parse.isra.0+0x218 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff83bb5bf6 perf_event_mmap+0x2e6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff83c31959 mprotect_fixup+0x1e9 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff83c31dc5 do_mprotect_pkey+0x2b5 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff83c3206f __x64_sys_mprotect+0x1f ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff845e6692 do_syscall_64+0x62 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff8360012f entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76 ([kernel.kallsyms])
7f18fe337fa7 mprotect+0x7 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
7f18fe330e0f _dl_sysdep_start+0x7f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
7f18fe331448 _dl_start_user+0x0 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
...
The old output can be get using --no-merge-callchain option.
Also perf report can get the user callchain entry at the end.
$ perf report --no-children --stdio -q -S __build_id_parse.isra.0
# symbol: __build_id_parse.isra.0
8.40% pwd [kernel.kallsyms]
|
---__build_id_parse.isra.0
perf_event_mmap
mprotect_fixup
do_mprotect_pkey
__x64_sys_mprotect
do_syscall_64
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
mprotect
_dl_sysdep_start
_dl_start_user
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Add a new event type for deferred callchains and a new callback for the
struct perf_tool. For now it doesn't actually handle the deferred
callchains but it just marks the sample if it has the PERF_CONTEXT_
USER_DEFFERED in the callchain array.
At least, perf report can dump the raw data with this change. Actually
this requires the next commit to enable attr.defer_callchain, but if you
already have a data file, it'll show the following result.
$ perf report -D
...
0x2158@perf.data [0x40]: event: 22
.
. ... raw event: size 64 bytes
. 0000: 16 00 00 00 02 00 40 00 06 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 ......@.........
. 0010: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a7 7f 33 fe 18 7f 00 00 ..........3.....
. 0020: 0f 0e 33 fe 18 7f 00 00 48 14 33 fe 18 7f 00 00 ..3.....H.3.....
. 0030: 08 09 00 00 08 09 00 00 e6 7a e7 35 1c 00 00 00 .........z.5....
121163447014 0x2158 [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN_DEFERRED(IP, 0x2): 2312/2312: 0xb00000006
... FP chain: nr:3
..... 0: 00007f18fe337fa7
..... 1: 00007f18fe330e0f
..... 2: 00007f18fe331448
: unhandled!
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Getting context for what a tool is doing, such as the perf_inject
instance, using container_of the tool is a common pattern in the
code. This isn't possible event_op2, event_op3 and event_op4 callbacks
as the tool isn't passed. Add the argument and then fix function
signatures to match. As tools maybe reading a tool from somewhere
else, change that code to use the passed in tool.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
If a user specifies an AUX buffer larger than 2 GiB, the returned size
may exceed 0x80000000. Since the err variable is defined as a signed
32-bit integer, such a value overflows and becomes negative.
As a result, the perf record command reports an error:
0x146e8 [0x30]: failed to process type: 71 [Unknown error 183711232]
Change the type of the err variable to a signed 64-bit integer to
accommodate large buffer sizes correctly.
Fixes: d5652d865e ("perf session: Add ability to skip 4GiB or more")
Reported-by: Tamas Zsoldos <tamas.zsoldos@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250808-perf_fix_big_buffer_size-v1-1-45f45444a9a4@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
By definition arch sample parsing and synthesis will inhibit certain
kinds of cross-platform record then analysis (report, script,
etc.). Remove arch_perf_parse_sample_weight and
arch_perf_synthesize_sample_weight replacing with a common
implementation. Combine perf_sample p_stage_cyc and retire_lat as
weight3 to capture the differing uses regardless of compiled for
architecture.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-21-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The global perf_env was used for the host, but if a perf_env wasn't
easy to come by it was used in a lot of places where potentially
recorded and host data could be confused. Remove the global variable
as now the majority of accesses retrieve the perf_env for the host
from the session.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-20-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
When creating a perf_session the host perf_env may or may not want to
be used. For example, `perf top` uses a host perf_env while `perf
inject` does not. Add a host_env argument to perf_session__new so that
sessions requiring a host perf_env can pass it in. Currently if none
is specified the global perf_env variable is used, but this will
change in later patches.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-14-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The session holds a perf_env pointer env. In UI code container_of is
used to turn the env to a session, but this assumes the session
header's env is in use. Rather than a dubious container_of, hold the
session in the evlist and derive the env from the session with
evsel__env, perf_session__env, etc.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-11-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The original PERF_RECORD_COMPRESS is not 8-byte aligned, which can cause
asan runtime error:
# Build with asan
$ make -C tools/perf O=/tmp/perf DEBUG=1 EXTRA_CFLAGS="-O0 -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=undefined"
# Test success with many asan runtime errors:
$ /tmp/perf/perf test "Zstd perf.data compression/decompression" -vv
83: Zstd perf.data compression/decompression:
...
util/session.c:1959:13: runtime error: member access within misaligned address 0x7f69e3f99653 for type 'union perf_event', which requires 13 byte alignment
0x7f69e3f99653: note: pointer points here
d0 3a 50 69 44 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 bb 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 07 00 00
^
util/session.c:2163:22: runtime error: member access within misaligned address 0x7f69e3f99653 for type 'union perf_event', which requires 8 byte alignment
0x7f69e3f99653: note: pointer points here
d0 3a 50 69 44 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 bb 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 07 00 00
^
...
Since there is no way to align compressed data in zstd compression, this
patch add a new event type `PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED2`, which adds a field
`data_size` to specify the actual compressed data size.
The `header.size` contains the total record size, including the padding
at the end to make it 8-byte aligned.
Tested with `Zstd perf.data compression/decompression`
Signed-off-by: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ben Gainey <ben.gainey@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250303183646.327510-1-ctshao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The struct dump_regs contains 512 bytes of cache_regs, meaning the two
values in perf_sample contribute 1088 bytes of its total 1384 bytes
size. Initializing this much memory has a cost reported by Tavian
Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com> as about 2.5% when running `perf
script --itrace=i0`:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d841b97b3ad2ca8bcab07e4293375fb7c32dfce7.1736618095.git.tavianator@tavianator.com/
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> replied that the zero
initialization was necessary and couldn't simply be removed.
This patch aims to strike a middle ground of still zeroing the
perf_sample, but removing 79% of its size by make user_regs and
intr_regs optional pointers to zalloc-ed memory. To support the
allocation accessors are created for user_regs and intr_regs. To
support correct cleanup perf_sample__init and perf_sample__exit
functions are created and added throughout the code base.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250113194345.1537821-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Sample period calculation in deliver_sample_value is updated to
calculate the per-thread period delta for events that are inherit +
PERF_SAMPLE_READ. When the sampling event has this configuration, the
read_format.id is used with the tid from the sample to lookup the
storage of the previously accumulated counter total before calculating
the delta. All existing valid configurations where read_format.value
represents some global value continue to use just the read_format.id to
locate the storage of the previously accumulated total.
perf_sample_id is modified to support tracking per-thread
values, along with the existing global per-id values. In the
per-thread case, values are stored in a hash by tid within the
perf_sample_id, and are dynamically allocated as the number is not known
ahead of time.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gainey <ben.gainey@arm.com>
Cc: james.clark@arm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241001121505.1009685-2-ben.gainey@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
No event is printed in the "Branch Counter" column on hybrid machines.
For example,
$ perf record -e "{cpu_core/branch-instructions/pp,cpu_core/branches/}:S" -j any,counter
$ perf report --total-cycles
# Branch counter abbr list:
# cpu_core/branch-instructions/pp = A
# cpu_core/branches/ = B
# '-' No event occurs
# '+' Event occurrences may be lost due to branch counter saturated
#
# Sampled Cycles% Sampled Cycles Avg Cycles% Avg Cycles Branch Counter
# ............... .............. ........... .......... ..............
44.54% 727.1K 0.00% 1 |+ |+ |
36.31% 592.7K 0.00% 2 |+ |+ |
17.83% 291.1K 0.00% 1 |+ |+ |
The branch counter information (br_cntr_width and br_cntr_nr) in the
perf_env is retrieved from the CPU_PMU_CAPS. However, the CPU_PMU_CAPS
is not available on hybrid machines. Without the width information, the
number of occurrences of an event cannot be calculated.
For a hybrid machine, the caps information should be retrieved from the
PMU_CAPS, and stored in the perf_env->pmu_caps.
Add a perf_env__find_br_cntr_info() to return the correct branch counter
information from the corresponding fields.
Committer notes:
While testing I couldn't s ee those "Branch counter" columns enabled by
pressing 'B' on the TUI, after reporting it to the list Kan explained
the situation:
<quote Kan Liang>
For a hybrid client, the "Branch Counter" feature is only supported
starting from the just released Lunar Lake. Perf falls back to only
"ANY" on your Raptor Lake.
The "The branch counter is not available" message is expected.
Here is the 'perf evlist' result from my Lunar Lake machine,
# perf evlist -v
cpu_core/branch-instructions/pp: type: 4 (cpu_core), size: 136, config: 0xc4 (branch-instructions), { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|READ|PERIOD|BRANCH_STACK|IDENTIFIER, read_format: ID|GROUP|LOST, disabled: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, precise_ip: 2, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, branch_sample_type: ANY|COUNTERS
#
</quote>
Fixes: 6f9d8d1de2 ("perf script: Add branch counters")
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240909184201.553519-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Previously inject->is_pipe was set if the input or output were a
pipe. Determining the input was a pipe had to be done prior to
starting the session and opening the file. This was done by comparing
the input file name with '-' but it fails if the pipe file is written
to disk.
Opening a pipe file from disk will correctly set perf_data.is_pipe, but
this is too late for 'perf inject' and results in a broken file. A
workaround is 'cat pipe_perf|perf inject -i - ...'.
This change removes inject->is_pipe and changes the dependent
conditions to use the is_pipe flag on the input
(inject->session->data) and output files (inject->output). This
ensures the is_pipe condition reflects things like the header being
read.
The change removes the use of perf file header repiping, that is
writing the file header out while reading it in. The case of input
pipe and output file cannot repipe as the attributes for the file are
unknown. To resolve this, write the file header when writing to disk
and as the attributes may be unknown, write them after the data.
Update sessions repipe variable to be trace_event_repipe as those are
the only events now impacted by it. Update __perf_session__new as the
repipe_fd no longer needs passing. Fully removing repipe from session
header reading will be done in a later change.
Committer testing:
root@number:~# perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_*sleep/max-stack=4/ -o - sleep 0.01 | perf report -i -
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.050 MB - ]
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 1 of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_clock_nanosleep'
# Event count (approx.): 1
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ............. ...............................
#
100.00% sleep libc.so.6 [.] clock_nanosleep@GLIBC_2.2.5
|
---__libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34
__libc_start_call_main
0x562fc2560a9f
clock_nanosleep@GLIBC_2.2.5
#
# (Tip: Create an archive with symtabs to analyse on other machine: perf archive)
#
root@number:~# perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_*sleep/max-stack=4/ -o - sleep 0.01 > pipe.data
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.050 MB - ]
root@number:~# perf report --stdio -i pipe.data
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 1 of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_clock_nanosleep'
# Event count (approx.): 1
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ............. ...............................
#
100.00% sleep libc.so.6 [.] clock_nanosleep@GLIBC_2.2.5
|
---__libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34
__libc_start_call_main
0x55f775975a9f
clock_nanosleep@GLIBC_2.2.5
#
# (Tip: To set sampling period of individual events use perf record -e cpu/cpu-cycles,period=100001/,cpu/branches,period=10001/ ...)
#
root@number:~#
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Cc: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829150154.37929-7-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In find_data_type(), it creates and deletes a debug info whenver it
tries to find data type for a sample. This is inefficient and it most
likely accesses the same binary again and again.
Let's add a single entry cache the debug info structure for the last DSO.
Depending on sample data, it usually gives me 2~3x (and sometimes more)
speed ups.
Note that this will introduce a little difference in the output due to
the order of checking stack operations. It used to check the stack ops
before checking the availability of debug info but I moved it after the
symbol check. So it'll report stack operations in DSOs without debug
info as unknown. But I think it's ok and better to have the checking
near the caching logic.
Committer testing:
root@x1:~# perf mem record -a sleep 5s
root@x1:~# perf evlist
cpu_atom/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P
cpu_atom/mem-stores/P
dummy:u
root@x1:~# diff -u before after
--- before 2024-08-08 09:33:53.880780784 -0300
+++ after 2024-08-08 09:35:13.917325041 -0300
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@
# Overhead Data Type
# ........ .........
#
- 55.43% (unknown)
- 11.61% (stack operation)
+ 55.56% (unknown)
+ 11.48% (stack operation)
4.93% struct pcpu_hot
3.26% unsigned int
2.48% struct
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: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240805234648.1453689-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It's possible to save pipe output of perf record into a file.
$ perf record -o- ... > pipe.data
And you can use the data same as the normal perf data.
$ perf report -i pipe.data
In that case, perf tools will treat the input as a pipe, but it can get
the total size of the input. This means it can show the progress bar
unlike the normal pipe input (which doesn't know the total size in
advance).
While at it, fix the string in __perf_session__process_dir_events().
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240627181916.1202110-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Add a new branch filter, "counter", for the branch counter option. It is
used to mark the events which should be logged in the branch. If it is
applied with the -j option, the counters of all the events should be
logged in the branch. If the legacy kernel doesn't support the new
branch sample type, switching off the branch counter filter.
The stored counter values in each branch are displayed right after the
regular branch stack information via perf report -D.
Usage examples:
# perf record -e "{branch-instructions,branch-misses}:S" -j any,counter
Only the first event, branch-instructions, collect the LBR. Both
branch-instructions and branch-misses are marked as logged events. The
occurrences information of them can be found in the branch stack
extension space of each branch.
# perf record -e "{cpu/branch-instructions,branch_type=any/,cpu/branch-misses,branch_type=counter/}"
Only the first event, branch-instructions, collect the LBR. Only the
branch-misses event is marked as a logged event.
Committer notes:
I noticed 'perf test "Sample parsing"' failing, reported to the list and
Kan provided a patch that checks if the evsel has a leader and that
evsel->evlist is set, the comment in the source code further explains
it.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tinghao Zhang <tinghao.zhang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025201626.3000228-8-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
