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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
ec218fc4a7 perf tools: Remove show_mask bitmask
As it was not being exposed via any command line and with --dsos/--comms
we can do this and even more, like asking for just kernel + some module:

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report --dsos \[kernel\],\[drm\]
--vmlinux /home/acme/git/build/tip-recvmmsg/vmlinux --modules | head -15
 # Samples: 619669
 #
 # Overhead          Command  Shared Object  Symbol
 # ........  ...............  .............  ......
 #
      7.12%          swapper  [kernel]       [k] read_hpet
      6.86%             init  [kernel]       [k] read_hpet
      6.22%             init  [kernel]       [k] mwait_idle_with_hints
      5.34%          swapper  [kernel]       [k] mwait_idle_with_hints
      3.01%          firefox  [kernel]       [.] vread_hpet
      2.14%             Xorg  [drm]          [k] drm_clflush_pages
      2.09%           pidgin  [kernel]       [.] vread_hpet
      1.58%     npviewer.bin  [kernel]       [.] vread_hpet
      1.37%          swapper  [kernel]       [k] hpet_next_event
      1.23%             Xorg  [kernel]       [k] read_hpet
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091003233048.GA30535@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-04 19:37:11 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
9735abf11b perf tools: Move hist_entry__add common code to hist.c
Now perf report and annotate do the callgraph/hit processing in
their specialized hist_entry__add functions.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-03 16:01:59 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
439d473b47 perf tools: Rewrite and improve support for kernel modules
Representing modules as struct map entries, backed by a DSO, etc,
using /proc/modules to find where the module is loaded.

DSOs now can have a short and long name, so that in verbose mode we
can show exactly which .ko or vmlinux image was used.

As kernel modules now are a DSO separate from the kernel, we can
ask for just the hits for a particular set of kernel modules, just
like we can do with shared libraries:

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report -n --vmlinux
/home/acme/git/build/tip-recvmmsg/vmlinux --modules --dsos \[drm\] | head -15
    84.58%      13266             Xorg  [k] drm_clflush_pages
     4.02%        630             Xorg  [k] trace_kmalloc.clone.0
     3.95%        619             Xorg  [k] drm_ioctl
     2.07%        324             Xorg  [k] drm_addbufs
     1.68%        263             Xorg  [k] drm_gem_close_ioctl
     0.77%        120             Xorg  [k] drm_setmaster_ioctl
     0.70%        110             Xorg  [k] drm_lastclose
     0.68%        106             Xorg  [k] drm_open
     0.54%         85             Xorg  [k] drm_mm_search_free
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

Specifying --dsos /lib/modules/2.6.31-tip/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko
would have the same effect. Allowing specifying just 'drm.ko' is left
for another patch.

Processing kallsyms so that per kernel module struct map are
instantiated was also left for another patch. That will allow
removing the module name from each of its symbols.

struct symbol was reduced by removing the ->module backpointer and
moving it (well now the map) to struct symbol_entry in perf top,
that is its only user right now.

The total linecount went down by ~500 lines.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-02 10:48:42 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2ccdc450e6 perf top: Remove dead {min,max}_ip unused variables
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20090924212400.GA15321@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-01 08:46:15 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
cad3071424 perf trace: Remove dead code
Several variables are not used at all, cut'n'paste leftovers.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090928200818.GF3361@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-30 13:57:57 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
a80deb622d perf sched: Remove dead code
Several variables are not used at all, cut'n'paste leftovers.

Also check if the sample_type is RAW earlier, to avoid needless
searches.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-30 13:57:57 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
1b46cddfcc perf tools: Use rb_tree for maps
Threads can have many and kernel modules will be represented as a
tree of maps as well.

Ah, and for a perf.data with 146607 samples:

Before:

[root@doppio ~]# perf stat -r 5 perf report > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'perf report' (5 runs):

     699.823680  task-clock-msecs         #      0.991 CPUs    ( +-   0.454% )
             74  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec   ( +-   1.709% )
              2  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec   ( +-  17.008% )
          23114  page-faults              #      0.033 M/sec   ( +-   0.000% )
     1381257019  cycles                   #   1973.721 M/sec   ( +-   0.290% )
     1456894438  instructions             #      1.055 IPC     ( +-   0.007% )
       18779818  cache-references         #     26.835 M/sec   ( +-   0.380% )
         641799  cache-misses             #      0.917 M/sec   ( +-   1.200% )

    0.705972729  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.501% )

[root@doppio ~]#

After

 Performance counter stats for 'perf report' (5 runs):

     691.261451  task-clock-msecs         #      0.993 CPUs    ( +-   0.307% )
             72  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec   ( +-   0.829% )
              6  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec   ( +-  18.409% )
          23127  page-faults              #      0.033 M/sec   ( +-   0.000% )
     1366395876  cycles                   #   1976.670 M/sec   ( +-   0.153% )
     1443136016  instructions             #      1.056 IPC     ( +-   0.012% )
       17956402  cache-references         #     25.976 M/sec   ( +-   0.325% )
         661924  cache-misses             #      0.958 M/sec   ( +-   1.335% )

    0.696127275  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.377% )

I.e. we see some speedup too.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090928174846.GA3361@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-30 13:57:56 +02:00
John Kacur
3d1d07ecd2 perf tools: Put common histogram functions in their own file
Move histogram related functions into their own files (hist.c and
hist.h) and make use of them in builtin-annotate.c and
builtin-report.c.

Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0909281531180.8316@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-30 13:57:56 +02:00
John Kacur
dd68ada2d4 perf tools: Create util/sort.and use it
Create util/sort.[ch] and move common functionality for
builtin-report.c and builtin-annotate.c there, and make use of it.

Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0909241758390.11383@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24 21:27:52 +02:00
John Kacur
8b40f521cf perf tools: Protect header files with a consistent style
There was a colorful mix of header guards - standardize them.

Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0909241756530.11383@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24 21:27:51 +02:00
John Kacur
cbfeb267cb perf annotate: Add the cmp_null function and make use of it
This function exists in builtin-report.c but not in
builtin-annotate.c Functions that use cmp_null are shorter and
clearer.

Synchronizing functions between these two files will also make it
easier to potential share code in the future.

Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0909241754031.11383@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24 21:27:50 +02:00
Eric Dumazet
725b13685c perf tools: Dont use openat()
openat() is still a young glibc facility, better to not use it in a
non performance critical program (perf list)

Many machines have older glibc (RHEL 4 Update 5 -> glibc-2.3.4-2.36
on my dev machine for example).

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4ABB767D.6080004@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24 21:20:08 +02:00
Eric Dumazet
a255a9981a perf tools: Fix buffer allocation
"perf top" cores dump on my dev machine, if run from a directory
where vmlinux is present:

  *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x085670d0 ***

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4ABB6EB7.7000002@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24 15:11:23 +02:00
Kirill Smelkov
67030036eb perf tools: .gitignore += perf*.html
I've tried building the docs in tools/perf/Documentation/ , and after
that `git status` showed dozen of untracked htmls. Let's ignore them.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
LKML-Reference: <1253790022-10300-1-git-send-email-kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24 14:01:22 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
dd906a0fe8 perf tools: Handle relative paths while loading module symbols
Inform util/module.c::mod_dso__load_module_paths() that relative
paths do exist in some modules.dep, and make it fail noisily should
it encounter a path that it doesn't understand, or a module it
cannot open.

Reported-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1253779628.10513.8.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24 11:40:35 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
508c4d0874 perf tools: Fix module symbol loading bug
Avi Kivity reported 'perf annotate' failures with modules, the
requested function was not annotated.

If there are no modules currently loaded, or the last module
scanned is not loaded, dso__load_modules() steps on the value from
dso__load_vmlinux(), so we happily load the kallsyms symbols on top
of what we've already loaded.

Fix that such that the total count of symbols loaded is returned.
Should module symbol load fail after parsing of vmlinux, is's a
hard failure, so do not silently fall-back to kallsyms.

Reported-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1253697658.11461.36.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-23 13:45:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c7f7fea30b perf stat: Fix zero total printouts
Before:

           0  sched:sched_switch #        nan M/sec

After:

           0  sched:sched_switch #      0.000 M/sec

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>
2009-09-22 15:01:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
611a546bec perf util: SVG performance improvements
Tweak the output SVG to increase performance in SVG viewers by
limiting the different types of font sizes and by smarter
transformations on the text.

At least with Inkscape this gives a notable performance improvement
during zoom and scrolling.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181438.3a49cb93@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20 19:37:36 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
5094b65545 perf util: Make the timechart SVG width dynamic
This patch adds a command line option for timechart that allows the
user to specify the width of the SVG file.

This patch also makes sure that each second of recording has at
least 200 units (pixels at 96 DPI) of width.  This impacts
recordings longer than 5 seconds; recordings shorter than 5 second
will scale up to have a width of 1000 units for the whole recording
(as before).

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181416.69570c5d@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20 19:37:35 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
a92fe7b306 perf timechart: Show the duration of scheduler delays in the SVG
Given that scheduler latencies are the hot thing nowadays, show the
duration of said latencies in the SVG in text form.

In addition, if the latency is more than 10 msec, pick a brighter
yellow color as a way to point these long delays out.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181353.796f4509@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20 19:37:35 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
4f1202c8e6 perf timechart: Show the name of the waker/wakee in timechart
Timechart currently shows thin green lines for sending or receiving
wakeups. This patch also prints (in a very small font) the name of
the process that is being woken/wakes up this process.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181328.68baa978@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20 19:37:34 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
ec60a3fe47 perf utils: Use a define for the maximum length of a trace event
As per Ingo's review: use a #define rather than an open coded constant
for the maximum length of a trace event for storing in the perf.data file.

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: <20090919133630.10533d3e@infradead.org>
[ add a few comments to nearby functions ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 18:57:53 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
151750cec5 perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"
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>
2009-09-19 18:57:53 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
964a0b3d2b perf utils: Be consistent about minimum text size in the svghelper
Be more consistent in the svghelper about the minimum text size
by having a global #define for this.

There needs to be a minimum text size in order to keep the size
of the SVG file within the reach of what current SVG viewers can
cope with.

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>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090919133507.7374ef8b@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 18:57:52 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
3c09eebd61 perf timechart: Add "perf timechart record"
Add a command line option to record a trace, similar to "perf sched record".

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: <20090919133442.0dc2c7f5@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 18:57:51 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
10274989fd perf: Add the timechart tool
timechart is a tool to visualize what is going on in the system.

The user makes a trace of what is going on with

 > perf record --timechart /usr/bin/some_command

and then can turn the output of this into an svg file

 > perf timechart

which then can be viewed with any SVG view; inkscape works well
enough for me.

The idea behind timechart is to create a "infinitely zoomable"
picture; something that has high level information on a 1:1 zoom
level, but which exposes more details every time you zoom into a
specific area.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130713.6a77bbc0@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 11:42:13 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
f48d55ce78 perf: Add a SVG helper library file
The timechart tool writes out SVG format output; this patch adds a
set of helper functions to abstract dealing with SVG from the core
timechart code.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130613.677f0516@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 11:42:13 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
fd39e055c4 perf: Add a sample_event type to the event_union
Add a sample_event type to the event_union so that raw samples can
be processed easily.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130511.411434b5@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
a79d7db9fd perf: Allow perf utilities to have "callback" options without arguments
timechart needs to add a "callback" type command line argument that
does not take arguments.

This patch adds the parse-options.h infrastructure to make this
possible.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130440.548666c1@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 11:42:11 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
8755a8f27a perf: Store trace event name/id pairs in perf.data
The trace event name<->id mapping is dynamic for each kernel
compile. In order for perf.data to be useable outside the actual
system, we thus need to store a table of this mapping for later
use.

This patch adds this table to perf.data, and provides helper
functions for lookup up fields from this table.

To avoid mistakes, lookup-from-table is kept completely seprate
from lookup-from-local-debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130405.6960d099@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 11:42:11 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
393b2ad8c7 perf: Add a timestamp to fork events
perf timechart needs to know when a process forked, in order to be
able to visualize properly when tasks start.

This patch adds a time field to the event structure, and fills it
in appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130341.51ad2de2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 11:42:10 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
929bf0d015 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: Bring in tracing changes we depend on.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 11:28:41 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
4b77a72977 perf sched: Add --input=file option to builtin-sched.c
perf sched record passes unparsed args on to perf record, so
specifying an output file via perf sched record -o FILE (cmd) just
works.  Ergo, provide an option to specify input file as well.

Also add the missing 'map' command to help.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1253254944.20589.11.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18 08:36:06 +02:00
Li Zefan
1281a49b7a perf trace: Sample timestamp and cpu when using record flag
Sample timestamp and cpu just like the -R option.

Before:
            init-0     [-01] 1266874889.17179869184709551615: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0
            init-0     [-01] 1266874889.17179869184709551615: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0
            init-0     [-01] 1266874889.17179869184709551615: irq_handler_entry: irq=1 handler=i8042
            init-0     [-01] 1266874889.17179869184709551615: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0
            init-0     [-01] 1266874889.17179869184709551615: irq_handler_entry: irq=1 handler=i8042

After:
            init-0     [001]  7364.568965353: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0
            init-0     [001]  7365.530226877: irq_handler_entry: irq=1 handler=i8042
            init-0     [001]  7365.542831563: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0
            init-0     [001]  7365.644156299: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0
            init-0     [001]  7365.694556201: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AB1F827.8040905@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18 00:30:25 +02:00
Li Zefan
270bbbe80d perf tools: Increase MAX_EVENT_LENGTH
The name length of some trace events is longer than 30, like
sys_enter_sched_get_priority_max and
ext4_mb_discard_preallocations.

Passing those events to perf-record will fail, try:

  # ./perf record -f -e syscalls:sys_enter_sched_get_priority_max -F 1 -a

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AB1F4AB.7050205@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18 00:30:25 +02:00
Li Zefan
6706ccf8e7 perf tools: Fix memory leak in read_ftrace_printk()
get_tracing_file() should be paired with put_tracing_file().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AB1F48F.4070807@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18 00:30:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
40749d0ff4 perf sched: Determine the number of CPUs automatically
For 'perf sched map' output, determine max_cpu automatically,
instead of the static default of 15.

[ v2: use sysconf() pointed out by Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> ]

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>
2009-09-17 22:09:19 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
8b412664d0 perf record: Disable profiling before draining the buffer
I noticed that perf-record continues profiling itself after the
child terminated and we're draining the buffer.

This can cause a _lot_ of overhead with --all recording - we keep
and keep recording, which produces new and new events.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-17 22:08:27 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0ec04e16d0 perf sched: Add 'perf sched map' scheduling event map printout
This prints a textual context-switching outline of workload
captured via perf sched record.

For example, on a 16 CPU box it outputs:

   N1  O1  .   .   .   S1  .   .   .   B0  .  *I0  C1  .   M1  .    23002.773423 secs
   N1  O1  .  *Q0  .   S1  .   .   .   B0  .   I0  C1  .   M1  .    23002.773423 secs
   N1  O1  .   Q0  .   S1  .   .   .   B0  .  *R1  C1  .   M1  .    23002.773485 secs
   N1  O1  .   Q0  .   S1  .  *S0  .   B0  .   R1  C1  .   M1  .    23002.773478 secs
  *L0  O1  .   Q0  .   S1  .   S0  .   B0  .   R1  C1  .   M1  .    23002.773523 secs
   L0  O1  .  *.   .   S1  .   S0  .   B0  .   R1  C1  .   M1  .    23002.773531 secs
   L0  O1  .   .   .   S1  .   S0  .   B0  .   R1  C1 *T1  M1  .    23002.773547 secs T1 => irqbalance:2089
   L0  O1  .   .   .   S1  .   S0  .  *P0  .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773549 secs
  *N1  O1  .   .   .   S1  .   S0  .   P0  .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773566 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .  *J0  .   S0  .   P0  .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773571 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .   J0  .   S0 *B0  P0  .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773592 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .   J0  .  *U0  B0  P0  .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773582 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .  *S1  .   U0  B0  P0  .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773604 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .   S1  .   U0  B0 *.   .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773615 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .   S1  .   U0  B0  .   .  *K0  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773631 secs
   N1  O1  .  *M0  .   S1  .   U0  B0  .   .   K0  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773624 secs
   N1  O1  .   M0  .   S1  .   U0 *.   .   .   K0  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773644 secs
   N1  O1  .   M0  .   S1  .   U0  .   .   .  *R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773662 secs
   N1  O1  .   M0  .   S1  .  *.   .   .   .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773648 secs
   N1  O1  .  *.   .   S1  .   .   .   .   .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773680 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .  *L0  .   .   .   .   .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773717 secs
  *N0  O1  .   .   .   L0  .   .   .   .   .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773709 secs
  *N1  O1  .   .   .   L0  .   .   .   .   .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773747 secs

Columns stand for individual CPUs, from CPU0 to CPU15, and the
two-letter shortcuts stand for tasks that are running on a CPU.

'*' denotes the CPU that had the event.

A dot signals an idle CPU.

New tasks are assigned new two-letter shortcuts - when they occur
first they are printed. In the above example 'T1' stood for irqbalance:

      T1 => irqbalance:2089

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>
2009-09-16 16:41:30 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
80ed0987f3 perf sched: Make idle thread and comm/pid names more consistent
Peter noticed that we have 3 ways of referring to the idle thread:

 [idle]:0
 swapper:0
 swapper-0

Standardize on 'swapper:0'.

Reported-by: 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>
2009-09-16 12:15:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c8a3775104 perf sched: Sanity check context switch events
Use 'perf sched latency' to track the current task based on
context-switch events, and flag the cases where there's some
impossible transition: such as a PID being switched out that
was not switched in.

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>
2009-09-16 12:08:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
dc02bf7178 perf sched: Account for lost events, increase default buffering
Output such lost event and state machine weirdness stats:

   TOTAL:                |  14974.910 ms |    46384 |
  ---------------------------------------------------
   INFO: 8.865% lost events (19132 out of 215819, in 8 chunks)
   INFO: 0.198% state machine bugs (49 out of 24708) (due to lost events?)

And increase buffering to -m 1024 (4 MB) by default. Since we
use output multiplexing that kind of space is needed.

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>
2009-09-16 11:48:05 +02:00
mingo
39aeb52f99 perf sched: Add support for sched:sched_stat_runtime events
This allows more precise 'perf sched latency' output:

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Task                  |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ksoftirqd/0-4         |    0.010 ms |        2 | avg:    2.476 ms | max:    2.977 ms |
  perf-12328            |   15.844 ms |       66 | avg:    1.118 ms | max:    9.979 ms |
  bdi-default-235       |    0.009 ms |        1 | avg:    0.998 ms | max:    0.998 ms |
  events/1-8            |    0.020 ms |        2 | avg:    0.998 ms | max:    0.998 ms |
  events/0-7            |    0.018 ms |        2 | avg:    0.992 ms | max:    0.996 ms |
  sleep-12329           |    0.742 ms |        3 | avg:    0.906 ms | max:    2.289 ms |
  sshd-12122            |    0.163 ms |        2 | avg:    0.283 ms | max:    0.562 ms |
  loop-getpid-lon-12322 | 1023.636 ms |       69 | avg:    0.208 ms | max:    5.996 ms |
  loop-getpid-lon-12321 | 1038.638 ms |        5 | avg:    0.073 ms | max:    0.171 ms |
  migration/1-5         |    0.000 ms |        1 | avg:    0.006 ms | max:    0.006 ms |
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  TOTAL:                | 2079.078 ms |      153 |
 -------------------------------------------------

Also, streamline the code a bit more, add asserts for various state
machine failures (they should be debugged if they occur) and fix
a few odd ends.

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>
2009-09-14 20:08:23 +02:00
mingo
08f69e6c2e perf sched: Print PIDs too
Often it's useful to know the PID of the task as well - print it
out too.

( While at it, reformat the output to be a bit more
  paste-into-commit-logs friendly. )

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>
2009-09-14 18:34:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d11533893b perf sched: Fix 'perf sched latency' output on 32-bit systems
Before:

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Task              |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   perf              |4853313.251 ms |       10 | avg:    0.046 ms | max:    0.337 ms |
   flush-8:0         |2426659.202 ms |        5 | avg:    0.015 ms | max:    0.016 ms |
   sleep             |485331.966 ms |        1 | avg:    0.012 ms | max:    0.012 ms |
   ksoftirqd/1       |485331.320 ms |        1 | avg:    0.005 ms | max:    0.005 ms |
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   TOTAL:            |8250635.739 ms |       17 |
  ---------------------------------------------

After:

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Task              |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   perf              |    0.206 ms |       10 | avg:    0.046 ms | max:    0.337 ms |
   flush-8:0         |    2.680 ms |        5 | avg:    0.015 ms | max:    0.016 ms |
   sleep             |    0.662 ms |        1 | avg:    0.012 ms | max:    0.012 ms |
   ksoftirqd/1       |    0.015 ms |        1 | avg:    0.005 ms | max:    0.005 ms |
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   TOTAL:            |    3.563 ms |       17 |
  ---------------------------------------------

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>
2009-09-14 18:22:53 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ea57c4f520 perf tools: Implement counter output multiplexing
Finish the -M/--multiplex option implementation:

 - separate it out from group_fd

 - correctly set it via the ioctl and dont mmap counters that
   are multiplexed

 - modify the perf record event loop to deal with buffer-less
   counters.

 - remove the -g option from perf sched record

 - account for unordered events in perf sched latency

 - (add -f to perf sched record to ease measurements)

 - skip idle threads (pid==0) in latency output

The result is better latency output by 'perf sched latency':

 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Task              |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ksoftirqd/8       |    0.071 ms |        2 | avg:    0.458 ms | max:    0.913 ms |
  at-spi-registry   |    0.609 ms |       19 | avg:    0.013 ms | max:    0.023 ms |
  perf              |    3.316 ms |       16 | avg:    0.013 ms | max:    0.054 ms |
  Xorg              |    0.392 ms |       19 | avg:    0.011 ms | max:    0.018 ms |
  sleep             |    0.537 ms |        2 | avg:    0.009 ms | max:    0.009 ms |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  TOTAL:            |    4.925 ms |       58 |
 ---------------------------------------------

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>
2009-09-14 15:45:11 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
aa1ab9d26a perf tools: Fix processing of randomly serialized sched traces
Currently it's possible to meet such too high latency results
with 'perf sched latency'.

 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Task              |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 xfce4-panel       |    0.222 ms |        2 | avg: 4718.345 ms | max: 9436.493 ms |
 scsi_eh_3         |    3.962 ms |       36 | avg:   55.957 ms | max: 1977.829 ms |

The origin is on traces that are sometimes badly serialized across cpus.
For example the raw traces that raised such results for xfce4-panel:

(1)          [init]-0     [000]  1494.663899990: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] (R) ==> xfce4-panel:4569 [120]
(2)     xfce4-panel-4569  [000]  1494.663928373: sched_switch: task xfce4-panel:4569 [120] (S) ==> swapper:0 [140]
(3)            Xorg-4276  [001]  1494.663860125: sched_wakeup: task xfce4-panel:4569 [120] success=1 [000]
(4)            Xorg-4276  [001]  1504.098252756: sched_wakeup: task xfce4-panel:4569 [120] success=1 [000]
(5)            perf-5219  [000]  1504.100353302: sched_switch: task perf:5219 [120] (S) ==> xfce4-panel:4569 [120]

The traces are processed in the order they arrive. Then in (2),
xfce4-panel sleeps, it is first waken up in (3) and eventually
scheduled in (5).

The latency reported is then 1504 - 1495 = 9 secs, as reported by perf
sched. But this is wrong, we are confident in the fact the traces are
nicely serialized while we should actually more trust the timestamps.

If we reorder by timestamps we get:

(1)            Xorg-4276  [001]  1494.663860125: sched_wakeup: task xfce4-panel:4569 [120] success=1 [000]
(2)          [init]-0     [000]  1494.663899990: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] (R) ==> xfce4-panel:4569 [120]
(3)     xfce4-panel-4569  [000]  1494.663928373: sched_switch: task xfce4-panel:4569 [120] (S) ==> swapper:0 [140]
(4)            Xorg-4276  [001]  1504.098252756: sched_wakeup: task xfce4-panel:4569 [120] success=1 [000]
(5)            perf-5219  [000]  1504.100353302: sched_switch: task perf:5219 [120] (S) ==> xfce4-panel:4569 [120]

Now the trace make more sense, xfce4-panel is sleeping. Then it is
woken up in (1), scheduled in (2)
It goes to sleep in (3), woken up in (4) and scheduled in (5).

Now, latency captured between (1) and (2) is of 39 us.
And between (4) and (5) it is 2.1 ms.

Such pattern of bad serializing is the origin of the high latencies
reported by perf sched.

Basically, we need to check whether wake up time is higher than
schedule out time. If it's not the case, we need to tag the current
work atom as invalid.

Beside that, we may need to work later on a better ordering of the
traces given by the kernel.

After this patch:

xfce4-session     |    0.221 ms |        1 | avg:    0.538 ms | max:    0.538 ms |

Signed-off-by: Frederic 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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-14 15:45:10 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d13025222c perf tools: Add an option to multiplex counters in a single channel
Add an option to multiplex counters output in the channel of
the group leader, ie: the first counter opened:

	-M --multiplex

The effect is better serialized samples. This is especially
useful for tracepoint samples that need to be well serialized
for their post-processing.

Also make use of this option in 'perf sched'.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-14 09:52:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c13f0d3c81 perf sched: Add 'perf sched trace', improve documentation
Alias 'perf sched trace' to 'perf trace', for workflow completeness.

Add a bit of documentation for perf sched.

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>
2009-09-13 17:55:23 +02:00