If CONFIG options required for perf-lock are not enabled then the
corresponding tracepoints will not be enabled. Currently, the message to
the user is:
$ perf lock record -a -- sleep 1
invalid or unsupported event: 'lock:lock_acquire'
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
Improve the message with a suggestion on which CONFIG options are needed:
$ perf lock record -a -- sleep 1
tracepoint lock:lock_acquire is not enabled. Are CONFIG_LOCKDEP and CONFIG_LOCK_STAT enabled?
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344530137-25521-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently only trace point events are supported in perf/python script,
the first 3 patches of this serie add the support for all types of
events. This script is just a simple sample to show how to gather the
basic information of the events and analyze them.
This script will create one object for each event sample and insert them
into a table in a database, then leverage the simple SQL commands to
sort/group them. User can modify or write their brand new functions
according to their specific requirment.
Here is the sample of how to use the script:
$ perf record -a tree
$ perf script -s process_event.py
There is 100 records in gen_events table
Statistics about the general events grouped by thread/symbol/dso:
comm number histgram
==========================================
swapper 56 ######
tree 20 #####
perf 10 ####
sshd 8 ####
kworker/7:2 4 ###
ksoftirqd/7 1 #
plugin-containe 1 #
symbol number histgram
==========================================================
native_write_msr_safe 40 ######
__lock_acquire 8 ####
ftrace_graph_caller 4 ###
prepare_ftrace_return 4 ###
intel_idle 3 ##
native_sched_clock 3 ##
Unknown_symbol 2 ##
do_softirq 2 ##
lock_release 2 ##
lock_release_holdtime 2 ##
trace_graph_entry 2 ##
_IO_putc 1 #
__d_lookup_rcu 1 #
__do_fault 1 #
__schedule 1 #
_raw_spin_lock 1 #
delay_tsc 1 #
generic_exec_single 1 #
generic_fillattr 1 #
dso number histgram
==================================================================
[kernel.kallsyms] 95 #######
/lib/libc-2.12.1.so 5 ###
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344419875-21665-6-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch just follows Robert Richter's idea and the commit 37a058ea0
"perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events"
to similarly add a python handler for general events other than tracepoints.
For non-tracepoint events, this patch will try to find a function named
"process_event" in the python script, and pass the event attribute,
perf_sample, raw_data in format of raw string. And the python script can
use "struct" module's unpack function to disasemble the needed info and process.
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344419875-21665-2-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
[ committer note: Fixed up wrt da37896, i.e. pevent parm in script event handlers ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
With the OUTPUT variable set the libtraceevent.a file is wrongly built
in the source directory:
+ make -d OUTPUT=/.../.build/perf-user/ DESTDIR=/.../.install/perf-user/
...
Considering target file `../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a'.
File `../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a' does not exist.
Finished prerequisites of target file `../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a'.
Must remake target `../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a'.
Invoking recipe from Makefile:837 to update target `../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a'.
Putting child 0x703850 (../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a) PID 8365 on the chain.
Live child 0x703850 (../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a) PID 8365
SUBDIR ../lib/traceevent/
$ git clean -nxd
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/.event-parse.d
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/.parse-filter.d
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/.parse-utils.d
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/.trace-seq.d
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.o
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/libtraceevent.a
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.o
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/parse-utils.o
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/trace-seq.o
This patch fixes this.
Note: Though this should already work with O=$outputdir we better use
the OUTPUT variable directly.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361396-7237-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fixes the following:
+ make OUTPUT=/.../.build/perf-user/ DESTDIR=/.../.install/perf-user/ man install-man
make -C Documentation man
make[1]: Entering directory `/.../.source/linux.perf/tools/perf/Documentation'
make[2]: Entering directory `/.../.source/linux.perf/tools/perf'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `PERF-VERSION-FILE'. Stop.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361396-7237-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We already lookup the associated event_format when reading the perf.data
header, so that we can cache the tracepoint name in evsel->name, so do
it a little further and save the event_format itself, so that we can
avoid relookups in tools that need to access it.
Change the tools to take the most obvious advantage, when they were
using pevent_find_event directly. More work is needed for further
removing the need of a pointer to pevent, such as when asking for event
field values ("common_pid" and the other common fields and per
event_format fields).
This is something that was planned but only got actually done when
Andrey Wagin needed to do this lookup at perf_tool->sample() time, when
we don't have access to pevent (session->pevent) to use with
pevent_find_event().
Cc: Andrey Wagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-txkvew2ckko0b594ae8fbnyk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Only want to process directories under the guestmnount directory that
have a pid as a name (ie, all digits). Other entries in the guestmount
directory should be ignored. There is already a check that requires the
first character of each entry to be a digit, but atoi is used to convert
the directory name to a pid. For example if guestmount contains a
directory with the name 1foo, atoi converts it to a pid of 1 and a
machine is created with a pid of 1. This is wrong; this directory really
should be ignored. Use strtol to do that.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343616875-6455-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
A number of builtin commands process some user args and then pass the rest to
cmd_record. cmd_record then saves argc/argv that it receives into the header of
the perf data file. But this loses the arguments handled by the first command
-- ie., the real command line from the user. This patch saves the command line
as typed by the user rather than what was passed to cmd_record.
As an example consider the command:
$ perf kvm --guest --host --guestmount=/tmp/guest-mount record
-fo /tmp/perf.data -ag -- sleep 10
Currently the command saved to the header is:
cmdline : /tmp/p3.5/perf record -o perf.data.kvm -fo /tmp/perf.data -ag -- sleep 1
(ignore the duplicated -o -- the first would be yet another bug with perf-kvm).
With this patch the command line saved to the header is:
cmdline : /tmp/p3.5/perf kvm --guest --host --guestmount=/tmp/guest-mount
record -fo /tmp/perf.data -ag -- sleep 1
v2: simplified to saving the command in parse_options per Stephane's suggestion
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343616831-6408-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Bison 2.6 started to generate parse_events_parse() declaration in header. In
this case we have redundant redeclaration:
util/parse-events.c:29:5: error: redundant redeclaration of ‘parse_events_parse’ [-Werror=redundant-decls]
In file included from util/parse-events.c:14:0:
util/parse-events-bison.h:99:5: note: previous declaration of ‘parse_events_parse’ was here
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
Let's disable -Wredundant-decls for util/parse-events.c since it includes
header we can't control.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120723210407.GA25186@shutemov.name
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Perf uses GNU-specific version of strerror_r(). The GNU-specific strerror_r()
returns a pointer to a string containing the error message. This may be either
a pointer to a string that the function stores in buf, or a pointer to some
(immutable) static string (in which case buf is unused).
In glibc-2.16 GNU version was marked with attribute warn_unused_result. It
triggers few warnings in perf:
util/target.c: In function ‘perf_target__strerror’:
util/target.c:114:13: error: ignoring return value of ‘strerror_r’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
ui/browsers/hists.c: In function ‘hist_browser__dump’:
ui/browsers/hists.c:981:13: error: ignoring return value of ‘strerror_r’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
They are bugs.
Let's fix strerror_r() usage.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120723210654.GA25248@shutemov.name
[ committer note: s/assert/BUG_ON/g ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There have one problem about hw_breakpoint perf event, as watched, the
events reported to userspace is not correctly, sometime one trigger
bp_event report several events, sometime bp_event cannot go through to
user.
The root cause is attr->freq is 1 passed to kernel defaultly in bp
events, this make kernel calculate event period not as expect, make
sample period to 1 will change attr->freq to 0, to fix this problem.
This patch is similar with commit f92128 about tracepoint events:
perf: Make the trace events sample period default to 1
Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACV3sbLF8taiCq_VYW-sgRJyupeMzg58C7ZXfMe3xZUiH_Mx6w@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Trace events have a period (weight) of 1 by default. This can be
overriden on events definition by using the __perf_count() macro.
For example, the sched_stat_runtime() is weighted with the runtime of
the task that fired the event.
By default, perf handles such weighted event by dividing it into
individual events carrying a weight of 1. For example if
sched_stat_runtime is fired and the task has run 5000000 nsecs, perf
divides it into 5000000 events in the buffer.
This behaviour makes weighted events unusable because they quickly
fullfill the buffers and we lose most events.
The commit 5d81e5cfb3 ("events: Don't
divide events if it has field period") solves this problem by sending
only one event when PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD flag is set. The weight is
carried in the sample itself such that we don't need to demultiplex it
anymore.
This patch provides the last missing piece to use this feature by
setting PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD from perf tools when we deal with trace
events.
Before:
$ ./perf record -e sched:* -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.619 MB perf.data (~70749 samples) ]
Warning:
Processed 16909 events and lost 1 chunks!
Check IO/CPU overload!
$ ./perf script
perf 1894 [003] 824.898327: sched_migrate_task: comm=perf pid=1898 prio=120 orig_cpu=2 dest_cpu=0
perf 1894 [003] 824.898335: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
perf 1894 [003] 824.898336: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
perf 1894 [003] 824.898337: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
perf 1894 [003] 824.898338: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
perf 1894 [003] 824.898339: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
perf 1894 [003] 824.898340: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
perf 1894 [003] 824.898341: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
[...]
After:
$ ./perf record -e sched:* -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.074 MB perf.data (~3228 samples) ]
$ ./perf script
perf 1461 [000] 554.286957: sched_migrate_task: comm=perf pid=1465 prio=120 orig_cpu=3 dest_cpu=1
perf 1461 [000] 554.286964: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1465 delay=133047190 [ns]
perf 1461 [000] 554.286967: sched_wakeup: comm=perf pid=1465 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=001
swapper 0 [001] 554.286976: sched_stat_wait: comm=perf pid=1465 delay=0 [ns]
swapper 0 [001] 554.286983: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/1 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=perf
[...]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342631456-7233-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
