Guest kernel symbols are not resolved despite passing the information
needed to resolve them. e.g.,
perf kvm --guest --guestmount=/tmp/guest-mount record -a -- sleep 1
perf kvm --guest --guestmount=/tmp/guest-mount report --stdio
36.55% [guest/11399] [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff81600bc8
33.19% [guest/10474] [unknown] [g] 0x00000000c0116e00
30.26% [guest/11094] [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff8100a288
43.69% [guest/10474] [unknown] [g] 0x00000000c0103d90
37.38% [guest/11399] [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff81600bc8
12.24% [guest/11094] [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff810aa91d
6.69% [guest/11094] [unknown] [u] 0x00007fa784d721c3
which is just pathetic.
After a maddening 2 days sifting through perf minutia I found it --
id_hdr_size is not initialized for guest machines. This shows up on the
report side as random garbage for the cpu and timestamp, e.g.,
29816 7310572949125804849 0x1ac0 [0x50]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP ...
That messes up the sample sorting such that synthesized guest maps are
processed last.
With this patch you get a much more helpful report:
12.11% [guest/11399] [guest.kernel.kallsyms.11399] [g] irqtime_account_process_tick
10.58% [guest/11399] [guest.kernel.kallsyms.11399] [g] run_timer_softirq
6.95% [guest/11094] [guest.kernel.kallsyms.11094] [g] printk_needs_cpu
6.50% [guest/11094] [guest.kernel.kallsyms.11094] [g] do_timer
6.45% [guest/11399] [guest.kernel.kallsyms.11399] [g] idle_balance
4.90% [guest/11094] [guest.kernel.kallsyms.11094] [g] native_read_tsc
...
v2:
- changed rbtree walk to use rb_first per Namhyung's suggestion
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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/1342826756-64663-5-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
COMM events are not generated in the context of a guest machine, so the
thread name is never set for the VMM process. For example, the qemu-kvm
name applies to the process in the host machine, not the guest machine.
So, samples for guest machines are currently displayed as:
99.67% :5671 [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff81366b41
where 5671 is the pid of the VMM. With this patch the samples in the guest
machine are shown as:
18.43% [guest/5671] [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff810d68b7
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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/1342826756-64663-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As Namhyung Kim pointed, there are confused namings and descriptions of words
"cycle" and "clock" in mem-memset.c and mem-memcpy.c.
With the option "-c" (or "--clock", now renamed as "--cycle"), mem subsystem
measures cost of memset() and memcpy() with cpu-cycles event.
But current mem subsystem source code contains lots of confused variable
namings and descriptions with "clock" (e.g. the variable use_clock). This is a
very bad style because there is another software event named "cpu-clock". This
patch replaces wrong usage of "clock" to "cycle".
v2: modified Documentation/perf-bench.txt for the descriptions of
--cycle option
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341236777-18457-1-git-send-email-h.mitake@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Using the guestmount option on record:
$ perf kvm --guest --host --guestmount=/tmp/guest-mount record -ag
But not the subsequent report:
$ perf kvm report
causes a SEGFAULT in the usual place:
(gdb) bt
0 0x0000000000470356 in machine__mmap_name (self=0x0, bf=0x7fffffffbdb0 " z\370\367\377\177", size=
4096) at util/map.c:712
1 0x00000000004453e8 in perf_event__process_kernel_mmap (tool=0x7fffffffde10, event=0x7ffff7f87e38,
machine=0x0) at util/event.c:550
2 0x00000000004458c9 in perf_event__process_mmap (tool=0x7fffffffde10, event=0x7ffff7f87e38, sample=
0x7fffffffd2a0, machine=0x0) at util/event.c:656
3 0x00000000004733e0 in perf_session_deliver_event (session=0x91aca0, event=0x7ffff7f87e38, sample=
0x7fffffffd2a0, tool=0x7fffffffde10, file_offset=7736) at util/session.c:979
...
The MMAP events in this case already contain the full path to the
module. No need to require it for the report path to.
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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341241977-71535-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Commit 743eb86865 reworked when the
machines were created. Prior to this commit guest machines could be
created in perf_event__process_kernel_mmap() while processing kernel
MMAP events. This commit assumes that the machines exist by the time
perf_session_deliver_event is called (e.g., during processing of build
id events) - which is not always correct.
One example is the use of default guest args (--guestkallsyms and
--guestmodules) for short times where no samples hit within a guest
module. For this case no build id is added to the file header. No build
id == no machine created. That leads to the next example -- the use of
no-buildid (-B) on the record for all perf-kvm invocations. In both
cases perf report dies with a SEGFAULT of the form:
(gdb) bt
0 0x000000000046dd7b in machine__mmap_name (self=0x0, bf=0x7fffffffbd20 "q\021", size=4096) at util/map.c:715
1 0x0000000000444161 in perf_event__process_kernel_mmap (tool=0x7fffffffdd80, event=0x7ffff7fb4120, machine=0x0) at util/event.c:562
2 0x0000000000444642 in perf_event__process_mmap (tool=0x7fffffffdd80, event=0x7ffff7fb4120, sample=0x7fffffffd210, machine=0x0)
at util/event.c:668
3 0x0000000000470e0b in perf_session_deliver_event (session=0x915ca0, event=0x7ffff7fb4120, sample=0x7fffffffd210, tool=0x7fffffffdd80,
file_offset=8480) at util/session.c:979
4 0x000000000047032e in flush_sample_queue (s=0x915ca0, tool=0x7fffffffdd80) at util/session.c:679
5 0x0000000000471c8d in __perf_session__process_events (session=0x915ca0, data_offset=400, data_size=150448, file_size=150848, tool=
0x7fffffffdd80) at util/session.c:1363
6 0x0000000000471d42 in perf_session__process_events (self=0x915ca0, tool=0x7fffffffdd80) at util/session.c:1379
7 0x000000000042484a in __cmd_report (rep=0x7fffffffdd80) at builtin-report.c:368
8 0x0000000000425bf1 in cmd_report (argc=0, argv=0x915b00, prefix=0x0) at builtin-report.c:756
9 0x0000000000438505 in __cmd_report (argc=4, argv=0x7fffffffe260) at builtin-kvm.c:84
10 0x000000000043882a in cmd_kvm (argc=4, argv=0x7fffffffe260, prefix=0x0) at builtin-kvm.c:131
11 0x00000000004152cd in run_builtin (p=0x7a54e8, argc=9, argv=0x7fffffffe260) at perf.c:273
12 0x00000000004154c7 in handle_internal_command (argc=9, argv=0x7fffffffe260) at perf.c:345
13 0x0000000000415613 in run_argv (argcp=0x7fffffffe14c, argv=0x7fffffffe140) at perf.c:389
14 0x0000000000415899 in main (argc=9, argv=0x7fffffffe260) at perf.c:487
Fix by allowing the machine to be created in perf_session_deliver_event.
Tested with --guestmount option and default guest args, with and without
-B arg on record for both and for short (10 seconds) and long (10
minutes) windows.
Reported-by: Pradeep Kumar Surisetty <psuriset@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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: Pradeep Kumar Surisetty <psuriset@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341180697-64515-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Consider the commands:
perf record -e sched:sched_switch -fo /tmp/perf.data -a -- sleep 1
perf script -i /tmp/perf.data
In v3.4 the output has the form (lines wrapped here)
perf 29214 [005] 821043.582596: sched_switch:
prev_comm=perf prev_pid=29214 prev_prio=120
prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/5 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
In 3.5 that same line has become:
perf 29214 [005] 821043.582596: sched_switch:
<...>-29214 [005] 0.000000000: sched_switch:
prev_comm=perf prev_pid=29214 prev_prio=120
prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/5 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
Note the duplicates in the output -- pid, cpu, event name. With
this patch the v3.4 output is restored:
perf 29214 [005] 821043.582596: sched_switch:
prev_comm=perf prev_pid=29214 prev_prio=120
prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/5 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
v3:
Remove that pesky newline too. Output now matches v3.4 (pre-libtracevent).
v2:
Change print_trace_event function local to perf per Steve's comments.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339698977-68962-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The pipeline:
perf record -a -g -o - sleep 5 |perf inject -v -b | perf report -g -i -
generates the warning:
Selected -g but no callchain data. Did you call 'perf record' without -g?
The problem is that the header data is not written to the pipe, so the
sample_type has not been available when perf_report__setup_sample_type
is called. For pipe mode, record dumps the sample type as part of the
synthesized events stream -- perf_event__synthesize_attrs(). Handle this
be detecting pipe mode and not doing early sanity checks on sample_type.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339444121-26236-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The pevent thing is per perf.data file, so I made it stop being static
and become a perf_session member, so tools processing perf.data files
use perf_session and _there_ we read the trace events description into
session->pevent and then change everywhere to stop using that single
global pevent variable and use the per session one.
Note that it _doesn't_ fall backs to trace__event_id, as we're not
interested at all in what is present in the
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events in the workstation doing the analysis,
just in what is in the perf.data file.
This patch also introduces perf_session__set_tracepoints_handlers that
is the perf perf.data/session way to associate handlers to tracepoint
events by resolving their IDs using the events descriptions stored in a
perf.data file. Make 'perf sched' use it.
Reported-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmitry.antipov@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmitry.antipov@linaro.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org
Cc: patches@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120625232016.GA28525@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The commit c410431cef ("perf tools: Reconstruct event with modifiers
from perf_event_attr") added the line, but it's broken since it needs to
go up 3 directories to get to the kernel root directory, not 2.
However host gcc contains /usr/local/include in its search path, so that
it can find the perf_event.h in /usr/include. This why we didn't notice
the problem yet. But when I tried to cross compile it appears like:
CC util/evsel.o
util/evsel.c:18:44: error: ../../include/linux/perf_event.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [util/evsel.o] Error 1
Looking at the source, it isn't needed at all as evsel.h already
included the perf_event.h. So simply remove it would solve the problem.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340268772-5737-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull perf improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
* Replace event_name with perf_evsel__name, that handles the event
modifiers and doesn't use static variables.
* GTK browser improvements, from Namhyung Kim
* Fix possible NULL pointer deref in the TUI annotate browser, from
Samuel Liao
* Add sort by source file:line number, using addr2line.
* Allow printing histogram text snapshots at any point in top/report.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>