linux/tools
Milian Wolff 7ee40678af perf script: Flush output stream after events in verbose mode
When the perf script output is written to a terminal stream, the normal
output of `perf script` would get buffered, but its debug output would
be written directly. This made it quite hard to figure out where a given
debug output is coming from.

We can improve on this by flushing the output buffer after processing an
event. To see the value, compare the following output for a `perf script
-v` run:

Before this patch:
```
unwind: reg 16, val 7faf7dfdc000
unwind: reg 7, val 7ffc80811e30
unwind: find_proc_info dso /usr/lib/ld-2.28.so
unwind: reg 6, val 0
unwind: _start:ip = 0x7faf7dfdc000 (0x2000)
unwind: reg 16, val 7faf7dfdc000
unwind: reg 7, val 7ffc80811e30
unwind: find_proc_info dso /usr/lib/ld-2.28.so
unwind: reg 6, val 0
unwind: _start:ip = 0x7faf7dfdc000 (0x2000)
unwind: reg 16, val 7faf7dfdc000
unwind: reg 7, val 7ffc80811e30
unwind: find_proc_info dso /usr/lib/ld-2.28.so
unwind: reg 6, val 0
unwind: _start:ip = 0x7faf7dfdc000 (0x2000)
unwind: reg 16, val 7faf7dfdc000
unwind: reg 7, val 7ffc80811e30
... lots and lots of verbose debug output
cpp-inlining 24617 90229.122036534:          1 cycles:uppp:
            7faf7dfdc000 _start+0x0 (/usr/lib/ld-2.28.so)

cpp-inlining 24617 90229.122043974:          1 cycles:uppp:
            7faf7dfdc000 _start+0x0 (/usr/lib/ld-2.28.so)
...
```

After this patch:
```
...
unwind: reg 16, val 7faf7dfdc000
unwind: reg 7, val 7ffc80811e30
unwind: find_proc_info dso /usr/lib/ld-2.28.so
unwind: reg 6, val 0
unwind: _start:ip = 0x7faf7dfdc000 (0x2000)
cpp-inlining 24617 90229.122036534:          1 cycles:uppp:
            7faf7dfdc000 _start+0x0 (/usr/lib/ld-2.28.so)

unwind: reg 16, val 7faf7dfdc000
unwind: reg 7, val 7ffc80811e30
unwind: find_proc_info dso /usr/lib/ld-2.28.so
unwind: reg 6, val 0
unwind: _start:ip = 0x7faf7dfdc000 (0x2000)
cpp-inlining 24617 90229.122043974:          1 cycles:uppp:
            7faf7dfdc000 _start+0x0 (/usr/lib/ld-2.28.so)
...
```

This new output format makes it much easier to use perf script output
for debugging purposes, e.g. to investigate broken dwarf unwinding.

Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181021191424.16183-2-milian.wolff@kdab.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-10-22 14:27:11 -03:00
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accounting
arch tools arch uapi: Sync the x86 kvm.h copy 2018-10-08 12:04:51 -03:00
bpf tools/bpf: bpftool, add xskmap in map types 2018-09-02 22:30:39 +02:00
build Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-08-15 15:04:25 -07:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio Linux 4.16-rc5 2018-03-18 17:48:59 +01:00
hv tools: hv: fcopy: set 'error' in case an unknown operation was requested 2018-09-30 08:49:55 -07:00
iio iio: Add modifier for DUV light 2018-07-23 19:18:10 +01:00
include Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core 2018-10-18 11:13:01 -03:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: cut down decimal places in update interval dialog 2018-10-01 15:40:59 +02:00
laptop
leds
lib tools lib subcmd: Introduce OPTION_ULONG 2018-10-19 11:56:58 -03:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Rename litmus tests to comply to norm7 2018-07-17 09:30:36 +02:00
nfsd
objtool Kbuild updates for v4.19 2018-08-15 12:09:03 -07:00
pci tools: PCI: Add MSI-X support 2018-07-19 11:47:13 +01:00
pcmcia
perf perf script: Flush output stream after events in verbose mode 2018-10-22 14:27:11 -03:00
power x86/cpu: Sanitize FAM6_ATOM naming 2018-10-02 10:14:32 +02:00
scripts Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make 2018-04-11 00:03:02 +09:00
spi
testing selftests: udpgso_bench.sh explicitly requires bash 2018-10-11 10:19:46 -07:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: fix for segfault 2018-03-27 09:51:23 +02:00
time
usb tools: usb: ffs-test: Fix build on big endian systems 2018-07-17 10:12:51 +03:00
virtio tools/virtio: add kmalloc_array stub 2018-07-27 16:54:40 +03:00
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: fix "defined but not used" warning 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
wmi
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