For a file with:
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# perf report -D -fi allmodconfig-j32.perf.data | grep events:
TOTAL events: 36933
MMAP events: 9056
LOST events: 0
COMM events: 1702
EXIT events: 1887
THROTTLE events: 8
UNTHROTTLE events: 8
FORK events: 1894
READ events: 0
SAMPLE events: 22378
ATTR events: 0
EVENT_TYPE events: 0
TRACING_DATA events: 0
BUILD_ID events: 0
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]#
Testing with valgrind and making perf_session__delete() a nop, so that
we can notice how many maps were actually deleted due to not having any
samples on it:
==== HEAP SUMMARY:
Before:
==10339== in use at exit: 8,909,997 bytes in 68,690 blocks
==10339== total heap usage: 78,696 allocs, 10,007 frees, 11,925,853 bytes allocated
After:
==10506== in use at exit: 8,902,605 bytes in 68,606 blocks
==10506== total heap usage: 78,696 allocs, 10,091 frees, 11,925,853 bytes allocated
I.e. just 84 detected unmaps with no hits out of 9056 for this workload,
not much, but in some other long running workload this may save more
bytes.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
If we receive two PERF_RECORD_EXIT for the same thread, we can end up
reusing session->last_match and trying to remove the thread twice from
the rb_tree, causing a segfault, so invalidade last_match in
perf_session__remove_thread.
Receiving two PERF_RECORD_EXIT for the same thread is a bug, but its a
harmless one if we make the tool more robust, like this patch does.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Which is at perf_session__destroy_kernel_maps, counterpart to the
perf_session__create_kernel_maps where the kmap structure is located, just
after the vmlinux_maps.
Make it also check if the kernel maps were actually created, which may not
be the case if, for instance, perf_session__new can't complete due to
permission problems in, for instance, a 'perf report' case, when a
segfault will take place, that is how this was noticed.
The problem was introduced in d65a458, thus post .35.
This also adds code to release guest machines as them are also created
in perf_session__create_kernel_maps, so should be deleted on this newly
introduced counterpart, perf_session__destroy_kernel_maps.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
For long running sessions with many threads with short lifetimes the
amount of memory that the buildid process takes is too much.
Since we don't have hist_entries that may be pointing to them, we can
just release the resources associated with each thread when the exit
(PERF_RECORD_EXIT) event is received.
For normal processing we need to annotate maps with hits, and thus
hist_entries pointing to it and drop the ones that had none. Will be
done in a followup patch.
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
The stock newt checkbox tree widget we were using was not really
suitable for hist entry + callchain browsing.
The problems with it were manifold:
- We needed to traverse the whole hist_entry rb_tree to add each entry +
callchains beforehand.
- No control over the colors used for each row
So a new tree widget, based mostly on slang, was written.
It extends the ui_browser class already used for annotate to allow the
user to fold/unfold branches in the callchains tree, using extra fields
in the symbol_map class that is embedded in hist_entry and
callchain_node instances to store the folding state and when changing
this state calculates the number of rows that are produced when showing
a particular hist_entry instance.
This greatly speeds up browsing as we don't have to upfront touch all
the entries and only calculate callchain related operations when some
callchain branch is actually unfolded.
The memory footprint is also reduced as the data structure is not
duplicated, just some extra fields for controling callchain state and to
simplify the process of seeking thru entries (nr_rows, row_offset) were
added.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
So that we gain two columns and look more like classical (at least in
TUIs) scroll bars bars.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
When we call ui_browser__show we may have called
ui_browser__refresh_dimensions to check if the maximum lenght for the
contained entries changed, such as when zooming in and out DSOs or
threads in the hist browser.
For that to happen we must delete the old form, that will take care of
deleting the vertical scrollbar, etc, and then recreate them, with the
new dimensions.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
They were globals, and since we support multiple hists and sessions
at the same time, it doesn't make sense to calculate those values
considereing all symbols in all sessions.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
When parsing the objdump disassembly output we can have goto labels that
are valid hex numbers and thus get confused with lines with machine
code.
Handle the common case of a label that has nothing after it and other
cases where there is just source code by validating the resulting "ip".
It is still possible that we find goto labels that are in the function
address range, but only if they are located before the real address we
should be OK.
A change in the objdump output to have a clear marker separating
addresses from the disassembly would come handy, but we would still have
to deal with older versions.
Reported-by: Gleb Natapov <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Right now ENTER doesn't always exits the newt tree widget, as it is used
for expanding/collapsing branches, but with the new tree widget being
developed we need to regain control to handle it, expanding/collapsing
branches.
In fact its really up to the ui_browser user to state what extra keys
should stop ui_browser__run, and it should handle just the ones needed
for basic browsing.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Another patch eroding the changes I had to move to a tree widget that
doesn't requires adding all entries in an existing list/tree structure
to a generic tree widget, but instead allows traversing just the entries
that should appear on the screen on a given moment.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
So that we can use the ui_browser on things like an rb_tree, etc.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Move them to a session->dead_threads list just like we do with maps that
are replaced, because we may have hist_entries pointing to them.
This fixes a bug when inserting maps for a new thread that reused the
TID, mixing maps for two different threads, causing an endless loop.
The code for insering maps should be made more robust but for .35 this
is the minimalistic patch.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Moving the tests to a separate file, feature-tests.mak and using a try-cc
function similar to the try-run in Kbuild.
This also makes the output more quiet as we can stop using the INTERMEDIATE
target to remove the .perf.dev.null file needed for some gcc versions where
/dev/null can't be used as the output file name.
As the tests get shorter by uninlining the source code used to test for
features, we can more properly use identation.
The feature tests itself can be made more clear and reused, like when trying to
see what is needed to have bfd_demangle.
We also get a bit closer to reusing scripts/Kbuild.include, reducing the
distance from the kernel build system.
Tests performed:
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
PERF_VERSION = 0.0.2.PERF
GEN /tmp/perf/common-cmds.h
* new build flags or prefix
GEN perf-archive
CC /tmp/perf/builtin-annotate.o
CC /tmp/perf/bench/sched-messaging.o
CC /tmp/perf/builtin-diff.o
<SNIP>
CC /tmp/perf/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o
CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
CC /tmp/perf/builtin-help.o
AR /tmp/perf/libperf.a
LINK /tmp/perf/perf
[root@emilia perf]#
If we uninstall, for instance newt-devel we get:
[root@emilia perf]# rpm -e newt-devel
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
Makefile:564: newt not found, disables TUI support. Please install newt-devel or libnewt-dev
* new build flags or prefix
GEN perf-archive
CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
CC /tmp/perf/builtin-annotate.o
<SNIP>
AR /tmp/perf/libperf.a
LINK /tmp/perf/perf
[root@emilia perf]#
And then binutils-devel:
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
Makefile:564: newt not found, disables TUI support. Please install newt-devel or libnewt-dev
Makefile:632: No bfd.h/libbfd found, install binutils-dev[el]/zlib-static to gain symbol demangling
* new build flags or prefix
GEN perf-archive
CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
<SNIP>
AR /tmp/perf/libperf.a
LINK /tmp/perf/perf
[root@emilia perf]#
And then strictly required devel packages:
[root@emilia perf]# rpm -e elfutils-libelf-devel elfutils-devel
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
Makefile:509: No libdw.h found or old libdw.h found or elfutils is older than 0.138, disables dwarf support. Please install new elfutils-devel/libdw-dev
Makefile:542: *** No libelf.h/libelf found, please install libelf-dev/elfutils-libelf-devel. Stop.
[root@emilia perf]#
After installing everything back on:
[root@emilia perf]# yum install elfutils-devel binutils-devel newt-devel
<SNIP>
Installed:
binutils-devel.x86_64 0:2.20.51.0.2-5.11.el6
elfutils-devel.x86_64 0:0.147-1.el6
elfutils-libelf-devel.x86_64 0:0.147-1.el6
newt-devel.x86_64 0:0.52.11-1.el6
Complete!
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9
PERF_VERSION = 0.0.2.PERF
GEN common-cmds.h
* new build flags or prefix
GEN perf-archive
CC builtin-annotate.o
<SNIP>
AR libperf.a
LINK perf
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9
[root@emilia perf]#
Thanks to Sam for pointing me to try-run.
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
So that we don't require that the kernel be configured first, and as we
don't use KERNELRELEASE at all in the -src-pkg targets, we need o add a
new wildcard for targets ending in src-pkg:
On a make mrproper'ed kernel we get this without this patch:
[linux-2.6-tip]$ LANG= make perf-tarbz2-src-pkg
/bin/sh: include/config/kernel.release: No such file or directory
make: *** [include/config/kernel.release] Error 1
[acme@emilia linux-2.6-tip]$
Acked-by: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Useful for when people want to try some version of the perf tools and don't
wants to download the kernel tarball.
Here is a session using this new target:
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make help | grep -i perf
perf-tar-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar source tarball
perf-targz-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.gz source tarball
perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2 source tarball
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make perf-tarbz2-src-pkg
TAR
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 295731 May 31 11:18 perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# tar xf perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# cd perf-2.6.35-rc1
[root@emilia perf-2.6.35-rc1]# ls
arch HEAD include lib tools
[root@emilia perf-2.6.35-rc1]# cd tools/perf
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 2>&1 | tail
CC arch/x86/util/dwarf-regs.o
CC util/probe-finder.o
CC util/newt.o
CC util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.o
CC scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o
CC perf.o
CC builtin-help.o
AR libperf.a
LINK perf
rm .perf.dev.null
[root@emilia perf]# ./perf record -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.262 MB perf.data (~11457 samples) ]
[root@emilia perf]# ./perf report | head -12
# Events: 6K cycles
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ............... .................. ......
#
4.73% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] format_decode
4.49% perf libc-2.12.so [.] _IO_file_underflow_internal
4.38% init [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mwait_idle
3.29% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] vsnprintf
2.38% init [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_local
2.35% init [kernel.kallsyms] [k] apic_timer_interrupt
1.86% sirq-timer/5 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_busiest_group
[root@emilia perf]#
Acked-by: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
We need to set the long name to the name specified via, for instance,
'perf annotate --vmlinux /path/to/vmlinux', if not it will remain as
'[kernel.kallsyms]' and that will make annotate fail when passing this
as the vmlinux name in the call to objdump.
The way this is setup grew unwieldly and dso__load_vmlinux is the
function that should allocate space for the long name, with callers not
assuming that filenames should be allocated somehow by then (strdup,
dso__build_id_filename, etc).
For now this is the minimalistic patch, a proper fix for .36 will be
made.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
When we use plain 'perf buildid-list' we use only what is in the buildid
table in the perf.data header. And those have absolute pathnames because
at 'perf record' time we used __perf_session__process_events and that
doesn't sets up the path shortening code in map__new() that happens if
symbol_conf.full_paths is false, the default.
On the other hand, when we use 'perf buildid-list --with-hits' we
process all the events using perf_session__process_events, adding
entries to the global DSO list _after_ removing the current directory
from the DSO name, for presentation purposes.
Because of that we end up having two entries in the DSO list when
recording events for binaries using relative pathnames.
Fix it minimally by setting symbol_conf.full_paths to true when marking
the DSOs with hits in 'perf buildid-list --with-hits', as used by 'perf
archive'
Right fix longer term is to shorten the path only at presentation time.
Will be done for 2.6.36.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
When we moved to using ~/.perfconfig to set the value of use_browser,
it changed from a boolean to an int so that the convention used for
use_pager was followed.
That convention is:
-1: unspecified, that is what use_{browser,pager} is initialized
0: Don't use the browser (should be TUI), because was explicitely
set to 0/off/false on ~/.perfconfig [tui] cmd =, or because
we're redirecting the stdout to a file or piping it to some
other command (!isatty()).
1: Use the TUI
Some code was not properly audited and continued testing it as a
boolean, this seems to be the last one.
Reported-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
So that if the kernel DSO has a build id because record inserted it in
the perf.data build id table in the header, or a BUILD_ID event was
inserted in the stream, we first look at the build id cache
($HOME/.debug/).
If we find it there, try to use it, allowing offline annotation in
addition to 'perf report'.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
The newt initialization routines weren't being called because the output
was a file (perf annotate > /tmp/bla) but use_browser was still 1,
because ~/.perfconfig had it as 'on', so, later on newt routines
segfaulted.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
The hists__tty_browse_tree function was created with the loop to print
all events, and its equivalent, hists__tui_browse_tree, was created in a
similar fashion, where it is possible to switch among the multiple
events, if present, using TAB to go the next event, and shift+TAB
(UNTAB) to go to the previous.
The report TUI now shows as the window title the name of the event and a
leak was fixed wrt pstacks.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
It was assuming that the cache was always available and also wasn't
checking if the file found in the build id cache was just a kallsyms
file, that is not supported by objdump for disassembly.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
When annotating multiple entries, for instance, when running simply as:
$ perf annotate
the right and left keys, as well as TAB can be used to cycle thru the
multiple symbols being annotated.
If one doesn't like TUI annotate, disable it by editing ~/.perfconfig
and adding:
[tui]
annotate = off
Just like it is possible for report.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Using the same scheme as for git's/perf's pager setup, i.e. if one
doesn't want to, on a newt enabled perf binary, to disable the TUI for
'perf report', its just a matter of doing:
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# printf "[tui]\n\nreport = off\n" >
/root/.perfconfig
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# cat /root/.perfconfig
[tui]
report = off
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
System wide settings are also possible, by editing /etc/perfconfig, etc,
i.e. the git machinery for config files applies to perf as well, so when
in doubt where to put your settings, consult the git documentation, if
it fails, please let us know.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Discussed-with: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
We were still using the pathname found on the MMAP event, that could not
be the one we used when recording, so use the build-id cache for that,
only falling back to use the pathname in the MMAP event if no build-ids
are available.
With this we now also are able to do secure, seamless offline annotation.
Example:
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report -g none -v 2> /dev/null | head -10
8.12% Xorg /usr/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0.14.0 0x0000000000026d02 B [.] pixman_rasterize_edges
4.68% firefox /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so 0x00000000005dbdba B [.] 0x000000005dbdba
3.70% swapper /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc6/build/vmlinux 0xffffffff81022cea ! [k] read_hpet
2.96% init /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc6/build/vmlinux 0xffffffff81022cea ! [k] read_hpet
2.73% swapper /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc6/build/vmlinux 0xffffffff8100a738 ! [k] mwait_idle_with_hints
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf annotate -v pixman_rasterize_edges 2>&1 | grep Executing
Executing: objdump --start-address=0x000000371ce26670 --stop-address=0x000000371ce2709f -dS /root/.debug/.build-id/bd/6ac5199137aaeb279f864717d8d061477466c1|grep -v /root/.debug/.build-id/bd/6ac5199137aaeb279f864717d8d061477466c1|expand
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf buildid-list | grep libpixman-1.so.0.14.0
bd6ac5199137aaeb279f864717d8d061477466c1 /usr/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0.14.0
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
The changes made to support host and guest machines in a session, that
started when the 'perf kvm' tool was introduced ended up introducing a
bug where the host_machine was not having its DSOs traversed for
build-id processing.
Fix it by moving some methods to the right classes and considering the
host_machine when processing build-ids.
Reported-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Functions that were calling xzalloc also returned -1 when, for other
reasons, it could fail, and the calleds are coping with failures, so
stop using die() and xzalloc().
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
That could leave filedescriptors open and leak memory. Also stop using
xmalloc, use malloc and handle results just like other error cases in
the same routine that used it.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Without the bloated cplus_demangle from binutils, i.e building with:
$ make NO_DEMANGLE=1 O=~acme/git/build/perf -j3 -C tools/perf/ install
Before:
text data bss dec hex filename
471851 29280 4025056 4526187 45106b /home/acme/bin/perf
After:
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ size ~/bin/perf
text data bss dec hex filename
446886 29232 4008576 4484694 446e56 /home/acme/bin/perf
So its a 5.3% size reduction in code, but the interesting part is in the git
diff --stat output:
19 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1909 deletions(-)
If we ever need some of the things we got from git but weren't using, we just
have to go to the git repo and get fresh, uptodate source code bits.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
make NO_NEWT=1
Will avoid building the newt (tui) support.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
That happened for an old perf.data file that had no fake MMAP events for
the kernel modules, but even then it should warn once for each module,
not one time for every symbol in every module not found.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
At least on rawhide using -lnewt is not enough if we use SLang routines
directly, so add an explicit -lslang since we use SLang routines.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
OPT_SET_INT was renamed to OPT_SET_UINT since the only use in these
tools is to set something that has an enum type, that is builtin
compatible with unsigned int.
Several string constifications were done to make OPT_STRING require a
const char * type.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
To avoid problems like the one fixed by Stephane Eranian in 3de29ca, now
we'll got this instead:
bench/sched-messaging.c:259: error: negative width in bit-field ‘<anonymous>’
bench/sched-messaging.c:261: error: negative width in bit-field ‘<anonymous>’
Which is rather cryptic, but is how BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO works, so kernel
hackers should be already used to this.
With it in place found some problems, fixed by changing the affected
variables to sensible types or changed some OPT_INTEGER to OPT_UINTEGER.
Next csets will go thru converting each of the remaining OPT_ so that
review can be made easier by grouping changes per type per patch.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Older versions of the slang library didn't used the 'const' specifier,
causing problems with modern compilers of this kind:
util/newt.c:252: error: passing argument 1 of ‘SLsmg_printf’ discards
qualifiers from pointer target type
Fix it by using some wrappers that when needed const the affected
parameters back to plain (char *).
Reported-by: Lin Ming <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Lin Ming <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
In fact it is now added to the hot key list when newt_form__new is used,
allowing us to remove the explicit assignment in all its users.
The visible change is that <- will exit the menu that pops up when -> is
pressed (and Enter when callchains are not being used).
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Right now that means that pressing the left arrow willl make the symbol
annotation window to exit back to the main symbol histogram browser.
This is another improvement on the UI fastpath, i.e. just the arrows and
enter are enough for most browsing.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
After we use the filters to zoom into DSOs or threads, we can use <-
(left arrow) to zoom out from the last filter applied.
It is still possible to zoom out of order by using the popup menu.
With this we now have the zoom out operation on the browsing fast path,
by allowing fast navigation using just the four arrors and the enter key
to expand collapse callchains.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Number of samples is meaningless after we switched to auto-freq, so
report the number of events, i.e. not the sum of the different periods,
but the number PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE emitted by the kernel.
While doing this I noticed that naming "count" to the sum of all the
event periods can be confusing, so rename it to .period, just like in
struct sample.data, so that we become more consistent.
This helps with the next step, that was to record in struct hist_entry
the number of sample events for each instance, we need that because we
use it to generate the number of events when applying filters to the
tree of hist entries like it is being done in the TUI report browser.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
The events_stats.total field is too generic, rename it to .total_period,
and also add a comment explaining that it is the sum of all the .period
fields in samples, that is needed because we use auto-freq to avoid
sampling artifacts.
Ditto for events_stats.lost, that is the sum of all lost_event.lost
fields, i.e. the number of events the kernel dropped.
Looking at the users, builtin-sched.c can make use of these fields and
stop doing it again.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Usually "_text" is enough, but I received reports that its not always
available, so fallback to "_stext" for the symbol we use to check if we
need to apply any relocation to all the symbols in the kernel symtab,
for when, for instance, kexec is being used.
Reported-by: Darren Hart <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Now we don't anymore use popen to run 'perf annotate' for the selected
symbol, instead we collect per address samplings when processing samples
in 'perf report' if we're using the newt browser, then we use this data
directly to do annotation.
Done this way we can actually traverse the objdump_line objects
directly, matching the addresses to the collected samples and colouring
them appropriately using lower level slang routines.
The new ui_browser class will be reused for the main, callchain aware,
histogram browser, when it will be made generic and don't assume that
the objects are always instances of the objdump_line class maintained
using list_heads.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Initially this was just to be able to have a printf like method to
prepare the formatted string and then pass to newtPushHelpLine, but as
we already have for ui_progress, etc, its a step in identifying a
restricted, highlevel set of widgets we can then have implementations
for multiple widget sets (GTK, etc).
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
In cbbc79a we introduced support for multiple events by introducing a
new "event_stat_id" struct and then made several perf_session methods
receive a point to it instead of a pointer to perf_session, and kept the
event_stats and hists rb_tree in perf_session.
While working on the new newt based browser, I realised that it would be
better to introduce a new class, "hists" (short for "histograms"),
renaming the "event_stat_id" struct and the perf_session methods that
were really "hists" methods, as they manipulate only struct hists
members, not touching anything in the other perf_session members.
Other optimizations, such as calculating the maximum lenght of a symbol
name present in an hists instance will be possible as we add them,
avoiding a re-traversal just for finding that information.
The rationale for the name "hists" to replace "event_stat_id" is that we
may have multiple sets of hists for the same event_stat id, as, for
instance, the 'perf diff' tool has, so event stat id is not what
characterizes what this struct and the functions that manipulate it do.
Cc: Eric B Munson <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Using machines__create_kernel_maps(..., HOST_KERNEL_ID) it would create
another machine instance for the host machine, and since 1f626bc we have
it out of the machines rb_tree.
Fix it by using machine__create_kernel_maps(&self->host_machine)
directly.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Instead of newtAddComponents(just-one-entry, NULL), that is not needed
if, like in this browser, we're adding just one component at a time.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Works by adding a third parameter to the '-g' argument, after the graph
type and minimum percentage, for example:
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report -g fractal,0.5,2
Will show only the first two symbols where at least 0.5% of the samples
took place.
All the other symbols that don't fall outside these constraints will be
put together in the last entry, prefixed with "[...]" and the total
percentage for them.
Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
We have just one host on a given session, and that is the most common
setup right now, so embed a ->host_machine struct machine instance
directly in the perf_session class, check if we're looking for it before
going to the rb_tree.
This also fixes a problem found when we try to process old perf.data
files where we didn't have MMAP events for the kernel and modules and
thus don't create the kernel maps, do it in event__preprocess_sample if
it wasn't already.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Which can happen when processing old files that had no fake kernel MMAP,
events.
That shouldn't result in perf_session__create_kernel_maps not being
called, this will be fixed in a followup patch, for now do these checks
to avoid segfaulting.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
And with that fix at least one bug:
The first hit for an entry, the one that calls malloc to create a new
instance in __perf_session__add_hist_entry, wasn't adding the count to
the per cpumode (PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER, etc) total variable.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
The first was always using the ->long_name, while the later used
->short_name if verbose was not set, resulting in the dso column to be
much wider than needed most of the time.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
New commands need to have Documentation and be added to command-list.txt
so that they can appear when 'perf' is called withouth any subcommand:
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf
usage: perf [--version] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]
The most commonly used perf commands are:
annotate Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display annotated code
archive Create archive with object files with build-ids found in perf.data file
bench General framework for benchmark suites
buildid-cache Manage build-id cache.
buildid-list List the buildids in a perf.data file
diff Read two perf.data files and display the differential profile
inject Filter to augment the events stream with additional information
kmem Tool to trace/measure kernel memory(slab) properties
kvm Tool to trace/measure kvm guest os
list List all symbolic event types
lock Analyze lock events
probe Define new dynamic tracepoints
record Run a command and record its profile into perf.data
report Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the profile
sched Tool to trace/measure scheduler properties (latencies)
stat Run a command and gather performance counter statistics
test Runs sanity tests.
timechart Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload
top System profiling tool.
trace Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display trace output
See 'perf help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
The new 'perf inject' command hadn't so it wasn't appearing on that list.
Also fix the long option, that should have no spaces in it, rename the faulty one
to be '--build-ids', instead of '--inject build-ids'.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Into two functions, one that actually reads the build_id for the dso if
it wasn't already read, and another taht will inject the event if the
build_id is available.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
With this I was able to actually test Tom Zanussi's two previous patches
in my usual perf testing ways, i.e. without any tracepoints activated.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
We need to refactor code to be explicitely shared by the kernel and at
least the tools/ userspace programs, so, till we do that, copy the bare
minimum bitmap/bitops code needed by tools/perf.
Reported-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
First an example with the first internal test:
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf test
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
So it run just one test, that is "vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms", and it was
successful.
If we run it in verbose mode, we'll see details about errors and extra warnings
for non-fatal problems:
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf test -v
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms:
--- start ---
Looking at the vmlinux_path (5 entries long)
No build_id in vmlinux, ignoring it
No build_id in /boot/vmlinux, ignoring it
No build_id in /boot/vmlinux-2.6.34-rc4-tip+, ignoring it
Using /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc4-tip+/build/vmlinux for symbols
Maps only in vmlinux:
ffffffff81cb81b1-ffffffff81e1149b 0 [kernel].init.text
ffffffff81e1149c-ffffffff9fffffff 0 [kernel].exit.text
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff6000ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_0
ffffffffff600100-ffffffffff6003ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_fn
ffffffffff600400-ffffffffff6007ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_1
ffffffffff600800-ffffffffffffffff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_2
Maps in vmlinux with a different name in kallsyms:
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff6000ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_0 in kallsyms as [kernel].0
ffffffffff600100-ffffffffff6003ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_fn in kallsyms as:
*ffffffffff600100-ffffffffff60012f 0 [kernel].2
ffffffffff600400-ffffffffff6007ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_1 in kallsyms as [kernel].6
ffffffffff600800-ffffffffffffffff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_2 in kallsyms as [kernel].8
Maps only in kallsyms:
ffffffffff600130-ffffffffff6003ff 0 [kernel].4
---- end ----
vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$
In the above case we only know the name of the non contiguous kernel ranges in
the address space when reading the symbol information from the ELF symtab in
vmlinux.
The /proc/kallsyms file lack this, we only notice they are separate because
there are modules after the kernel and after that more kernel functions, so we
need to have a module rbtree backed by the module .ko path to get symtabs in
the vmlinux case.
The tool uses it to match by address to emit appropriate warning, but don't
considers this fatal.
The .init.text and .exit.text ines, of course, aren't in kallsyms, so I left
these cases just as extra info in verbose mode.
The end of the sections also aren't in kallsyms, so we the symbols layer does
another pass and sets the end addresses as the next map start minus one, which
sometimes pads, causing harmless mismatches.
But at least the symbols match, tested it by copying /proc/kallsyms to
/tmp/kallsyms and doing changes to see if they were detected.
This first test also should serve as a first stab at documenting the
symbol library by providing a self contained example that exercises it
together with comments about what is being done.
More tests to check if actions done on a monitored app, like doing mmaps, etc,
makes the kernel generate the expected events should be added next.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
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So that "make -C tools/perf O=/tmp/some/path" works again.
Problem introduced in:
cd932c5 "perf: Move arch specific code into separate arch director"
Cc: Ian Munsie <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
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Those functions operated on members now grouped in 'struct machine', so
move those methods to this new class.
The changes made to 'perf probe' shows that using this abstraction
inserting probes on guests almost got supported for free.
Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <[email protected]>
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struct kernel_info and kerninfo__ are too vague, what they really
describe are machines, virtual ones or hosts.
There are more changes to introduce helpers to shorten function calls
and to make more clear what is really being done, but I left that for
subsequent patches.
Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <[email protected]>
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