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2016-04-14perf script: Add --max-stack knobArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Works just like with 'perf report'. In some cases we may want to have more than 127 entries, the default maximum. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mqkz2p5ok2978gztb0vsnocc@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-13perf sched map: Display only given cpusJiri Olsa
Introducing --cpus option that will display only given cpus. Could be used together with color-cpus option. $ perf sched map --cpus 0,1 *A0 309999.786924 secs A0 => rcu_sched:7 *. 309999.786930 secs *B0 . 309999.786931 secs B0 => rcuos/2:25 B0 *A0 309999.786947 secs Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460467771-26532-9-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org [ Added entry to man page ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-13perf sched map: Color given cpusJiri Olsa
Adding --color-cpus option to display selected cpus with background color (red by default). It helps on navigating through the perf sched map output. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460467771-26532-8-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org [ Added entry to man page ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-13perf sched map: Color given pidsJiri Olsa
Adding --color-pids option to display selected pids in color (blue by default). It helps on navigating through the 'perf sched map' output. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460467771-26532-7-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org [ Added entry to man page ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-13perf sched: Add compact display optionJiri Olsa
Add compact map display that does not output the whole cpu matrix, only cpus that got event. $ perf sched map --compact *A0 1082427.094098 secs A0 => perf:19404 (CPU 2) A0 *. 1082427.094127 secs . => swapper:0 (CPU 1) A0 . *B0 1082427.094174 secs B0 => rcuos/2:25 (CPU 3) A0 . *. 1082427.094177 secs *C0 . . 1082427.094187 secs C0 => migration/2:21 C0 *A0 . 1082427.094193 secs *. A0 . 1082427.094195 secs *D0 A0 . 1082427.094402 secs D0 => rngd:968 *. A0 . 1082427.094406 secs . *E0 . 1082427.095221 secs E0 => kworker/1:1:5333 . E0 *F0 1082427.095227 secs F0 => xterm:3342 It helps to display sane output for small thread loads on big cpu servers. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460467771-26532-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org [ Add entry in 'perf sched' man page ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-12perf trace: Exclude the kernel part of the callchain leading to a syscallArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
The kernel parts are not that useful: # trace -m 512 -e nanosleep --call dwarf usleep 1 0.065 ( 0.065 ms): usleep/18732 nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffc4ee4e200) = 0 syscall_slow_exit_work ([kernel.kallsyms]) do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms]) return_from_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms]) __nanosleep (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so) usleep (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so) main (/usr/bin/usleep) __libc_start_main (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so) _start (/usr/bin/usleep) # So lets just use perf_event_attr.exclude_callchain_kernel to avoid collecting it in the ring buffer: # trace -m 512 -e nanosleep --call dwarf usleep 1 0.063 ( 0.063 ms): usleep/19212 nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffc3df10fb0) = 0 __nanosleep (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so) usleep (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so) main (/usr/bin/usleep) __libc_start_main (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so) _start (/usr/bin/usleep) # Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qctu3gqhpim0dfbcp9d86c91@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-12perf trace: Add support for printing call chains on sys_exit events.Milian Wolff
Now, one can print the call chain for every encountered sys_exit event, e.g.: $ perf trace -e nanosleep --call-graph dwarf path/to/ex_sleep 1005.757 (1000.090 ms): ex_sleep/13167 nanosleep(...) = 0 syscall_slow_exit_work ([kernel.kallsyms]) syscall_return_slowpath ([kernel.kallsyms]) int_ret_from_sys_call ([kernel.kallsyms]) __nanosleep (/usr/lib/libc-2.23.so) [unknown] (/usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5.6.0) QThread::sleep (/usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5.6.0) main (path/to/ex_sleep) __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc-2.23.so) _start (path/to/ex_sleep) Note that it is advised to increase the number of mmap pages to prevent event losses when using this new feature. Often, adding `-m 10M` to the `perf trace` invocation is enough. This feature is also available in strace when built with libunwind via `strace -k`. Performance wise, this solution is much better: $ time find path/to/linux &> /dev/null real 0m0.051s user 0m0.013s sys 0m0.037s $ time perf trace -m 800M --call-graph dwarf find path/to/linux &> /dev/null real 0m2.624s user 0m1.203s sys 0m1.333s $ time strace -k find path/to/linux &> /dev/null real 0m35.398s user 0m10.403s sys 0m23.173s Note that it is currently not possible to configure the print output. Adding such a feature, similar to what is available in `perf script` via its `--fields` knob can be added later on. Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> LPU-Reference: 1460115255-17648-1-git-send-email-milian.wolff@kdab.com [ Split from a larger patch, do not print the IP, left align, remove dup call symbol__init(), added man page entry ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-06perf list: Document event specifications betterAndi Kleen
Document some features for specifying events in the perf list manpage: - Event groups - Leader sampling - How to specify raw PMU events in the new syntax - Global versus per process PMUs. - Access restrictions - Fix Intel SDM URL v2: Lots of new content. address review feedback. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459810686-15913-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org [ Add quotes to some keywords, such as "any" ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-30perf tools: Add support for skipping itrace instructionsAndi Kleen
When using 'perf script' to look at PT traces it is often useful to ignore the initialization code at the beginning. On larger traces which may have many millions of instructions in initialization code doing that in a pipeline can be very slow, with perf script spending a lot of CPU time calling printf and writing data. This patch adds an extension to the --itrace argument that skips 'n' events (instructions, branches or transactions) at the beginning. This is much more efficient. v2: Add support for BTS (Adrian Hunter) Document in itrace.txt Fix branch check Check transactions and instructions too Committer note: To test intel_pt one needs to make sure VT-x isn't active, i.e. stopping KVM guests on the test machine, as described by Andi Kleen at http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160301234953.GD23621@tassilo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459187142-20035-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-30perf tools: Make -f/--force option documentation consistent across toolsJiri Olsa
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458823940-24583-6-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-30perf mem: Add -U/-K (--all-user/--all-kernel) optionsJiri Olsa
Add -U/-K (--all-user/--all-kernel) options to use the perf record --all-user/--all-kernel options. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458823940-24583-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-22perf list: Fix documentation of :pppAndi Kleen
Correctly document what is implemented for :ppp on Intel CPUs in recent kernels. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458575793-12091-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-18tools: Move utilities.mak from perf to tools/scripts/Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
As it is used by several other tools, better move it outside tools/perf. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-34s9kue3xq9w5mijdmfrfx8s@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-10perf stat: Add --metric-only support for -AAndi Kleen
Add metric only support for -A too. This requires a new print function that prints the metrics in the right order. v2: Fix manpage v3: Simplify nrcpus computation Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457049458-28956-7-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-10perf stat: Implement --metric-only modeAndi Kleen
Add a new mode to only print metrics. Sometimes we don't care about the raw values, just want the computed metrics. This allows more compact printing, so with -I each sample is only a single line. This also allows easier plotting and processing with other tools. The main target is with using --topdown, but it also works with -T and standard perf stat. A few metrics are not supported. To avoiding having to hardcode all the metrics in the code it uses a two pass approach: first compute dummy metrics and only print the headers in the print_metric callback. Then use the callback to print the actual values. There are some additional changes in the stat printout code to handle all metrics being on a single line. One issue is that the column code doesn't know in advance what events are not supported by the CPU, and it would be hard to find out as this could change based on dynamic conditions. That causes empty columns in some cases. The output can be fairly wide, often you may need more than 80 columns. Example: % perf stat -a -I 1000 --metric-only 1.001452803 frontend cycles idle insn per cycle stalled cycles per insn branch-misses of all branches 1.001452803 158.91% 0.66 2.39 2.92% 2.002192321 180.63% 0.76 2.08 2.96% 3.003088282 150.59% 0.62 2.57 2.84% 4.004369835 196.20% 0.98 1.62 3.79% 5.005227314 231.98% 0.84 1.90 4.71% v2: Lots of updates. v3: Use slightly narrower columns v4: Add comment Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457049458-28956-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-10perf stat: Document CSV format in manpageAndi Kleen
With all the recently added fields in the perf stat CSV output we should finally document them in the man page. Do this here. v2: Fix fields in documentation (Jiri) v3: fix order of fields again (Jiri) v4: Change order again. v5: Document more fields (Jiri) v6: Move time stamp first v7: More fixes (Jiri) Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457049458-28956-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-08perf stat: Document --detailed optionBorislav Petkov
I'm surprised this remained undocumented since at least 2011. And it is actually a very useful switch, as Steve and I came to realize recently. Add the text from 2cba3ffb9a9d ("perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events") which added the incrementing aspect to -d. Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 2cba3ffb9a9d ("perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457347294-32546-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-24perf top: Add --hierarchy optionNamhyung Kim
Support hierarchy output for perf-top using --hierarchy option. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1456326830-30456-19-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-24perf report: Add --hierarchy optionNamhyung Kim
The --hierarchy option is to show output in hierarchy mode. It extends folding/unfolding in the TUI and GTK browsers to support sort items as well as callchains. Users can toggle the items to see the performance result at wanted level. $ perf report --hierarchy --tui Overhead Command / Shared Object / Symbol -------------------------------------------------- + 32.96% gnome-shell - 15.11% swapper - 14.97% [kernel.vmlinux] 6.82% [k] intel_idle 0.66% [k] menu_select 0.43% [k] __hrtimer_start_range_ns ... Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1456326830-30456-17-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-18perf record: Add --all-user/--all-kernel optionsJiri Olsa
Allow user to easily switch all events to user or kernel space with simple --all-user or --all-kernel options. This will be handy within perf mem/c2c wrappers to switch easily monitoring modes. Committer note: Testing it: # perf record --all-kernel --all-user -a sleep 2 Error: option `all-user' cannot be used with all-kernel Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] --all-user Configure all used events to run in user space. --all-kernel Configure all used events to run in kernel space. # perf record --all-user --all-kernel -a sleep 2 Error: option `all-kernel' cannot be used with all-user Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] --all-kernel Configure all used events to run in kernel space. --all-user Configure all used events to run in user space. # perf record --all-user -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.416 MB perf.data (162 samples) ] # perf report | grep '\[k\]' # perf record --all-kernel -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.423 MB perf.data (296 samples) ] # perf report | grep '\[\.\]' # Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455525293-8671-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org [ Made those options to be mutually exclusive ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-12perf config: Add '--system' and '--user' options to select which config file ↵Taeung Song
is used The '--system' option means $(sysconfdir)/perfconfig and '--user' means $HOME/.perfconfig. If none is used, both system and user config file are read. E.g.: # perf config [<file-option>] [options] With an specific config file: # perf config --user | --system or both user and system config file: # perf config Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455126685-32367-2-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-05perf inject: Add jitdump mmap injection supportStephane Eranian
This patch adds a --jit/-j option to perf inject. This options injects MMAP records into the perf.data file to cover the jitted code mmaps. It also emits ELF images for each function in the jidump file. Those images are created where the jitdump file is. The MMAP records point to that location as well. Typical flow: $ perf record -k mono -- java -agentpath:libpjvmti.so java_class $ perf inject --jit -i perf.data -o perf.data.jitted $ perf report -i perf.data.jitted Note that jitdump.h support is not limited to Java, it works with any jitted environment modified to emit the jitdump file format, include those where code can be jitted multiple times and moved around. The jitdump.h format is adapted from the Oprofile project. The genelf.c (ELF binary generation) depends on MD5 hash encoding for the buildid. To enable this, libssl-dev must be installed. If not, then genelf.c defaults to using urandom to generate the buildid, which is not ideal. The Makefile auto-detects the presence on libssl-dev. This version mmaps the jitdump file to create a marker MMAP record in the perf.data file. The marker is used to detect jitdump and cause perf inject to inject the jitted mmaps and generate ELF images for jitted functions. In V8, the following fixes and changes were made among other things: - the jidump header format include a new flags field to be used to carry information about the configuration of the runtime agent. Contributed by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> - Fix mmap pgoff: MMAP event pgoff must be the offset within the ELF file at which the code resides. Contributed by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> - Fix ELF virtual addresses: perf tools expect the ELF virtual addresses of dynamic objects to match the file offset. Contributed by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> - JIT MMAP injection does not obey finished_round semantics. JIT MMAP injection injects all MMAP events in one go, so it does not obey finished_round semantics, so drop the finished_round events from the output perf.data file. Contributed by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Carl Love <cel@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: John McCutchan <johnmccutchan@google.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448874143-7269-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com [ Moved inject.build_ids ordering bits to a separate patch, fixed the NO_LIBELF=1 build ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-04perf config: Document 'record.build-id' variable in man pageTaeung Song
Explain 'record.build-id' variable. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454577913-16401-9-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-04perf config: Document 'kmem.default' variable in man pageTaeung Song
Explain 'kmem.default' variable. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454577913-16401-8-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-04perf config: Document 'pager.<subcommand>' variables in man pageTaeung Song
Explain 'pager.<subcommand>' variables. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454577913-16401-7-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-04perf config: Document 'man.viewer' variable in man pageTaeung Song
Explain 'man.viewer' variable and how to add new man viewer tools. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454577913-16401-6-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-04perf config: Document 'top.children' variable in man pageTaeung Song
Explain 'top.children' variable. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454577913-16401-5-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-04perf config: Document variables for 'report' section in man pageTaeung Song
Explain 'report' section's variables: 'percent-limit', 'queue-size' and 'children'. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454577913-16401-4-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com [ Fix some grammar issues, add some more info ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-04perf config: Document variables for 'call-graph' section in man pageTaeung Song
Explain 'call-graph' section and its variables: 'record-mode', 'dump-size', 'print-type', 'order', 'sort-key', 'threshold' and 'print-limit'. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454577913-16401-3-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-04perf config: Document 'ui.show-headers' variable in man pageTaeung Song
This option controls display of column headers (like 'Overhead' and 'Symbol') in 'report' and 'top'. If this option is false, they are hidden. This option is only applied to TUI. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454577913-16401-2-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-03perf report: Update documention of --percent-limit optionNamhyung Kim
The --percent-limit option was changed to be applied to callchains as well as to hist entries recently, but it missed to update the doc. Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454508683-5735-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-03perf report: Update documentation of --sort optionNamhyung Kim
The description of the memory sort key (used by --mem-mode) was misplaced. Move it under the --sort option so that it can be referenced properly. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454508683-5735-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-26perf config: Document 'hist.percentage' variable in man pageTaeung Song
Explain 'hist.percentage' variable. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452253193-30502-7-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-26perf config: Document variables for 'annotate' section in man pageTaeung Song
Explain 'annotate' section and its variables. 'hide_src_code', 'use_offset', 'jump_arrows', 'show_linenr', 'show_nr_jump' and 'show_total_period'. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452253193-30502-5-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-26perf config: Document 'buildid.dir' variable in man pageTaeung Song
Explain 'buildid.dir' variable. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452253193-30502-4-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-26perf config: Document variables for 'tui' and 'gtk' sections in man pageTaeung Song
Explain 'tui' and 'gtk' sections and these variables. 'top', 'report' and 'annotate' Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452253193-30502-3-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-26perf config: Document variables for 'colors' section in man pageTaeung Song
Explain 'colors' section and its variables, used for The variables for customizing the colors used in the output for the 'report', 'top' and 'annotate' in the TUI, those are: 'top', 'medium', 'normal', 'selected', 'jump_arrows', 'addr' and 'root'. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452253193-30502-2-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-26perf annotate: Rename 'colors.code' to 'colors.jump_arrows'Taeung Song
USe 'jump_arrows' config name instead of 'code' on 'colors' section. 'colors.code' config is only for jump arrows on assembly code listings i.e. │ ┌──jmp 1333 │ │ xchg %ax,%ax │ │ mov %r15,%r10 │ └─→cmp %r15,%r14 But this config name seems unfit. 'jump_arrows' is more descriptive than 'code'. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452240971-25418-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-12perf tools: Add more usage tipsNamhyung Kim
Thanks to Andi Kleen for providing useful tips. Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452508510-28316-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-12perf record: Add --buildid-all optionNamhyung Kim
The --buildid-all option is to record build-id of all DSOs in the file. It might be very costly to postprocess samples to find which DSO hits. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452519429-31779-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-08perf evlist: Add --trace-fields option to show trace fieldsNamhyung Kim
To use dynamic sort keys, it might be good to add an option to see the list of field names. $ perf evlist -i perf.data.sched sched:sched_switch sched:sched_stat_wait sched:sched_stat_sleep sched:sched_stat_iowait sched:sched_stat_runtime sched:sched_process_fork sched:sched_wakeup sched:sched_wakeup_new sched:sched_migrate_task # Tip: use 'perf evlist --trace-fields' to show fields for tracepoint events $ perf evlist -i perf.data.sched --trace-fields sched:sched_switch: trace_fields: prev_comm,prev_pid,prev_prio,prev_state,next_comm,next_pid,next_prio sched:sched_stat_wait: trace_fields: comm,pid,delay sched:sched_stat_sleep: trace_fields: comm,pid,delay sched:sched_stat_iowait: trace_fields: comm,pid,delay sched:sched_stat_runtime: trace_fields: comm,pid,runtime,vruntime sched:sched_process_fork: trace_fields: parent_comm,parent_pid,child_comm,child_pid sched:sched_wakeup: trace_fields: comm,pid,prio,success,target_cpu sched:sched_wakeup_new: trace_fields: comm,pid,prio,success,target_cpu sched:sched_migrate_task: trace_fields: comm,pid,prio,orig_cpu,dest_cpu Committer notes: For another file, in verbose mode: # perf evlist -v --trace-fields sched:sched_switch: type: 2, size: 112, config: 0x10b, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|RAW, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, trace_fields: prev_comm,prev_pid,prev_prio,prev_state,next_comm,next_pid,next_prio # Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452125549-1511-5-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ Replaced 'trace_fields=' with 'trace_fields: ' to make the output consistent in -v mode ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-08perf report: Show random usage tip on the help lineNamhyung Kim
Currently perf report only shows a help message "For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso" unconditionally (even if the sort keys were used). Add more help tips and show randomly. Load tips from ${prefix}/share/doc/perf-tip/tips.txt file. $ perf report | tail 0.10% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] irq_exit 0.09% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] flush_smp_call_function_queue 0.08% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe 0.03% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] group_sched_in 0.01% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe # # (Tip: Search options using a keyword: perf report -h <keyword>) # Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452166913-27046-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ Renamed it to perf_tip() and the parameter dirname to dirpath to fix the build on older distros ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-06perf report: Add documentation for dynamic sort keysNamhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1451991518-25673-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-06perf report/top: Add --raw-trace optionNamhyung Kim
The --raw-trace option allows disabling pretty printing by the event's print_fmt or plugin. Besides that, each dynamic sort key now can receive a 'raw' suffix separated by '/' to ask for the raw trace of a specific field. $ perf report -s comm,kmem:kmalloc.gfp_flags ... # Overhead Command gfp_flags # ........ ....... ................... # 99.89% perf GFP_NOFS|GFP_ZERO 0.06% sleep GFP_KERNEL 0.03% perf GFP_KERNEL|GFP_ZERO 0.01% perf GFP_KERNEL Now $ perf report -s comm,kmem:kmalloc.gfp_flags --raw-trace or $ perf report -s comm,kmem:kmalloc.gfp_flags/raw ... # Overhead Command gfp_flags # ........ ....... .......... # 99.89% perf 32848 0.06% sleep 208 0.03% perf 32976 0.01% perf 208 Suggested-and-Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450804030-29193-9-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-12-17perf stat report: Allow to override aggr_modeJiri Olsa
Allowing to override record aggr_mode. It's possible to use perf stat like: $ perf stat report -A $ perf stat report --per-core $ perf stat report --per-socket To customize the recorded aggregate mode regardless what was used during the stat record command. Reported-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446734469-11352-19-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org [ Renamed 'stat' parameter to 'st' to fix 'already defined' build error with older distros (e.g. RHEL6.7) ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-12-17perf stat report: Add report commandJiri Olsa
Adding 'perf stat report' command support. ATM it only processes attr events and display nothing. Reported-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446734469-11352-12-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-12-17perf stat record: Add record commandJiri Olsa
Add 'perf stat record' command support. It creates simple (header only) perf.data file ATM. The record command could be specified anywhere among stat options. All stat command options are valid for stat record command with '-o' option exception. If specified for record command it denotes the perf data file name. Committer note: Set sample_type to PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER, which should be harmless while avoiding that older tools show confusing messages, for instance, with sample_type = 0, we get: $ perf stat record usleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1': 0.630237 task-clock (msec) # 0.528 CPUs utilized 1 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec 0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec 52 page-faults # 0.083 M/sec 978,312 cycles # 1.552 GHz 671,931 stalled-cycles-frontend # 68.68% frontend cycles idle <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend 646,379 instructions # 0.66 insns per cycle # 1.04 stalled cycles per insn 131,046 branches # 207.931 M/sec 7,073 branch-misses # 5.40% of all branches 0.001193240 seconds time elapsed $ oldperf evlist WARNING: The perf.data file's data size field is 0 which is unexpected. Was the 'perf record' command properly terminated? non matching sample_type $ While with sample_type set to PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER, after we re-run 'perf stat record usleep' we get: $ oldperf evlist WARNING: The perf.data file's data size field is 0 which is unexpected. Was the 'perf record' command properly terminated? task-clock context-switches cpu-migrations page-faults cycles stalled-cycles-frontend stalled-cycles-backend instructions branches branch-misses $ Which at least shows the names of the events in the perf.data file. Additionally, such files, when passed to 'perf report' will produce: $ oldperf report --stdio WARNING: The perf.data file's data size field is 0 which is unexpected. Was the 'perf record' command properly terminated? Warning: Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) were restricted. Check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict before running 'perf record'. As no suitable kallsyms nor vmlinux was found, kernel samples can't be resolved. Samples in kernel modules can't be resolved as well. Error: The perf.data file has no samples! # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # $ Which is confusing and can be solved by just adding the kernel mmap record, which will also remove that warning about the data size field being equal to zero, after generating the mmap record: $ perf stat record usleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1': 0.600796 task-clock (msec) # 0.478 CPUs utilized 1 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec 0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec 54 page-faults # 0.090 M/sec 886,844 cycles # 1.476 GHz 582,169 stalled-cycles-frontend # 65.65% frontend cycles idle <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend 638,344 instructions # 0.72 insns per cycle # 0.91 stalled cycles per insn 130,204 branches # 216.719 M/sec 7,500 branch-misses # 5.76% of all branches 0.001255897 seconds time elapsed $ oldperf evlist task-clock context-switches cpu-migrations page-faults cycles stalled-cycles-frontend stalled-cycles-backend instructions branches branch-misses $ oldperf report --stdio Error: The perf.data file has no samples! # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # [acme@zoo linux]$ No warnings, sensible output about what are the events in the perf.data file and also a "file has no samples" message, which indeed it doesn't. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Tested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: htp://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446734469-11352-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-12-15perf record: Add record.build-id config optionNamhyung Kim
Post processing at 'perf record' takes a long time on big machines. What it does is to find the build-id of binaries found in the event stream, so that it can make sure, at 'report' time, that the symtabs (be it ELF, kallsyms, etc) being used to resolve symbols are the ones matching the binaries found at 'record' time. Sometimes we just want to skip this processing of events at the end of the session to get quicker results, making sure the binaries haven't changed from 'record' to 'report' time. Add a new config option to control this behavior. The record.build-id config variable can have one of the following values: - cache: post-process data and save/update the binaries into the build-id cache (in ~/.debug). This is the default. - no-cache: post-process the data but not update the build-id cache. Same effect as using the -N option. - skip: skip post-processing and do not update the cache. Same effect as using the -B option. Reported-and-Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450144196-22957-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ Added some more text to the documentation ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-12-14perf record: Support custom vmlinux pathHe Kuang
Make perf-record command support --vmlinux option if BPF_PROLOGUE is on. 'perf record' needs vmlinux as the source of DWARF info to generate prologue for BPF programs, so path of vmlinux should be specified. Short name 'k' has been taken by 'clockid'. This patch skips the short option name and uses '--vmlinux' for vmlinux path. Documentation is also updated. Test result: In a production (or broken) environment: (by: # rm -rf ~/.debug/ # mv /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/vmlinux /tmp/ ) # ./perf record -e ./test_bpf_base.c ls Failed to find the path for kernel: No such file or directory event syntax error: './test_bpf_base.c' \___ You need to check probing points in BPF file ... # ./perf record --vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux -e ./test_bpf_base.c ls ... [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data ] Help messages when build with NO_LIBBPF: # ./perf record -h --transaction sample transaction flags (special events only) --vmlinux <file> vmlinux pathname (not built-in because NO_LIBBPF=1) # ./perf record --vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux ls / Warning: option `vmlinux' is being ignored because NO_LIBBPF=1 ... [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data (11 samples) ] Help messages when build with NO_DWARF: # ./perf record -h --transaction sample transaction flags (special events only) --vmlinux <file> vmlinux pathname (not built-in because NO_DWARF=1) Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450089563-122430-15-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-11-23perf config: Add initial man pageTaeung Song
Add perf-config document to describe the perf configuration and a 'list’ subcommand. Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/63AD9B57-7B8C-46F8-8F18-0FFEB9A6A1BC@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>