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2011-05-24Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Fix sample type size calculation in 32 bits archs profile: Use vzalloc() rather than vmalloc() & memset()
2011-05-24perf tools: Fix sample type size calculation in 32 bits archsFrederic Weisbecker
The shift used here to count the number of bits set in the mask doesn't work above the low part for archs that are not 64 bits. Fix the constant used for the shift. This fixes a 32-bit perf top failure reported by Eric Dumazet: Can't parse sample, err = -14 Can't parse sample, err = -14 ... Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306200686-17317-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-23Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Fix sample size bit operations perf tools: Fix ommitted mmap data update on remap watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based on watchdog_thresh watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zero watchdog: Only disable/enable watchdog if neccessary watchdog: Fix rounding bug in get_sample_period() perf tools: Propagate event parse error handling perf tools: Robustify dynamic sample content fetch perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsing perf tools: Move evlist sample helpers to evlist area perf tools: Remove junk code in mmap size handling perf tools: Check we are able to read the event size on mmap
2011-05-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined") perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course'). treewide: fix a few typos in comments regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations" audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured' arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option. treewide: remove extra semicolons ...
2011-05-23perf tools: Fix sample size bit operationsFrederic Weisbecker
What we want is to count the number of bits in the mask, not some other random operation written in the middle of the night. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306148788-6179-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com [ Fixed perf_event__names[] alignment which was nearby and hurting my eyes ... ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-23perf tools: Fix ommitted mmap data update on remapFrederic Weisbecker
Commit eac9eacee16 "perf tools: Check we are able to read the event size on mmap" brought a check to ensure we can read the size of the event before dereferencing it, and do a remap otherwise to move the buffer forward. However that remap was ommitting all the necessary work to update the new page offset, head, and to unmap previous pages, etc... To fix this, gather all the code that fetches the event in a seperate helper which does all the necessary checks about the header/event size and tells us anytime a remap is needed. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306148788-6179-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-22Merge branch 'perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent Conflicts: tools/perf/builtin-top.c Semantic conflict: util/include/linux/list.h # fix prefetch.h removal fallout Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-22perf tools: Propagate event parse error handlingFrederic Weisbecker
Better handle event parsing error by propagating the details in upper layers or by dumping some failure message. So that the user knows he has some crazy events in the batch. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
2011-05-22perf tools: Robustify dynamic sample content fetchFrederic Weisbecker
Ensure the size of the dynamic fields such as callchains or raw events don't overlap the whole event boundaries. This prevents from dereferencing junk if the given size of the callchain goes too eager. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
2011-05-22perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsingFrederic Weisbecker
Check that the total size of the sample fields having a fixed size do not exceed the one of the whole event. This robustifies the sample parsing. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
2011-05-22perf tools: Move evlist sample helpers to evlist areaFrederic Weisbecker
These APIs should belong to evlist.c as they may not be exclusively tied to the headers. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com
2011-05-22perf tools: Remove junk code in mmap size handlingFrederic Weisbecker
size is overriden later and used only then. Those lines are only junk, probably a leftover. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
2011-05-22perf tools: Check we are able to read the event size on mmapFrederic Weisbecker
Check we have enough mmaped space to read the current event size from its headers, otherwise we may dereference some hell there. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
2011-05-20sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usageLinus Torvalds
Commit e66eed651fd1 ("list: remove prefetching from regular list iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather obscure header file dependency. So this fixes things up a bit, using grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]') grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]') to guide us in finding files that either need <linux/prefetch.h> inclusion, or have it despite not needing it. There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets many core ones. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-20Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (78 commits) Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof" net,rcu: convert call_rcu(prl_entry_destroy_rcu) to kfree batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(softif_neigh_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(neigh_node_free_rcu) to kfree() batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(gw_node_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu net,rcu: convert call_rcu(kfree_tid_tx) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xt_osf_finger_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu() net/mac80211,rcu: convert call_rcu(work_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(wq_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(phonet_device_rcu_free) to kfree_rcu() perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(swevent_hlist_release_rcu) to kfree_rcu() perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(free_ctx) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(__nf_ct_ext_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(net_generic_release) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(netlbl_unlhsh_free_addr6) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(netlbl_unlhsh_free_addr4) to kfree_rcu() security,rcu: convert call_rcu(sel_netif_free) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xps_dev_maps_release) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xps_map_release) to kfree_rcu() net,rcu: convert call_rcu(rps_map_release) to kfree_rcu() ...
2011-05-20Merge branches 'sched-core-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits) sched: Fix and optimise calculation of the weight-inverse sched: Avoid going ahead if ->cpus_allowed is not changed sched, rt: Update rq clock when unthrottling of an otherwise idle CPU sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task() sched: Shorten the construction of the span cpu mask of sched domain sched: Wrap the 'cfs_rq->nr_spread_over' field with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG sched: Remove unused 'this_best_prio arg' from balance_tasks() sched: Remove noop in alloc_rt_sched_group() sched: Get rid of lock_depth sched: Remove obsolete comment from scheduler_tick() sched: Fix sched_domain iterations vs. RCU sched: Next buddy hint on sleep and preempt path sched: Make set_*_buddy() work on non-task entities sched: Remove need_migrate_task() sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu sched: Restructure ttwu() some more sched: Rename ttwu_post_activation() to ttwu_do_wakeup() sched: Remove rq argument from ttwu_stat() sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu() sched: Drop rq->lock from sched_exec() ... * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bug
2011-05-20Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (107 commits) perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events ftrace/kbuild: Add recordmcount files to force full build ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering ftrace: Free hash with call_rcu_sched() ftrace: Have global_ops store the functions that are to be traced ftrace: Add ops parameter to ftrace_startup/shutdown functions ftrace: Add enabled_functions file ftrace: Use counters to enable functions to trace ftrace: Separate hash allocation and assignment ftrace: Create a global_ops to hold the filter and notrace hashes ftrace: Use hash instead for FTRACE_FL_FILTER ftrace: Replace FTRACE_FL_NOTRACE flag with a hash of ignored functions perf bench, x86: Add alternatives-asm.h wrapper x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limit x86, mem: memset_64.S: Optimize memset by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB ...
2011-05-19perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printoutsIngo Molnar
Print out the cache-miss percentage as well if the cache refs were collected, for all the generic cache event types. Before: 11,103,723,230 dTLB-loads # 622.471 M/sec ( +- 0.30% ) 87,065,337 dTLB-load-misses # 4.881 M/sec ( +- 0.90% ) After: 11,353,713,242 dTLB-loads # 626.020 M/sec ( +- 0.35% ) 113,393,472 dTLB-load-misses # 1.00% of all dTLB cache hits ( +- 0.49% ) Also ASCII color highlight too high percentages, them when it's executed on the console. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lkhwxsevdbd9a8nymx0vxc3y@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-19perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU eventsIngo Molnar
Print even more detailed statistics if requested via perf stat -d: -d: detailed events, L1 and LLC data cache -d -d: more detailed events, dTLB and iTLB events -d -d -d: very detailed events, adding prefetch events Full output looks like this now: Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 10' (5 runs): 1703.674707 task-clock # 8.709 CPUs utilized ( +- 4.19% ) 49,068 context-switches # 0.029 M/sec ( +- 16.66% ) 8,303 CPU-migrations # 0.005 M/sec ( +- 24.90% ) 17,397 page-faults # 0.010 M/sec ( +- 0.46% ) 2,345,389,239 cycles # 1.377 GHz ( +- 4.61% ) [55.90%] 1,884,503,527 stalled-cycles-frontend # 80.35% frontend cycles idle ( +- 5.67% ) [50.39%] 743,919,737 stalled-cycles-backend # 31.72% backend cycles idle ( +- 8.75% ) [49.91%] 1,314,416,379 instructions # 0.56 insns per cycle # 1.43 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 2.53% ) [60.87%] 272,592,567 branches # 160.003 M/sec ( +- 1.74% ) [56.56%] 3,794,846 branch-misses # 1.39% of all branches ( +- 6.59% ) [58.50%] 449,982,778 L1-dcache-loads # 264.125 M/sec ( +- 2.47% ) [49.88%] 22,404,961 L1-dcache-load-misses # 4.98% of all L1-dcache hits ( +- 6.08% ) [55.05%] 6,204,750 LLC-loads # 3.642 M/sec ( +- 8.91% ) [43.75%] 1,837,411 LLC-load-misses # 1.078 M/sec ( +- 7.27% ) [12.07%] 411,440,421 L1-icache-loads # 241.502 M/sec ( +- 5.60% ) [36.52%] 27,556,832 L1-icache-load-misses # 16.175 M/sec ( +- 7.46% ) [46.72%] 464,067,627 dTLB-loads # 272.392 M/sec ( +- 4.46% ) [54.17%] 10,765,648 dTLB-load-misses # 6.319 M/sec ( +- 3.18% ) [48.68%] 1,273,080,386 iTLB-loads # 747.256 M/sec ( +- 3.38% ) [47.53%] 117,481 iTLB-load-misses # 0.069 M/sec ( +- 14.99% ) [47.01%] 4,590,653 L1-dcache-prefetches # 2.695 M/sec ( +- 4.49% ) [46.19%] 1,712,660 L1-dcache-prefetch-misses # 1.005 M/sec ( +- 3.75% ) [44.82%] 0.195622057 seconds time elapsed ( +- 6.84% ) Also clean up the attribute construction code to be appending, and factor it out into add_default_attributes(). Tweak the coverage percentage printout a bit, so that it's easier to view it alongside the +- sttddev colum. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-to3kgu04449s64062val8b62@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-18perf bench, x86: Add alternatives-asm.h wrapperIngo Molnar
perf bench needs this to build the kernel's memcpy routine: In file included from bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S:2:0: bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:7:33: fatal error: asm/alternative-asm.h: No such file or directory Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-c5d41xibgullk8h2280q4gv0@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-17perf: Fix multi-event parsing bugStephane Eranian
This patch fixes an issue with event parsing. The following commit appears to have broken the ability to specify a comma separated list of events: commit ceb53fbf6dbb1df26d38379a262c6981fe73dd36 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Wed Apr 27 04:06:33 2011 +0200 perf stat: Fail more clearly when an invalid modifier is specified This patch fixes this while preserving the desired effect: $ perf stat -e instructions:u,instructions:k ls /dev/null /dev/null Performance counter stats for 'ls /dev/null': 365956 instructions:u # 0.00 insns per cycle 731806 instructions:k # 0.00 insns per cycle 0.001108862 seconds time elapsed $ perf stat -e task-clock-msecs true invalid event modifier: '-msecs' Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110517133619.GA6999@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-15Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/urgent
2011-05-15perf evlist: Fix per thread mmap setupArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
The PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT ioctl was returning -EINVAL when using --pid when monitoring multithreaded apps, as we can only share a ring buffer for events on the same thread if not doing per cpu. Fix it by using per thread ring buffers. Tested with: [root@felicio ~]# tuna -t 26131 -CP | nl 1 thread ctxt_switches 2 pid SCHED_ rtpri affinity voluntary nonvoluntary cmd 3 26131 OTHER 0 0,1 10814276 2397830 chromium-browse 4 642 OTHER 0 0,1 14688 0 chromium-browse 5 26148 OTHER 0 0,1 713602 115479 chromium-browse 6 26149 OTHER 0 0,1 801958 2262 chromium-browse 7 26150 OTHER 0 0,1 1271128 248 chromium-browse 8 26151 OTHER 0 0,1 3 0 chromium-browse 9 27049 OTHER 0 0,1 36796 9 chromium-browse 10 618 OTHER 0 0,1 14711 0 chromium-browse 11 661 OTHER 0 0,1 14593 0 chromium-browse 12 29048 OTHER 0 0,1 28125 0 chromium-browse 13 26143 OTHER 0 0,1 2202789 781 chromium-browse [root@felicio ~]# So 11 threads under pid 26131, then: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 --pid 26131 [root@felicio ~]# grep perf_event /proc/`pidof perf`/maps | nl 1 7fa4a2538000-7fa4a25b9000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 2 7fa4a25b9000-7fa4a263a000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 3 7fa4a263a000-7fa4a26bb000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 4 7fa4a26bb000-7fa4a273c000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 5 7fa4a273c000-7fa4a27bd000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 6 7fa4a27bd000-7fa4a283e000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 7 7fa4a283e000-7fa4a28bf000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 8 7fa4a28bf000-7fa4a2940000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 9 7fa4a2940000-7fa4a29c1000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 10 7fa4a29c1000-7fa4a2a42000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 11 7fa4a2a42000-7fa4a2ac3000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] [root@felicio ~]# 11 mmaps, one per thread since we didn't specify any CPU list, so we need one mmap per thread and: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 --pid 26131 ^M ^C[ perf record: Woken up 79 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 20.614 MB perf.data (~900639 samples) ] [root@felicio ~]# perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d: -f1 | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | nl 1 371310 26131 2 96516 26148 3 95694 26149 4 95203 26150 5 7291 26143 6 87 27049 7 76 661 8 60 29048 9 47 618 10 43 642 [root@felicio ~]# Ok, one of the threads, 26151 was quiescent, so no samples there, but all the others are there. Then, if I specify one CPU: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 --pid 26131 --cpu 1 ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.680 MB perf.data (~29730 samples) ] [root@felicio ~]# perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d: -f1 | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | nl 1 8444 26131 2 2584 26149 3 2518 26148 4 2324 26150 5 123 26143 6 9 661 7 9 29048 [root@felicio ~]# This machine has two cores, so fewer threads appeared on the radar, and: [root@felicio ~]# grep perf_event /proc/`pidof perf`/maps | nl 1 7f484b922000-7f484b9a3000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] [root@felicio ~]# Just one mmap, as now we can use just one per-cpu buffer instead of the per-thread needed in the previous case. For global profiling: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 -a ^C[ perf record: Woken up 26 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 7.128 MB perf.data (~311412 samples) ] [root@felicio ~]# grep perf_event /proc/`pidof perf`/maps | nl 1 7fb49b435000-7fb49b4b6000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 2 7fb49b4b6000-7fb49b537000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] [root@felicio ~]# It uses per-cpu buffers. For just one thread: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 --tid 26148 ^C[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.330 MB perf.data (~14426 samples) ] [root@felicio ~]# perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d: -f1 | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | nl 1 9969 26148 [root@felicio ~]# [root@felicio ~]# grep perf_event /proc/`pidof perf`/maps | nl 1 7f286a51b000-7f286a59c000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] [root@felicio ~]# Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110426204401.GB1746@ghostprotocols.net Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-15perf tools: Honour the cpu list parameter when also monitoring a thread listArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
The perf_evlist__create_maps was discarding the --cpu parameter when a --pid or --tid was specified, fix that. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110426204401.GB1746@ghostprotocols.net Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-12Merge commit 'v2.6.39-rc7' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2011-05-10perf probe: Fix the missed parameter initializationLin Ming
pubname_callback_param::found should be initialized to 0 in fastpath lookup, the structure is on the stack and uninitialized otherwise. Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304066518-30420-2-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-10Merge commit 'v2.6.39-rc7' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: pull in the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-10perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.cJesper Juhl
Including "../../annotate.h" once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c is enough. No need to do it twice. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-05-07perf tools: Makefile: Use gcc to determine ARCHLin Ming
The original Makefile uses "uname -m" to determine ARCH. This causes problem on x86 when compile perf tool on 32 bit userspace with a 64 bit kernel. bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S: Assembler messages: bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:28: Error: bad register name `%rdi' This is because "uname -m" returns x86_64 and memcpy_64.S is included in 32 bit build. Reported-by: Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo.magliocchetti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304743274.3132.17.camel@localhost Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-06rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthreadPaul E. McKenney
If RCU priority boosting is to be meaningful, callback invocation must be boosted in addition to preempted RCU readers. Otherwise, in presence of CPU real-time threads, the grace period ends, but the callbacks don't get invoked. If the callbacks don't get invoked, the associated memory doesn't get freed, so the system is still subject to OOM. But it is not reasonable to priority-boost RCU_SOFTIRQ, so this commit moves the callback invocations to a kthread, which can be boosted easily. Also add comments and properly synchronized all accesses to rcu_cpu_kthread_task, as suggested by Lai Jiangshan. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-04-29perf stat: Tell user about unsupported events in the listDavid Ahern
Similar to perf-record, tell user about unsupported events that will not be counted if invoked in verbose mode. e.g., $ perf stat -e dTLB-prefetch-misses -v -- sleep 1 dTLB-prefetch-misses event is not supported by the kernel. dTLB-prefetch-misses: 0 0 0 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': <not counted> dTLB-prefetch-misses 1.001884783 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304114655-10600-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf list: Fix max event string sizeIngo Molnar
Recent stalled-cycles event names were larger than the 40 chars printout used by perf list. Extend that, make it robust for future extensions and also adjust alignments in face of wider event names. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n009io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf stat: Fail softly on unsupported eventsIngo Molnar
David Ahern reported this perf stat failure: > # /tmp/build-perf/perf stat -- sleep 1 > Error: stalled-cycles-frontend event is not supported. > Fatal: Not all events could be opened. > > This is a Dell R410 with an E5620 processor. Fail in a softer fashion on unknown/unsupported events. Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n006io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf stat: Leave more room for percentagesIngo Molnar
Triple digit percentages do not fit otherwise. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n005io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf stat: Adjust stall cycles warning percentagesIngo Molnar
Adjust to color thresholds to better match the percentages seen in real workloads. Both are now a bit more sensitive. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n004io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf stat: Analyze front-end and back-end stall countsIngo Molnar
Sample output: Performance counter stats for './loop_1b': 873.691065 task-clock # 1.000 CPUs utilized 1 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 1 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 96 page-faults # 0.000 M/sec 2,012,637,222 cycles # 2.304 GHz (66.58%) 1,001,397,911 stalled-cycles-frontend # 49.76% frontend cycles idle (66.58%) 7,523,398 stalled-cycles-backend # 0.37% backend cycles idle (66.76%) 2,004,551,046 instructions # 1.00 insns per cycle # 0.50 stalled cycles per insn (66.80%) 1,001,304,992 branches # 1146.063 M/sec (66.76%) 39,453 branch-misses # 0.00% of all branches (66.64%) 0.874046121 seconds time elapsed Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n003io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf tools: Add front-end and back-end stalled cycles supportIngo Molnar
Update perf tooling to deal with front-end and back-end stalled cycles events. Add both the default 'perf stat' output. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n002io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-28perf stat: Fix compatibility behaviorIngo Molnar
Instead of failing on an unknown event, when new perf stat is run on older kernels: $ ./perf stat true Error: open_counter returned with 22 (Invalid argument). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information. Fatal: Not all events could be opened. Just ignore EINVAL and ENOSYS, we'll print the results as not counted: Performance counter stats for 'true': 0.239483 task-clock # 0.493 CPUs utilized 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 86 page-faults # 0.359 M/sec 704,766 cycles # 2.943 GHz <not counted> stalled-cycles 381,961 instructions # 0.54 insns per cycle 69,626 branches # 290.735 M/sec 4,594 branch-misses # 6.60% of all branches 0.000485883 seconds time elapsed Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio5hjpn3dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-28perf stat: Add --sync/-S optionIngo Molnar
--sync will tell perf stat to run sync() before starting a command. This allows IO-heavy tests to be used with --repeat, without one iteration impacting the other. Elapsed time will stabilize for example: before: 3.971525714 seconds time elapsed ( +- 8.56% ) after: 3.211098537 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.52% ) So measurements will be more accurate. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-27perf stat: Fix printout vertical alignmentIngo Molnar
Before: | | Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 20' (5 runs): | | 71,321,607 instructions:u # 0.42 insns per cycle ( +- 0.00% ) | 168,040,009 cycles:u # 0.000 GHz ( +- 0.81% ) | | 1.468002368 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.33% ) | After: | | Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 20' (5 runs): | | 71,321,607 instructions:u # 0.42 insns per cycle ( +- 0.00% ) | 168,040,009 cycles:u # 0.000 GHz ( +- 0.81% ) | | 1.468002368 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.33% ) | The last column (stddev noise) is properly aligned, vertically. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn0dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Add -d/--detailed flag to run with a lot of eventsIngo Molnar
Add the new -d/--detailed flag, which generates a pretty detailed event list: Performance counter stats for './hackbench 10' (10 runs): 1514.287888 task-clock # 10.897 CPUs utilized ( +- 3.05% ) 39,698 context-switches # 0.026 M/sec ( +- 12.19% ) 8,147 CPU-migrations # 0.005 M/sec ( +- 16.55% ) 17,918 page-faults # 0.012 M/sec ( +- 0.37% ) 2,944,504,050 cycles # 1.944 GHz ( +- 3.89% ) (32.60%) 1,043,971,283 stalled-cycles # 35.45% of all cycles are idle ( +- 5.22% ) (44.48%) 1,655,906,768 instructions # 0.56 insns per cycle # 0.63 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 1.95% ) (55.09%) 338,832,373 branches # 223.757 M/sec ( +- 1.96% ) (64.47%) 3,892,416 branch-misses # 1.15% of all branches ( +- 5.49% ) (73.12%) 606,410,482 L1-dcache-loads # 400.459 M/sec ( +- 1.29% ) (71.21%) 31,204,395 L1-dcache-load-misses # 5.15% of all L1-dcache hits ( +- 3.04% ) (60.43%) 3,922,751 LLC-loads # 2.590 M/sec ( +- 6.80% ) (46.87%) 5,037,288 LLC-load-misses # 3.327 M/sec ( +- 3.56% ) (13.00%) 0.138966828 seconds time elapsed ( +- 4.11% ) This can be used "at a glance" for narrower analysis. -d can also be used in addition to other -e events, to further expand an event list. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cxs98quixs3qyvdqx3goojc4@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Print out miss/hit ratio for L1 data-cache eventsIngo Molnar
Print out this kind of l1-dcache-misses percentage: Performance counter stats for './bw_tcp localhost': 29,956,262,201 cycles # 3.002 GHz (scaled from 85.14%) 8,255,209,558 stalled-cycles # 27.56% of all cycles are idle (scaled from 86.56%) 1,206,130,308 l1-dcache-misses # 40.49% of all L1-dcache hits (scaled from 86.30%) 2,978,756,779 l1-dcache-refs # 298.512 M/sec (scaled from 70.02%) 8,861,956,159 instructions # 0.30 insns per cycle # 0.93 stalled cycles per insn (scaled from 84.27%) 1,644,306,068 branches # 164.782 M/sec (scaled from 86.43%) 74,778,443 branch-misses # 4.55% of all branches (scaled from 70.69%) 9978.695711 task-clock # 0.693 CPUs utilized 14.404347983 seconds time elapsed And color the result depending on the severity of cache-trashing. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-54gmz0zymaid84zcs7joq02p@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Print branch misses warning colorsIngo Molnar
Print the missed-branches percentage with different warning level ASCII colors, as the percentage passes the 5%/10%/20% thresholds. These thresholds are set to relatively low levels, because on most CPUs even a moderate percentage of branch-misses already shows up as a slowdown. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ybqukg7p86leiup7gl03ecgk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Print stalled cycles warning colorsIngo Molnar
Print the stalled-cycles percentage with different warning level ASCII colors, as the percentage passes the 25%/50%/75% thresholds. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e25zz44rcms7mu9az4fu5zp0@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Fix -nan% output in perf stat noise printoutsIngo Molnar
Before: 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- -nan% ) After: 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 0.00% ) Also factor out the noise printing function. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z89h2v1bk1mikcbsf7e6v34q@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Add stalled cycles to the default outputIngo Molnar
The new default output looks like this: Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions': 236.010686 task-clock # 0.996 CPUs utilized 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 99 page-faults # 0.000 M/sec 756,487,646 cycles # 3.205 GHz 354,938,996 stalled-cycles # 46.92% of all cycles are idle 1,001,403,797 instructions # 1.32 insns per cycle # 0.35 stalled cycles per insn 100,279,773 branches # 424.895 M/sec 12,646 branch-misses # 0.013 % of all branches 0.236902540 seconds time elapsed We dropped cache-refs and cache-misses and added stalled-cycles - this is a more generic "how well utilized is the CPU" metric. If the stalled-cycles ratio is too high then more specific measurements can be taken to figure out the source of the inefficiency. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pbpl2l4mn797s69bclfpwkwn@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Add stalled cycles accounting, prettify the resulting outputIngo Molnar
Add stalled cycles accounting and use it to print the "cycles stalled per instruction" value. Also change the unit of the cycles output from M/sec to GHz - this is more intuitive. Prettify the output to: Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions': 239.775036 task-clock # 0.997 CPUs utilized 761,903,912 cycles # 3.178 GHz 356,620,620 stalled-cycles # 46.81% of all cycles are idle 1,001,578,351 instructions # 1.31 insns per cycle # 0.36 stalled cycles per insn 14,782 cache-references # 0.062 M/sec 5,694 cache-misses # 38.520 % of all cache refs 0.240493656 seconds time elapsed Also adjust the --repeat output to make the percentages align vertically: Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions' (10 runs): 236.096793 task-clock # 0.997 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.011% ) 756,553,086 cycles # 3.204 GHz ( +- 0.002% ) 354,942,692 stalled-cycles # 46.92% of all cycles are idle ( +- 0.008% ) 1,001,389,700 instructions # 1.32 insns per cycle # 0.35 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.000% ) 10,166 cache-references # 0.043 M/sec ( +- 0.742% ) 468 cache-misses # 4.608 % of all cache refs ( +- 13.385% ) 0.236874136 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.01% ) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uapziqny39601apdmmhoz7hk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Factor our shadow statsIngo Molnar
Create update_shadow_stats() which is then used in both read_counter_aggr() and read_counter(). This not only simplifies the code but also fixes a bug: HW_CACHE_REFERENCES was not updated in read_counter(). Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9uc55z3g88r47exde7zxjm6p@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Make all displayed event names parseable as wellIngo Molnar
Right now we display this by default: 0.202204 task-clock-msecs # 0.282 CPUs 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 85 page-faults # 0.420 M/sec The task-clock-msecs event cannot actually be passed back as an event name, the event name we recognize is 'task-clock'. So change the output of the cpu-clock and task-clock events to be idempotent. ( Units should be printed out in the right-side column, if needed. ) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lexrnbzy09asscgd4f7oac4i@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Fail more clearly when an invalid modifier is specifiedIngo Molnar
Currently we fail without printing any error message on "perf stat -e task-clock-msecs". The reason is that the task-clock event is matched and the "-msecs" postfix is assumed to be an event modifier - but is not recognized. This patch changes the code to be more informative: $ perf stat -e task-clock-msecs true invalid event modifier: '-msecs' Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers And restructures the return value of parse_event_modifier() to allow the printing of all variants of invalid event modifiers. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wlaw3dvz1ly6wple8l52cfca@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>