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Author SHA1 Message Date
Stephane Eranian
fbe96f29ce perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8)
The goal of this patch is to include more information about the host
environment into the perf.data so it is more self-descriptive. Overtime,
profiles are captured on various machines and it becomes hard to track
what was recorded, on what machine and when.

This patch provides a way to solve this by extending the perf.data file
with basic information about the host machine. To add those extensions,
we leverage the feature bits capabilities of the perf.data format.  The
change is backward compatible with existing perf.data files.

We define the following useful new extensions:
 - HEADER_HOSTNAME: the hostname
 - HEADER_OSRELEASE: the kernel release number
 - HEADER_ARCH: the hw architecture
 - HEADER_CPUDESC: generic CPU description
 - HEADER_NRCPUS: number of online/avail cpus
 - HEADER_CMDLINE: perf command line
 - HEADER_VERSION: perf version
 - HEADER_TOPOLOGY: cpu topology
 - HEADER_EVENT_DESC: full event description (attrs)
 - HEADER_CPUID: easy-to-parse low level CPU identication

The small granularity for the entries is to make it easier to extend
without breaking backward compatiblity. Many entries are provided as
ASCII strings.

Perf report/script have been modified to print the basic information as
easy-to-parse ASCII strings. Extended information about CPU and NUMA
topology may be requested with the -I option.

Thanks to David Ahern for reviewing and testing the many versions of
this patch.

 $ perf report --stdio
 # ========
 # captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011
 # hostname : quad
 # os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip
 # perf version : 3.1.0-rc4
 # arch : x86_64
 # nrcpus online : 4
 # nrcpus avail : 4
 # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
 # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11
 # total memory : 8105360 kB
 # cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date
 # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31,
 # HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
 # HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
 # ========
 #
 ...

 $ perf report --stdio -I
 # ========
 # captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011
 # hostname : quad
 # os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip
 # perf version : 3.1.0-rc4
 # arch : x86_64
 # nrcpus online : 4
 # nrcpus avail : 4
 # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
 # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11
 # total memory : 8105360 kB
 # cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date
 # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31,
 # sibling cores   : 0-3
 # sibling threads : 0
 # sibling threads : 1
 # sibling threads : 2
 # sibling threads : 3
 # node0 meminfo  : total = 8320608 kB, free = 7571024 kB
 # node0 cpu list : 0-3
 # ========
 #
 ...

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110930134040.GA5575@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ committer notes: Use --show-info in the tools as was in the docs, rename
  perf_header_fprintf_info to perf_file_section__fprintf_info, fixup
  conflict with f69b64f7 "perf: Support setting the disassembler style" ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-07 17:01:24 -03:00
Florian Fainelli
0ac8e58f38 ARM: fix perf build with uclibc toolchains
libio.h is not provided by uClibc, in order to be able to test the
definition of __UCLIBC__ we need to include stdlib.h, which also
includes stddef.h, providing the definition of 'NULL'.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2011-08-12 15:40:20 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
f602be639e [S390] perf: add DWARF register lookup for s390
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-01-05 12:47:31 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
4aed2fd8e3 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of 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: (162 commits)
  tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
  perf: expose event__process function
  perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
  perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
  perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
  perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
  perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
  perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
  x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
  perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
  perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
  perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
  perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
  perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
  perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
  perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
  perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
  perf: New migration tool overview
  tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
  perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2010-08-06 09:30:52 -07:00
Russell King
b31fc7af78 Merge branches 'at91', 'ep93xx', 'kexec', 'iop', 'lmb', 'nomadik', 'nuc', 'pl', 'spear' and 'versatile' into devel 2010-07-31 14:19:35 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9dcdbf7a33 Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest perf fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-21 21:43:06 +02:00
David S. Miller
1fa6ac379c perf: Add DWARF register lookup for sparc
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-14 22:59:00 -07:00
Matt Fleming
0dd9ac63ce perf tools: Add DWARF register lookup for SH
Implement get_arch_regstr() for SH so that, given a DWARF register number, the
corresponding symbolic name of that register can be looked up.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <e55812819ad18c2ceca5651ac7698a2af46180d7.1278774279.git.matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-07-12 11:25:10 -03:00
Will Deacon
eb668c6d06 ARM: 6198/1: perf probe: Add ARM DWARF register number mappings
This patch adds mappings from DWARF register numbers to the register
names used by the ARM `Regs and Stack Access API'.

Cc: Jean Pihet <jpihet@mvista.com>
Tested-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-07-09 14:41:33 +01:00
Ian Munsie
fead7960f0 perf probe: Add PowerPC DWARF register number mappings
This adds mappings from the register numbers from DWARF to the
register names used in the PowerPC Regs and Stack Access API.  This
allows perf probe to be used to record variable contents on PowerPC.

This requires the functionality represented by the config symbol
HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API in order to function, although it will
compile without it.  That functionality is added for PowerPC in commit
359e4284 ("powerpc: Add kprobe-based event tracer").

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-04-22 13:48:31 +10:00
Ian Munsie
cd932c5939 perf: Move arch specific code into separate arch directory
The perf userspace tool included some architecture specific code to map
registers from the DWARF register number into the names used by the regs
and stack access API.

This moves the architecture specific code out into a separate
arch/x86 directory along with the infrastructure required to use it.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-04-22 13:48:31 +10:00