litmus-rt.git/tools/perf/Makefile, branch tracing-devel

perf tools: Remove -Wcast-align

2009-10-26T08:43:06+00:00

The present use of -Wcast-align causes the build to blow up on
SH due to generating a "cast increases required alignment of
target type" error on each invocation of list_for_each_entry().

It seems that this was previously reported and killed off in the
ia64 support patch, but nothing seems to have happened with
that. Presumably the same problem still remains there, too.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt 
LKML-Reference: <20091026054000.GA13517@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Fix compatibility with libelf 0.8 and autodetect

2009-10-25T16:09:14+00:00

The Makefile now automatically defines LIBELF_NO_MMAP when
libelf 0.8.x is detected. libelf 0.8 is still maintained and
some distributions such as Arch Linux use it instead of
elfutils.

Signed-off-by: Marti Raudsepp 
Cc: Lucas De Marchi 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
LKML-Reference: <1256400636.3007.16.camel@newn>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Fix the NO_64BIT build on pure 64-bit systems

2009-10-12T08:00:27+00:00

Randy Dunlap reported that 'make NO_64BIT=1' fails to build
a pure 32-b it binary on 64-bit/64-bit x86 systems.

The reason is that we dont pass in the -m32 and GCC defaults
to -m64.

So pass it in - and also extend the warning message about libelf
dependencies - glibc-dev[el] is needed as well beyond the libelf
library.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
LKML-Reference: Message-Id: <20091005131729.78444bfb.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Run generate-cmdlist.sh properly

2009-10-01T08:12:03+00:00

Right now generate-cmdlist.sh is not executable, so we
should call it as an argument ".".

This fixes cases where due to different umask defaults
the generate-cmdlist.sh script is not executable in
a kernel tree checkout.

Signed-off-by: Mulyadi Santosa 
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events

2009-09-21T12:28:04+00:00

Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras 
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Add the timechart tool

2009-09-19T09:42:13+00:00

timechart is a tool to visualize what is going on in the system.

The user makes a trace of what is going on with

 > perf record --timechart /usr/bin/some_command

and then can turn the output of this into an svg file

 > perf timechart

which then can be viewed with any SVG view; inkscape works well
enough for me.

The idea behind timechart is to create a "infinitely zoomable"
picture; something that has high level information on a 1:1 zoom
level, but which exposes more details every time you zoom into a
specific area.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
LKML-Reference: <20090912130713.6a77bbc0@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Add a SVG helper library file

2009-09-19T09:42:13+00:00

The timechart tool writes out SVG format output; this patch adds a
set of helper functions to abstract dealing with SVG from the core
timechart code.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
LKML-Reference: <20090912130613.677f0516@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Add 'perf sched' tool

2009-09-13T08:22:36+00:00

This turn-key tool allows scheduler measurements to be
conducted and the results be displayed numerically.

First baby step towards that goal: clone the new command off of
perf trace.

Fix a few other details along the way:

 - add (minimal) perf trace documentation

 - reorder a few places

 - list perf trace in the mainporcelain list as well
   as it's a very useful utility.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Clean up warnings list in the Makefile

2009-09-02T12:50:23+00:00

Make it easier to turn warnings on/off by using a separate
line for each warning added.

Some of the warnings have too much of a nuisance factor and
we might want to turn them off in the future.

Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Add perf trace

2009-08-17T14:32:39+00:00

This adds perf trace into the set of perf tools.

It is written to fetch the tracepoint samples from perf events
and display them, according to the events information given by
the debugfs files through the util/trace* tools.

It is a rough first shot and doesn't yet handle the cpu,
timestamps fields and some other things.

Example:

 perf record -f -e workqueue:workqueue_execution:record -F 1 -a
 perf trace

       kblockd/0-236   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:236 func=cfq_kick_queue+0x0
     kondemand/0-360   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:360 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/0-360   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:360 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0

Todo:

- A lot of things!

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" 
Cc: Clark Williams 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Xiao Guangrong 
Cc: Zhaolei 
Cc: Li Zefan 
Cc: Lai Jiangshan 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Jason Baron 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Jiaying Zhang 
Cc: Anton Blanchard 
LKML-Reference: <1250518688-7207-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar