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* perf timechart: Add a power-only modeArjan van de Ven2009-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For doing work on the Linux power management components, I need to make long (30+ seconds) traces. Currently, this then results in a HUGE svg file, with mostly process data that isn't interesting. This patch adds a --power-only mode to perf timechart that only outputs the CPU power section of the SVG; this significantly reduces the size of the SVG file, making even 30+ second traces viewable with inkscape. As a minor tweak for the same effect, the minimum text size is decreased; current inkscape cannot zoom in deep enough to show text this small, but it reduces inkscape compute time. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org LKML-Reference: <20090924154013.0675ab71@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf util: Make the timechart SVG width dynamicArjan van de Ven2009-09-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a command line option for timechart that allows the user to specify the width of the SVG file. This patch also makes sure that each second of recording has at least 200 units (pixels at 96 DPI) of width. This impacts recordings longer than 5 seconds; recordings shorter than 5 second will scale up to have a width of 1000 units for the whole recording (as before). Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090920181416.69570c5d@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"Arjan van de Ven2009-09-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | As suggested by Ingo, add a timechart man page help text, as well as add it to the "perf help" overview. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20090919133604.3767fa35@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf sched: Add 'perf sched trace', improve documentationIngo Molnar2009-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Alias 'perf sched trace' to 'perf trace', for workflow completeness. Add a bit of documentation for perf sched. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf: Add 'perf sched' toolIngo Molnar2009-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: Add missing parameters documentationFrederic Weisbecker2009-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add missing documentation for the following parameters: - perf record -R - perf report -g Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1251682323-10395-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'perfcounters/urgent' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar2009-08-24
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c tools/perf/builtin-report.c Merge reason: resolve these conflicts. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * perf tools: Make 'make html' workKyle McMartin2009-08-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pushd tools/perf/Documentation make html popd is failing for me... ASCIIDOC perf-annotate.html ERROR: unsafe: include file: /etc/asciidoc/./stylesheets/xhtml11.css ERROR: unsafe: include file: /etc/asciidoc/./stylesheets/xhtml11-manpage.css ERROR: unsafe: include file: /etc/asciidoc/./stylesheets/xhtml11-quirks.css make: *** [perf-annotate.html] Error 1 Apparently asciidoc "unsafe" is the default mode of operation in practice. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506953 Works tidily now. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090818164125.GM25206@bombadil.infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * perf: Rename perf-examples.txt to examples.txtCarlos R. Mafra2009-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rename it to examples.txt to avoid the perf-*.txt pattern in the Makefile, otherwise 'make doc' fails because perf-examples.txt is not formatted to be a man page: ERROR: perf-examples.txt: line 1: manpage document title is mandatory Signed-off-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | perf report: Fix and improve the displaying of per-thread event countersBrice Goglin2009-08-09
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Improve and fix the handling of per-thread counter stats recorded via perf record -s. Previously we only displayed it in debug printouts (-D) and even that output was hard to disambiguate. I moved everything to utils/values.[ch] so that we may reuse it in perf stat. We get something like this now: # PID TID cache-misses cache-references 4658 4659 495581 3238779 4658 4662 498246 3236823 4658 4663 499531 3243162 Then it'll be easy to add --pretty=raw to display a single line per thread/event. By the way, -S was also used for --symbol... So I used -T/--thread here. perf report: Add -T/--threads to display per-thread counter values We get something like this now: # PID TID cache-misses cache-references 4658 4659 495581 3238779 4658 4662 498246 3236823 4658 4663 499531 3243162 Per-thread arrays of counter values are managed in utils/values.[ch] Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus@samba.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf: "Longum est iter per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla"Carlos R. Mafra2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | A few examples of how 'perf' can be used, from an e-mail by Ingo Molnar http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/4/346. Signed-off-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra2@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu LKML-Reference: <20090805185334.GA4535@Pilar.aei.mpg.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Fix tool option consistency: rename -S/--scale to -c/--scaleBrice Goglin2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | We want to use a coherent flag for -S/--stat across all tools, so free up -S in perf stat. Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus@samba.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf top: Update man pageMike Galbraith2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | perf_counter tools: update perf top manual page to reflect current implementation. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Add missing command line options to man pageArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-08-05
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20090805130453.GC10688@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Introduce -n/--show-nr-samplesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report -ns comm,dso,symbol -d /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so -C pahole | head -17 21.94% 32101 [.] _int_malloc 20.10% 29402 [.] __GI_strcmp 16.77% 24533 [.] __tsearch 12.61% 18450 [.] malloc_consolidate 6.42% 9394 [.] _int_free 6.28% 9191 [.] __tfind 4.56% 6678 [.] __GI___libc_free 4.46% 6520 [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 2.59% 3786 [.] __malloc 1.17% 1716 [.] __GI_memcpy [acme@doppio pahole]$ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1247325517-12272-5-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Adjust column width to the values sampledArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Auto-adjust column width of perf report output to the longest occuring string length. Example: [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol | head -13 12.79% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] __libdw_find_attr 8.90% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] _int_malloc 8.68% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] __libdw_form_val_len 8.15% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] __GI_strcmp 6.80% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] __tsearch 5.54% pahole ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0 [.] tag__recode_dwarf_type [acme@doppio pahole]$ [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol -d /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so | head -10 21.92% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] _int_malloc 20.08% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] __GI_strcmp 16.75% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] __tsearch [acme@doppio pahole]$ Also add these extra options to control the new behaviour: -w, --field-width Force each column width to the provided list, for large terminal readability. -t, --field-separator: Use a special separator character and don't pad with spaces, replacing all occurances of this separator in symbol names (and other output) with a '.' character, that thus it's the only non valid separator. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20090711014728.GH3452@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Add --symbols parameterArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | So that we can filter by symbol name. The 'pfunct' utility in the 'dwarves' package can be used to create a file with the functions one wants. Example: [acme@doppio pahole]$ pfunct /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so.debug | grep dwarf > /tmp/dwarf.symbols [acme@doppio pahole]$ wc -l /tmp/dwarf.symbols 93 /tmp/dwarf.symbols [acme@doppio pahole]$ head -3 /tmp/dwarf.symbols dwfl_addrdwarf dwfl_module_getdwarf dwfl_getdwarf [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol --comms pahole --dsos /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so --symbols file:///tmp/dwarf.symbols 33.99% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] dwarf_tag 29.07% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] dwarf_decl_file 27.71% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] dwarf_getsrclines 4.54% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so 0x00000000007400 3.93% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] dwarf_decl_line 0.46% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] dwarf_getlocation 0.18% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] __libdwarf_next_prime 0.13% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] dwarf_diecu [acme@doppio pahole]$ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1246399282-20934-4-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Add --comms parameterArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | So that we can filter by comm. Symbols in other comms won't be accounted for. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1246399282-20934-3-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Add --dsos parameterArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | So that we can filter by dso. Symbols in other dsos won't be accounted for. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1246399282-20934-2-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Fix help text typoIngo Molnar2009-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | Reported-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Fix command option / manpageJaswinder Singh Rajput2009-06-23
| | | | | | | | | -l is not supported, it should be -S for scale. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1245703959.6167.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/Ingo Molnar2009-06-06
Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the (new) tools/ directory. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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