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* perf tools: Check perf.data ownerPeter Zijlstra2009-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add an owner check to opening perf.data files and a switch to silence it. Because perf-report/perf-annotate are binary parsers reading another users' perf.data file could be a security risk if the file were explicitly engineered to trigger bugs in the parser (we hope of course there are non such bugs, but you never know). Signed-off-by: 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: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20090819092023.896648538@chello.nl> 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 annotate: Fix segmentation faultIngo Molnar2009-08-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linus reported this perf annotate segfault: [torvalds@nehalem git]$ perf annotate unmap_vmas Segmentation fault #0 map__clone (self=<value optimized out>) at builtin-annotate.c:236 #1 thread__fork (self=<value optimized out>) at builtin-annotate.c:372 The bug here was that builtin-annotate.c was a copy of builtin-report.c and a threading related fix to builtin-report.c didnt get propagated to builtin-annotate.c ... Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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: 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 record: Fix typo in pid_synthesize_comm_eventArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | We were using 'fd' locally, but there was a global 'fd' too, so when converting from open to fopen the test made against fd should be made against 'fp', but since we have that global it didnt get discovered ... Reported-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20090814182632.GF3490@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Don't show unresolved DSOs and symbols when -S/-d is usedArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | We're interested in just those symbols/DSOs, so filter out the unresolved ones. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20090812211957.GE3495@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: Add a general option to enable raw sample recordsFrederic Weisbecker2009-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While we can enable the perf sample records per tracepoint counter, we may also want to enable this option for every tracepoint counters to open, so that we don't need to add a :record flag for all of them. Add the -R, --raw-samples options for this purpose. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1250152039-7284-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: Add a per tracepoint counter attribute to get raw sampleFrederic Weisbecker2009-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new flag field while opening a tracepoint perf counter: -e tracepoint_subsystem:tracepoint_name:flags This is intended to be generic although for now it only supports the r[e[c[o[r[d]]]]] flag: ./perf record -e workqueue:workqueue_insertion:record ./perf record -e workqueue:workqueue_insertion:r will have the same effect: enabling the raw samples record for the given tracepoint counter. In the future, we may want to support further flags, separated by commas. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1250152039-7284-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf list: Fix large list output by using the pagerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | When /sys/kernel/debug is mounted the list can be imense, so use the pager like the other tools. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20090812174459.GB3495@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf record: Add missing -C option support for specifying profile cpuJens Axboe2009-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perf top supports a -C for setting the profile CPU, but perf record does not. This adds the same option for perf record, allowing the user to specify a specific target profile CPU. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.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: <20090812091801.GC12579@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: Fix dso__new handle() to handle deleted DSOsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is better than showing the map addr, this way at least we know that we can't get the symtabs because the DSO was deleted (system update) while an app still used such DSO. Yeah, don't do that, but if you do, you'll figure it out quicker this way. [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report | head -15 # Samples: 3796 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................................................................... ...... # 23.55% pidgin /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2000.4.#prelink#.Pd98lu (deleted) [.] 0x00000000038844 21.55% pidgin /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so.#prelink#.AFwK8Q (deleted) [.] 0x0000000000a42d 10.85% pidgin [kernel] [.] vread_hpet 7.85% pidgin /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2000.4.#prelink#.o1vpU7 (deleted) [.] 0x00000000014de8 3.35% pidgin /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so (deleted) [.] 0x0000000007a875 3.19% pidgin /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0.#prelink#.6mwgZP (deleted) [.] 0x0000000001d254 3.06% pidgin /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.5.#prelink#.511hAl (deleted) [.] 0x000000002334e7 2.90% pidgin /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.5.#prelink#.5qlMo1 (deleted) [.] 0x00000000037b2d 1.84% pidgin [kernel] [k] do_sys_poll 1.45% pidgin /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0.#prelink#.iR59Rx (deleted) [.] 0x0000000004c751 [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Luis Claudio R. Gonçalves <lclaudio@redhat.com> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090811200436.GA3478@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: Fix fallback to cplus_demangle() when bfd_demangle() is not ↵Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | available In old binutils we can't access bfd_demangle(), use cplus_demangle() just like oprofile. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Luis Claudio R. Gonçalves <lclaudio@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090811192211.GG18061@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Show the tid too in -DArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This made it easier to find the firefox threading related bug. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090811192138.GE18061@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf record: Fix .tid and .pid fill-in when synthesizing eventsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Noticed when trying to record events for a firefox thread. We were synthesizing both .tid and .pid with the pid passed via --pid. Fix it by reading /proc/PID/status and getting the tgid to use in .pid, .tid gets the specified "pid". Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20090811192200.GF18061@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: callchain: Fix bad rounding of minimum rateFrederic Weisbecker2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sometimes we get callchain branches that have a rate under the limit given by the user. Say you launched: perf record -f -g -a ./hackbench 10 perf report -g fractal,10.0 And you got: 2.33% hackbench [kernel] [k] _spin_lock_irqsave | |--78.57%-- remove_wait_queue | poll_freewait | do_sys_poll | sys_poll | sysenter_dispatch | 0xf7ffa430 | 0x1ffadea3c | |--7.14%-- __up_read | up_read | do_page_fault | page_fault | 0xf7ffa430 | 0xa0df710000000a ... It is abnormal to get a 7.14% branch whereas we passed a 10% filter. The problem is that we round down the minimum threshold. This happens mostly when we have very low number of events. If the total amount of your branch is 4 and you have a subranch of 3 events, filtering to 90% will be computed like follows: limit = 4 * 0.9; The result is about 3.6, but the cast to integer will round down to 3. It means that our filter is actually of 75% We must then explicitly round up the minimum threshold. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: efault@gmx.de LKML-Reference: <20090809024235.GA10146@nowhere> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Fix libbfd detection for systems with libz dependencyMike Galbraith2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to a libz dependency in some distro's binutils package, C++ demangle support isn't compiled in despite the necessary libraries being available. Fix this by adding a -lz link test to the dependency detection rules. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1249733655.6929.5.camel@marge.simson.net> 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 tools: callchain: Fix sum of percentages to be 100% by displaying ↵Frederic Weisbecker2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | amount of ignored chains in fractal mode When we filter the callchains below a given percentage, we ignore them and the end result only shows entries that have an upper percentage than the filter threshold. It seems to users then that we have an imbalance in the percentage, as if the sum inside a profiled branch doesn't reach 100%. Since in the past there have been real perf report bugs that showed the same sypmtom, it would be nice to assure the user that the data is perfect and trustable and it all sums up to 100.00%. So fix this by displaying the remaining hits that have been filtered but without more detail than their amount in each branches. Example while filtering below 50%: 7.73% [k] delay_tsc | |--98.22%-- __const_udelay | | | |--86.37%-- ath5k_hw_register_timeout | | ath5k_hw_noise_floor_calibration | | ath5k_hw_reset | | ath5k_reset | | ath5k_config | | ieee80211_hw_config | | | | | |--88.53%-- ieee80211_scan_work | | | worker_thread | | | kthread | | | child_rip | | --11.47%-- [...] | --13.63%-- [...] --1.78%-- [...] Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1249690585-9145-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: callchain: Fix 'perf report' display to be callchain by defaultFrederic Weisbecker2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we recorded with -g option to record the callchain, right now we require a -g option to perf report as well - and people reported this as unnecessary complication: the user already specified -g once, no need to require it a second time. So if the recording includes call-chains, display the callchain by default from perf report. ( The user can override this default using "-g none" option from perf report. ) Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1249690585-9145-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: callchain: Fix spurious 'perf report' warnings: ignore empty ↵Frederic Weisbecker2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | callchains When the callchain tree comes to insert an empty backtrace, it raises a spurious warning about the fact we are inserting an empty. This is spurious because the radix tree assumes it did something wrong to reach this state. But it didn't, we just met an empty callchain that has to be ignored. This happens occasionally with certain types of call-chain recordings. If it happens it's a big nuisance as perf report output starts with thousands of warning lines. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1249690585-9145-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf record: Fix the -A UI for empty or non-existent perf.dataPierre Habouzit2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. Ignore the -A argument if there is no perf.data file 2. Treat an empty file like a non existent file. Else, perf will try to read the perf.data header, and fail with an error. Treating an empty file like a non-existent file makes sense, since an interupted (as in SIGKILLed) perf could leave such files around, and you don't want to annoy the user with errors for files with no data in it. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@intersec.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf util: Fix do_read() to fail on EOF instead of busy-loopingPierre Habouzit2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While toying with perf, I've noticed that perf record can easily enter a busy loop when doing something as silly as: $ perf record -A ls Yeah, do_read here really wants to read a known size, not being able to should die(), not busy-loop ;) That was the cause for the bug. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@intersec.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf list: Fix the output to not include tracepoints without an idPeter Zijlstra2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Stop perf list from displaying tracepoints without an id file, those are special tracepoints that are not interfaced to perfcounters so listing them is erroneous and passing them as events will produce no output. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> 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 report: Add debug help for the finding of symbol bugs - show the symtab ↵Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | origin (DSO, build-id, kernel, etc) Used with perf report --verbose: [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report -v | head -16 5.17% firefox /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so 0x00000000005d8eee f [.] imgContainer::DrawFrameTo(gfxIImageFrame*, gfxIImageFrame*, nsRect&) 2.56% firefox /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so 0x0000000000008e02 d [.] __pthread_mutex_lock_internal 1.94% firefox /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so 0x0000000000d0af8f f [.] SearchTable 1.75% firefox [kernel] 0xffffffffff60013b k [.] vread_hpet 1.63% firefox /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so 0x000000000000a404 d [.] __pthread_mutex_unlock 1.47% firefox /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x00000000000482ea f [.] js_Interpret 1.42% firefox /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x000000000003eda3 f [.] JS_CallTracer 1.24% firefox [kernel] 0xffffffff8102ca4a k [k] read_hpet 1.16% firefox [kernel] 0xffffffff810f3dd4 k [k] fget_light 1.11% firefox /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x00000000000567ff f [.] js_TraceObject 0.98% firefox /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox 0x000000000000dd23 b [.] arena_ralloc [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ The new field is just after the symbol address. To help in figuring out symbol resolution bugs. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Fix per task mult-counter stat reportingPeter Zijlstra2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Brice Goglin reported: > I can easily sort them by thread id, but I don't know how to match > my 4 events with each group of 4 lines. Also report the counter id and the time running/enabled stats (in case the counter got time-shared). Reported-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: Fix multi-counter stat bug caused by incorrect reading of ↵Peter Zijlstra2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perf.data file header Brice Goglin reported that only the first result from a multi-counter perf record --stat run is accurate, the rest looks bogus. A silly mistake made us re-read the first attribute for every recorded attribute. Reported-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Cc: paulus@samba.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: Fix call-chain cumul hit based sub-total (fractal mode)Frederic Weisbecker2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The callchain fractal mode builds each new total hits in a new branch of profiling by using the parent's hits of the current branch plus the hits of the children. This is wrong, the total hits of a branch should be made of the sum of every children hits, we must ignore the parent hits in this scope. This patch also fixes another mistake with the hit counting. Now the rates are correct. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> 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 top: Improve interactive key handlingMike Galbraith2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pressing any key which is not currently mapped to functionality, based on startup command line options, displays currently mapped keys, and prompts for input. Pressing any unmapped key at the prompt returns the user to display mode with variables unchanged. eg, pressing ? <SPACE> <ESC> etc displays currently available keys, the value of the variable associated with that key, and prompts. Pressing same again aborts input. 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_counter tools: Allow perf top top users to switch between weighted and ↵Mike Galbraith2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | individual counter display Add [w]eighted hotkey. Pressing [w] toggles between displaying weighted total of all counters, and the counter selected via [E]vent select key. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 90395 irqs/sec kernel:16.1% [cache-misses/cache-references/instructions], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ weight samples pcnt RIP kernel function ______ _______ _____ ________________ _______________ 1275408.6 10881 - 5.3% - ffffffff81146f70 : copy_page_c 553683.4 43569 - 21.3% - ffffffff81146f20 : clear_page_c 74075.0 6768 - 3.3% - ffffffff81147190 : copy_user_generic_string 40602.9 7538 - 3.7% - ffffffff81284ba2 : _spin_lock 26882.1 965 - 0.5% - ffffffff8109d280 : file_ra_state_init [w] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 91221 irqs/sec kernel:14.5% [10000Hz cache-misses], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ weight samples pcnt RIP kernel function ______ _______ _____ ________________ _______________ 47320.00 - 22.3% - ffffffff81146f20 : clear_page_c 14261.00 - 6.7% - ffffffff810992f5 : __rmqueue 11046.00 - 5.2% - ffffffff81146f70 : copy_page_c 7842.00 - 3.7% - ffffffff81284ba2 : _spin_lock 7234.00 - 3.4% - ffffffff810aa1d6 : unmap_vmas Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Fix/resurrect perf top annotation in a simple ↵Mike Galbraith2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | interactive form perf top used to have annotation support, but it has bitrotted and removed. This patch restores that: it allows the user to select any symbol in kernel space for source level annotation on the fly, switch between event counters and alter display variables. When symbol details are being displayed, stopping annotation reverts to normal. known keys: [d] select display delay. [e] select display entries (lines). [E] select annotation event counter. [f] select normal display count filter. [F] select annotation display count filter (percentage). [qQ] quit. [s] select annotation symbol and start annotation. [S] stop annotation, revert to normal display. [z] toggle event count zeroing. Sample: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 16719 irqs/sec kernel:78.7% [cache-misses/cache-references/instructions/cycles], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Showing cache-misses for e1000_clean_rx_irq Events Pcnt (>=3%) 0 0.0% /* adjust length to remove Ethernet CRC */ 0 0.0% if (!(adapter->flags2 & FLAG2_CRC_STRIPPING)) 0 0.0% length -= 4; 436 5.0% f039: 41 f6 84 24 5c 29 00 testb $0x1,0x295c(%r12) 0 0.0% f089: 8b 4d 84 mov -0x7c(%rbp),%ecx 0 0.0% f08c: 48 83 ef 02 sub $0x2,%rdi 0 0.0% f090: 48 83 ee 02 sub $0x2,%rsi 811 9.3% f094: f3 a4 rep movsb %ds:(%rsi),%es:(%rdi) 0 0.0% 0 0.0% while (rx_desc->status & E1000_RXD_STAT_DD) { 0 0.0% f114: 41 f6 47 0c 01 testb $0x1,0xc(%r15) 7226 82.6% f119: 0f 85 24 fe ff ff jne ef43 <e1000_clean_rx_irq+0x84> Available events: 0 cache-misses 1 cache-references 2 instructions 3 cycles Enter details event counter: 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 15035 irqs/sec kernel:79.0% [cache-misses/cache-references/instructions/cycles], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Showing instructions for e1000_clean_rx_irq Events Pcnt (>=3%) 0 0.0% int *work_done, int work_to_do) 0 0.0% { 175 0.9% eebf: 55 push %rbp 1898 9.8% eec0: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp 0 0.0% 0 0.0% i = rx_ring->next_to_clean; 140 0.7% ef0a: 0f b7 41 1a movzwl 0x1a(%rcx),%eax 670 3.4% ef0e: 89 45 ac mov %eax,-0x54(%rbp) 0 0.0% { 0 0.0% memcpy(skb->data + offset, from, len); 91 0.5% f07b: 49 8b b6 e8 00 00 00 mov 0xe8(%r14),%rsi 1153 5.9% f082: 48 8b b8 e8 00 00 00 mov 0xe8(%rax),%rdi 42 0.2% f089: 8b 4d 84 mov -0x7c(%rbp),%ecx 14 0.1% f08c: 48 83 ef 02 sub $0x2,%rdi 0 0.0% f090: 48 83 ee 02 sub $0x2,%rsi 1618 8.3% f094: f3 a4 rep movsb %ds:(%rsi),%es:(%rdi) 0 0.0% 0 0.0% /* return some buffers to hardware, one at a time is too slow */ 0 0.0% if (cleaned_count >= E1000_RX_BUFFER_WRITE) { 867 4.5% f0e7: 83 7d b0 0f cmpl $0xf,-0x50(%rbp) 0 0.0% 0 0.0% while (rx_desc->status & E1000_RXD_STAT_DD) { 37 0.2% f114: 41 f6 47 0c 01 testb $0x1,0xc(%r15) 4047 20.8% f119: 0f 85 24 fe ff ff jne ef43 <e1000_clean_rx_irq+0x84> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter: Fix/complete ftrace event records samplingFrederic Weisbecker2009-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements the kernel side support for ftrace event record sampling. A new counter sampling attribute is added: PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD which requests ftrace events record sampling. In this case if a PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT counter is active and a tracepoint fires, we emit the tracepoint binary record to the perfcounter event buffer, as a sample. Result, after setting PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD attribute from perf record: perf record -f -F 1 -a -e workqueue:workqueue_execution perf report -D 0x21e18 [0x48]: event: 9 . . ... raw event: size 72 bytes . 0000: 09 00 00 00 01 00 48 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff ......H........ . 0010: 0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........!...... . 0020: 2b 00 01 02 0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 65 76 65 6e +...........eve . 0030: 74 73 2f 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ts/1........... . 0040: e0 b1 31 81 ff ff ff ff ....... . 0x21e18 [0x48]: PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE (IP, 1): 10: 0xffffffff8100c7d0 period: 33 The raw ftrace binary record starts at offset 0020. Translation: struct trace_entry { type = 0x2b = 43; flags = 1; preempt_count = 2; pid = 0xa = 10; tgid = 0xa = 10; } thread_comm = "events/1" thread_pid = 0xa = 10; func = 0xffffffff8131b1e0 = flush_to_ldisc() What will come next? - Userspace support ('perf trace'), 'flight data recorder' mode for perf trace, etc. - The unconditional copy from the profiling callback brings some costs however if someone wants no such sampling to occur, and needs to be fixed in the future. For that we need to have an instant access to the perf counter attribute. This is a matter of a flag to add in the struct ftrace_event. - Take care of the events recursivity! Don't ever try to record a lock event for example, it seems some locking is used in the profiling fast path and lead to a tracing recursivity. That will be fixed using raw spinlock or recursivity protection. - [...] - Profit! :-) Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf: Auto-detect libelfPeter Zijlstra2009-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Adds autodetection for libelf as well, and simplifies the libbfd code. Furthermore, fail make with an error when libelf is not found and warn about the lack of libbfd. Also provide an option to build a 32bit version even though you might be running a 64bit kernel. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf symbol: Fix symbol parsing in certain cases: use the build-id as a symlinkArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In some cases distros have binaries and debuginfo in weird places: [root@doppio tuna]# ls -la /usr/lib64/{xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub,firefox-3.5.2/firefox} -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 90024 2009-08-03 19:45 /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 90024 2009-08-03 18:23 /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub [root@doppio tuna]# sha1sum /usr/lib64/{xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub,firefox-3.5.2/firefox} 19a858077d263d5de22c9c5da250d3e4396ae739 /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub 19a858077d263d5de22c9c5da250d3e4396ae739 /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox [root@doppio tuna]# rpm -qf /usr/lib64/{xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub,firefox-3.5.2/firefox} xulrunner-1.9.1.2-1.fc11.x86_64 firefox-3.5.2-2.fc11.x86_64 [root@doppio tuna]# ls -la /usr/lib/debug/{usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub,usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox}.debug ls: cannot access /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox.debug: No such file or directory -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 403608 2009-08-03 18:22 /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub.debug Seemingly we don't have a .symtab when we actually can find it if we use the .note.gnu.build-id ELF section put in place by some distros. Use it and find the symbols we need. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> 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: Auto-detect libbfdPeter Zijlstra2009-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since the C++ demangling isn't needed for everybody and bfd/iberty aren't widely/easily available on all machines, make it optional. It also allows you to forcefully disable demangling by using NO_DEMANGLE=1 and otherwise tries to detect libbfd/libiberty combinations that result in a compiling demangler. Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> LKML-Reference: <20090801082048.GX12579@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Make --sort comm,dso,symbol the defaultPekka Enberg2009-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | If you're doing performance testing, you're interested in the symbols anyway so lets make "--sort comm,dso,symbol" the default sort option. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: acme@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1249467921-10450-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf: Fix read buffer overflowRoel Kluin2009-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | Check whether index is within bounds before testing the element. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4A757BCF.40101@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf top: Add mwait_idle_with_hints to skip_symbols[]Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | We skip the display of idle routine related symbols because they are typically rather erratic and confusing: they depend on the IRQ rate or sometimes they dominate the profile if they are polling based. Add mwait_idle_with_hints too, this is one of the idle routines on x86. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: Fix faulty checkStoyan Gaydarov2009-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a spelling error that has resulted from copy and pasting. The location of the error was found using a semantic patch but the semantic patch was not trying to find these errors. After looking things over it seemed logical that this change was needed. Please review it and then include the patch if it is in fact the correct change. Signed-off-by: Stoyan Gaydarov <sgayda2@uiuc.edu> Signed-off-by: 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: <1248949529-20891-1-git-send-email-sgayda2@uiuc.edu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Update for the new FORK/EXIT eventsPeter Zijlstra2009-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | Since FORK is now also issued for threads, detect those by comparing the parent and child PID. Teach it about EXIT events and ignore them. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Fix link errors with older toolchainsIngo Molnar2009-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On older distros (F8 for example) the perf build could fail with such missing symbols: LINK perf /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.3.2/../../../../lib64/libbfd.a(bfd.o): In function `bfd_demangle': (.text+0x2b3): undefined reference to `cplus_demangle' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.3.2/../../../../lib64/libbfd.a(bfd.o): In function `bfd_demangle': Link in -liberty too. 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>
* Merge branch 'perf-counters-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-07-22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-perf * 'perf-counters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-perf: (31 commits) perf_counter tools: Give perf top inherit option perf_counter tools: Fix vmlinux symbol generation breakage perf_counter: Detect debugfs location perf_counter: Add tracepoint support to perf list, perf stat perf symbol: C++ demangling perf: avoid structure size confusion by using a fixed size perf_counter: Fix throttle/unthrottle event logging perf_counter: Improve perf stat and perf record option parsing perf_counter: PERF_SAMPLE_ID and inherited counters perf_counter: Plug more stack leaks perf: Fix stack data leak perf_counter: Remove unused variables perf_counter: Make call graph option consistent perf_counter: Add perf record option to log addresses perf_counter: Log vfork as a fork event perf_counter: Synthesize VDSO mmap event perf_counter: Make sure we dont leak kernel memory to userspace perf_counter tools: Fix index boundary check perf_counter: Fix the tracepoint channel to perfcounters perf_counter, x86: Extend perf_counter Pentium M support ...
| * perf_counter tools: Give perf top inherit optionMike Galbraith2009-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, perf top -p only tracks the pid provided, which isn't very useful for watching forky loads, so give it an inherit option. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1248165036.9795.10.camel@marge.simson.net>
| * perf_counter tools: Fix vmlinux symbol generation breakageMike Galbraith2009-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | vmlinux meets the criteria for symbol adjustment, which breaks vmlinux generated symbols. Fix this by exempting vmlinux. This is a bit fragile in that someone could change the kernel dso's name, but currently that name is also hardwired. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1248091298.18702.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
| * perf_counter: Detect debugfs locationJason Baron2009-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If "/sys/kernel/debug" is not a debugfs mount point, search for the debugfs filesystem in /proc/mounts, but also allows the user to specify '--debugfs-dir=blah' or set the environment variable: 'PERF_DEBUGFS_DIR' Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> [ also made it probe "/debug" by default ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090721181629.GA3094@redhat.com>
| * perf_counter: Add tracepoint support to perf list, perf statJason Baron2009-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support to 'perf list' and 'perf stat' for kernel tracepoints. The implementation creates a 'for_each_subsystem' and 'for_each_event' for easy iteration over the tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <426129bf9fcc8ee63bb094cf736e7316a7dcd77a.1248190728.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
| * perf symbol: C++ demanglingArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [acme@doppio ~]$ perf report -s comm,dso,symbol -C firefox -d /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so | grep :: | head 2.21% [.] nsDeque::Push(void*) 1.78% [.] GraphWalker::DoWalk(nsDeque&) 1.30% [.] GCGraphBuilder::AddNode(void*, nsCycleCollectionParticipant*) 1.27% [.] XPCWrappedNative::CallMethod(XPCCallContext&, XPCWrappedNative::CallMode) 1.18% [.] imgContainer::DrawFrameTo(gfxIImageFrame*, gfxIImageFrame*, nsRect&) 1.13% [.] nsDeque::PopFront() 1.11% [.] nsGlobalWindow::RunTimeout(nsTimeout*) 0.97% [.] nsXPConnect::Traverse(void*, nsCycleCollectionTraversalCallback&) 0.95% [.] nsJSEventListener::cycleCollection::Traverse(void*, nsCycleCollectionTraversalCallback&) 0.95% [.] nsCOMPtr_base::~nsCOMPtr_base() [acme@doppio ~]$ Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090720171412.GB10410@ghostprotocols.net>
| * perf: avoid structure size confusion by using a fixed sizeArjan van de Ven2009-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | for some reason, this structure gets compiled as 36 bytes in some files (the ones that alloacte it) but 40 bytes in others (the ones that use it). The cause is an off_t type that gets a different size in different compilation units for some yet-to-be-explained reason. But the effect is disasterous; the size/offset members of the struct are at different offsets, and result in mostly complete garbage. The parser in perf is so robust that this all gets hidden, and after skipping an certain amount of samples, it recovers.... so this bug is not normally noticed. .... except when you want every sample to be exact. Fix this by just using an explicitly sized type. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4A655917.9080504@linux.intel.com>