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perf affinity: Add infrastructure to save/restore affinity

2019-11-28T11:08:38+00:00

The kernel perf subsystem has to IPI to the target CPU for many operations. On systems with many CPUs and when managing many events the overhead can be dominated by lots of IPIs. An alternative is to set up CPU affinity in the perf tool, then set up all the events for that CPU, and then move on to the next CPU. Add some affinity management infrastructure to enable such a model. Used in followon patches. Committer notes: Use zfree() in some places, add missing stdbool.h header, some minor coding style changes. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191121001522.180827-3-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf pmu: Use file system cache to optimize sysfs access

2019-11-28T11:08:38+00:00

pmu.c does a lot of redundant /sys accesses while parsing aliases and probing for PMUs. On large systems with a lot of PMUs this can get expensive (>2s): % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- 27.25 1.227847 8 160888 16976 openat 26.42 1.190481 7 164224 164077 stat Add a cache to remember if specific file names exist or don't exist, which eliminates most of this overhead. Also optimize some stat() calls to be slightly cheaper access() Resulting in: 0.18 0.004166 2 1851 305 open 0.08 0.001970 2 829 622 access Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191121001522.180827-2-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf block: Cleanup and refactor block info functions

2019-11-07T12:09:18+00:00

We have already implemented some block-info related functions. Now it's time to do some cleanup, refactoring and move the functions and structures to new block-info.h/block-info.c. v4: --- Move code for skipping column length calculation to patch: 'perf diff: Don't use hack to skip column length calculation' v3: --- 1. Rename the patch title 2. Rename from block.h/block.c to block-info.h/block-info.c 3. Move more common part to block-info, such as block_info__process_sym. 4. Remove the nasty hack for skipping calculation of column length Signed-off-by: Jin Yao Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jin Yao Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191107074719.26139-3-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf diff: Report noisy for cycles diff

2019-10-11T13:57:00+00:00

This patch prints the stddev and hist for the cycles diff of program block. It can help us to understand if the cycles is noisy or not. This patch is inspired by Andi Kleen's patch: https://lwn.net/Articles/600471/ We create new option '--cycles-hist'. Example: perf record -b ./div perf record -b ./div perf diff -c cycles # Baseline [Program Block Range] Cycles Diff Shared Object Symbol # ........ .......................................................... .... ................. ............................ # 46.72% [div.c:40 -> div.c:40] 0 div [.] main 46.72% [div.c:42 -> div.c:44] 0 div [.] main 46.72% [div.c:42 -> div.c:39] 0 div [.] main 20.54% [random_r.c:357 -> random_r.c:394] 1 libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 20.54% [random_r.c:357 -> random_r.c:380] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 20.54% [random_r.c:388 -> random_r.c:388] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 20.54% [random_r.c:388 -> random_r.c:391] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 17.04% [random.c:288 -> random.c:291] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:291 -> random.c:291] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:293 -> random.c:293] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:295 -> random.c:295] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:295 -> random.c:295] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:298 -> random.c:298] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 8.40% [div.c:22 -> div.c:25] 0 div [.] compute_flag 8.40% [div.c:27 -> div.c:28] 0 div [.] compute_flag 5.14% [rand.c:26 -> rand.c:27] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] rand 5.14% [rand.c:28 -> rand.c:28] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] rand 2.15% [rand@plt+0 -> rand@plt+0] 0 div [.] rand@plt 0.00% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __x86_indirect_thunk_rax 0.00% [do_mmap+714 -> do_mmap+732] -10 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_mmap 0.00% [do_mmap+737 -> do_mmap+765] 1 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_mmap 0.00% [do_mmap+262 -> do_mmap+299] 0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_mmap 0.00% [__x86_indirect_thunk_r15+0 -> __x86_indirect_thunk_r15+0] 7 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __x86_indirect_thunk_r15 0.00% [native_sched_clock+0 -> native_sched_clock+119] -1 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_sched_clock 0.00% [native_write_msr+0 -> native_write_msr+16] -13 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr When we enable the option '--cycles-hist', the output is perf diff -c cycles --cycles-hist # Baseline [Program Block Range] Cycles Diff stddev/Hist Shared Object Symbol # ........ .......................................................... .... ................. ................. ............................ # 46.72% [div.c:40 -> div.c:40] 0 ± 37.8% ▁█▁▁██▁█ div [.] main 46.72% [div.c:42 -> div.c:44] 0 ± 49.4% ▁▁▂█▂▂▂▂ div [.] main 46.72% [div.c:42 -> div.c:39] 0 ± 24.1% ▃█▂▄▁▃▂▁ div [.] main 20.54% [random_r.c:357 -> random_r.c:394] 1 ± 33.5% ▅▂▁█▃▁▂▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 20.54% [random_r.c:357 -> random_r.c:380] 0 ± 39.4% ▁▁█▁██▅▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 20.54% [random_r.c:388 -> random_r.c:388] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 20.54% [random_r.c:388 -> random_r.c:391] 0 ± 41.2% ▁▃▁▂█▄▃▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 17.04% [random.c:288 -> random.c:291] 0 ± 48.8% ▁▁▁▁███▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:291 -> random.c:291] 0 ±100.0% ▁█▁▁▁▁▁▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:293 -> random.c:293] 0 ±100.0% ▁█▁▁▁▁▁▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:295 -> random.c:295] 0 ±100.0% ▁█▁▁▁▁▁▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:295 -> random.c:295] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:298 -> random.c:298] 0 ± 75.6% ▃█▁▁▁▁▁▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random 8.40% [div.c:22 -> div.c:25] 0 ± 42.1% ▁▃▁▁███▁ div [.] compute_flag 8.40% [div.c:27 -> div.c:28] 0 ± 41.8% ██▁▁▄▁▁▄ div [.] compute_flag 5.14% [rand.c:26 -> rand.c:27] 0 ± 37.8% ▁▁▁████▁ libc-2.27.so [.] rand 5.14% [rand.c:28 -> rand.c:28] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] rand 2.15% [rand@plt+0 -> rand@plt+0] 0 div [.] rand@plt 0.00% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __x86_indirect_thunk_rax 0.00% [do_mmap+714 -> do_mmap+732] -10 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_mmap 0.00% [do_mmap+737 -> do_mmap+765] 1 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_mmap 0.00% [do_mmap+262 -> do_mmap+299] 0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_mmap 0.00% [__x86_indirect_thunk_r15+0 -> __x86_indirect_thunk_r15+0] 7 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __x86_indirect_thunk_r15 0.00% [native_sched_clock+0 -> native_sched_clock+119] -1 ± 38.5% ▄█▁ [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_sched_clock 0.00% [native_write_msr+0 -> native_write_msr+16] -13 ± 47.1% ▁█▇▃▁▁ [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr v8: --- Rebase to perf/core branch v7: --- 1. v6 got Jiri's ACK. 2. Rebase to latest perf/core branch. v6: --- 1. Jiri provides better code for using data__hpp_register() in ui_init(). Use this code in v6. v5: --- 1. Refine the use of data__hpp_register() in ui_init() according to Jiri's suggestion. v4: --- 1. Rename the new option from '--noisy' to '--cycles-hist' 2. Remove the option '-n'. 3. Only update the spark value and stats when '--cycles-hist' is enabled. 4. Remove the code of printing '..'. v3: --- 1. Move the histogram to a separate column 2. Move the svals[] out of struct stats v2: --- Jiri got a compile error, CC builtin-diff.o builtin-diff.c: In function ‘compute_cycles_diff’: builtin-diff.c:712:10: error: taking the absolute value of unsigned type ‘u64’ {aka ‘long unsigned int’} has no effect [-Werror=absolute-value] 712 | labs(pair->block_info->cycles_spark[i] - | ^~~~ Because the result of u64 - u64 is still u64. Now we change the type of cycles_spark[] to s64. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190925011446.30678-1-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Introduce evsel_fprintf.h

2019-09-25T19:26:34+00:00

We already had evsel_fprintf.c, add its counterpart, so that we can reduce evsel.h a bit more. We needed a new perf_event_attr_fprintf.c file so as to have a separate object to link with the python binding in tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources and not drag symbol_conf, etc into the python binding. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-06bdmt1062d9unzgqmxwlv88@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf copyfile: Move copyfile routines to separate files

2019-09-25T12:51:49+00:00

Further reducing the util.c hodgepodge files. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0i62zh7ok25znibyebgq0qs4@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move event synthesizing routines to separate .c file

2019-09-20T13:28:21+00:00

For better grouping, in time we may end up making most of these static, i.e. generalizing the 'perf record' synthesizing code so that based on the target it can do the right thing and call the needed synthesizers. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-s9zxxhk40s95pjng9panet16@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf dsos: Move the dsos struct and its methods to separate source files

2019-09-01T01:24:10+00:00

So that we can reduce the header dependency tree further, in the process noticed that lots of places were getting even things like build-id routines and 'struct perf_tool' definition indirectly, so fix all those too. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ti0btma9ow5ndrytyoqdk62j@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf cacheline: Move cacheline related routines to separate files

2019-08-26T14:58:29+00:00

To disentangle util/sort.h a bit more. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6kbf2cauas06rbqp15pyter5@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evswitch: Move switch logic to use in other tools

2019-08-15T15:24:31+00:00

Now other tools that want switching can use an evswitch for that, just set it up and add it to the PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE processing function. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Florian Weimer Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: William Cohen Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-b1trj1q97qwfv251l66q3noj@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo