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* perf tools: Fix sparse CPU numbering related bugsPaul Mackerras2010-03-111-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At present, the perf subcommands that do system-wide monitoring (perf stat, perf record and perf top) don't work properly unless the online cpus are numbered 0, 1, ..., N-1. These tools ask for the number of online cpus with sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) and then try to create events for cpus 0, 1, ..., N-1. This creates problems for systems where the online cpus are numbered sparsely. For example, a POWER6 system in single-threaded mode (i.e. only running 1 hardware thread per core) will have only even-numbered cpus online. This fixes the problem by reading the /sys/devices/system/cpu/online file to find out which cpus are online. The code that does that is in tools/perf/util/cpumap.[ch], and consists of a read_cpu_map() function that sets up a cpumap[] array and returns the number of online cpus. If /sys/devices/system/cpu/online can't be read or can't be parsed successfully, it falls back to using sysconf to ask how many cpus are online and sets up an identity map in cpumap[]. The perf record, perf stat and perf top code then calls read_cpu_map() in the system-wide monitoring case (instead of sysconf) and uses cpumap[] to get the cpu numbers to pass to perf_event_open. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20100310093609.GA3959@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: Fix --pid option for statLiming Wang2010-01-131-45/+61
| | | | | | | | | | | | current pid option doesn't work for perf stat. Change it to what perf record --pid acts as. Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1262246750-2191-1-git-send-email-liming.wang@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Do not print ratio when task-clock event is not countedLucas De Marchi2009-11-151-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ratio between the number of events and the time elapsed makes sense only if task-clock event is counted. Otherwise it will be simply a (confusing) # 0.000 M/sec This patch outputs the ratio only if task-clock event is counted. Some test examples of before and after: Before: [lucas@skywalker linux.trees.git]$ sudo perf stat -e branch-misses -a -- sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': 1367818 branch-misses # 0.000 M/sec 1.001494325 seconds time elapsed After (without task-clock): [lucas@skywalker perf]$ sudo ./perf stat -e branch-misses -a -- sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': 1135044 branch-misses 1.001370775 seconds time elapsed After (with task-clock): [lucas@skywalker perf]$ sudo ./perf stat -e branch-misses -e task-clock -a -- sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': 1070111 branch-misses # 0.534 M/sec 2002.730893 task-clock-msecs # 1.999 CPUs 1.001640292 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20091115140507.GB21561@skywalker.lan> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Count branches firstIngo Molnar2009-10-191-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Count branches first, cache-misses second. The reason is that on x86 branches are not counted by all counters on all CPUs. Before: Performance counter stats for 'ls': 0.756653 task-clock-msecs # 0.802 CPUs 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 250 page-faults # 0.330 M/sec 2375725 cycles # 3139.781 M/sec 1628129 instructions # 0.685 IPC 19643 cache-references # 25.960 M/sec 4608 cache-misses # 6.090 M/sec 342532 branches # 452.694 M/sec <not counted> branch-misses 0.000943356 seconds time elapsed After: Performance counter stats for 'ls': 1.056734 task-clock-msecs # 0.859 CPUs 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 259 page-faults # 0.245 M/sec 3345932 cycles # 3166.295 M/sec 3074090 instructions # 0.919 IPC 616928 branches # 583.806 M/sec 39279 branch-misses # 6.367 % 21312 cache-references # 20.168 M/sec 3661 cache-misses # 3.464 M/sec 0.001230551 seconds time elapsed (also prettify the printout of branch misses, in case it's getting scaled.) Cc: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4ADC3975.8050109@klingt.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> --- tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index c373683..95a55ea 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = { { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS }, { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES}, { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS}, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES }, }; --- tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index 95a55ea..90e0a26 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -50,17 +50,17 @@ static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = { - { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK }, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES}, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS }, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS }, - - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES }, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS }, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES}, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES }, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS}, - { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS }, + + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES }, };
* perf stat: Re-align the default_attrs[] arrayIngo Molnar2009-10-191-11/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up the array definition to be vertically aligned. No functional effects. Cc: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4ADC3975.8050109@klingt.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> --- tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index c373683..95a55ea 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = { { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS }, { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES}, { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES }, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS}, + { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES }, };
* perf stat: Add branch performance events to default outputTim Blechmann2009-10-191-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Adds performance event information about branches and branch misses to the default output of perf stat. Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4ADC3975.8050109@klingt.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Add branch performance metricAnton Blanchard2009-10-191-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we count both branches and branch-misses it is useful to print out the percentage of branch-misses: # perf stat -e branches -e branch-misses /bin/true Performance counter stats for '/bin/true': 401684 branches # 0.000 M/sec 23301 branch-misses # 5.801 % Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl LKML-Reference: <20091018112923.GQ4808@kryten> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf: Propagate term signal to childChris Wilson2009-10-041-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | If we launch the child on behalf of the user, ensure that it dies along with ourselves when we are interrupted. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> LKML-Reference: <1254616502-4728-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Fix zero total printoutsIngo Molnar2009-09-221-4/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before: 0 sched:sched_switch # nan M/sec After: 0 sched:sched_switch # 0.000 M/sec 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: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar2009-09-211-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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\>/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 <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Clean up statistics calculations a bit morePeter Zijlstra2009-09-041-17/+14
| | | | | | | | | Remove some, now useless, global storage. Don't calculate the stddev when not needed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: More advanced variance computationPeter Zijlstra2009-09-041-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | Use the more advanced single pass variance algorithm outlined on the wikipedia page. This is numerically more stable for larger sample sets. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Use stddev_mean in stead of stddevPeter Zijlstra2009-09-041-6/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we're computing the mean by sampling the distribution, then the std dev of the mean is related to the std dev of the sample set by: stddev_mean = std_dev / sqrt(N) Which is exactly what we want. This results in the error on the mean decreasing with increasing number of samples. Also fix the scaled == -1, aka not counted case. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Remove the limit on repeatPeter Zijlstra2009-09-041-57/+27
| | | | | | | | | | Since we don't need all the individual samples to calculate the error remove both the limit and the storage overhead associated with that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Change noise calculation to use stddevPeter Zijlstra2009-09-041-101/+69
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current noise computation does: \Sum abs(n_i - avg(n)) * N^-1.5 Which is (afaik) not a regular noise function, and needs the complete sample set available to post-process. Change this to use a regular stddev computation which can be done by keeping a two sums: stddev = sqrt( 1/N (\Sum n_i^2) - avg(n)^2 ) For which we only need to keep \Sum n_i and \Sum n_i^2. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: Librarize trace_event() helperFrederic Weisbecker2009-08-161-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Librarize trace_event() helper so that perf trace can use it too. Also clean up the debug.h includes a bit. It's not good to have it included in perf.h because it doesn't make it flexible against other headers it may need (headers that can also depend on perf.h and then create a recursive header dependency). 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: <1250453149-664-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf tools: Factorize high level dso helpersFrederic Weisbecker2009-08-121-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Factorize multiple definitions of high level dso helpers into the symbol source file. The side effect is a general export of the verbose and eprintf debugging helpers into a new file dedicated to debugging purposes. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
* perf stat: Fix tool option consistency: rename -S/--scale to -c/--scaleBrice Goglin2009-08-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | 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_counter: Improve perf stat and perf record option parsingAnton Blanchard2009-07-221-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perf stat and perf record currently look for all options on the command line. This can lead to some confusion: # perf stat ls -l Error: unknown switch `l' While we can work around this by adding '--' before the command, the git option parsing code can stop at the first non option: # perf stat ls -l Performance counter stats for 'ls -l': .... Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090722130412.GD9029@kryten>
* perf stat: Handle pipe read failures in perf statFrederic Weisbecker2009-07-011-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Building builtin-stat.c reports the following errors: cc1: warnings being treated as errors builtin-stat.c: In function ‘run_perf_stat’: builtin-stat.c:242: erreur: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result builtin-stat.c:255: erreur: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result make: *** [builtin-stat.o] Erreur 1 This patch handles the possible pipe read failures. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1246474930-6088-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Define MATCH_EVENT for easy attr checkingJaswinder Singh Rajput2009-07-011-17/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | MATCH_EVENT is useful: 1. for multiple attrs checking 2. avoid repetition of PERF_TYPE_ and PERF_COUNT_ and save space 3. avoids line breakage Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1246440909.3403.5.camel@hpdv5.satnam> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate themIngo Molnar2009-07-011-8/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enable -Wextra. This found a few real bugs plus a number of signed/unsigned type mismatches/uncleanlinesses. It also required a few annotations All things considered it was still worth it so lets try with this enabled for now. 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_counter: Provide a way to enable counters on execPaul Mackerras2009-06-301-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This provides a way to mark a counter to be enabled on the next exec. This is useful for measuring the total activity of a program without including overhead from the process that launches it. This also changes the perf stat command to use this new facility. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <19017.43927.838745.689203@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Reduce perf stat measurement overhead/skewPaul Mackerras2009-06-291-14/+50
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Vince Weaver reported a 'perf stat' measurement overhead in the count of retired instructions, which can amount to a +6000 instructions inflated count in the reported count. At present, perf stat creates its counters on the perf process. Thus the counters count the fork and various other activity in both the parent and child, such as the resolver overhead for resolving PLT entries for any libc functions that haven't been called before, such as execvp. This reduces the overhead by creating the counters on the child process after the fork, using a couple of pipes to synchronize so that the child process waits until the parent has created the counters before doing the exec. To eliminate the PLT resolution overhead on calling execvp, this does a dummy execvp first which will always fail. With this, the overhead of executing a program goes down from over 4800 instructions to about 90 instructions on powerpc (32-bit). This was measured with a statically-linked program written in assembler which only does the 3 instructions needed to call _exit(0). Before: $ perf stat -e 0:1:u ./three Performance counter stats for './three': 4858 instructions 0.001274523 seconds time elapsed After: $ perf stat -e 0:1:u ./three Performance counter stats for './three': 92 instructions 0.000468153 seconds time elapsed Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <19016.41425.814043.870352@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Use percentages for scaling outputIngo Molnar2009-06-291-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Peter expressed a strong preference for percentage based display of scaled values - so revert to that from the recently introduced multiplication-factor unit. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> 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: Micro-optimize the code: memcpy is only required if no event is ↵Jaswinder Singh Rajput2009-06-281-5/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | selected and !null_run Set attrs and nr_counters if no event is selected and !null_run. Setting of attrs should depend on number of counters, so we need to memcpy only for sizeof(default_attrs) Also set nr_counters as ARRAY_SIZE(default_attrs) in place of hardcoded value. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1246126749.32198.16.camel@hpdv5.satnam> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Improve outputJaswinder Singh Rajput2009-06-271-6/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Increase size for event name to handle bigger names like 'L1-d$-prefetch-misses' Changed scaled counters from percentage to a multiplicative factor because the latter is more expressive. Also aligned the scaling factor, otherwise sometimes it looks like: 384 iTLB-load-misses (4.74x scaled) 452029 branch-loads (8.00x scaled) 5892 branch-load-misses (20.39x scaled) 972315 iTLB-loads (3.24x scaled) Before: 150708 L1-d$-stores (scaled from 23.57%) 428804 L1-d$-prefetches (scaled from 23.47%) 314446 L1-d$-prefetch-misses (scaled from 23.42%) 252626137 L1-i$-loads (scaled from 23.24%) 5297550 dTLB-load-misses (scaled from 23.96%) 106992392 branch-loads (scaled from 23.67%) 5239561 branch-load-misses (scaled from 23.43%) After: 1731713 L1-d$-loads ( 14.25x scaled) 44241 L1-d$-prefetches ( 3.88x scaled) 21076 L1-d$-prefetch-misses ( 3.40x scaled) 5789421 L1-i$-loads ( 3.78x scaled) 29645 dTLB-load-misses ( 2.95x scaled) 461474 branch-loads ( 6.52x scaled) 7493 branch-load-misses ( 26.57x scaled) Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1246051927.2988.10.camel@hpdv5.satnam> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Fix multi-run statsIngo Molnar2009-06-271-4/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In multi-run (-r/--repeat) printouts, print out the noise of the wall-clock average as well. Also, fix a bug in printing out scaled counters: if it was not scaled then we should not update the average with -1. 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: Add -n/--null option to run without countersIngo Molnar2009-06-271-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow a no-counters run. This can be useful to measure just elapsed wall-clock time - or to assess the raw overhead of perf stat itself, without running any counters. 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: Remove dead codeJaswinder Singh Rajput2009-06-241-31/+13
| | | | | | | | | Remove dead code and do some code alignment. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1245847774.2681.2.camel@ht.satnam> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Fix verbose for perf statJaswinder Singh Rajput2009-06-231-8/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Error message should use stderr for verbose (-v), otherwise message will be lost for: $ ./perf stat -v <cmd> > /dev/null For example on AMD bus-cycles event is not available so now it looks like: $ ./perf stat -v -e bus-cycles ls > /dev/null Error: counter 0, sys_perf_counter_open() syscall returned with -1 (Invalid argument) Performance counter stats for 'ls': <not counted> bus-cycles 0.006765877 seconds time elapsed. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1245757369.3776.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Define and use our own u64, s64 etc. definitionsPaul Mackerras2009-06-191-31/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On 64-bit powerpc, __u64 is defined to be unsigned long rather than unsigned long long. This causes compiler warnings every time we print a __u64 value with %Lx. Rather than changing __u64, we define our own u64 to be unsigned long long on all architectures, and similarly s64 as signed long long. For consistency we also define u32, s32, u16, s16, u8 and s8. These definitions are put in a new header, types.h, because these definitions are needed in util/string.h and util/symbol.h. The main change here is the mechanical change of __[us]{64,32,16,8} to remove the "__". The other changes are: * Create types.h * Include types.h in perf.h, util/string.h and util/symbol.h * Add types.h to the LIB_H definition in Makefile * Added (u64) casts in process_overflow_event() and print_sym_table() to kill two remaining warnings. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org LKML-Reference: <19003.33494.495844.956580@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Enable raw data to be printedIngo Molnar2009-06-131-17/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If -vv (very verbose) is specified, print out raw data in the following format: $ perf stat -vv -r 3 ./loop_1b_instructions [ perf stat: executing run #1 ... ] [ perf stat: executing run #2 ... ] [ perf stat: executing run #3 ... ] debug: runtime[0]: 235871872 debug: walltime[0]: 236646752 debug: runtime_cycles[0]: 755150182 debug: counter/0[0]: 235871872 debug: counter/1[0]: 235871872 debug: counter/2[0]: 235871872 debug: scaled[0]: 0 debug: counter/0[1]: 2 debug: counter/1[1]: 235870662 debug: counter/2[1]: 235870662 debug: scaled[1]: 0 debug: counter/0[2]: 1 debug: counter/1[2]: 235870437 debug: counter/2[2]: 235870437 debug: scaled[2]: 0 debug: counter/0[3]: 140 debug: counter/1[3]: 235870298 debug: counter/2[3]: 235870298 debug: scaled[3]: 0 debug: counter/0[4]: 755150182 debug: counter/1[4]: 235870145 debug: counter/2[4]: 235870145 debug: scaled[4]: 0 debug: counter/0[5]: 1001411258 debug: counter/1[5]: 235868838 debug: counter/2[5]: 235868838 debug: scaled[5]: 0 debug: counter/0[6]: 27897 debug: counter/1[6]: 235868560 debug: counter/2[6]: 235868560 debug: scaled[6]: 0 debug: counter/0[7]: 2910 debug: counter/1[7]: 235868151 debug: counter/2[7]: 235868151 debug: scaled[7]: 0 debug: runtime[0]: 235980257 debug: walltime[0]: 236770942 debug: runtime_cycles[0]: 755114546 debug: counter/0[0]: 235980257 debug: counter/1[0]: 235980257 debug: counter/2[0]: 235980257 debug: scaled[0]: 0 debug: counter/0[1]: 3 debug: counter/1[1]: 235980049 debug: counter/2[1]: 235980049 debug: scaled[1]: 0 debug: counter/0[2]: 1 debug: counter/1[2]: 235979907 debug: counter/2[2]: 235979907 debug: scaled[2]: 0 debug: counter/0[3]: 135 debug: counter/1[3]: 235979780 debug: counter/2[3]: 235979780 debug: scaled[3]: 0 debug: counter/0[4]: 755114546 debug: counter/1[4]: 235979652 debug: counter/2[4]: 235979652 debug: scaled[4]: 0 debug: counter/0[5]: 1001439771 debug: counter/1[5]: 235979304 debug: counter/2[5]: 235979304 debug: scaled[5]: 0 debug: counter/0[6]: 23723 debug: counter/1[6]: 235979050 debug: counter/2[6]: 235979050 debug: scaled[6]: 0 debug: counter/0[7]: 2213 debug: counter/1[7]: 235978820 debug: counter/2[7]: 235978820 debug: scaled[7]: 0 debug: runtime[0]: 235888002 debug: walltime[0]: 236700533 debug: runtime_cycles[0]: 754881504 debug: counter/0[0]: 235888002 debug: counter/1[0]: 235888002 debug: counter/2[0]: 235888002 debug: scaled[0]: 0 debug: counter/0[1]: 2 debug: counter/1[1]: 235887793 debug: counter/2[1]: 235887793 debug: scaled[1]: 0 debug: counter/0[2]: 1 debug: counter/1[2]: 235887645 debug: counter/2[2]: 235887645 debug: scaled[2]: 0 debug: counter/0[3]: 135 debug: counter/1[3]: 235887499 debug: counter/2[3]: 235887499 debug: scaled[3]: 0 debug: counter/0[4]: 754881504 debug: counter/1[4]: 235887368 debug: counter/2[4]: 235887368 debug: scaled[4]: 0 debug: counter/0[5]: 1001401731 debug: counter/1[5]: 235887024 debug: counter/2[5]: 235887024 debug: scaled[5]: 0 debug: counter/0[6]: 24212 debug: counter/1[6]: 235886786 debug: counter/2[6]: 235886786 debug: scaled[6]: 0 debug: counter/0[7]: 1824 debug: counter/1[7]: 235886560 debug: counter/2[7]: 235886560 debug: scaled[7]: 0 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/loop_1b_instructions' (3 runs): 235.913377 task-clock-msecs # 0.997 CPUs ( +- 0.011% ) 2 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 0.000% ) 1 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 0.000% ) 136 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec ( +- 0.730% ) 755048744 cycles # 3200.534 M/sec ( +- 0.009% ) 1001417586 instructions # 1.326 IPC ( +- 0.001% ) 25277 cache-references # 0.107 M/sec ( +- 3.988% ) 2315 cache-misses # 0.010 M/sec ( +- 9.845% ) 0.236706075 seconds time elapsed. This allows the summary stats to be validated. 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: Add feature to run and measure a command multiple timesIngo Molnar2009-06-131-65/+194
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the --repeat <n> feature to perf stat, which repeats a given command up to a 100 times, collects the stats and calculates an average and a stddev. For example, the following oneliner 'perf stat' command runs hackbench 5 times and prints a tabulated result of all metrics, with averages and noise levels (in percentage) printed: aldebaran:~/linux/linux/tools/perf> ./perf stat --repeat 5 ~/hackbench 10 Time: 0.117 Time: 0.108 Time: 0.089 Time: 0.088 Time: 0.100 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 10' (5 runs): 1243.989586 task-clock-msecs # 10.460 CPUs ( +- 4.720% ) 47706 context-switches # 0.038 M/sec ( +- 19.706% ) 387 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 3.608% ) 17793 page-faults # 0.014 M/sec ( +- 0.354% ) 3770941606 cycles # 3031.329 M/sec ( +- 4.621% ) 1566372416 instructions # 0.415 IPC ( +- 2.703% ) 16783421 cache-references # 13.492 M/sec ( +- 5.202% ) 7128590 cache-misses # 5.730 M/sec ( +- 7.420% ) 0.118924455 seconds time elapsed. The goal of this feature is to allow the reliance on these accurate statistics and to know how many times a command has to be repeated for the noise to go down to an acceptable level. (The -v option can be used to see a line printed out as each run progresses.) 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: Reorganize outputIngo Molnar2009-06-131-27/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | - use IPC for the instruction normalization output - CPUs for the CPU utilization factor value. - print out time elapsed like the other rows - tidy up the task-clocks/cpu-clocks printout 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_counter: Standardize event namesPeter Zijlstra2009-06-111-15/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | Pure renames only, to PERF_COUNT_HW_* and PERF_COUNT_SW_*. 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properlyPeter Zijlstra2009-06-101-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently report and stat catch SIGINT (and others) without altering their exit state. This means that things like: while :; do perf stat ./foo ; done Loops become hard-to-interrupt, because bash never sees perf terminate due to interruption. Fix this. 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Print out instructins/cycle metricIngo Molnar2009-06-071-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before: 7549326754 cycles # 3201.811 M/sec 10007594937 instructions # 4244.408 M/sec After: 7542051194 cycles # 3201.996 M/sec 10007743852 instructions # 4248.811 M/sec # 1.327 per cycle 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: Continue even on counter creation errorIngo Molnar2009-06-071-14/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before: $ perf stat ~/hackbench 5 error: syscall returned with -1 (No such device) After: $ perf stat ~/hackbench 5 Time: 1.640 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 5': 6524.570382 task-clock-ticks # 3.838 CPU utilization factor 35704 context-switches # 0.005 M/sec 191 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 8958 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec <not counted> cycles <not counted> instructions <not counted> cache-references <not counted> cache-misses Wall-clock time elapsed: 1699.999995 msecs Also add -v (--verbose) option to allow the printing of failed counter opens. Plus dont print 'inf' if wall-time is zero (due to jiffies granularity), instead skip the printing of the CPU utilization factor. 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_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/Ingo Molnar2009-06-061-0/+339
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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