Decoding an Intel PT trace of the kernel requires an accurate kernel
object image. This is provided by making a copy of kcore. However the
copy needs to be made under the same conditions as the original
recording, and then it needs to be associated with the perf.data file.
The perf-with-kcore script does that.
The script also checks the permissions on the buildid cache and can be
used to fix them. That is needed for distributions where root does not
have a home directory and consequently writes to the same buildid cache
as the user, resulting in cached files that the user does not have
access to.
Example:
$ ./perf-with-kcore
Usage: perf-with-kcore <perf sub-command> <perf.data directory> [<sub-command options> [ -- <workload>]]
<perf sub-command> can be record, script, report or inject
or: perf-with-kcore fix_buildid_cache_permissions
$ ./perf-with-kcore record pt_uname -e intel_pt// -- uname
Recording
Using /home/ahunter/bin/perf
perf version 3.15.rc3.g4549ba
/home/ahunter/bin/perf record -o pt_uname/perf.data -e intel_pt// -- uname
Linux
[ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.023 MB pt_uname/perf.data ]
Copying kcore
[sudo] password for ahunter:
Done
$ tools/perf/perf-with-kcore.sh script pt_uname | head
Using /home/ahunter/bin/perf
perf version 3.15.rc3.g4549ba
/home/ahunter/bin/perf script -i pt_uname/perf.data --kallsyms=pt_uname/kcore_dir/kallsyms
swapper 0 [002] 161533.969666: sched:sched_switch: swapper/2:0 [120] R ==> perf:11316 [120]
:11315 11315 [003] 161533.969704: sched:sched_switch: perf:11315 [120] S ==> swapper/3:0 [120]
:11316 11316 [002] 161533.969783: sched:sched_switch: perf:11316 [120] R ==> migration/2:33 [0]
:33 33 [002] 161533.969791: sched:sched_switch: migration/2:33 [0] S ==> swapper/2:0 [120]
swapper 0 [003] 161533.969792: sched:sched_switch: swapper/3:0 [120] R ==> perf:11316 [120]
:11316 11316 [003] 161533.970062: branches: 0 [unknown] ([unknown]) => ffffffff810532fa native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms])
:11316 11316 [003] 161533.970062: branches: ffffffff810532fd native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms]) => ffffffff81035b31 pt_config_start ([kernel.kallsyms])
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406786474-9306-30-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The default output file produced by the 'perf timechart' tool is called
output.svg, add it to .gitignore.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1380789636-4512-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It prevents mindless git add from adding those files.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346982953-30824-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The commit 65f3e56e0c ("perf tools: Remove auto-generated bison/flex
files") removed those files from git, so they'll be listed on untracked
files after building perf. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333948274-20043-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This commit squashes several commits that remove:
unnecessary uname calls
`sh -c'
BUILT_INS and QUIET_BUILT_IN
They have no effect, and the `fixup-builtins' and `check-builtins.sh'
scripts don't even exist.
RUNTIME_PREFIX
It's currently never anything but unset, and it's apparently
only meaningful when Microsoft Windows is the operating system
(according to the source for git).
TEST_PROGRAMS
EXTRA_PROGRAMS
unused SHELL_PATH_SQ portions
unused test for V=2
useless exports
Only when `V' is undefined (that is, only when the value of `V'
is empty) is `export V' performed, which just has the effect of
placing the empty-valued variable `V' in the environment.
The only other script to make use of `V' is `Documentation/Makefile',
which only checks whether `V' is undefined (that is, whether the value
of `V' is empty); hence, the `export V' has no effect whatsoever.
Similarly, `export QUIET_GEN' is useless because it will only have
a non-empty value when `V' has an empty-value, and when `V' has
an empty-value, `QUIET_GEN' is always explicitly set in every
script in which it is used.
`DESTDIR' is only ever defined by the user via the environment
or the command line, both of which are automatically exported
to sub-make processes. Furthermore, no non-make sub-scripts
make use of `DESTDIR' as an environment variable.
No other scripts use `perfexec_instdir'.
unused QUIET_SUBDIR{0,1}
TAR and RPMBUILD
PTHREAD_LIBS
Maintainer's dist rules and commands
distclean target
Test suite coverage testing
PRINT_DIR and NO_SUBDIR
`configure' target
NO_CURL
@@PERF_VERSION@@ substitution
Without the sed command, all of the rule's commands can be reduced
to a single line that copies a file and sets the permissions properly
in the process.
`make test' echo line
template_instdir
PERF-BUILD-OPTIONS
double-colon rules
The use of double-colon rules seems misguided or vestigial git.
Essentially hard-coded $(SCRIPTS) expansion
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
These are local-configuration files and should be ignored.
LKML-Reference: <1276516847-25817-1-git-send-email-kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
I've tried building the docs in tools/perf/Documentation/ , and after
that `git status` showed dozen of untracked htmls. Let's ignore them.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
LKML-Reference: <1253790022-10300-1-git-send-email-kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Adrian Hunter