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Namhyung Kim bea0340582 perf tools: Introduce struct perf_target
The perf_target struct will be used for taking care of cpu/thread maps
based on user's input. Since it is used on various subcommands it'd
better factoring it out.

Thanks to Arnaldo for suggesting the better name.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.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/1335417327-11796-2-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-02 15:17:58 -03:00
Linus Torvalds 9c2b957db1 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar:

 - New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and
   the tooling side, on CPUs that support it.  (modern x86 Intel CPUs
   with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.)

   This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for
   branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from
   regular, function histogram centric profiles.

   The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result
   looks like this in perf report:

	$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

	$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
	    52.34%  [.] main                   [.] f1
	    24.04%  [.] f1                     [.] f3
	    23.60%  [.] f1                     [.] f2
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn    [k] _IO_file_overflow
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] strchrnul
	     0.01%  [k] __printf               [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
	     0.01%  [k] main                   [k] __printf

   This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest
   percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e.  the most likely taken
   branches in the system.  "branches" can also include function calls
   and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the
   instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system
   calls, traps, interrupts, etc.

   This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI
   support in perf report.

 - Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies.
   It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter
   you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other
   improvements.

 - Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf
   stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs:

	perf top -p 21483,21485
	perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
	perf record -p 21483,21485

 - Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf
   report, etc.  For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the
   tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc.

 - Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the
   factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h
   generic facility:

	struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;

	...

	if (static_key_false(&key))
	        do unlikely code
	else
	        do likely code

	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...

   The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as
   little impact to the likely code path as possible.  the
   static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching.

   This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to
   micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key
   usage and fast/slow cost patterns.

 - SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support.

 - Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's
   smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more
   smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows
   better, etc.

 - Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes',
   and a corner case bugfix.

 - Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk).

 - Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space
   self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any
   system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side.

 - 'perf bench' improvements

 - ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made
   these features possible.  And, as usual this list is incomplete as
   there were also lots of other improvements

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits)
  perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode
  perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode
  perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals
  perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode
  perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
  perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag
  perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
  perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs
  perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()
  perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev
  perf: Add ABI reference sizes
  perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling
  perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
  perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
  x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c
  x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently
  x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path
  perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
  perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
  perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs
  ...
2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00
Ingo Molnar eae7a755ee perf tools, x86: Build perf on older user-space as well
On ancient systems I get this build failure:

  util/../../../arch/x86/include/asm/unistd.h:67:29: error: asm/unistd_64.h: No such file or directory
  In file included from util/cache.h:7,
                   from builtin-test.c:8:
  util/../perf.h: In function ‘sys_perf_event_open’:In file included from util/../perf.h:16
  perf.h:170: error: ‘__NR_perf_event_open’ undeclared (first use in this function)

The reason is that this old system does not have the split
unistd.h headers yet, from which to pick up the syscall
definitions.

Add the syscall numbers to the already existing i386 and x86_64
blocks in perf.h, and also provide empty include file stubs.

With this patch perf builds and works fine on 5 years old
user-space as well.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jctwg64le1w47tuaoeyftsg9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-03-14 12:42:34 -03:00
Roberto Agostino Vitillo bdfebd848f perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
This patch adds a new option to enable taken branch stack
sampling, i.e., leverage the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK feature
of perf_events.

There is a new option to active this mode: -b.
It is possible to pass a set of filters to select the type of
branches to sample.

The following filters are available:

 - any : any type of branches
 - any_call : any function call or system call
 - any_ret : any function return or system call return
 - any_ind : any indirect branch
 - u:  only when the branch target is at the user level
 - k: only when the branch target is in the kernel
 - hv: only when the branch target is in the hypervisor

Filters can be combined by passing a comma separated list
to the option:

$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

Signed-off-by: Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-13-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09 08:26:05 +01:00
Roberto Agostino Vitillo b5387528f3 perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
This patch adds:

 - ability to parse samples with PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
 - sort on branches (dso_from, symbol_from, dso_to, symbol_to, mispredict)
 - build histograms on branches

Signed-off-by: Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-12-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09 08:26:04 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo bc76efe645 perf tools: Handle kernels that don't support attr.exclude_{guest,host}
Just fall back to resetting those fields, if set, warning the user that
that feature is not available.

If guest samples appear they will just be discarded because no struct
machine will be found and thus the event will be accounted as not
handled and dropped, see 0c09571.

Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vuwxig36mzprl5n7nzvnxxsh@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-03-03 12:19:56 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 808e122630 perf tools: Invert the sample_id_all logic
Instead of requiring that users of perf_record_opts set
.sample_id_all_avail to true, just invert the logic, using
.sample_id_all_missing, that doesn't need to be explicitely initialized
since gcc will zero members ommitted in a struct initialization.

Just like the newly introduced .exclude_{guest,host} feature test.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ab772uzk78cwybihf0vt7kxw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-02-14 14:18:57 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 0c9781280f perf tools: Handle kernels that don't support attr.exclude_{guest,host}
Just fall back to resetting those fields, if set, warning the user that
that feature is not available.

If guest samples appear they will just be discarded because no struct
machine will be found and thus the event will be accounted as not
handled and dropped, see 0c09571.

Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vuwxig36mzprl5n7nzvnxxsh@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-02-14 14:05:30 -02:00
Stephane Eranian 7e1ccd3804 perf tools: cleanup initialization of attr->size
The perf_event_attr size needs to be initialized in all cases because it
captures the ABI version.

This patch moves the initialization of the field from the
perf_event_open() syscall stub to its proper location in the
event_attr_init().

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120209151238.GA10272@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-02-13 23:35:04 -02:00
David Ahern b52956c961 perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top
Allow a user to collect events for multiple threads or processes
using a comma separated list.

e.g., collect data on a VM and its vhost thread:
  perf top -p 21483,21485
  perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
  perf record -p 21483,21485

or monitoring vcpu threads
  perf top -t 21488,21489
  perf stat -t 21488,21489 -ddd
  perf record -t 21488,21489

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328718772-16688-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-02-13 22:54:11 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 0d37aa34f8 perf tools: Introduce per user view
The new --uid command line option will show only the tasks for a given
user, using the proc interface to figure out the existing tasks.

Kernel work is needed to close races at startup, but this should already
be useful in many use cases.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bdnspm000gw2l984a2t53o8z@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-01-24 19:47:37 -02:00
Andrew Vagin 3e76ac78b0 perf record: Add ability to record event period
The problem is that when SAMPLE_PERIOD is not set, the kernel generates
a number of samples in proportion to an event's period. Number of these
samples may be too big and the kernel throttles all samples above a
defined limit.

E.g.: I want to trace when a process sleeps. I created a process which
sleeps for 1ms and for 4ms.  perf got 100 events in both cases.

swapper 0 [000] 1141.371830: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=1386750 [ns]
swapper 0 [000] 1141.369444: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=4499585 [ns]

In the first case a kernel want to send 4499585 events and in the second
case it wants to send 1386750 events.  perf-reports shows that process
sleeps in both places equal time.

Instead of this we can get only one sample with an attribute period. As
result we have less data transferring between kernel and user-space and
we avoid throttling of samples.

The patch "events: Don't divide events if it has field period" added a
kernel part of this functionality.

Acked-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: devel@openvz.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324391565-1369947-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-20 12:50:09 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo ed80f5813f perf record: Move 'group' to perf_event_ops
Will be used in other tools to share the command line parsing code.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8x0yr77r6lrd2t699s499m8n@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28 10:36:27 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 01c2d99bcf perf record: Move mmap_pages to perf_record_opts
Tools being developed will need this to allow the user to override this
value.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zydc1yhxfm0z35fuy95bsn1l@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28 10:34:50 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 35b9d88ecd perf evlist: Introduce {prepare,start}_workload refactored from 'perf record'
So that we can easily start a workload in other tools.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zdsksd4aphu0nltg2lpwsw3x@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28 10:26:14 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 0f82ebc452 perf evsel: Introduce config attr method
Out of the code in 'perf record', so that we can share option parsing,
etc. Eventually will be used by 'perf top', but first 'trace' will use
it.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-hzjqsgnte1esk90ytq0ap98v@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28 10:25:31 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 3af6e33867 perf ui browser: Handle SIGWINCH
To do that we needed to stop using newtForm, as we don't want libnewt to
catch the xterm resize signal.

Remove some more newt calls and instead use the underlying libslang
directly. In time tools/perf will use just libslang.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-h1824yjiru5n2ivz4bseizwj@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-13 08:52:46 -03:00
Stephane Eranian fbe96f29ce perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8)
The goal of this patch is to include more information about the host
environment into the perf.data so it is more self-descriptive. Overtime,
profiles are captured on various machines and it becomes hard to track
what was recorded, on what machine and when.

This patch provides a way to solve this by extending the perf.data file
with basic information about the host machine. To add those extensions,
we leverage the feature bits capabilities of the perf.data format.  The
change is backward compatible with existing perf.data files.

We define the following useful new extensions:
 - HEADER_HOSTNAME: the hostname
 - HEADER_OSRELEASE: the kernel release number
 - HEADER_ARCH: the hw architecture
 - HEADER_CPUDESC: generic CPU description
 - HEADER_NRCPUS: number of online/avail cpus
 - HEADER_CMDLINE: perf command line
 - HEADER_VERSION: perf version
 - HEADER_TOPOLOGY: cpu topology
 - HEADER_EVENT_DESC: full event description (attrs)
 - HEADER_CPUID: easy-to-parse low level CPU identication

The small granularity for the entries is to make it easier to extend
without breaking backward compatiblity. Many entries are provided as
ASCII strings.

Perf report/script have been modified to print the basic information as
easy-to-parse ASCII strings. Extended information about CPU and NUMA
topology may be requested with the -I option.

Thanks to David Ahern for reviewing and testing the many versions of
this patch.

 $ perf report --stdio
 # ========
 # captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011
 # hostname : quad
 # os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip
 # perf version : 3.1.0-rc4
 # arch : x86_64
 # nrcpus online : 4
 # nrcpus avail : 4
 # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
 # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11
 # total memory : 8105360 kB
 # cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date
 # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31,
 # HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
 # HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
 # ========
 #
 ...

 $ perf report --stdio -I
 # ========
 # captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011
 # hostname : quad
 # os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip
 # perf version : 3.1.0-rc4
 # arch : x86_64
 # nrcpus online : 4
 # nrcpus avail : 4
 # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
 # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11
 # total memory : 8105360 kB
 # cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date
 # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31,
 # sibling cores   : 0-3
 # sibling threads : 0
 # sibling threads : 1
 # sibling threads : 2
 # sibling threads : 3
 # node0 meminfo  : total = 8320608 kB, free = 7571024 kB
 # node0 cpu list : 0-3
 # ========
 #
 ...

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110930134040.GA5575@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ committer notes: Use --show-info in the tools as was in the docs, rename
  perf_header_fprintf_info to perf_file_section__fprintf_info, fixup
  conflict with f69b64f7 "perf: Support setting the disassembler style" ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-07 17:01:24 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 115d2d8963 perf record: Move perf_mmap__write_tail to perf.h
Close to perf_mmap__read_head() and the perf_mmap struct definition.
This is useful for any recorder, and we will need it in 'perf test'.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-22 19:56:29 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 70082dd92c perf evsel: Introduce mmap support
Out of the code in 'perf top'. Record is next in line.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-22 19:56:29 -02:00
Deng-Cheng Zhu c1e028ef40 perf, MIPS: Support cross compiling of tools/perf for MIPS
Changes:
 v4: Fix the cosmetic issue of redundant dot-ops
 v3: Change rmb() to use SYNC
 v2: Include mips unistd.h and define rmb()/cpu_relax() in tools/perf/perf.h

Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-12 13:34:37 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 8035458fbb perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-17 16:22:37 -03:00
Zhang, Yanmin a1645ce12a perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host
Here is the patch of userspace perf tool.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-19 12:37:24 +03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 618038df35 perf tools: Move __used from perf.h to linux/compiler.h
Just like in the kernel and also to remove the need to include
perf.h in the symbol subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1269557941-15617-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-26 08:52:59 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 895f0edc3c perf top: Export get_window_dimensions
Will be used by the newt code too.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1268349164-5822-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-12 10:28:36 +01:00
Will Deacon da7196e1f9 perf, ARM: Modify kuser rmb() call to compile for Thumb-2
The Thumb-2 instruction set does not provide an encoding
for sub pc, r0, #95 as present in the rmb() definition used
by perf. This results in compilation failure when using a
compiler targetting an instruction set other than ARM.

This patch redefines rmb() for ARM by casting the address
of the kuser helper to a function pointer, therefore getting
the compiler to take care of making the call.

Patch taken against tip/master.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.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: <1267616878-2154-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-04 12:13:28 +01:00
Jamie Iles 58e9f94138 perf tools: Allow building for ARM
Add definitions of rmb() and cpu_relax() and include the ARM
unistd.h header. The __kuser_memory_barrier helper in the helper
page is used to provide the correct memory barrier depending on
the CPU type.

[ The rmb() will work on v6 and v7, segfault on v5. Dynamic
  detection to add v5 support will be added later. ]

Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
LKML-Reference: <1260534009-5394-1-git-send-email-jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-11 13:50:21 +01:00
Luck, Tony 11ada26c78 perf tools: Add ia64 support for tools/perf/
Compiler on ia64 rejects the "-m64" option.
Add arch specific pieces to perf.h

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <4b02d7f43514327a@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-19 06:03:33 +01:00
Michael Cree fcd14b3203 perf tools, Alpha: Add Alpha support to perf.h
For the perf tool the patch implements an Alpha specific section
in the perf.h header file.

Signed-off-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1256545926-6972-1-git-send-email-mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-26 09:45:41 +01:00
Ingo Molnar cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
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>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Jens Axboe 825c9fb47a sparc: add basic support for 'perf'
This wires up the perf_counter_open() syscall so that basic
software support for perf is working.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-04 02:56:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3c3301083e Merge branch 'perf-counters-for-linus' of 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
  ...
2009-07-22 11:41:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 85be928c41 Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (50 commits)
  perf report: Add "Fractal" mode output - support callchains with relative overhead rate
  perf_counter tools: callchains: Manage the cumul hits on the fly
  perf report: Change default callchain parameters
  perf report: Use a modifiable string for default callchain options
  perf report: Warn on callchain output request from non-callchain file
  x86: atomic64: Inline atomic64_read() again
  x86: atomic64: Clean up atomic64_sub_and_test() and atomic64_add_negative()
  x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_xchg()
  x86: atomic64: Export APIs to modules
  x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_read()
  x86: atomic64: Code atomic(64)_read and atomic(64)_set in C not CPP
  x86: atomic64: Fix unclean type use in atomic64_xchg()
  x86: atomic64: Make atomic_read() type-safe
  x86: atomic64: Reduce size of functions
  x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_add_return()
  x86: atomic64: Improve cmpxchg8b()
  x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_read()
  x86: atomic64: Move the 32-bit atomic64_t implementation to a .c file
  x86: atomic64: The atomic64_t data type should be 8 bytes aligned on 32-bit too
  perf report: Annotate variable initialization
  ...
2009-07-10 14:25:03 -07:00
Vince Weaver 11d1578f94 perf_counter: Add P6 PMU support
Add basic P6 PMU support. The P6 uses the EVNTSEL0 EN bit to
enable/disable both its counters. We use this for the
global enable/disable, and clear all config bits (except EN)
to disable individual counters.

Actual ia32 hardware doesn't support lfence, so use a locked
op without side-effect to implement a full barrier.

perf stat and perf record seem to function correctly.

[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: cleanups and complete the enable/disable code]

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0907081718450.2715@pianoman.cluster.toy>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-10 10:28:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds de481ba925 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (27 commits)
  parisc: use generic atomic64 on 32-bit
  parisc: superio: fix build breakage
  parisc: Fix PCI resource allocation on non-PAT SBA machines
  parisc: perf: wire up sys_perf_counter_open
  parisc: add task_pt_regs macro
  parisc: wire sys_perf_counter_open to sys_ni_syscall
  parisc: inventory.c, fix bloated stack frame
  parisc: processor.c, fix bloated stack frame
  parisc: fix compile warning in mm/init.c
  parisc: remove dead code from sys_parisc32.c
  parisc: wire up rt_tgsigqueueinfo
  parisc: ensure broadcast tlb purge runs single threaded
  parisc: fix "delay!" timer handling
  parisc: fix mismatched parenthesis in memcpy.c
  parisc: Fix gcc 4.4 warning in lba_pci.c
  parisc: add parameter to read_cr16()
  parisc: decode_exc.c should include kernel.h
  parisc: remove obsolete hw_interrupt_type
  parisc: fix irq compile bugs in arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
  parisc: advertise PCI devs after "assign_resources"
  ...

Manually fixed up trivial conflicts in tools/perf/perf.h due to addition
of SH vs HPPA perf-counter support.
2009-07-04 10:35:12 -07:00
Kyle McMartin 2d4618dce6 parisc: perf: wire up sys_perf_counter_open
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2009-07-03 03:34:12 +00:00
Linus Torvalds 5a475ce469 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  sh: LCDC dcache flush for deferred io
  sh: Fix compiler error and include the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE
  sh: re-add LCDC fbdev support to the Migo-R defconfig
  sh: fix se7724 ceu names
  sh: ms7724se: Enable sh_eth in defconfig.
  arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7206/io.c: Remove unnecessary semicolons
  sh: ms7724se: Add sh_eth support
  nommu: provide follow_pfn().
  sh: Kill off unused DEBUG_BOOTMEM symbol.
  perf_counter tools: add cpu_relax()/rmb() definitions for sh.
  sh64: Hook up page fault events for software perf counters.
  sh: Hook up page fault events for software perf counters.
  sh: make set_perf_counter_pending() static inline.
  clocksource: sh_tmu: Make undefined TCOR behaviour less undefined.
2009-07-01 11:46:30 -07:00
Ingo Molnar f37a291c52 perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them
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>
2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 55bcab4695 Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (47 commits)
  perf report: Add --symbols parameter
  perf report: Add --comms parameter
  perf report: Add --dsos parameter
  perf_counter tools: Adjust only prelinked symbol's addresses
  perf_counter: Provide a way to enable counters on exec
  perf_counter tools: Reduce perf stat measurement overhead/skew
  perf stat: Use percentages for scaling output
  perf_counter, x86: Update x86_pmu after WARN()
  perf stat: Micro-optimize the code: memcpy is only required if no event is selected and !null_run
  perf stat: Improve output
  perf stat: Fix multi-run stats
  perf stat: Add -n/--null option to run without counters
  perf_counter tools: Remove dead code
  perf_counter: Complete counter swap
  perf report: Print sorted callchains per histogram entries
  perf_counter tools: Prepare a small callchain framework
  perf record: Fix unhandled io return value
  perf_counter tools: Add alias for 'l1d' and 'l1i'
  perf-report: Add bare minimum PERF_EVENT_READ parsing
  perf-report: Add modes for inherited stats and no-samples
  ...
2009-06-30 19:02:59 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 8cb76d99d7 perf_counter tools: Prepare a small callchain framework
We plan to display the callchains depending on some user-configurable
parameters.

To gather the callchains stats from the recorded stream in a fast way,
this patch introduces an ad hoc radix tree adapted for callchains and also
a rbtree to sort these callchains once we have gathered every events
from the stream.

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>
LKML-Reference: <1246026481-8314-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-26 16:47:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7c6a1c65bb perf_counter tools: Rework the file format
Create a structured file format that includes the full
perf_counter_attr and all its relevant counter IDs so that
the reporting program has full information.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 21:39:04 +02:00
Paul Mundt febe834535 perf_counter tools: add cpu_relax()/rmb() definitions for sh.
Simple cpu_relax()/rmb() stubs that perf needs, which were inadvertently
omitted from the sh HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS patch.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-06-25 14:41:57 +09:00
Martin Schwidefsky 12310e9c1b [S390] Enable tick based perf_counter on s390.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-06-22 12:08:24 +02:00
Paul Mackerras 9cffa8d533 perf_counter tools: Define and use our own u64, s64 etc. definitions
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>
2009-06-19 18:25:47 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f5970550d5 perf_counter tools: Add a data file header
Add a data file header so we can transfer data between record and report.

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-19 13:42:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 974802eaa1 perf_counter: Add forward/backward attribute ABI compatibility
Provide for means of extending the perf_counter_attr in a 'natural' way.

We allow growing the structure by appending fields at the end by specifying
the full structure size inside it.

When a new kernel sees a smaller (old) structure, it will 0 pad the tail.
When an old kernel sees a larger (new) structure, it will verify the tail
consists of 0s, otherwise fail.

If we fail due to a size-mismatch, we return -E2BIG and write the kernel's
native attribe size back into the provided structure.

Furthermore, add some attribute verification, so that we'll fail counter
creation when unknown bits are present (PERF_SAMPLE, PERF_FORMAT, or in
the __reserved fields).

(This ABI detail is introduced while keeping the existing syscall ABI.)

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>
2009-06-12 14:28:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 864709302a perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/
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>
2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00