perf report/script/... have a --time option to limit the time range of
output. That's very useful to slice large traces, e.g. when processing
the output of perf script for some analysis.
But right now --time only supports absolute time. Also there is no fast
way to get the start/end times of a given trace except for looking at
it. This makes it hard to e.g. only decode the first half of the trace,
which is useful for parallelization of scripts
Another problem is that perf records are variable size and there is no
synchronization mechanism. So the only way to find the last sample
reliably would be to walk all samples. But we want to avoid that in perf
report/... because it is already quite expensive. That is why storing
the first sample time and last sample time in perf record is better.
This patch creates a new header feature type HEADER_SAMPLE_TIME and
related ops. Save the first sample time and the last sample time to the
feature section in perf file header. That will be done when, for
instance, processing build-ids, where we already have to process all
samples to create the build-id table, take advantage of that to further
amortize that processing by storing HEADER_SAMPLE_TIME to make 'perf
report/script' faster when using --time.
Committer testing:
After this patch is applied the header is written with zeroes, we need
the next patch, for "perf record" to actually write the timestamps:
# perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE\(
22501155244406 0x44f0 [0x28]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 25016/25016: 0xffffffffa21be8c5 period: 1 addr: 0
<SNIP>
22501155793625 0x4a30 [0x28]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 25016/25016: 0xffffffffa21ffd50 period: 2828043 addr: 0
# perf report --header | grep "time of "
# time of first sample : 0.000000
# time of last sample : 0.000000
#
Changelog:
v7: 1. Rebase to latest perf/core branch.
2. Add following clarification in patch description according to
Arnaldo's suggestion.
"That will be done when, for instance, processing build-ids,
where we already have to process all samples to create the
build-id table, take advantage of that to further amortize
that processing by storing HEADER_SAMPLE_TIME to make
'perf report/script' faster when using --time."
v4: Use perf script time style for timestamp printing. Also add with
the printing of sample duration.
v3: Remove the definitions of first_sample_time/last_sample_time from
perf_session. Just define them in perf_evlist
Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512738826-2628-2-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add header record types to pipe-mode, reusing the functions
used in file-mode and leveraging the new struct feat_fd.
For alignment, check that synthesized events don't exceed
pagesize.
Add the perf_event__synthesize_feature event call back to
process the new header records.
Before this patch:
$ perf record -o - -e cycles sleep 1 | perf report --stdio --header
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
...
After this patch:
$ perf record -o - -e cycles sleep 1 | perf report --stdio --header
# ========
# captured on: Mon May 22 16:33:43 2017
# ========
#
# hostname : my_hostname
# os release : 4.11.0-dbx-up_perf
# perf version : 4.11.rc6.g6277c80
# arch : x86_64
# nrcpus online : 72
# nrcpus avail : 72
# cpudesc : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2696 v3 @ 2.30GHz
# cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,63,2
# total memory : 263457192 kB
# cmdline : /root/perf record -o - -e cycles -c 100000 sleep 1
# HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
# HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
# pmu mappings: intel_bts = 6, uncore_imc_4 = 22, uncore_sbox_1 = 47, uncore_cbox_5 = 33, uncore_ha_0 = 16, uncore_cbox
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
...
Support added for the subcommands: report, inject, annotate and script.
Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Simon Que <sque@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170718042549.145161-16-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mostly in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131350.cebeecd8bd0f2968417626ab@arm.com
[ Fix spelling of "parameter" in one of the spell-checked lines ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add a minimal description of pipe's data format.
Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Simon Que <sque@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410201432.24807-4-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The existing link is outdated. The most recent quipper code can be found at the
new URL.
Committer notes:
Quipper is a C++ parser that can be used to convert from a perf.data
file to and from a protobuf, a Chromium OS facility.
Signed-off-by: Simon Que <sque@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Chong Jiang <chongjiang@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4q1nm7jl3vovp66p5bki20pq@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add some documentation for the on disk format of perf.data. This is not
documenting the actual perf events -- which are documented in
perf_event.h -- but just the additional headers that perf record adds
around them when writing the data to disk.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466800885-12974-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Jin Yao