perf record: Allow to limit number of reported perf.data files

When doing long term recording and waiting for some event to snapshot
on, we often only care about the last minute or so.

perf record: Allow to limit number of reported perf.data files

When doing long term recording and waiting for some event to snapshot
on, we often only care about the last minute or so.

The --switch-output command line option supports rotating the perf.data
file when the size exceeds a threshold. But the disk would still be
filled with unnecessary old files.

Add a new option to only keep a number of rotated files, so that the
disk space usage can be limited.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
LPU-Reference: 20190314225002.30108-3-andi@firstfloor.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-y5u2lik0ragt4vlktz6qc9ks@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Implement --affinity=node|cpu option

Implement --affinity=node|cpu option for the record mode defaulting
to system affinity mask bouncing.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Bud

perf record: Implement --affinity=node|cpu option

Implement --affinity=node|cpu option for the record mode defaulting
to system affinity mask bouncing.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/083f5422-ece9-10dd-8305-bf59c860f10f@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Add documentation for BPF event selection

Add documentation for how to pass a BPF program as a perf event.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Cc: Jir

perf tools: Add documentation for BPF event selection

Add documentation for how to pass a BPF program as a perf event.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190201134651.12373-1-changbin.du@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Extend trace writing to multi AIO

Multi AIO trace writing allows caching more kernel data into userspace
memory postponing trace writing for the sake of overall profiling da

perf record: Extend trace writing to multi AIO

Multi AIO trace writing allows caching more kernel data into userspace
memory postponing trace writing for the sake of overall profiling data
thruput increase. It could be seen as kernel data buffer extension into
userspace memory.

With an --aio option value different from 0 (default value is 1) the
tool has capability to cache more and more data into user space along
with delegating spill to AIO.

That allows avoiding to suspend at record__aio_sync() between calls of
record__mmap_read_evlist() and increases profiling data thruput at the
cost of userspace memory.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/050bb053-e7f3-aa83-fde7-f27ff90be7f6@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Enable asynchronous trace writing

The trace file offset is read once before mmaps iterating loop and
written back after all performance data is enqueued for aio writing.

perf record: Enable asynchronous trace writing

The trace file offset is read once before mmaps iterating loop and
written back after all performance data is enqueued for aio writing.

The trace file offset is incremented linearly after every successful aio
write operation.

record__aio_sync() blocks till completion of the started AIO operation
and then proceeds.

record__aio_mmap_read_sync() implements a barrier for all incomplete
aio write requests.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ce2d45e9-d236-871c-7c8f-1bed2d37e8ac@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf, tools: Use correct articles in comments

Some of the comments in the perf events code use articles incorrectly,
using 'a' for words beginning with a vowel sound, where 'an' should b

perf, tools: Use correct articles in comments

Some of the comments in the perf events code use articles incorrectly,
using 'a' for words beginning with a vowel sound, where 'an' should be
used.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Tefke <tobias.tefke@tutanota.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: namhyung@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180709105715.22938-1-tobias.tefke@tutanota.com
[ Fix a few more perf related 'a event' typo fixes from all around the kernel and tooling tree. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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perf record: Enable arbitrary event names thru name= modifier

Enable complex event names containing [.:=,] symbols to be encoded into Perf
trace using name= modifier e.g. like this:

perf record: Enable arbitrary event names thru name= modifier

Enable complex event names containing [.:=,] symbols to be encoded into Perf
trace using name= modifier e.g. like this:

perf record -e cpu/name=\'OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM\',\
period=0x3567e0,event=0x3c,cmask=0x1/Duk ./futex

Below is how it looks like in the report output. Please note explicit escaped
quoting at cmdline string in the header so that thestring can be directly reused
for another collection in shell:

perf report --header

# ========
...
# cmdline : /root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/perf record -v -e cpu/name=\'OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM\',period=0x3567e0,event=0x3c,cmask=0x1/Duk ./futex
# event : name = OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM, , type = 4, size = 112, config = 0x100003c, { sample_period, sample_freq } = 3500000, sample_type = IP|TID|TIME, disabled = 1, inh
...
# ========
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 24K of event 'OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM'
# Event count (approx.): 86492000000
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ................ ..............................................
#
14.75% futex [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __entry_trampoline_start
...

perf stat -e cpu/name=\'CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD:cmask=0x1\',period=0x3567e0,event=0x3c,cmask=0x1/Duk ./futex

10000000 process context switches in 16678890291ns (1667.9ns/ctxsw)

Performance counter stats for './futex':

88,095,770,571 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD:cmask=0x1

16.679542407 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c194b060-761d-0d50-3b21-bb4ed680002d@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Throttle user defined frequencies to the maximum allowed

# perf record -F 200000 sleep 1
warning: Maximum frequency rate (15,000 Hz) exceeded, throttling from 200,000 Hz

perf record: Throttle user defined frequencies to the maximum allowed

# perf record -F 200000 sleep 1
warning: Maximum frequency rate (15,000 Hz) exceeded, throttling from 200,000 Hz to 15,000 Hz.
The limit can be raised via /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate.
The kernel will lower it when perf's interrupts take too long.
Use --strict-freq to disable this throttling, refusing to record.
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (15 samples) ]
# perf evlist -v
cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 15000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1

For those wanting that it fails if the desired frequency can't be used:

# perf record --strict-freq -F 200000 sleep 1
error: Maximum frequency rate (15,000 Hz) exceeded.
Please use -F freq option with a lower value or consider
tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate.
#

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-oyebruc44nlja499nqkr1nzn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Allow asking for the maximum allowed sample rate

Add the handy '-F max' shortcut to reading and using the
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate value as the user supplied
sa

perf record: Allow asking for the maximum allowed sample rate

Add the handy '-F max' shortcut to reading and using the
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate value as the user supplied
sampling frequency:

# perf record -F max sleep 1
info: Using a maximum frequency rate of 15,000 Hz
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (14 samples) ]
# sysctl kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate = 15000
# perf evlist -v
cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 15000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1

# perf record -F 10 sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (4 samples) ]
# perf evlist -v
cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 10, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1
#

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4y0tiuws62c64gp4cf0hme0m@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf cgroup: Simplify arguments when tracking multiple events

When using -G with one cgroup and -e with multiple events, only the
first event gets the correct cgroup setting, all events

perf cgroup: Simplify arguments when tracking multiple events

When using -G with one cgroup and -e with multiple events, only the
first event gets the correct cgroup setting, all events from the second
onwards will track system-wide events.

If the user wants to track multiple events for a specific cgroup, the
user must give parameters like the following:

$ perf stat -e e1 -e e2 -e e3 -G test,test,test

This patch simplify this case, just type one cgroup:

$ perf stat -e e1 -e e2 -e e3 -G test

$ mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event/empty_cgroup
$ perf stat -e cycles -e cache-misses -a -I 1000 -G empty_cgroup

Before:

1.001007226 <not counted> cycles empty_cgroup
1.001007226 7,506 cache-misses

After:

1.000834097 <not counted> cycles empty_cgroup
1.000834097 <not counted> cache-misses empty_cgroup

Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.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: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129154805.GA6284@localhost.didichuxing.com
[ Improved the doc text a bit, providing an example for cgroup + system wide counting ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Record the first and last sample time in the header

In the default 'perf record' configuration, all samples are processed,
to create the HEADER_BUILD_ID table. So it's very

perf record: Record the first and last sample time in the header

In the default 'perf record' configuration, all samples are processed,
to create the HEADER_BUILD_ID table. So it's very easy to get the
first/last samples and save the time to perf file header via the
function write_sample_time().

Later, at post processing time, perf report/script will fetch the time
from perf file header.

Committer testing:

# perf record -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.099 MB perf.data (1101 samples) ]
[root@jouet home]# perf report --header | grep "time of "
# time of first sample : 22947.909226
# time of last sample : 22948.910704
#
# perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE\(
0 22947909226101 0x20bb68 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa21b1af3 period: 1 addr: 0
0 22947909229928 0x20bb98 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa200d204 period: 1 addr: 0
<SNIP>
3 22948910397351 0x219360 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 28251/28251: 0xffffffffa22071d8 period: 169518 addr: 0
0 22948910652380 0x20f120 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa2856816 period: 198807 addr: 0
2 22948910704034 0x2172d0 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa2856816 period: 88111 addr: 0
#

Changelog:

v7: Just update the patch description according to Arnaldo's suggestion.

v6: Currently '--buildid-all' is not enabled at default. So the walking
on all samples is the default operation. There is no big overhead
to calculate the timestamp boundary in process_sample_event handler
once we already go through all samples. So the timestamp boundary
calculation is enabled by default when '--buildid-all' is not enabled.

While if '--buildid-all' is enabled, we creates a new option
"--timestamp-boundary" for user to decide if it enables the
timestamp boundary calculation.

v5: There is an issue that the sample walking can only work when
'--buildid-all' is not enabled. So we need to let the walking
be able to work even if '--buildid-all' is enabled and let the
processing skips the dso hit marking for this case.

At first, I want to provide a new option "--record-time-boundaries".
While after consideration, I think a new option is not very
necessary.

v3: Remove the definitions of first_sample_time and last_sample_time
from struct record and directly save 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/1512738826-2628-3-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

perf record: Fix documentation for a inexistent option '-l'

'perf record' had a '-l' option that meant "scale counter values" a very
long time ago, but it currently belongs to 'perf stat

perf record: Fix documentation for a inexistent option '-l'

'perf record' had a '-l' option that meant "scale counter values" a very
long time ago, but it currently belongs to 'perf stat' as '-c'. So
remove it. I found this problem in the below case.

$ perf record -e cycles -l sleep 3
Error: unknown switch `l

Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507907412-19813-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Support direct --user-regs arguments

USER_REGS can currently only collected implicitely with call graph
recording. Sometimes it is useful to see them separately, and filter

perf record: Support direct --user-regs arguments

USER_REGS can currently only collected implicitely with call graph
recording. Sometimes it is useful to see them separately, and filter
them. Add a new --user-regs option to record that is similar to
--intr-regs, but acts on user regs.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170905170029.19722-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Support new sample type for physical address

Support new sample type PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR for physical address.

Add new option --phys-data to record sample physical add

perf tools: Support new sample type for physical address

Support new sample type PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR for physical address.

Add new option --phys-data to record sample physical address.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504026672-7304-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
[ Added missing printing in evsel.c patch sent by Jiri Olsa ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Create a new option save_type in --branch-filter

The option indicates the kernel to save branch type during sampling.

One example:

perf record -g --branch-fi

perf record: Create a new option save_type in --branch-filter

The option indicates the kernel to save branch type during sampling.

One example:

perf record -g --branch-filter any,save_type <command>

Signed-off-by: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500379995-6449-4-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Fix spelling mistakes

Mostly in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>

perf tools: Fix spelling mistakes

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>

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perf tools: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info

Introduce a new option to record PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES events emitted
by the kernel when fork, clone, setns or

perf tools: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info

Introduce a new option to record PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES events emitted
by the kernel when fork, clone, setns or unshare are invoked. And update
perf-record documentation with the new option to record namespace
events.

Committer notes:

Combined it with a later patch to allow printing it via 'perf report -D'
and be able to test the feature introduced in this patch. Had to move
here also perf_ns__name(), that was introduced in another later patch.

Also used PRIu64 and PRIx64 to fix the build in some enfironments wrt:

util/event.c:1129:39: error: format '%lx' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type 'long long unsigned int' [-Werror=format=]
ret += fprintf(fp, "%u/%s: %lu/0x%lx%s", idx
^
Testing it:

# perf record --namespaces -a
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.083 MB perf.data (423 samples) ]
#
# perf report -D
<SNIP>
3 2028902078892 0x115140 [0xa0]: PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES 14783/14783 - nr_namespaces: 7
[0/net: 3/0xf0000081, 1/uts: 3/0xeffffffe, 2/ipc: 3/0xefffffff, 3/pid: 3/0xeffffffc,
4/user: 3/0xeffffffd, 5/mnt: 3/0xf0000000, 6/cgroup: 3/0xeffffffb]

0x1151e0 [0x30]: event: 9
.
. ... raw event: size 48 bytes
. 0000: 09 00 00 00 02 00 30 00 c4 71 82 68 0c 7f 00 00 ......0..q.h....
. 0010: a9 39 00 00 a9 39 00 00 94 28 fe 63 d8 01 00 00 .9...9...(.c....
. 0020: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ce c4 02 00 00 00 00 00 ................
<SNIP>
NAMESPACES events: 1
<SNIP>
#

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.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: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891930386.25309.18412039920746995488.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Add -a as default target

Running 'perf record' with no target (-a, -p, -t, etc) will now collect
system wide data.

Commiter notes:

Testing it:

[

perf record: Add -a as default target

Running 'perf record' with no target (-a, -p, -t, etc) will now collect
system wide data.

Commiter notes:

Testing it:

[root@jouet ~]# perf record
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.351 MB perf.data (366 samples) ]
#

is equivalent to:

# perf record -a
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.411 MB perf.data (978 samples) ]
#

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217170018.GA15389@krava
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Add switch-output time option argument

It's now possible to specify the threshold time for perf.data like:

$ perf record --switch-output=30s ...

Once it's re

perf record: Add switch-output time option argument

It's now possible to specify the threshold time for perf.data like:

$ perf record --switch-output=30s ...

Once it's reached, the current data are dumped in to the
perf.data.<timestamp> file and session does on.

$ perf record --switch-output=30s ...
[ perf record: dump data: Woken up 44 times ]
[ perf record: Dump perf.data.2017010213043746 ]
...

The time is expected to be a number with appended unit
character - s/m/h/d.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483955520-29063-7-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Add switch-output size option argument

It's now possible to specify the threshold size for perf.data like:

$ perf record --switch-output=2G ...

Once it's rea

perf record: Add switch-output size option argument

It's now possible to specify the threshold size for perf.data like:

$ perf record --switch-output=2G ...

Once it's reached, the current data are dumped in to the
perf.data.<timestamp> file and session does on.

$ perf record --switch-output=2G ...
[ perf record: dump data: Woken up 7244 times ]
[ perf record: Dump perf.data.2017010214093746 ]
...

The size is expected to be a number with appended unit character -
B/K/M/G.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483955520-29063-5-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Fix --switch-output documentation and comment

There's no --signal-trigger option, also adding the code comment into
record man page.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa

perf record: Fix --switch-output documentation and comment

There's no --signal-trigger option, also adding the code comment into
record man page.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483431600-19887-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Improve documentation of event parameters

- Some editing (params -> parameters)
- Point to the now more complete list of parameters in the perf list
manpage.

Si

perf record: Improve documentation of event parameters

- Some editing (params -> parameters)
- Point to the now more complete list of parameters in the perf list
manpage.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476381433-22959-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Add support for using symbols in address filters

Symbols come from either the DSO or /proc/kallsyms for the kernel.
Details of the functionality can be found in Documentatio

perf record: Add support for using symbols in address filters

Symbols come from either the DSO or /proc/kallsyms for the kernel.
Details of the functionality can be found in Documentation/perf-record.txt.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474641528-18776-8-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Fix documentation 'event_sources' -> 'event_source'

Change '/sys/bus/event_sources' to the correct path which is
'/sys/bus/event_source'.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunt

perf record: Fix documentation 'event_sources' -> 'event_source'

Change '/sys/bus/event_sources' to the correct path which is
'/sys/bus/event_source'.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474641528-18776-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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