perf: Provide a new deterministic events reordering algorithm

The current events reordering algorithm is based on a heuristic that
gets broken once we deal with a very fast flow of event

perf: Provide a new deterministic events reordering algorithm

The current events reordering algorithm is based on a heuristic that
gets broken once we deal with a very fast flow of events.

Indeed the time period based flushing is not suitable anymore
in the following case, assuming we have a flush period of two
seconds.

CPU 0 | CPU 1
|
cnt1 timestamps | cnt1 timestamps
|
0 | 0
1 | 1
2 | 2
3 | 3
[...] | [...]
4 seconds later

If we spend too much time to read the buffers (case of a lot of
events to record in each buffers or when we have a lot of CPU buffers
to read), in the next pass the CPU 0 buffer could contain a slice
of several seconds of events. We'll read them all and notice we've
reached the period to flush. In the above example we flush the first
half of the CPU 0 buffer, then we read the CPU 1 buffer where we
have events that were on the flush slice and then the reordering
fails.

It's simple to reproduce with:

perf lock record perf bench sched messaging

To solve this, we use a new solution that doesn't rely on an
heuristical time slice period anymore but on a deterministic basis
based on how perf record does its job.

perf record saves the buffers through passes. A pass is a tour
on every buffers from every CPUs. This is made in order: for
each CPU we read the buffers of every counters. So the more
buffers we visit, the later will be the timstamps of their events.

When perf record finishes a pass it records a
PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo event.
We record the max timestamp t found in the pass n. Assuming these
timestamps are monotonic across cpus, we know that if a buffer
still has events with timestamps below t, they will be all available
and then read in the pass n + 1.
Hence when we start to read the pass n + 2, we can safely flush every
events with timestamps below t.

============ PASS n =================
CPU 0 | CPU 1
|
cnt1 timestamps | cnt2 timestamps
1 | 2
2 | 3
- | 4 <--- max recorded

============ PASS n + 1 ==============
CPU 0 | CPU 1
|
cnt1 timestamps | cnt2 timestamps
3 | 5
4 | 6
5 | 7 <---- max recorded

Flush every events below timestamp 4

============ PASS n + 2 ==============
CPU 0 | CPU 1
|
cnt1 timestamps | cnt2 timestamps
6 | 8
7 | 9
- | 10

Flush every events below timestamp 7
etc...

It also works on perf.data versions that don't have
PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo events. The difference is that
the events will be only flushed in the end of the perf.data
processing. It will then consume more memory and scale less with
large perf.data files.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

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perf: add perf-inject builtin

Currently, perf 'live mode' writes build-ids at the end of the
session, which isn't actually useful for processing live mode events.

What would be

perf: add perf-inject builtin

Currently, perf 'live mode' writes build-ids at the end of the
session, which isn't actually useful for processing live mode events.

What would be better would be to have the build-ids sent before any of
the samples that reference them, which can be done by processing the
event stream and retrieving the build-ids on the first hit. Doing
that in perf-record itself, however, is off-limits.

This patch introduces perf-inject, which does the same job while
leaving perf-record untouched. Normal mode perf still records the
build-ids at the end of the session as it should, but for live mode,
perf-inject can be injected in between the record and report steps
e.g.:

perf record -o - ./hackbench 10 | perf inject -v -b | perf report -v -i -

perf-inject reads a perf-record event stream and repipes it to stdout.
At any point the processing code can inject other events into the
event stream - in this case build-ids (-b option) are read and
injected as needed into the event stream.

Build-ids are just the first user of perf-inject - potentially
anything that needs userspace processing to augment the trace stream
with additional information could make use of this facility.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1272696080-16435-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf machines: Make the machines class adopt the dsos__fprintf methods

Now those methods don't operate on a global list of dsos, but on lists
of machines, so make this clear by renaming

perf machines: Make the machines class adopt the dsos__fprintf methods

Now those methods don't operate on a global list of dsos, but on lists
of machines, so make this clear by renaming the functions.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Rename "kernel_info" to "machine"

struct kernel_info and kerninfo__ are too vague, what they really
describe are machines, virtual ones or hosts.

There are more chan

perf tools: Rename "kernel_info" to "machine"

struct kernel_info and kerninfo__ are too vague, what they really
describe are machines, virtual ones or hosts.

There are more changes to introduce helpers to shorten function calls
and to make more clear what is really being done, but I left that for
subsequent patches.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@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>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf: Generalize perf lock's sample event reordering to the session layer

The sample events recorded by perf record are not time ordered
because we have one buffer per cpu for each event

perf: Generalize perf lock's sample event reordering to the session layer

The sample events recorded by perf record are not time ordered
because we have one buffer per cpu for each event (even demultiplexed
per task/per cpu for task bound events). But when we read trace events
we want them to be ordered by time because many state machines are
involved.

There are currently two ways perf tools deal with that:

- use -M to multiplex every buffers (perf sched, perf kmem)
But this creates a lot of contention in SMP machines on
record time.

- use a post-processing time reordering (perf timechart, perf lock)
The reordering used by timechart is simple but doesn't scale well
with huge flow of events, in terms of performance and memory use
(unusable with perf lock for example).
Perf lock has its own samples reordering that flushes its memory
use in a regular basis and that uses a sorting based on the
previous event queued (a new event to be queued is close to the
previous one most of the time).

This patch proposes to export perf lock's samples reordering facility
to the session layer that reads the events. So if a tool wants to
get ordered sample events, it needs to set its
struct perf_event_ops::ordered_samples to true and that's it.

This prepares tracing based perf tools to get rid of the need to
use buffers multiplexing (-M) or to implement their own
reordering.

Also lower the flush period to 2 as it's sufficient already.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>

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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-

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>

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perf: Convert perf header build_ids into build_id events

Bypasses the build_id perf header code and replaces it with a
synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the

perf: Convert perf header build_ids into build_id events

Bypasses the build_id perf header code and replaces it with a
synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-9-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf: Convert perf tracing data into a tracing_data event

Bypasses the tracing_data perf header code and replaces it with
a synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes

perf: Convert perf tracing data into a tracing_data event

Bypasses the tracing_data perf header code and replaces it with
a synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes
the same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a
pipe.

The tracing data is pretty large, and this patch doesn't attempt
to break it down into component events. The tracing_data event
itself doesn't actually contain the tracing data, rather it
arranges for the event processing code to skip over it after
it's read, using the skip return value added to the event
processing loop in a previous patch.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-8-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf: Convert perf event types into event type events

Bypasses the event type perf header code and replaces it with a
synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the

perf: Convert perf event types into event type events

Bypasses the event type perf header code and replaces it with a
synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf: Convert perf header attrs into attr events

Bypasses the attr perf header code and replaces it with a
synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
same thing,

perf: Convert perf header attrs into attr events

Bypasses the attr perf header code and replaces it with a
synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe.

Making the attrs into events allows them to be streamed over a
pipe along with the rest of the header data (in later patches).
It also paves the way to allowing events to be added and removed
from perf sessions dynamically.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-6-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf: Add pipe-specific header read/write and event processing code

This patch makes several changes to allow the perf event stream
to be sent and received over a pipe:

- adds p

perf: Add pipe-specific header read/write and event processing code

This patch makes several changes to allow the perf event stream
to be sent and received over a pipe:

- adds pipe-specific versions of the header read/write code

- adds pipe-specific version of the event processing code

- adds a range of event types to be used for header or other
pseudo events, above the range used by the kernel

- checks the return value of event handlers, which they can use
to skip over large events during event processing rather than actually
reading them into event objects.

- unifies the multiple do_read() functions and updates its
users.

Note that none of these changes affect the existing perf data
file format or processing - this code only comes into play if
perf output is sent to stdout (or is read from stdin).

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf newt: Pass the input_name to perf_session__browse_hists

So that it can use it in the 'perf annotate' command line, otherwise
it'll use the default and not the specified -i filename

perf newt: Pass the input_name to perf_session__browse_hists

So that it can use it in the 'perf annotate' command line, otherwise
it'll use the default and not the specified -i filename passed to 'perf
report'.

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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf kmem: Resolve kernel symbols again

Due to the assumption in perf_session__new that the kernel maps would be
created using the fake PERF_RECORD_MMAP event in a perf.data file 'perf

perf kmem: Resolve kernel symbols again

Due to the assumption in perf_session__new that the kernel maps would be
created using the fake PERF_RECORD_MMAP event in a perf.data file 'perf
kmem --stat caller', that doesn't have such event, ends up not being
able to resolve the kernel addresses.

Fix it by calling perf_session__create_kernel_maps() in __cmd_kmem().

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
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>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf report: Add progress bars

For when we are processing the events and inserting the entries in the
browser.

Experimentation here: naming "ui_something" we may be treading int

perf report: Add progress bars

For when we are processing the events and inserting the entries in the
browser.

Experimentation here: naming "ui_something" we may be treading into
creating a TUI/GUI set of routines that can then be implemented in terms
of multiple backends.

Also the time it takes for adding things to the "browser" takes, visually
(I guess I should do some profiling here ;-) ), more time than for
processing the events...

That means we probably need to create a custom hist_entry browser, so
that we reuse the structures we have in place instead of duplicating
them in newt.

But progress was made and at least we can see something while long files
are being loaded, that must be one of UI 101 bullet points :-)

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>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf callchains: Store the map together with the symbol

We need this to know where a symbol in a callchain came from,
for various reasons, among them precise annotation from a
TUI/GU

perf callchains: Store the map together with the symbol

We need this to know where a symbol in a callchain came from,
for various reasons, among them precise annotation from a
TUI/GUI tool.

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: <1269459619-982-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf report: Implement initial UI using newt

Newt has widespread availability and provides a rather simple
API as can be seen by the size of this patch.

The work needed to suppo

perf report: Implement initial UI using newt

Newt has widespread availability and provides a rather simple
API as can be seen by the size of this patch.

The work needed to support it will benefit other frontends too.

In this initial patch it just checks if the output is a tty, if
not it falls back to the previous behaviour, also if
newt-devel/libnewt-dev is not installed the previous behaviour
is maintaned.

Pressing enter on a symbol will annotate it, ESC in the
annotation window will return to the report symbol list.

More work will be done to remove the special casing in
color_fprintf, stop using fmemopen/FILE in the printing of
hist_entries, etc.

Also the annotation doesn't need to be done via spawning "perf
annotate" and then browsing its output, we can do better by
calling directly the builtin-annotate.c functions, that would
then be moved to tools/perf/util/annotate.c and shared with perf
top, etc

But lets go by baby steps, this patch already improves perf
usability by allowing to quickly do annotations on symbols from
the report screen and provides a first experimentation with
libnewt/TUI integration of tools.

Tested on RHEL5 and Fedora12 X86_64 and on Debian PARISC64 to
browse a perf.data file collected on a Fedora12 x86_64 box.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@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: <1268349164-5822-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf session: Add storage for seperating event types in report

This patch adds the structures necessary to count each event
type independently in perf report.

Signed-off-by: Eri

perf session: Add storage for seperating event types in report

This patch adds the structures necessary to count each event
type independently in perf report.

Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1267804269-22660-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf record: Stop intercepting events, use postprocessing to get build-ids

We want to stream events as fast as possible to perf.data, and
also in the future we want to have splice workin

perf record: Stop intercepting events, use postprocessing to get build-ids

We want to stream events as fast as possible to perf.data, and
also in the future we want to have splice working, when no
interception will be possible.

Using build_id__mark_dso_hit_ops to create the list of DSOs that
back MMAPs we also optimize disk usage in the build-id cache by
only caching DSOs that had hits.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf symbols: Remove perf_session usage in symbols layer

I noticed while writing the first test in 'perf regtest' that to
just test the symbol handling routines one needs to create a

perf symbols: Remove perf_session usage in symbols layer

I noticed while writing the first test in 'perf regtest' that to
just test the symbol handling routines one needs to create a
perf session, that is a layer centered on a perf.data file,
events, etc, so I untied these layers.

This reduces the complexity for the users as the number of
parameters to most of the symbols and session APIs now was
reduced while not adding more state to all the map instances by
only having data that is needed to split the kernel (kallsyms
and ELF symtab sections) maps and do vmlinux relocation on the
main kernel map.

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: <1265223128-11786-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf tools: Cross platform perf.data analysis support

There are still some problems related to loading vmlinux files,
but those are unrelated to the feature implemented in this
patch

perf tools: Cross platform perf.data analysis support

There are still some problems related to loading vmlinux files,
but those are unrelated to the feature implemented in this
patch, so will get fixed in the next patches, but here are some
results:

1. collect perf.data file on a Fedora 12 machine, x86_64, 64-bit
userland

2. transfer it to a Debian Testing machine, PARISC64, 32-bit
userland

acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf buildid-list | head -5
74f9930ee94475b6b3238caf3725a50d59cb994b [kernel.kallsyms]
55fdd56670453ea66c011158c4b9d30179c1d049 /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_MASQUERADE.ko
41adff63c730890480980d5d8ba513f1c216a858 /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.ko
90a33def1077bb8e97b8a78546dc96c2de62df46 /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat.ko
984c7bea90ce1376d5c8e7ef43a781801286e62d /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/tun.ko

acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf buildid-list | tail -5
22492f3753c6a67de5c7ccbd6b863390c92c0723 /usr/lib64/libXt.so.6.0.0
353802bb7e1b895ba43507cc678f951e778e4c6f /usr/lib64/libMagickCore.so.2.0.0
d10c2897558595efe7be8b0584cf7e6398bc776c /usr/lib64/libfprint.so.0.0.0
a83ecfb519a788774a84d5ddde633c9ba56c03ab /home/acme/bin/perf
d3ca765a8ecf257d263801d7ad8c49c189082317 /usr/lib64/libdwarf.so.0.0
acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$

acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --sort comm
The file [kernel.kallsyms] cannot be used, trying to use /proc/kallsyms...

^^^^ The problem related to vmlinux handling, it shouldn't be trying this
^^^^ rather alien /proc/kallsyms at all...

/lib64/libpthread-2.10.2.so with build id 5c68f7afeb33309c78037e374b0deee84dd441f6 not found, continuing without symbols
/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so with build id eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 not found, continuing without symbols
/home/acme/bin/perf with build id a83ecfb519a788774a84d5ddde633c9ba56c03ab not found, continuing without symbols
/usr/sbin/openvpn with build id f2037a091ef36b591187a858d75e203690ea9409 not found, continuing without symbols
Failed to open /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko, continuing without symbols
Failed to open /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko, continuing without symbols

<SNIP more complaints about not finding the right build-ids,
those will have to wait for 'perf archive' or plain
copying what was collected by 'perf record' on the x86_64,
source machine, see further below for an example of this >

# Samples: 293085637
#
# Overhead Command
# ........ ...............
#
61.70% find
23.50% perf
5.86% swapper
3.12% sshd
2.39% init
0.87% bash
0.86% sleep
0.59% dbus-daemon
0.25% hald
0.24% NetworkManager
0.19% hald-addon-rfki
0.15% openvpn
0.07% phy0
0.07% events/0
0.05% iwl3945
0.05% events/1
0.03% kondemand/0
acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$

Which matches what we get when running the same command for the
same perf.data file on the F12, x86_64, source machine:

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report --sort comm
# Samples: 293085637
#
# Overhead Command
# ........ ...............
#
61.70% find
23.50% perf
5.86% swapper
3.12% sshd
2.39% init
0.87% bash
0.86% sleep
0.59% dbus-daemon
0.25% hald
0.24% NetworkManager
0.19% hald-addon-rfki
0.15% openvpn
0.07% phy0
0.07% events/0
0.05% iwl3945
0.05% events/1
0.03% kondemand/0
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

The other modes work as well, modulo the problem with vmlinux:

acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --sort comm,dso 2> /dev/null | head -15
# Samples: 293085637
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object
# ........ ............... .................................
#
35.11% find ffffffff81002b5a
18.25% perf ffffffff8102235f
16.17% find libc-2.10.2.so
9.07% find find
5.80% swapper ffffffff8102235f
3.95% perf libc-2.10.2.so
2.33% init ffffffff810091b9
1.65% sshd libcrypto.so.0.9.8k
1.35% find [e1000e]
0.68% sleep libc-2.10.2.so
acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$

And the lack of the right buildids:

acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol 2> /dev/null | head -15
# Samples: 293085637
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ............... ................................. ......
#
35.11% find ffffffff81002b5a [k] 0xffffffff81002b5a
18.25% perf ffffffff8102235f [k] 0xffffffff8102235f
16.17% find libc-2.10.2.so [.] 0x00000000045782
9.07% find find [.] 0x0000000000fb0e
5.80% swapper ffffffff8102235f [k] 0xffffffff8102235f
3.95% perf libc-2.10.2.so [.] 0x0000000007f398
2.33% init ffffffff810091b9 [k] 0xffffffff810091b9
1.65% sshd libcrypto.so.0.9.8k [.] 0x00000000105440
1.35% find [e1000e] [k] 0x00000000010948
0.68% sleep libc-2.10.2.so [.] 0x0000000011ad5b
acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$

But if we:

acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ ls ~/.debug
ls: cannot access /home/acme/.debug: No such file or directory
acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ mkdir -p ~/.debug/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/
acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ scp doppio:.debug/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/* ~/.debug/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/
acme@doppio's password:
eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 100% 1783KB 714.7KB/s 00:02
acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ mkdir -p ~/.debug/.build-id/eb
acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ ln -s ../../lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 ~/.debug/.build-id/eb/4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1
acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --dsos libc-2.10.2.so 2> /dev/null
# dso: libc-2.10.2.so
# Samples: 64281170
#
# Overhead Command Symbol
# ........ ............... ......
#
14.98% perf [.] __GI_strcmp
12.30% find [.] __GI_memmove
9.25% find [.] _int_malloc
7.60% find [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
6.10% find [.] _IO_new_file_xsputn
6.02% find [.] __GI_close
3.08% find [.] _IO_file_overflow_internal
3.08% find [.] malloc_consolidate
3.08% find [.] _int_free
3.08% find [.] __strchrnul
3.08% find [.] __getdents64
3.08% find [.] __write_nocancel
3.08% sleep [.] __GI__dl_addr
3.08% sshd [.] __libc_select
3.08% find [.] _IO_new_file_write
3.07% find [.] _IO_new_do_write
3.06% find [.] __GI___errno_location
3.05% find [.] __GI___libc_malloc
3.04% perf [.] __GI_memcpy
1.71% find [.] __fprintf_chk
1.29% bash [.] __gconv_transform_utf8_internal
0.79% dbus-daemon [.] __GI_strlen
#
# (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
#
acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$

Which matches what we get on the source, F12, x86_64 machine:

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report --dsos libc-2.10.2.so
# dso: libc-2.10.2.so
# Samples: 64281170
#
# Overhead Command Symbol
# ........ ............... ......
#
14.98% perf [.] __GI_strcmp
12.30% find [.] __GI_memmove
9.25% find [.] _int_malloc
7.60% find [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
6.10% find [.] _IO_new_file_xsputn
6.02% find [.] __GI_close
3.08% find [.] _IO_file_overflow_internal
3.08% find [.] malloc_consolidate
3.08% find [.] _int_free
3.08% find [.] __strchrnul
3.08% find [.] __getdents64
3.08% find [.] __write_nocancel
3.08% sleep [.] __GI__dl_addr
3.08% sshd [.] __libc_select
3.08% find [.] _IO_new_file_write
3.07% find [.] _IO_new_do_write
3.06% find [.] __GI___errno_location
3.05% find [.] __GI___libc_malloc
3.04% perf [.] __GI_memcpy
1.71% find [.] __fprintf_chk
1.29% bash [.] __gconv_transform_utf8_internal
0.79% dbus-daemon [.] __GI_strlen
#
# (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
#
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

So I think this is really, really nice in that it demonstrates
the portability of perf.data files and the use of build-ids
accross such aliens worlds :-)

There are some things to fix tho, like the bitmap on the header,
but things are looking good.

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: <1263478990-8200-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf tools: Handle relocatable kernels

DSOs don't have this problem because the kernel emits a
PERF_MMAP for each new executable mapping it performs on
monitored threads.

To

perf tools: Handle relocatable kernels

DSOs don't have this problem because the kernel emits a
PERF_MMAP for each new executable mapping it performs on
monitored threads.

To fix the kernel case we simulate the same behaviour, by having
'perf record' to synthesize a PERF_MMAP for the kernel, encoded
like this:

[root@doppio ~]# perf record -a -f sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.344 MB perf.data (~15038 samples) ]
[root@doppio ~]# perf report -D | head -10

0xd0 [0x40]: event: 1
.
. ... raw event: size 64 bytes
. 0000: 01 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ......@........
. 0010: 00 00 00 81 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...............
. 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5b 6b 65 72 6e 65 6c 2e ........ [kernel
. 0030: 6b 61 6c 6c 73 79 6d 73 2e 5f 74 65 78 74 5d 00 kallsyms._text]
. 0xd0
[0x40]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 0/0: [0xffffffff81000000((nil)) @ (nil)]: [kernel.kallsyms._text]

I.e. we identify such event as having:

.pid = 0
.filename = [kernel.kallsyms.REFNAME]
.start = REFNAME addr in /proc/kallsyms at 'perf record' time

and use now a hardcoded value of '.text' for REFNAME.

Then, later, in 'perf report', if there are any kernel hits and
thus we need to resolve kernel symbols, we search for REFNAME
and if its address changed, relocation happened and we thus must
change the kernel mapping routines to one that uses .pgoff as
the relocation to apply.

This way we use the same mechanism used for the other DSOs and
don't have to do a two pass in all the kernel symbols.

Reported-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1262717431-1246-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf session: Keep pointers to the vmlinux maps

So that tools such as 'perf probe' don't have to lookup
'[kernel.kallsyms]' but instead access them directly after
perf_session__creat

perf session: Keep pointers to the vmlinux maps

So that tools such as 'perf probe' don't have to lookup
'[kernel.kallsyms]' but instead access them directly after
perf_session__create_kernel_maps or
map_groups__create_kernel_maps.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@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: <1262629169-22797-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf session: Remove redundant prefix & suffix from perf_event_ops

Since now all that we have are perf event handlers, leave just
the name of the event.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo C

perf session: Remove redundant prefix & suffix from perf_event_ops

Since now all that we have are perf event handlers, leave just
the name of the event.

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: <1261957026-15580-9-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf session: Move full_paths config to symbol_conf

Now perf_event_ops has just that, event handlers.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weis

perf session: Move full_paths config to symbol_conf

Now perf_event_ops has just that, event handlers.

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: <1261957026-15580-8-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf session: Move total_unknown to perf_session->unknown events

As this is a session property, not belonging to perf_event_ops,
that can be shared by many perf_session instances.

perf session: Move total_unknown to perf_session->unknown events

As this is a session property, not belonging to perf_event_ops,
that can be shared by many perf_session instances.

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: <1261957026-15580-7-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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