perf: Fix parsing of __print_flags() in TP_printk()

A update is made to the sched:sched_switch event that adds some
logic to the first parameter of the __print_flags() that shows the

perf: Fix parsing of __print_flags() in TP_printk()

A update is made to the sched:sched_switch event that adds some
logic to the first parameter of the __print_flags() that shows the
state of tasks. This change cause perf to fail parsing the flags.

A simple fix is needed to have the parser be able to process ops
within the argument.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression

Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread)
introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degra

rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression

Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread)
introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded
performance by about 40%.

The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed
high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has
64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second
which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of
the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks,
but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods.
This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite
a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related
processing to be done.

Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock
contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points
out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which
means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes,
perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not
going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around
this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.)

This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only
for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context,
so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the
common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to
skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread

If RCU priority boosting is to be meaningful, callback invocation must
be boosted in addition to preempted RCU readers. Otherwise, in presence

rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread

If RCU priority boosting is to be meaningful, callback invocation must
be boosted in addition to preempted RCU readers. Otherwise, in presence
of CPU real-time threads, the grace period ends, but the callbacks don't
get invoked. If the callbacks don't get invoked, the associated memory
doesn't get freed, so the system is still subject to OOM.

But it is not reasonable to priority-boost RCU_SOFTIRQ, so this commit
moves the callback invocations to a kthread, which can be boosted easily.

Also add comments and properly synchronized all accesses to
rcu_cpu_kthread_task, as suggested by Lai Jiangshan.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

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perf script: Move printing of 'common' data from print_event and rename

This change does impact output: latency data is trace specific and is
now printed after the common data - comm, ti

perf script: Move printing of 'common' data from print_event and rename

This change does impact output: latency data is trace specific and is
now printed after the common data - comm, tid, cpu, time and event name.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
LKML-Reference: <1299734608-5223-4-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tracing: Remove print_graph_cpu and print_graph_proc from trace-event-parse

Next patch moves printing of 'common' data into perf-script which
removes the need for these functions.

perf tracing: Remove print_graph_cpu and print_graph_proc from trace-event-parse

Next patch moves printing of 'common' data into perf-script which
removes the need for these functions.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
LKML-Reference: <1299734608-5223-3-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tool: Fix gcc 4.6.0 issues

GCC 4.6.0 in Fedora rawhide turned up some compile errors in tools/perf
due to the -Werror=unused-but-set-variable flag.

I've gone through and an

perf tool: Fix gcc 4.6.0 issues

GCC 4.6.0 in Fedora rawhide turned up some compile errors in tools/perf
due to the -Werror=unused-but-set-variable flag.

I've gone through and annotated some of the assignments that had side
effects (ie: return value from a function) with the __used annotation,
and in some cases, just removed unused code.

In a few cases, we were assigning something useful, but not using it in
later parts of the function.

kyle@dreadnought:~/src% gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.6.0 20110122 (Red Hat 4.6.0-0.3)

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110124161304.GK27353@bombadil.infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
[ committer note: Fixed up the annotation fixes, as that code moved recently ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-t

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits)
perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support
perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1
perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option
perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants
perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders
perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER
perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER
perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4
perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition
perf options: Introduce OPT_U64
perf tui: Add help window to show key associations
perf tui: Make <- exit menus too
perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads
perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed
perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate
perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser
x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic
perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters
perf report: Report number of events, not samples
perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage
...

Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c

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perf: Fix static strings treated like dynamic ones

The raw_field_ptr() helper, used to retrieve the address of a field
inside a trace event, treats every strings as if they were dynamic

perf: Fix static strings treated like dynamic ones

The raw_field_ptr() helper, used to retrieve the address of a field
inside a trace event, treats every strings as if they were dynamic
ie: having a secondary level of indirection to retrieve their
contents.

FIELD_IS_STRING doesn't mean FIELD_IS_DYNAMIC, we only need to
compute the secondary dereference for the latter case.

This fixes perf sched segfaults, bad cmdline report and may be
some other bugs.

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

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perf: Fix warning while reading ring buffer headers

commit e9e94e3bd862d31777335722e747e97d9821bc1d
"perf trace: Ignore "overwrite" field if present in
/events/header_page" makes per

perf: Fix warning while reading ring buffer headers

commit e9e94e3bd862d31777335722e747e97d9821bc1d
"perf trace: Ignore "overwrite" field if present in
/events/header_page" makes perf trace launching spurious warnings
about unexpected tokens read:

Warning: Error: expected type 6 but read 4

This change tries to handle the overcommit field in the header_page
file whenever this field is present or not.

The problem is that if this field is not present, we try to find it
and give up in the middle of the line when we realize we are actually
dealing with another field, which is the "data" one. And this failure
abandons the file pointer in the middle of the "data" description
line:

field: u64 timestamp; offset:0; size:8; signed:0;
field: local_t commit; offset:8; size:8; signed:1;
field: char data; offset:16; size:4080; signed:1;
^^^
Here

What happens next is that we want to read this line to parse the data
field, but we fail because the pointer is not in the beginning of the
line.

We could probably fix that by rewinding the pointer. But in fact we
don't care much about these headers that only concern the ftrace
ring-buffer. We don't use them from perf.

Just skip this part of perf.data, but don't remove it from recording
to stay compatible with olders perf.data

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: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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perf: Fix dynamic field detection

Checking if a tracing field is an array with a dynamic length
requires to check the field type and seek the "__data_loc"
string that prepends the ac

perf: Fix dynamic field detection

Checking if a tracing field is an array with a dynamic length
requires to check the field type and seek the "__data_loc"
string that prepends the actual type, as can be found in a trace
event format file:

field:__data_loc char[] name; offset:16; size:4; signed:1;

But we actually use strcmp() to check if the field type fully
matches "__data_loc", which may fail as we trip over the rest of
the type.

To fix this, use strncmp to only check if it starts with
"__data_loc".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1271282283-23721-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf: Fix endianness argument compatibility with OPT_BOOLEAN() and introduce OPT_INCR()

Parsing an option from the command line with OPT_BOOLEAN on a
bool data type would not work on a b

perf: Fix endianness argument compatibility with OPT_BOOLEAN() and introduce OPT_INCR()

Parsing an option from the command line with OPT_BOOLEAN on a
bool data type would not work on a big-endian machine due to the
manner in which the boolean was being cast into an int and
incremented. For example, running 'perf probe --list' on a
PowerPC machine would fail to properly set the list_events bool
and would therefore print out the usage information and
terminate.

This patch makes OPT_BOOLEAN work as expected with a bool
datatype. For cases where the original OPT_BOOLEAN was
intentionally being used to increment an int each time it was
passed in on the command line, this patch introduces OPT_INCR
with the old behaviour of OPT_BOOLEAN (the verbose variable is
currently the only such example of this).

I have reviewed every use of OPT_BOOLEAN to verify that a true
C99 bool was passed. Where integers were used, I verified that
they were only being used for boolean logic and changed them to
bools to ensure that they would not be mistakenly used as ints.
The major exception was the verbose variable which now uses
OPT_INCR instead of OPT_BOOLEAN.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # NOTE: wont apply to .3[34].x cleanly, please backport
Cc: Git development list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1271147857-11604-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf trace: Ignore "overwrite" field if present in /events/header_page

That is not used in perf where we have the LOST events.

Without this patch we get:

[root@doppio ~]# p

perf trace: Ignore "overwrite" field if present in /events/header_page

That is not used in perf where we have the LOST events.

Without this patch we get:

[root@doppio ~]# perf lock report | head -3
Warning: Error: expected 'data' but read 'overwrite'

So, to make the same perf command work with kernels with and without
this field, introduce variants for the parsing routines to not warn the
user in such case.

Discussed-with: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
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/scripts: Move common code out of Perl-specific files

This stuff is needed by all scripting engines; move it from the Perl
engine source to a more common place.

Signed-off-b

perf/scripts: Move common code out of Perl-specific files

This stuff is needed by all scripting engines; move it from the Perl
engine source to a more common place.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264580883-15324-4-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

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perf tools: Add __data_loc support

This patch is required to test the next patch for perf lock.

At 064739bc4b3d7f424b2f25547e6611bcf0132415 ,
support for the modifier "__data_lo

perf tools: Add __data_loc support

This patch is required to test the next patch for perf lock.

At 064739bc4b3d7f424b2f25547e6611bcf0132415 ,
support for the modifier "__data_loc" of format is added.

But, when I wanted to parse format of lock_acquired (or some
event else), raw_field_ptr() did not returned correct pointer.

So I modified raw_field_ptr() like this patch. Then
raw_field_ptr() works well.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
[ v3: fixed minor stylistic detail ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf tools: Correct size given to memset

Memset should be given the size of the structure, not the size
of the pointer.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:

perf tools: Correct size given to memset

Memset should be given the size of the structure, not the size
of the pointer.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
type T;
T *x;
expression E;
@@

memset(x, E, sizeof(
+ *
x))
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912092026000.1870@ask.diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf tools: Misc small fixes

- util/header.c
"len" is aligned to 64. So, it tries to write the out of
long_name buffer.

So, this use "zero_buf" to wr

perf tools: Misc small fixes

- util/header.c
"len" is aligned to 64. So, it tries to write the out of
long_name buffer.

So, this use "zero_buf" to write aligned area.

- util/trace-event-read.c
"size" is not including nul byte. So, this allocates it, and set '\0'.

- util/trace-event-parse.c
It needs parens to calc correct size.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <87d42s8iiu.fsf_-_@devron.myhome.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf trace: Add interface to access perf data from Perl handlers

The Perl scripting support for perf trace allows most of a trace
event's data to be accessed directly as handler argument

perf trace: Add interface to access perf data from Perl handlers

The Perl scripting support for perf trace allows most of a trace
event's data to be accessed directly as handler arguments, but
not all of it e.g. the less common fields aren't passed in. To
give scripts access to the other fields and/or any other data or
metadata in the main perf executable that might be useful, a way
to access the C data in perf from Perl is needed; this patch
uses the Perl XS facility to do it for the common_xxx event
fields not passed to handler functions.

Context.pm exports three functions to Perl scripts that access
fields for the current event by calling back into perf:
common_pc(), common_flags() and common_lock_depth(). Support
for common_flags() field values was added to Core.pm and a
script used to sanity check these and other basic scripting
features, check-perf-trace.pl, was also added.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259133352-23685-6-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf trace: Add Perl scripting support

Implement trace_scripting_ops to make Perl a supported perf
trace scripting language.

Additionally adds code that allows Perl trace script

perf trace: Add Perl scripting support

Implement trace_scripting_ops to make Perl a supported perf
trace scripting language.

Additionally adds code that allows Perl trace scripts to access
the 'flag' and 'symbolic' (__print_flags(), __print_symbolic())
field information parsed from the trace format files.

Also adds the Perl implementation of the generate_script()
trace_scripting_op, which creates a ready-to-run perf trace Perl
script based on existing trace data. Scripts generated by this
implementation print out all the fields for each event mentioned
in perf.data (and will detect and generate the proper scripting
code for 'flag' and 'symbolic' fields), and will additionally
generate handlers for the special 'trace_unhandled',
'trace_begin' and 'trace_end' handlers. Script authors can
simply remove the printing code to implement their own custom
event handling.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259133352-23685-4-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf trace: Add flag/symbolic format_flags

It's useful to know whether a field is a flag or symbolic field
for e.g. when generating scripts - it allows us to translate
those fields s

perf trace: Add flag/symbolic format_flags

It's useful to know whether a field is a flag or symbolic field
for e.g. when generating scripts - it allows us to translate
those fields specially rather than literally as plain numeric
values.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259133352-23685-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf tools: Add 'signed' flag setting back into trace-event-parse.c

Commit 13999e59343b042b0807be2df6ae5895d29782a0 (perf tools:
Handle the case with and without the "signed" trace field

perf tools: Add 'signed' flag setting back into trace-event-parse.c

Commit 13999e59343b042b0807be2df6ae5895d29782a0 (perf tools:
Handle the case with and without the "signed" trace field)
removed code to set the FIELD_IS_SIGNED flag that was originally
added by commit 26a50744b21fff65bd754874072857bee8967f4d
(tracing/events: Add 'signed' field to format files).

This adds it back.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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: <1259133299-23594-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf tools: Use strsep() over strtok_r() for parsing single line

The second argument in the strtok_r() function is not to be used
generically and can have different implementations. Curr

perf tools: Use strsep() over strtok_r() for parsing single line

The second argument in the strtok_r() function is not to be used
generically and can have different implementations. Currently
the function parsing of the perf trace code uses the second
argument to copy data from. This can crash the tool or just have
unpredictable results.

The correct solution is to use strsep() which has a defined
result.

I also added a check to see if the result was correct, and will
break out of the loop in case it fails to parse as expected.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091020232034.237814877@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf tools: Remove all char * typecasts and use const in prototype

The (char *) for all the static strings was a fix for the
symptom and not the disease. The real issue was that the

perf tools: Remove all char * typecasts and use const in prototype

The (char *) for all the static strings was a fix for the
symptom and not the disease. The real issue was that the
function prototypes needed to be declared "const char *".

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091014194400.635935008@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf tools: Handle - and + in parsing trace print format

The opterators '-' and '+' are not handled in the trace print
format.

To do: '++' and '--'.

Signed-off-by: Stev

perf tools: Handle - and + in parsing trace print format

The opterators '-' and '+' are not handled in the trace print
format.

To do: '++' and '--'.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091014194400.330843045@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf tools: Add latency format to trace output

Add the irqs disabled, preemption count, need resched, and other
info that is shown in the latency format of ftrace.

# perf trace

perf tools: Add latency format to trace output

Add the irqs disabled, preemption count, need resched, and other
info that is shown in the latency format of ftrace.

# perf trace -l
perf-16457 2..s2. 53636.260344: kmem_cache_free: call_site=ffffffff811198f
perf-16457 2..s2. 53636.264330: kmem_cache_free: call_site=ffffffff811198f
perf-16457 2d.s4. 53636.300006: kmem_cache_free: call_site=ffffffff810d889

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091014194400.076588953@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf tools: Handle both versions of ftrace output

The ftrace output events can have either arguments or no
arguments. The parser needs to be able to handle both.

Signed-off-by:

perf tools: Handle both versions of ftrace output

The ftrace output events can have either arguments or no
arguments. The parser needs to be able to handle both.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091014194359.790221427@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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