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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 11:18:29 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@....ibm.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
acme@...stprotocols.net, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/25] perf/core improvements and fixes
* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org> wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> Please consider pulling,
>
> - Arnaldo
>
> The following changes since commit 152fefa921535665f95840c08062844ab2f5593e:
>
> Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2013-01-31 10:20:14 +0100)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux tags/perf-core-for-mingo
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 2ac3634a7e1c8eedc961030c87c5c36ebd5bbf8e:
>
> perf: Document the ABI of perf sysfs entries (2013-01-31 13:07:51 -0300)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
>
> . Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs, equivalent to
> what was done on x86, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
>
> . Add event group view, from Namyung Kim:
>
> To use it, 'perf record' should group events when recording. And then perf
> report parses the saved group relation from file header and prints them
> together if --group option is provided. You can use 'perf evlist' command to
> see event group information:
>
> $ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}' noploop 1
> [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.385 MB perf.data (~16807 samples) ]
>
> $ perf evlist --group
> {ref-cycles,cycles}
>
> With this example, default perf report will show you each event
> separately like this:
>
> $ perf report
> ...
> # group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
> # ========
> # Samples: 3K of event 'ref-cycles'
> # Event count (approx.): 3153797218
> #
> # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
> # ........ ....... ................. ..........................
> 99.84% noploop noploop [.] main
> 0.07% noploop ld-2.15.so [.] strcmp
> 0.03% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] timerqueue_del
> 0.03% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_cpu
> 0.02% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] account_user_time
> 0.01% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
> 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr_safe
>
> # Samples: 3K of event 'cycles'
> # Event count (approx.): 3722310525
> #
> # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
> # ........ ....... ................. .........................
> 99.76% noploop noploop [.] main
> 0.11% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
> 0.06% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_get_page
> 0.03% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_cpu
> 0.02% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] rcu_check_callbacks
> 0.02% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __current_kernel_time
> 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr_safe
>
> In this case the event group information will be shown in the end of
> header area. So you can use --group option to enable event group view.
>
> $ perf report --group
> ...
> # group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
> # ========
> # Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
> # Event count (approx.): 6876107743
> #
> # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
> # ................ ....... ................. ..........................
> 99.84% 99.76% noploop noploop [.] main
> 0.07% 0.00% noploop ld-2.15.so [.] strcmp
> 0.03% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] timerqueue_del
> 0.03% 0.03% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_cpu
> 0.02% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] account_user_time
> 0.01% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
> 0.00% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr_safe
> 0.00% 0.11% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
> 0.00% 0.06% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_get_page
> 0.00% 0.02% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] rcu_check_callbacks
> 0.00% 0.02% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __current_kernel_time
>
> As you can see the Overhead column now contains both of ref-cycles and
> cycles and header line shows group information also - 'anon group {
> ref-cycles, cycles }'. The output is sorted by period of group leader
> first.
>
> If perf.data file doesn't contain group information, this --group
> option does nothing. So if you want enable event group view by
> default you can set it in ~/.perfconfig file:
>
> $ cat ~/.perfconfig
> [report]
> group = true
>
> It can be overridden with command line if you want:
>
> $ perf report --no-group
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (2):
> perf top: Stop using exit()
> perf top: Delete maps on exit
>
> Namhyung Kim (18):
> perf tools: Keep group information
> perf tests: Add group test conditions
> perf header: Add HEADER_GROUP_DESC feature
> perf report: Make another loop for linking group hists
> perf hists: Resort hist entries using group members for output
> perf ui/hist: Consolidate hpp helpers
> perf hists browser: Convert hpp helpers to a function
> perf gtk/browser: Convert hpp helpers to a function
> perf ui/hist: Add support for event group view
> perf hists browser: Move coloring logic to hpp functions
> perf hists browser: Add suppport for event group view
> perf gtk/browser: Add support for event group view
> perf gtk/browser: Trim column header string when event group enabled
> perf report: Bypass non-leader events when event group is enabled
> perf report: Show group description when event group is enabled
> perf report: Add --group option
> perf report: Add report.group config option
> perf evlist: Add --group option
>
> Sukadev Bhattiprolu (5):
> perf/Power7: Use macros to identify perf events
> perf: Make EVENT_ATTR global
> perf/POWER7: Make generic event translations available in sysfs
> perf/POWER7: Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs
> perf: Document the ABI of perf sysfs entries
>
> .../testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events | 62 +++++
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h | 26 ++
> arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 12 +
> arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.c | 80 +++++-
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 13 +-
> include/linux/perf_event.h | 11 +
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-evlist.txt | 4 +
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 3 +
> tools/perf/builtin-evlist.c | 7 +
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 3 +
> tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 47 +++-
> tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 62 +++--
> tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c | 28 ++
> tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 217 ++++++++++++---
> tools/perf/ui/gtk/hists.c | 130 +++++++--
> tools/perf/ui/hist.c | 306 ++++++++++-----------
> tools/perf/ui/stdio/hist.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 7 +-
> tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 49 +++-
> tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 16 ++
> tools/perf/util/header.c | 164 +++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/header.h | 2 +
> tools/perf/util/hist.c | 59 +++-
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 10 +
> tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 3 +-
> 28 files changed, 1059 insertions(+), 267 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events
Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!
Ingo
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