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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:48:04 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com> Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/43] perf/core new feature: 'perf stat record/report' * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org> wrote: > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com> > > Hi Ingo, > > Please consider pulling, cool new feature! This is on top of the > perf-core-for-mingo-2.1 tag, with that RHEL6.7 bugfix, I had also to go > over this one fixing stuff in many spots :-\ > > - Arnaldo > > The following changes since commit 1843b4e057b7717db21a3ad96fa16d6b4ee8f6c4: > > tools subcmd: Rename subcmd header include guards (2015-12-17 14:27:14 -0300) > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-3 > > for you to fetch changes up to 89af4e05c21d68f22e07fe66940ea675615a49ed: > > perf stat report: Allow to override aggr_mode (2015-12-17 16:30:30 -0300) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > perf/core improvement. > > User visible: > > - Generate perf.data files from 'perf stat', to tap into the scripting > capabilities perf has instead of defining a 'perf stat' specific scripting > support to calculate event ratios, etc. Simple example: > > $ perf stat record -e cycles usleep 1 > > Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1': > > 1,134,996 cycles > > 0.000670644 seconds time elapsed > > $ perf stat report > > Performance counter stats for '/home/acme/bin/perf stat record -e cycles usleep 1': > > 1,134,996 cycles > > 0.000670644 seconds time elapsed > > $ > > It generates PERF_RECORD_ userspace records to store the details: > > $ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD > 0xf0 [0x28]: PERF_RECORD_THREAD_MAP nr: 1 thread: 27637 > 0x118 [0x12]: PERF_RECORD_CPU_MAP nr: 1 cpu: 65535 > 0x12a [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_STAT_CONFIG > 0x16a [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_STAT > -1 -1 0x19a [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP -1/0: [0xffffffff81000000(0x1f000000) @ 0xffffffff81000000]: x [kernel.kallsyms]_text > 0x1da [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_STAT_ROUND > [acme@...andy linux]$ > > An effort was made to make perf.data files generated like this to not > generate cryptic messages when processed by older tools. > > The 'perf script' bits need rebasing, will go up later. Nice feature! > > Jiri's cover letter for this series: > > The initial attempt defined its own formula lang and allowed triggering user's > script on the end of the stat command: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136742146322273&w=2 > > This patchset abandons the idea of new formula language and rather adds support > to: > > - store stat data into perf.data file > - add python support to process stat events > > Basically it allows to store stat data into perf.data and post process it with > python scripts in a similar way we do for sampling data. > > The stat data are stored in new stat, stat-round, stat-config user events. > stat - stored for each read syscall of the counter > stat round - stored for each interval or end of the command invocation > stat config - stores all the config information needed to process data > so report tool could restore the same output as record > > The python script can now define 'stat__<eventname>_<modifier>' functions > to get stat events data and 'stat__interval' to get stat-round data. > > See CPI script example in scripts/python/stat-cpi.py. > > Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Jiri Olsa (43): > perf thread_map: Add thread_map user level event > perf thread_map: Add thread_map event sythesize function > perf thread_map: Add thread_map__new_event function > perf thread_map: Add perf_event__fprintf_thread_map function > perf cpu_map: Add cpu_map user level event > perf cpu_map: Add cpu_map event synthesize function > perf cpu_map: Add cpu_map__new_event function > perf cpu_map: Add perf_event__fprintf_cpu_map function > perf tools: Add stat config user level event > perf tools: Add stat config event synthesize function > perf tools: Add stat config event read function > perf tools: Add stat user level event > perf tools: Add stat event synthesize function > perf tools: Add stat event read function > perf tools: Add stat round user level event > perf tools: Add stat round event synthesize function > perf tools: Add stat events fprintf functions > perf tools: Add event_update user level event > perf tools: Add event_update event unit type > perf tools: Add event_update event scale type > perf tools: Add event_update event name type > perf tools: Add event_update event cpus type > perf tools: Add perf_event__fprintf_event_update function > perf report: Display newly added events in raw dump > perf tools: Introduce stat perf.data header feature > perf stat record: Add record command > perf stat record: Initialize record features > perf stat record: Synthesize stat record data > perf evlist: Export id_add_fd() > perf stat record: Store events IDs in perf data file > perf stat record: Add pipe support for record command > perf stat record: Write stat events on record > perf stat record: Write stat round events on record > perf stat record: Do not allow record with multiple runs mode > perf stat record: Synthesize event update events > perf stat report: Add report command > perf stat report: Process cpu/threads maps > perf stat report: Process stat config event > perf stat report: Add support to initialize aggr_map from file > perf stat report: Move csv_sep initialization before report command > perf stat report: Process stat and stat round events > perf stat report: Process event update events > perf stat report: Allow to override aggr_mode > > tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 34 ++ > tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 2 + > tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 614 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > tools/perf/tests/Build | 3 + > tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c | 24 ++ > tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c | 88 +++++ > tools/perf/tests/event_update.c | 117 +++++++ > tools/perf/tests/stat.c | 111 ++++++ > tools/perf/tests/tests.h | 6 + > tools/perf/tests/thread-map.c | 43 +++ > tools/perf/util/cpumap.c | 42 +++ > tools/perf/util/cpumap.h | 1 + > tools/perf/util/event.c | 308 +++++++++++++++++ > tools/perf/util/event.h | 150 +++++++- > tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 6 +- > tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 3 + > tools/perf/util/header.c | 205 +++++++++++ > tools/perf/util/header.h | 17 + > tools/perf/util/session.c | 189 ++++++++++ > tools/perf/util/stat.c | 62 ++++ > tools/perf/util/stat.h | 10 + > tools/perf/util/thread_map.c | 27 ++ > tools/perf/util/thread_map.h | 3 + > tools/perf/util/tool.h | 8 +- > 24 files changed, 2054 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c > create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/event_update.c > create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/stat.c Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo! 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