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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-02 23:37:05 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-02 23:37:05 +0200
commitbf9e187637ca3d85cee7407e3af93995868cc87c (patch)
treec2ea1b5fad7f75082efb93abb7fa447940b7cb69 /Documentation
parent0a520c63e1625b92ef775da40192e1542910e7f6 (diff)
perf_counter tools: Make source code headers more coherent
The perf commands had different ways of describing themselves, introduce a coherent command-file-header format taken from the Git project. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-stat.c29
-rw-r--r--Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c60
-rw-r--r--Documentation/perf_counter/perf.c9
5 files changed, 62 insertions, 57 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c
index 8feb1192e09..2741b3561bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
/*
- * perf record: Record the profile of a workload (or a CPU, or a PID) into
- * the perf.data output file - for later analysis via perf report.
+ * builtin-record.c
+ *
+ * Builtin record command: Record the profile of a workload
+ * (or a CPU, or a PID) into the perf.data output file - for
+ * later analysis via perf report.
*/
-#include "perf.h"
#include "builtin.h"
+
+#include "perf.h"
+
#include "util/util.h"
#include "util/parse-options.h"
#include "util/parse-events.h"
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
index 270e986c2d4..9da990fba4a 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
-#include "util/util.h"
+/*
+ * builtin-report.c
+ *
+ * Builtin report command: Analyze the perf.data input file,
+ * look up and read DSOs and symbol information and display
+ * a histogram of results, along various sorting keys.
+ */
#include "builtin.h"
+#include "util/util.h"
+
#include "util/list.h"
#include "util/cache.h"
#include "util/rbtree.h"
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-stat.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-stat.c
index 27abe6a2db3..2357a663b67 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-stat.c
@@ -1,20 +1,27 @@
/*
- * perf stat: /usr/bin/time -alike performance counter statistics utility
+ * builtin-stat.c
+ *
+ * Builtin stat command: Give a precise performance counters summary
+ * overview about any workload, CPU or specific PID.
+ *
+ * Sample output:
- It summarizes the counter events of all tasks (and child tasks),
- covering all CPUs that the command (or workload) executes on.
- It only counts the per-task events of the workload started,
- independent of how many other tasks run on those CPUs.
+ $ perf stat ~/hackbench 10
+ Time: 0.104
- Sample output:
+ Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench':
- $ perf stat -e 1 -e 3 -e 5 ls -lR /usr/include/ >/dev/null
+ 1255.538611 task clock ticks # 10.143 CPU utilization factor
+ 54011 context switches # 0.043 M/sec
+ 385 CPU migrations # 0.000 M/sec
+ 17755 pagefaults # 0.014 M/sec
+ 3808323185 CPU cycles # 3033.219 M/sec
+ 1575111190 instructions # 1254.530 M/sec
+ 17367895 cache references # 13.833 M/sec
+ 7674421 cache misses # 6.112 M/sec
- Performance counter stats for 'ls':
+ Wall-clock time elapsed: 123.786620 msecs
- 163516953 instructions
- 2295 cache-misses
- 2855182 branch-misses
*
* Copyright (C) 2008, Red Hat Inc, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
*
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c
index 5029d8e6cd9..a63935276ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c
@@ -1,49 +1,25 @@
/*
- * kerneltop.c: show top kernel functions - performance counters showcase
-
- Build with:
-
- make -C Documentation/perf_counter/
-
- Sample output:
-
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- KernelTop: 2669 irqs/sec [cache-misses/cache-refs], (all, cpu: 2)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- weight RIP kernel function
- ______ ________________ _______________
-
- 35.20 - ffffffff804ce74b : skb_copy_and_csum_dev
- 33.00 - ffffffff804cb740 : sock_alloc_send_skb
- 31.26 - ffffffff804ce808 : skb_push
- 22.43 - ffffffff80510004 : tcp_established_options
- 19.00 - ffffffff8027d250 : find_get_page
- 15.76 - ffffffff804e4fc9 : eth_type_trans
- 15.20 - ffffffff804d8baa : dst_release
- 14.86 - ffffffff804cf5d8 : skb_release_head_state
- 14.00 - ffffffff802217d5 : read_hpet
- 12.00 - ffffffff804ffb7f : __ip_local_out
- 11.97 - ffffffff804fc0c8 : ip_local_deliver_finish
- 8.54 - ffffffff805001a3 : ip_queue_xmit
+ * builtin-top.c
+ *
+ * Builtin top command: Display a continuously updated profile of
+ * any workload, CPU or specific PID.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2008, Red Hat Inc, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * Improvements and fixes by:
+ *
+ * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
+ * Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
+ * Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
+ * Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
+ * Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
+ *
+ * Released under the GPL v2. (and only v2, not any later version)
*/
-
- /*
- * Copyright (C) 2008, Red Hat Inc, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
- *
- * Improvements and fixes by:
- *
- * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
- * Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
- * Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
- * Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
- * Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
- *
- * Released under the GPL v2. (and only v2, not any later version)
- */
+#include "builtin.h"
#include "perf.h"
-#include "builtin.h"
+
#include "util/symbol.h"
#include "util/util.h"
#include "util/rbtree.h"
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/perf.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/perf.c
index e8a85842b49..ec7edb7fbe2 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/perf.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/perf.c
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
+/*
+ * perf.c
+ *
+ * Performance analysis utility.
+ *
+ * This is the main hub from which the sub-commands (perf stat,
+ * perf top, perf record, perf report, etc.) are started.
+ */
#include "builtin.h"
+
#include "util/exec_cmd.h"
#include "util/cache.h"
#include "util/quote.h"