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2009-08-15Merge branch 'perfcounters/urgent' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/perf_counter.c Merge reason: update to latest upstream (-rc6) and resolve the conflict with urgent fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-15perf tools: Add some comments to the event definitionsPeter Zijlstra
Just to make it clear that these are _not_ generic event structures but do rely on the counter configuration. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey J Ashford <cjashfor@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090813103655.334194326@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-13perf tools: Add a per tracepoint counter attribute to get raw sampleFrederic Weisbecker
Add a new flag field while opening a tracepoint perf counter: -e tracepoint_subsystem:tracepoint_name:flags This is intended to be generic although for now it only supports the r[e[c[o[r[d]]]]] flag: ./perf record -e workqueue:workqueue_insertion:record ./perf record -e workqueue:workqueue_insertion:r will have the same effect: enabling the raw samples record for the given tracepoint counter. In the future, we may want to support further flags, separated by commas. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1250152039-7284-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-12perf tools: Fix dso__new handle() to handle deleted DSOsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
It is better than showing the map addr, this way at least we know that we can't get the symtabs because the DSO was deleted (system update) while an app still used such DSO. Yeah, don't do that, but if you do, you'll figure it out quicker this way. [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report | head -15 # Samples: 3796 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................................................................... ...... # 23.55% pidgin /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2000.4.#prelink#.Pd98lu (deleted) [.] 0x00000000038844 21.55% pidgin /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so.#prelink#.AFwK8Q (deleted) [.] 0x0000000000a42d 10.85% pidgin [kernel] [.] vread_hpet 7.85% pidgin /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2000.4.#prelink#.o1vpU7 (deleted) [.] 0x00000000014de8 3.35% pidgin /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so (deleted) [.] 0x0000000007a875 3.19% pidgin /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0.#prelink#.6mwgZP (deleted) [.] 0x0000000001d254 3.06% pidgin /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.5.#prelink#.511hAl (deleted) [.] 0x000000002334e7 2.90% pidgin /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.5.#prelink#.5qlMo1 (deleted) [.] 0x00000000037b2d 1.84% pidgin [kernel] [k] do_sys_poll 1.45% pidgin /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0.#prelink#.iR59Rx (deleted) [.] 0x0000000004c751 [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Luis Claudio R. Gonçalves <lclaudio@redhat.com> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090811200436.GA3478@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-12perf tools: Fix fallback to cplus_demangle() when bfd_demangle() is not ↵Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
available In old binutils we can't access bfd_demangle(), use cplus_demangle() just like oprofile. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Luis Claudio R. Gonçalves <lclaudio@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090811192211.GG18061@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-12perf tools: Factorize the map helpersFrederic Weisbecker
Factorize the dso mapping helpers into a single purpose common file "util/map.c" Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
2009-08-12perf tools: Factorize the event structure definitions in a single fileFrederic Weisbecker
Factorize the multiple definition of the events structures into a single util/event.h file. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
2009-08-12perf tools: Factorize high level dso helpersFrederic Weisbecker
Factorize multiple definitions of high level dso helpers into the symbol source file. The side effect is a general export of the verbose and eprintf debugging helpers into a new file dedicated to debugging purposes. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
2009-08-10perf report: Add raw displaying of per-thread countersBrice Goglin
If --pretty=raw is given to perf report -T, it now displays one line per-thread per-counter with the raw event id added. We get: # PID TID Name Raw Count 18608 18609 cache-misses 28e 416744 18608 18609 cache-references 28f 6456792 18608 18608 cache-misses 28e 448219 18608 18608 cache-references 28f 7270244 instead of: # PID TID cache-misses cache-references 18608 18609 416744 6456792 18608 18608 448219 7270244 Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4A802008.5050409@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09perf tools: callchain: Fix bad rounding of minimum rateFrederic Weisbecker
Sometimes we get callchain branches that have a rate under the limit given by the user. Say you launched: perf record -f -g -a ./hackbench 10 perf report -g fractal,10.0 And you got: 2.33% hackbench [kernel] [k] _spin_lock_irqsave | |--78.57%-- remove_wait_queue | poll_freewait | do_sys_poll | sys_poll | sysenter_dispatch | 0xf7ffa430 | 0x1ffadea3c | |--7.14%-- __up_read | up_read | do_page_fault | page_fault | 0xf7ffa430 | 0xa0df710000000a ... It is abnormal to get a 7.14% branch whereas we passed a 10% filter. The problem is that we round down the minimum threshold. This happens mostly when we have very low number of events. If the total amount of your branch is 4 and you have a subranch of 3 events, filtering to 90% will be computed like follows: limit = 4 * 0.9; The result is about 3.6, but the cast to integer will round down to 3. It means that our filter is actually of 75% We must then explicitly round up the minimum threshold. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: efault@gmx.de LKML-Reference: <20090809024235.GA10146@nowhere> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09perf report: Fix and improve the displaying of per-thread event countersBrice Goglin
Improve and fix the handling of per-thread counter stats recorded via perf record -s. Previously we only displayed it in debug printouts (-D) and even that output was hard to disambiguate. I moved everything to utils/values.[ch] so that we may reuse it in perf stat. We get something like this now: # PID TID cache-misses cache-references 4658 4659 495581 3238779 4658 4662 498246 3236823 4658 4663 499531 3243162 Then it'll be easy to add --pretty=raw to display a single line per thread/event. By the way, -S was also used for --symbol... So I used -T/--thread here. perf report: Add -T/--threads to display per-thread counter values We get something like this now: # PID TID cache-misses cache-references 4658 4659 495581 3238779 4658 4662 498246 3236823 4658 4663 499531 3243162 Per-thread arrays of counter values are managed in utils/values.[ch] Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus@samba.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09perf tools: callchain: Fix 'perf report' display to be callchain by defaultFrederic Weisbecker
If we recorded with -g option to record the callchain, right now we require a -g option to perf report as well - and people reported this as unnecessary complication: the user already specified -g once, no need to require it a second time. So if the recording includes call-chains, display the callchain by default from perf report. ( The user can override this default using "-g none" option from perf report. ) Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1249690585-9145-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09perf tools: callchain: Fix spurious 'perf report' warnings: ignore empty ↵Frederic Weisbecker
callchains When the callchain tree comes to insert an empty backtrace, it raises a spurious warning about the fact we are inserting an empty. This is spurious because the radix tree assumes it did something wrong to reach this state. But it didn't, we just met an empty callchain that has to be ignored. This happens occasionally with certain types of call-chain recordings. If it happens it's a big nuisance as perf report output starts with thousands of warning lines. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1249690585-9145-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09perf util: Fix do_read() to fail on EOF instead of busy-loopingPierre Habouzit
While toying with perf, I've noticed that perf record can easily enter a busy loop when doing something as silly as: $ perf record -A ls Yeah, do_read here really wants to read a known size, not being able to should die(), not busy-loop ;) That was the cause for the bug. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@intersec.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09perf list: Fix the output to not include tracepoints without an idPeter Zijlstra
Stop perf list from displaying tracepoints without an id file, those are special tracepoints that are not interfaced to perfcounters so listing them is erroneous and passing them as events will produce no output. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09perf report: Add debug help for the finding of symbol bugs - show the symtab ↵Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
origin (DSO, build-id, kernel, etc) Used with perf report --verbose: [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report -v | head -16 5.17% firefox /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so 0x00000000005d8eee f [.] imgContainer::DrawFrameTo(gfxIImageFrame*, gfxIImageFrame*, nsRect&) 2.56% firefox /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so 0x0000000000008e02 d [.] __pthread_mutex_lock_internal 1.94% firefox /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so 0x0000000000d0af8f f [.] SearchTable 1.75% firefox [kernel] 0xffffffffff60013b k [.] vread_hpet 1.63% firefox /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so 0x000000000000a404 d [.] __pthread_mutex_unlock 1.47% firefox /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x00000000000482ea f [.] js_Interpret 1.42% firefox /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x000000000003eda3 f [.] JS_CallTracer 1.24% firefox [kernel] 0xffffffff8102ca4a k [k] read_hpet 1.16% firefox [kernel] 0xffffffff810f3dd4 k [k] fget_light 1.11% firefox /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x00000000000567ff f [.] js_TraceObject 0.98% firefox /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox 0x000000000000dd23 b [.] arena_ralloc [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ The new field is just after the symbol address. To help in figuring out symbol resolution bugs. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09perf report: Fix per task mult-counter stat reportingPeter Zijlstra
Brice Goglin reported: > I can easily sort them by thread id, but I don't know how to match > my 4 events with each group of 4 lines. Also report the counter id and the time running/enabled stats (in case the counter got time-shared). Reported-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09perf tools: Fix multi-counter stat bug caused by incorrect reading of ↵Peter Zijlstra
perf.data file header Brice Goglin reported that only the first result from a multi-counter perf record --stat run is accurate, the rest looks bogus. A silly mistake made us re-read the first attribute for every recorded attribute. Reported-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Cc: paulus@samba.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09perf tools: Fix call-chain cumul hit based sub-total (fractal mode)Frederic Weisbecker
The callchain fractal mode builds each new total hits in a new branch of profiling by using the parent's hits of the current branch plus the hits of the children. This is wrong, the total hits of a branch should be made of the sum of every children hits, we must ignore the parent hits in this scope. This patch also fixes another mistake with the hit counting. Now the rates are correct. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-06perf symbol: Fix symbol parsing in certain cases: use the build-id as a symlinkArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
In some cases distros have binaries and debuginfo in weird places: [root@doppio tuna]# ls -la /usr/lib64/{xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub,firefox-3.5.2/firefox} -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 90024 2009-08-03 19:45 /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 90024 2009-08-03 18:23 /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub [root@doppio tuna]# sha1sum /usr/lib64/{xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub,firefox-3.5.2/firefox} 19a858077d263d5de22c9c5da250d3e4396ae739 /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub 19a858077d263d5de22c9c5da250d3e4396ae739 /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox [root@doppio tuna]# rpm -qf /usr/lib64/{xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub,firefox-3.5.2/firefox} xulrunner-1.9.1.2-1.fc11.x86_64 firefox-3.5.2-2.fc11.x86_64 [root@doppio tuna]# ls -la /usr/lib/debug/{usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub,usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox}.debug ls: cannot access /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox.debug: No such file or directory -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 403608 2009-08-03 18:22 /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub.debug Seemingly we don't have a .symtab when we actually can find it if we use the .note.gnu.build-id ELF section put in place by some distros. Use it and find the symbols we need. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-05perf: Auto-detect libbfdPeter Zijlstra
Since the C++ demangling isn't needed for everybody and bfd/iberty aren't widely/easily available on all machines, make it optional. It also allows you to forcefully disable demangling by using NO_DEMANGLE=1 and otherwise tries to detect libbfd/libiberty combinations that result in a compiling demangler. Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> LKML-Reference: <20090801082048.GX12579@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-04perf: Fix read buffer overflowRoel Kluin
Check whether index is within bounds before testing the element. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4A757BCF.40101@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-02perf tools: Fix faulty checkStoyan Gaydarov
This patch fixes a spelling error that has resulted from copy and pasting. The location of the error was found using a semantic patch but the semantic patch was not trying to find these errors. After looking things over it seemed logical that this change was needed. Please review it and then include the patch if it is in fact the correct change. Signed-off-by: Stoyan Gaydarov <sgayda2@uiuc.edu> Signed-off-by: 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: <1248949529-20891-1-git-send-email-sgayda2@uiuc.edu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-22perf_counter tools: Fix vmlinux symbol generation breakageMike Galbraith
vmlinux meets the criteria for symbol adjustment, which breaks vmlinux generated symbols. Fix this by exempting vmlinux. This is a bit fragile in that someone could change the kernel dso's name, but currently that name is also hardwired. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1248091298.18702.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
2009-07-22perf_counter: Detect debugfs locationJason Baron
If "/sys/kernel/debug" is not a debugfs mount point, search for the debugfs filesystem in /proc/mounts, but also allows the user to specify '--debugfs-dir=blah' or set the environment variable: 'PERF_DEBUGFS_DIR' Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> [ also made it probe "/debug" by default ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090721181629.GA3094@redhat.com>
2009-07-22perf_counter: Add tracepoint support to perf list, perf statJason Baron
Add support to 'perf list' and 'perf stat' for kernel tracepoints. The implementation creates a 'for_each_subsystem' and 'for_each_event' for easy iteration over the tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <426129bf9fcc8ee63bb094cf736e7316a7dcd77a.1248190728.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
2009-07-22perf symbol: C++ demanglingArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
[acme@doppio ~]$ perf report -s comm,dso,symbol -C firefox -d /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so | grep :: | head 2.21% [.] nsDeque::Push(void*) 1.78% [.] GraphWalker::DoWalk(nsDeque&) 1.30% [.] GCGraphBuilder::AddNode(void*, nsCycleCollectionParticipant*) 1.27% [.] XPCWrappedNative::CallMethod(XPCCallContext&, XPCWrappedNative::CallMode) 1.18% [.] imgContainer::DrawFrameTo(gfxIImageFrame*, gfxIImageFrame*, nsRect&) 1.13% [.] nsDeque::PopFront() 1.11% [.] nsGlobalWindow::RunTimeout(nsTimeout*) 0.97% [.] nsXPConnect::Traverse(void*, nsCycleCollectionTraversalCallback&) 0.95% [.] nsJSEventListener::cycleCollection::Traverse(void*, nsCycleCollectionTraversalCallback&) 0.95% [.] nsCOMPtr_base::~nsCOMPtr_base() [acme@doppio ~]$ Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090720171412.GB10410@ghostprotocols.net>
2009-07-22perf: avoid structure size confusion by using a fixed sizeArjan van de Ven
for some reason, this structure gets compiled as 36 bytes in some files (the ones that alloacte it) but 40 bytes in others (the ones that use it). The cause is an off_t type that gets a different size in different compilation units for some yet-to-be-explained reason. But the effect is disasterous; the size/offset members of the struct are at different offsets, and result in mostly complete garbage. The parser in perf is so robust that this all gets hidden, and after skipping an certain amount of samples, it recovers.... so this bug is not normally noticed. .... except when you want every sample to be exact. Fix this by just using an explicitly sized type. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4A655917.9080504@linux.intel.com>
2009-07-22Merge commit 'tip/perfcounters/core' into perf-counters-for-linusPeter Zijlstra
2009-07-13perf_counter tools: Fix index boundary checkRoel Kluin
Keep index within event_type_descriptors[] Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.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: <4A5A7F0B.4070106@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-11perf_counter tools: PLT info is stripped in -debuginfo packagesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
So we need to get the richer .symtab from the debuginfo packages but the PLT info from the original DSO where we have just the leaner .dynsym symtab. Example: | [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol > before | [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol > after | [acme@doppio pahole]$ diff -U1 before after | --- before 2009-07-11 11:04:22.688595741 -0300 | +++ after 2009-07-11 11:04:33.380595676 -0300 | @@ -80,3 +80,2 @@ | 0.07% pahole ./build/pahole [.] pahole_stealer | - 0.06% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] 0x00000000007140 | 0.06% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] __libdw_getabbrev | @@ -91,2 +90,3 @@ | 0.06% pahole [kernel] [k] free_hot_cold_page | + 0.06% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] tfind@plt | 0.05% pahole ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0 [.] ftype__add_parameter | @@ -242,2 +242,3 @@ | 0.01% pahole [kernel] [k] account_group_user_time | + 0.01% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] strlen@plt | 0.01% pahole ./build/pahole [.] strcmp@plt | [acme@doppio pahole]$ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1247325517-12272-4-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-11strlist: Introduce strlist__entry and strlist__nr_entries methodsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
The strlist__entry method allows accessing strlists like an array, will be used in the 'perf report' to access the first entry. We now keep the nr_entries so that we can check if we have just one entry, will be used in 'perf report' to improve the output by showing just at the top when we have just, say, one DSO. While at it use nr_entries to optimize strlist__is_empty by not using the far more costly rb_first based implementation. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1247325517-12272-2-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-11perf report: Adjust column width to the values sampledArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Auto-adjust column width of perf report output to the longest occuring string length. Example: [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol | head -13 12.79% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] __libdw_find_attr 8.90% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] _int_malloc 8.68% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] __libdw_form_val_len 8.15% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] __GI_strcmp 6.80% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] __tsearch 5.54% pahole ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0 [.] tag__recode_dwarf_type [acme@doppio pahole]$ [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol -d /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so | head -10 21.92% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] _int_malloc 20.08% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] __GI_strcmp 16.75% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] __tsearch [acme@doppio pahole]$ Also add these extra options to control the new behaviour: -w, --field-width Force each column width to the provided list, for large terminal readability. -t, --field-separator: Use a special separator character and don't pad with spaces, replacing all occurances of this separator in symbol names (and other output) with a '.' character, that thus it's the only non valid separator. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic 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: <20090711014728.GH3452@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-10perf_counter tools: Rename cache events to remove $Anton Blanchard
The cache events contain '$' which will hit shell variable expansion. To avoid confusion change this to 'cache', ie L1-d$-loads becomes L1-dcache-loads. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20090706120131.GB4391@kryten> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-05perf report: Add "Fractal" mode output - support callchains with relative ↵Frederic Weisbecker
overhead rate The current callchain displays the overhead rates as absolute: relative to the total overhead. This patch provides relative overhead percentage, in which each branch of the callchain tree is a independant instrumentated object. This provides a 'fractal' view of the call-chain profile: each sub-graph looks like a profile in itself - relative to its parent. You can produce such output by using the "fractal" mode that you can abbreviate via f, fr, fra, frac, etc... ./perf report -s sym -c fractal Example: 8.46% [k] copy_user_generic_string | |--52.01%-- generic_file_aio_read | do_sync_read | vfs_read | | | |--97.20%-- sys_pread64 | | system_call_fastpath | | pread64 | | | --2.81%-- sys_read | system_call_fastpath | __read | |--39.85%-- generic_file_buffered_write | __generic_file_aio_write_nolock | generic_file_aio_write | do_sync_write | reiserfs_file_write | vfs_write | | | |--97.05%-- sys_pwrite64 | | system_call_fastpath | | __pwrite64 | | | --2.95%-- sys_write | system_call_fastpath | __write_nocancel [...] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-05perf_counter tools: callchains: Manage the cumul hits on the flyFrederic Weisbecker
The cumul hits are the number of hits of every childs of a node plus the hits of the current nodes, required for percentage computing of a branch. Theses numbers are calculated during the sorting of the branches of the callchain tree using a depth first postfix traversal, so that cumulative hits are propagated in the right order. But if we plan to implement percentages relative to the parent and not absolute percentages (relative to the whole overhead), we need to know the cumulative hits of the parent before computing the children because the relative minimum acceptable number of entries (ie: minimum rate against the cumulative hits from the parent) is the basis to filter the children against a given rate. Then we need to handle the cumul hits on the fly to prepare the implementation of relative overhead rates. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-03perf_counter tools: Adjust symbols in ET_EXEC files tooArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Ingo Molnar wrote: > i just bisected a 'perf report' bug that would cause us to not > resolve all user-space symbols in a 'git gc' run to: > > f5812a7a336fb952d819e4427b9a2dce02368e82 is first bad commit > commit f5812a7a336fb952d819e4427b9a2dce02368e82 > Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> > Date: Tue Jun 30 11:43:17 2009 -0300 > > perf_counter tools: Adjust only prelinked symbol's addresses Rename ->prelinked to ->adjust_symbols and making what was done only for prelinked libraries also to ET_EXEC binaries, such as /usr/bin/git: [acme@doppio pahole]$ readelf -h /usr/bin/git | grep Type Type: EXEC (Executable file) [acme@doppio pahole]$ And after installing the 'git-debuginfo' package, I get correct results: [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol -d /usr/bin/git | head -20 # # (1139614 samples) # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ................ ......................... ...... # 34.98% git /usr/bin/git [.] send_sideband 33.39% git /usr/bin/git [.] enter_repo 6.81% git /usr/bin/git [.] diff_opt_parse 4.95% git /usr/bin/git [.] is_repository_shallow 3.24% git /usr/bin/git [.] odb_mkstemp 1.39% git /usr/bin/git [.] output 1.34% git /usr/bin/git [.] xmmap 1.25% git /usr/bin/git [.] receive_pack_config 1.16% git /usr/bin/git [.] git_pathdup 0.90% git /usr/bin/git [.] read_object_with_reference 0.86% git /usr/bin/git [.] show_patch_diff 0.85% git /usr/bin/git 0x00000000095e2e 0.69% git /usr/bin/git [.] display [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ I'll check what are the last cases where we can't resolve symbols, like this 0x00000000095e2e later. And I guess this will fix the problems Mike were seeing too: [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ readelf -h ../build/perf/vmlinux | grep Type Type: EXEC (Executable file) [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02perf_counter tools: Provide helper to print percents colorFrederic Weisbecker
Among perf annotate, perf report and perf top, we can find the common colored printing of percents according to the following rules: High overhead = > 5%, colored in red Mid overhead = > 0.5%, colored in green Low overhead = < 0.5%, default color Factorize these multiple checks in a single function named percent_color_fprintf() and also provide a get_percent_color() for sites which print percentages and other things at the same time. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1246558475-10624-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02perf_counter tools: Set the minimum percent for callchains to be displayedFrederic Weisbecker
Callchains output may become a burden on a trace because even rarely hit site are exposed. This can be too much information. Let the user set a threshold as a minimum percent of hits using the new pattern for the -c option: -c mode,min_percent Example: $ perf report -s sym -c flat,4 8.25% [k] copy_user_generic_string 4.19% copy_user_generic_string generic_file_aio_read do_sync_read vfs_read sys_pread64 system_call_fastpath pread64 5.39% [k] search_by_key 4.63% 0x00000000009e0a 2.36% [k] memcpy_c [...] $ perf report -s sym -c graph,2 8.25% [k] copy_user_generic_string | |--4.31%-- generic_file_aio_read | do_sync_read | vfs_read | | | --4.19%-- sys_pread64 | system_call_fastpath | pread64 | --3.24%-- generic_file_buffered_write __generic_file_aio_write_nolock generic_file_aio_write do_sync_write reiserfs_file_write vfs_write | --3.14%-- sys_pwrite64 system_call_fastpath __pwrite64 5.39% [k] search_by_key | --2.23%-- reiserfs_update_sd_size 4.63% 0x00000000009e0a 2.36% [k] memcpy_c [...] You can also omit it and it will default to 0. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1246558475-10624-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02perf report: Add support for callchain graph outputFrederic Weisbecker
Currently, the printing of callchains is done in a single vertical level, this is the "flat" mode: 8.25% [k] copy_user_generic_string 4.19% copy_user_generic_string generic_file_aio_read do_sync_read vfs_read sys_pread64 system_call_fastpath pread64 This patch introduces a new "graph" mode which provides a hierarchical output of factorized paths recursively sorted: 8.25% [k] copy_user_generic_string | |--4.31%-- generic_file_aio_read | do_sync_read | vfs_read | | | |--4.19%-- sys_pread64 | | system_call_fastpath | | pread64 | | | --0.12%-- sys_read | system_call_fastpath | __read | |--3.24%-- generic_file_buffered_write | __generic_file_aio_write_nolock | generic_file_aio_write | do_sync_write | reiserfs_file_write | vfs_write | | | |--3.14%-- sys_pwrite64 | | system_call_fastpath | | __pwrite64 | | | --0.10%-- sys_write [...] The command line has then changed. By providing the -c option, the callchain will output in the flat mode by default. But you can override it: perf report -c graph or perf report -c flat You can also pass the abreviated mode: perf report -c g or perf report -c gra will both make use of the graph mode. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1246550301-8954-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02perf_counter tools: Add new OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT optionFrederic Weisbecker
There is no predefined macro to create an option that can have a custom value or a default one if none is given. This patch provides a new helper OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT() which defines such kind of option. For example, considering an option -c, we want to get the default value in the following cases: perf command -c -d perf command -d -c And the foo value when it's given: perf command -c foo -d perf command -d -c foo That's also why PARSE_OPT_LASTARG_DEFAULT is extended here to support default values whatever the position of the option, not only in the end. Should it now be renamed to PARSE_OPT_ARG_DEFAULT ? Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org LKML-Reference: <1246550301-8954-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02perf_counter tools: Create new chain_for_each_child() iteratorFrederic Weisbecker
Iterating through children of a node in the callchain tree shows something that may be quite confusing at a first glance. The head is the children field of the parent and the list nodes are in the brothers field of the children. This is because the childs are linked to the parent as a list of "brothers" using the "children" list of the parent as a head: --------------- | Parent (head) |------------------------------------- --------------- | | | children | | | ----------- ----------- | | 1st child |---brother---| 2nd child |---brother----- ----------- ----------- This makes the following strange pattern often occuring: list_for_each_entry(child, &parent->children, brothers) { // do something with children } Abstract it to chain_for_each_child() to factorize and simplify this pattern. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1246550301-8954-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02perf_counter tools: Connect module support infrastructure to symbol loading ↵Mike Galbraith
infrastructure Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1246514916.13293.46.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02perf_counter tools: Add infrastructure to support loading of kernel module ↵Mike Galbraith
symbols Add infrastructure for module path discovery and section load addresses. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1246514830.13293.44.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02perf_counter tools: Make symbol loading consistently return number of loaded ↵Mike Galbraith
symbols perf_counter tools: Make symbol loading consistently return number of loaded symbols. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1246514758.13293.42.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01perf_counter tools: Share list.h with the kernelArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
The copy we were using came from another copy I did for the dwarves (pahole) package, that came from the kernel years ago. The only function that is used by the perf tools and that isn't in the kernel is list_del_range, that I'm leaving in the perf tools only for now. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20090701174608.GA5823@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01perf_counter tools: Share rbtree.with the kernelArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
The tools/perf/util/rbtree.c copy already drifted by three csets: 4b324126e0c6c3a5080ca3ec0981e8766ed6f1ee 4c60117811171d867d4f27f17ea07d7419d45dae 16c047add3ceaf0ab882e3e094d1ec904d02312d So remove the copy and use the lib/rbtree.c directly, sharing the source code while still generating a separate object file, since tools/perf uses a far more agressive -O6 switch. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090701152837.GG15682@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01perf list: Add cache eventsJaswinder Singh Rajput
After: $ ./perf list List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e): cpu-cycles OR cycles [Hardware event] instructions [Hardware event] cache-references [Hardware event] cache-misses [Hardware event] branch-instructions OR branches [Hardware event] branch-misses [Hardware event] bus-cycles [Hardware event] cpu-clock [Software event] task-clock [Software event] page-faults OR faults [Software event] minor-faults [Software event] major-faults [Software event] context-switches OR cs [Software event] cpu-migrations OR migrations [Software event] L1-d$-loads [Hardware cache event] L1-d$-load-misses [Hardware cache event] L1-d$-stores [Hardware cache event] L1-d$-store-misses [Hardware cache event] L1-d$-prefetches [Hardware cache event] L1-d$-prefetch-misses [Hardware cache event] L1-i$-loads [Hardware cache event] L1-i$-load-misses [Hardware cache event] L1-i$-prefetches [Hardware cache event] L1-i$-prefetch-misses [Hardware cache event] LLC-loads [Hardware cache event] LLC-load-misses [Hardware cache event] LLC-stores [Hardware cache event] LLC-store-misses [Hardware cache event] LLC-prefetches [Hardware cache event] LLC-prefetch-misses [Hardware cache event] dTLB-loads [Hardware cache event] dTLB-load-misses [Hardware cache event] dTLB-stores [Hardware cache event] dTLB-store-misses [Hardware cache event] dTLB-prefetches [Hardware cache event] dTLB-prefetch-misses [Hardware cache event] iTLB-loads [Hardware cache event] iTLB-load-misses [Hardware cache event] branch-loads [Hardware cache event] branch-load-misses [Hardware cache event] rNNN [raw hardware event descriptor] Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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: <1246453578.3072.1.camel@ht.satnam> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate themIngo Molnar
Enable -Wextra. This found a few real bugs plus a number of signed/unsigned type mismatches/uncleanlinesses. It also required a few annotations All things considered it was still worth it so lets try with this enabled for now. 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: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01perf_counter tools: Rework event string parsing/syntaxPaul Mackerras
This reworks the parser for event descriptors to make it more consistent in what it accepts. It is now structured as a recursive descent parser for the following grammar: events ::= event ( ("," | space) space* event )* event ::= ( raw_event | numeric_event | symbolic_event | generic_hw_event ) [ event_modifier ] raw_event ::= "r" hex_number numeric_event ::= number ":" number number ::= decimal_number | "0x" hex_number | "0" octal_number symbolic_event ::= string_from_event_symbols_array generic_hw_event::= cache_type ( "-" ( cache_op | cache_result ) )* event_modifier ::= ":" ( "u" | "k" | "h" )+ with the extra restriction that you can have at most one cache_op and at most one cache_result. We pass the current string pointer by reference (i.e. as a const char **) to the various parsing functions so that they can advance the pointer to indicate how much they consumed. They return 0 if they didn't recognize the thing at the pointer or 1 if they did (and advance the pointer past it). This also fixes parse_aliases to take the longest matching alias from the table, not the first one. Otherwise "l1-data" would match the "l1-d" alias and the "ata" would not be consumed. This allows event modifiers indicating what processor modes to count in to be applied to any event, not just numeric events, and adds a ":h" modifier to indicate counting in hypervisor mode. Specifying ":u" now sets both exclude_kernel and exclude_hv, and so on. Multiple modes can be specified, e.g. ":uk" will count in user or hypervisor mode (i.e. only exclude_kernel will be set). Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.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: <19018.53826.843815.189847@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>