perf/core improvements and fixes:
New features:
- Add more triggers to switch the output file (perf.data.TIMESTAMP).
Now, in addition to switching to a different output file when
receiving a SIGUSR2, one can also specify file size and time based
triggers:
perf record -a --switch-output=signal
is equivalent to what we had before:
perf record -a --switch-output
While we can also ask for the file to be "sliced" by size, taking
into account that that will happen only when we get woken up by
the kernel, i.e. one has to take into account the --mmap-pages (the
size of the perf mmap ring buffer):
perf record -a --switch-output=2G
will break the perf.data output into multiple files limited to 2GB
of samples, right when generating the output.
For time based samples, alert() will be used, so to have 1 minute
limited perf.data output files:
perf record -a --switch-output=1m
(Jiri Olsa)
- Remove the need to use -e only for syscalls and --event only for
tracepoints/HW/SW/etc events, i.e. now one can use:
perf trace -e nanosleep,futex,sched:sched_switch ./workload
or:
perf trace --event nanosleep,futex,sched:sched_switch ./workload
And have it tracing raw_syscalls:sys_{enter,exit} for the nanosleep
and futex syscalls, formatting those as strace does while also
tracing sched:sched_switch, ordering it all into one strace like
output.
Using '!' as the first character in the -e/--event argument remains
a way to negate the list of syscalls, i.e. all syscalls except for
the ones specified, doesn't affect the other kinds of events.
E.g:
[root@jouet ~] # perf trace -e sched:sched_switch,nanosleep usleep 1
0.000 ( 0.028 ms): usleep/28150 nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffe4201b9f0) ...
0.028 ( ): sched:sched_switch:usleep:28150 [120] S ==> swapper/0:0 [120])
0.000 ( 0.065 ms): usleep/28150 ... [continued]: nanosleep()) = 0
[root@jouet ~]#
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- 'perf kallsyms' toy tool to look for extended symbol information on
the running kernel and demonstrate the machine/thread/symbol APIs for
use in other tools, such as 'perf probe' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Infrastructure:
- Add missing linux/kernel.h include to subcmd.h (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
tools: Sync x86's vmx.h with the kernel
- Create libdir directory before installing libperf-jvmti.so (Laura Abbott)
- Fix typo in perf_evlist__start_workload() (Soramichi Akiyama)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools: Sync x86's vmx.h with the kernel
To pick the changes from:
1b07304c587d ("KVM: nVMX: support descriptor table exits")
That adds entries to VMX_EXIT_REASONS, that is used by
tools/perf/arch/x86/util/kvm-stat.c.
This also picks the changes in:
1dc35dacc16b ("KVM: nVMX: check host CR3 on vmentry and vmexit")
But these are not used in 'perf kvm stat', do it just to silence the
kernel/tools file cache coherency detector:
$ make -C tools/perf
make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf'
BUILD: Doing 'make -j4' parallel build
Warning: arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h differs from kernel
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Ladi Prosek <lprosek@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-56uowkk8t5zje49a42asffcy@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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