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2022-10-27perf tools: Make quiet mode consistent between toolsGravatar James Clark 1-1/+1
Use the global quiet variable everywhere so that all tools hide warnings in quiet mode and update the documentation to reflect this. 'perf probe' claimed that errors are not printed in quiet mode but I don't see this so remove it from the docs. Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221018094137.783081-3-james.clark@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2020-10-14perf diff: Support hot streams comparisonGravatar Jin Yao 1-0/+4
This patch enables perf-diff with "--stream" option. "--stream": Enable hot streams comparison Now let's see example. perf record -b ... Generate perf.data.old with branch data perf record -b ... Generate perf.data with branch data perf diff --stream [ Matched hot streams ] hot chain pair 1: cycles: 1, hits: 27.77% cycles: 1, hits: 9.24% --------------------------- -------------------------- main div.c:39 main div.c:39 main div.c:44 main div.c:44 hot chain pair 2: cycles: 34, hits: 20.06% cycles: 27, hits: 16.98% --------------------------- -------------------------- __random_r random_r.c:360 __random_r random_r.c:360 __random_r random_r.c:388 __random_r random_r.c:388 __random_r random_r.c:388 __random_r random_r.c:388 __random_r random_r.c:380 __random_r random_r.c:380 __random_r random_r.c:357 __random_r random_r.c:357 __random random.c:293 __random random.c:293 __random random.c:293 __random random.c:293 __random random.c:291 __random random.c:291 __random random.c:291 __random random.c:291 __random random.c:291 __random random.c:291 __random random.c:288 __random random.c:288 rand rand.c:27 rand rand.c:27 rand rand.c:26 rand rand.c:26 rand@plt rand@plt rand@plt rand@plt compute_flag div.c:25 compute_flag div.c:25 compute_flag div.c:22 compute_flag div.c:22 main div.c:40 main div.c:40 main div.c:40 main div.c:40 main div.c:39 main div.c:39 hot chain pair 3: cycles: 9, hits: 4.48% cycles: 6, hits: 4.51% --------------------------- -------------------------- __random_r random_r.c:360 __random_r random_r.c:360 __random_r random_r.c:388 __random_r random_r.c:388 __random_r random_r.c:388 __random_r random_r.c:388 __random_r random_r.c:380 __random_r random_r.c:380 [ Hot streams in old perf data only ] hot chain 1: cycles: 18, hits: 6.75% -------------------------- __random_r random_r.c:360 __random_r random_r.c:388 __random_r random_r.c:388 __random_r random_r.c:380 __random_r random_r.c:357 __random random.c:293 __random random.c:293 __random random.c:291 __random random.c:291 __random random.c:291 __random random.c:288 rand rand.c:27 rand rand.c:26 rand@plt rand@plt compute_flag div.c:25 compute_flag div.c:22 main div.c:40 hot chain 2: cycles: 29, hits: 2.78% -------------------------- compute_flag div.c:22 main div.c:40 main div.c:40 main div.c:39 [ Hot streams in new perf data only ] hot chain 1: cycles: 4, hits: 4.54% -------------------------- main div.c:42 compute_flag div.c:28 hot chain 2: cycles: 5, hits: 3.51% -------------------------- main div.c:39 main div.c:44 main div.c:42 compute_flag div.c:28 Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201009022845.13141-8-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-10-11perf diff: Report noisy for cycles diffGravatar Jin Yao 1-0/+5
This patch prints the stddev and hist for the cycles diff of program block. It can help us to understand if the cycles is noisy or not. This patch is inspired by Andi Kleen's patch: https://lwn.net/Articles/600471/ We create new option '--cycles-hist'. Example: perf record -b ./div perf record -b ./div perf diff -c cycles # Baseline [Program Block Range] Cycles Diff Shared Object Symbol # ........ .......................................................... .... ................. ............................ # 46.72% [div.c:40 -> div.c:40] 0 div [.] main 46.72% [div.c:42 -> div.c:44] 0 div [.] main 46.72% [div.c:42 -> div.c:39] 0 div [.] main 20.54% [random_r.c:357 -> random_r.c:394] 1 libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 20.54% [random_r.c:357 -> random_r.c:380] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 20.54% [random_r.c:388 -> random_r.c:388] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 20.54% [random_r.c:388 -> random_r.c:391] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 17.04% [random.c:288 -> random.c:291] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:291 -> random.c:291] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:293 -> random.c:293] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:295 -> random.c:295] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:295 -> random.c:295] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:298 -> random.c:298] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 8.40% [div.c:22 -> div.c:25] 0 div [.] compute_flag 8.40% [div.c:27 -> div.c:28] 0 div [.] compute_flag 5.14% [rand.c:26 -> rand.c:27] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] rand 5.14% [rand.c:28 -> rand.c:28] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] rand 2.15% [rand@plt+0 -> rand@plt+0] 0 div [.] rand@plt 0.00% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __x86_indirect_thunk_rax 0.00% [do_mmap+714 -> do_mmap+732] -10 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_mmap 0.00% [do_mmap+737 -> do_mmap+765] 1 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_mmap 0.00% [do_mmap+262 -> do_mmap+299] 0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_mmap 0.00% [__x86_indirect_thunk_r15+0 -> __x86_indirect_thunk_r15+0] 7 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __x86_indirect_thunk_r15 0.00% [native_sched_clock+0 -> native_sched_clock+119] -1 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_sched_clock 0.00% [native_write_msr+0 -> native_write_msr+16] -13 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr When we enable the option '--cycles-hist', the output is perf diff -c cycles --cycles-hist # Baseline [Program Block Range] Cycles Diff stddev/Hist Shared Object Symbol # ........ .......................................................... .... ................. ................. ............................ # 46.72% [div.c:40 -> div.c:40] 0 ± 37.8% ▁█▁▁██▁█ div [.] main 46.72% [div.c:42 -> div.c:44] 0 ± 49.4% ▁▁▂█▂▂▂▂ div [.] main 46.72% [div.c:42 -> div.c:39] 0 ± 24.1% ▃█▂▄▁▃▂▁ div [.] main 20.54% [random_r.c:357 -> random_r.c:394] 1 ± 33.5% ▅▂▁█▃▁▂▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 20.54% [random_r.c:357 -> random_r.c:380] 0 ± 39.4% ▁▁█▁██▅▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 20.54% [random_r.c:388 -> random_r.c:388] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 20.54% [random_r.c:388 -> random_r.c:391] 0 ± 41.2% ▁▃▁▂█▄▃▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random_r 17.04% [random.c:288 -> random.c:291] 0 ± 48.8% ▁▁▁▁███▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:291 -> random.c:291] 0 ±100.0% ▁█▁▁▁▁▁▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:293 -> random.c:293] 0 ±100.0% ▁█▁▁▁▁▁▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:295 -> random.c:295] 0 ±100.0% ▁█▁▁▁▁▁▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:295 -> random.c:295] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] __random 17.04% [random.c:298 -> random.c:298] 0 ± 75.6% ▃█▁▁▁▁▁▁ libc-2.27.so [.] __random 8.40% [div.c:22 -> div.c:25] 0 ± 42.1% ▁▃▁▁███▁ div [.] compute_flag 8.40% [div.c:27 -> div.c:28] 0 ± 41.8% ██▁▁▄▁▁▄ div [.] compute_flag 5.14% [rand.c:26 -> rand.c:27] 0 ± 37.8% ▁▁▁████▁ libc-2.27.so [.] rand 5.14% [rand.c:28 -> rand.c:28] 0 libc-2.27.so [.] rand 2.15% [rand@plt+0 -> rand@plt+0] 0 div [.] rand@plt 0.00% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __x86_indirect_thunk_rax 0.00% [do_mmap+714 -> do_mmap+732] -10 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_mmap 0.00% [do_mmap+737 -> do_mmap+765] 1 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_mmap 0.00% [do_mmap+262 -> do_mmap+299] 0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_mmap 0.00% [__x86_indirect_thunk_r15+0 -> __x86_indirect_thunk_r15+0] 7 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __x86_indirect_thunk_r15 0.00% [native_sched_clock+0 -> native_sched_clock+119] -1 ± 38.5% ▄█▁ [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_sched_clock 0.00% [native_write_msr+0 -> native_write_msr+16] -13 ± 47.1% ▁█▇▃▁▁ [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr v8: --- Rebase to perf/core branch v7: --- 1. v6 got Jiri's ACK. 2. Rebase to latest perf/core branch. v6: --- 1. Jiri provides better code for using data__hpp_register() in ui_init(). Use this code in v6. v5: --- 1. Refine the use of data__hpp_register() in ui_init() according to Jiri's suggestion. v4: --- 1. Rename the new option from '--noisy' to '--cycles-hist' 2. Remove the option '-n'. 3. Only update the spark value and stats when '--cycles-hist' is enabled. 4. Remove the code of printing '..'. v3: --- 1. Move the histogram to a separate column 2. Move the svals[] out of struct stats v2: --- Jiri got a compile error, CC builtin-diff.o builtin-diff.c: In function ‘compute_cycles_diff’: builtin-diff.c:712:10: error: taking the absolute value of unsigned type ‘u64’ {aka ‘long unsigned int’} has no effect [-Werror=absolute-value] 712 | labs(pair->block_info->cycles_spark[i] - | ^~~~ Because the result of u64 - u64 is still u64. Now we change the type of cycles_spark[] to s64. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190925011446.30678-1-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-07-02perf diff: Documentation -c cycles optionGravatar Jin Yao 1-3/+14
Documentation the new computation selection 'cycles'. v4: --- Change the column 'Block cycles diff [start:end]' to '[Program Block Range] Cycles Diff' Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1561713784-30533-8-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-06-10perf time-utils: Add support for multiple explicit time intervalsGravatar Adrian Hunter 1-3/+5
Currently only a single explicit time range is accepted. Add support for multiple ranges separated by spaces, which requires the string to be quoted. Update the time utils test accordingly. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604130017.31207-20-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-06-10perf time-utils: Fix --time documentationGravatar Adrian Hunter 1-3/+3
Correct some punctuation and spelling and correct the format to show that the time resolution is nanoseconds not microseconds. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604130017.31207-16-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-03-06perf diff: Support --pid/--tid filter optionsGravatar Jin Yao 1-0/+6
Using the existing symbol_conf.pid_list_str and symbol_conf.tid_list_str logic. For example: perf diff --tid 13965 It'll only diff the samples for thread 13965. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1551791143-10334-4-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-03-06perf diff: Support --cpu filter optionGravatar Jin Yao 1-0/+5
To improve 'perf diff', implement a --cpu filter option. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to report samples on all CPUs. For example, perf diff --cpu 0,1 It only diff the samples for CPU0 and CPU1. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1551791143-10334-3-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-03-06perf diff: Support --time filter optionGravatar Jin Yao 1-0/+45
To improve 'perf diff', implement a --time filter option to diff the samples within given time window. It supports time percent with multiple time ranges. The time string format is 'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'. For example: Select the second 10% time slice to diff: perf diff --time 10%/2 Select from 0% to 10% time slice to diff: perf diff --time 0%-10% Select the first and the second 10% time slices to diff: perf diff --time 10%/1,10%/2 Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices to diff: perf diff --time 0%-10%,30%-40% It also supports analysing samples within a given time window <start>,<stop>. Times have the format seconds.microseconds. If 'start' is not given (i.e., time string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If the stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes to end of file. Time string is 'a1.b1,c1.d1:a2.b2,c2.d2'. Use ':' to separate timestamps for different perf.data files. For example, we get the timestamp information from perf script. perf script -i perf.data.old mgen 13940 [000] 3946.361400: ... perf script -i perf.data mgen 13940 [000] 3971.150589 ... perf diff --time 3946.361400,:3971.150589, It analyzes the perf.data.old from the timestamp 3946.361400 to the end of perf.data.old and analyzes the perf.data from the timestamp 3971.150589 to the end of perf.data. v4: --- Update abstime_str_dup(), let it return error if strdup is failed, and update __cmd_diff() accordingly. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1551791143-10334-2-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-02-20perf diff: Add -q/--quiet optionGravatar Namhyung Kim 1-0/+4
The -q/--quiet option is to suppress any message. Sometimes users just want to see the numbers and it can be used for that case. Committer notes: Before: # perf diff | head -10 Failed to open /tmp/perf-6678.map, continuing without symbols Failed to open /tmp/perf-6678.map, continuing without symbols Failed to open /tmp/perf-2646.map, continuing without symbols # Event 'cycles' # # Baseline Delta Abs Shared Object Symbol # ........ ......... .......................... ............................................ # 5.36% -1.76% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle 2.80% +1.48% firefox [.] 0x00000000000101fe 57.12% -1.25% libxul.so [.] 0x00000000009bea92 1.36% -1.11% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __schedule 4.26% -1.00% perf-6678.map [.] 0x00007fac4b0e9320 After: # perf diff -q | head -10 5.36% -1.76% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle 2.80% +1.48% firefox [.] 0x00000000000101fe 57.12% -1.25% libxul.so [.] 0x00000000009bea92 1.36% -1.11% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __schedule 4.26% -1.00% perf-6678.map [.] 0x00007fac4b0e9320 1.86% +0.95% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_blocked_averages 0.80% -0.70% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_sched_clock 0.74% -0.58% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr 0.76% -0.56% qemu-system-x86_64 [.] 0x00000000002395c0 +0.54% libpulsecommon-10.0.so [.] 0x000000000002d91b # Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Suggested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: kernel-team@lge.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217081742.17417-5-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-02-13perf diff: Change default setting to "delta-abs"Gravatar Namhyung Kim 1-2/+2
The "delta-abs" compute method will show most changed entries on top. So users can easily see how much effect between the data. Note that it also changes the default of -o option to 1 in order to apply the compute method. To see original-style (sorted by baseline) use -o 0 option. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170210161856.18422-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-02-13perf diff: Add diff.compute config optionGravatar Namhyung Kim 1-2/+3
The diff.compute config variable is to set the default compute method of perf diff command (-c option). Possible values 'delta' (default), 'delta-abs', 'ratio' and 'wdiff'. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170210073614.24584-4-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-02-13perf diff: Add diff.order config optionGravatar Namhyung Kim 1-1/+5
In many cases, I need to look at differences between two data so I often used the -o option to sort the result base on the difference first. It'd be nice to have a config option to set it by default. The diff.order config option is to set the default value of -o/--order option. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170210073614.24584-3-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-02-13perf diff: Add 'delta-abs' compute methodGravatar Namhyung Kim 1-1/+5
The 'delta-abs' compute method is same as 'delta' but shows entries with bigger absolute delta first instead of sorting numerically. This is only useful together with -o option. Below is default output (-c delta): $ perf diff -o 1 -c delta | grep -v ^# | head 42.22% +4.97% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] cfb_imageblit 0.62% +1.23% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mutex_lock +1.15% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_user_generic_string 2.40% +0.95% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] bit_putcs 0.31% +0.79% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] link_path_walk +0.64% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc 0.00% +0.57% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __rcu_read_unlock +0.45% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] alloc_set_pte 0.16% +0.45% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] menu_select +0.41% ld-2.24.so [.] do_lookup_x Now with 'delta-abs' it shows entries have bigger delta value either positive or negative. $ perf diff -o 1 -c delta-abs | grep -v ^# | head 42.22% +4.97% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] cfb_imageblit 12.72% -3.01% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle 9.72% -1.31% [unknown] [.] 0x0000000000411343 0.62% +1.23% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mutex_lock 2.40% +0.95% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] bit_putcs 0.31% +0.79% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] link_path_walk 1.35% -0.71% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] smp_call_function_single 0.00% +0.57% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __rcu_read_unlock 0.16% +0.45% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] menu_select 0.72% -0.44% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] lookup_fast Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170210073614.24584-2-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-30perf tools: Make -f/--force option documentation consistent across toolsGravatar Jiri Olsa 1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458823940-24583-6-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-03-24perf diff: Add kallsyms optionGravatar David Ahern 1-0/+3
Required for off-box analysis to convert kernel addresses. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427212317-7018-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-27perf diff: Support for different binariesGravatar Kan Liang 1-0/+5
Currently, the perf diff only works with same binaries. That's because it compares the symbol start address. It doesn't work if the perf.data comes from different binaries. This patch matches the symbol names. Actually, perf diff once intended to compare the symbol names. The commit as below can look for a pair by name. 604c5c92972d (perf diff: Change the default sort order to "dso,symbol") However, at that time, perf diff used a global list of dsos. That means the binaries which has same name can only be loaded once. That's a problem for comparing different binaries. For example, we have an old binary and an updated binary. They very likely have same name and most of the functions, so only dsos from old binary will be loaded. When processing the data from updated binary, perf still use the symbol information from old binary. That's wrong. Then the commit as below used IP to replace symbol name. 9c443dfdd31e ("perf diff: Fix support for all --sort combinations") >From that time, perf diff starts to compare the symbol address. The global dsos is discarded from a patch in 2010. a1645ce12adb ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host") However, at that time, perf diff already compared by address. So perf diff cannot work for different binaries as well. This patch actually rolls back the perf diff to original design. The document is also changed, so everybody knows the original design is to compare the symbol names. Here are some examples: The only difference between example_v1.c and example_v2.c is the location of f2 and f3. There is no change in behavior, but the previous perf diff display the wrong differential profile. example_v1.c noinline void f3(void) { volatile int i; for (i = 0; i < 10000;) { if(i%2) i++; else i++; } } noinline void f2(void) { volatile int a = 100, b, c; for (b = 0; b < 10000; b++) c = a * b; } noinline void f1(void) { f2(); f3(); } int main() { int i; for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++) f1(); } example_v2.c noinline void f2(void) { volatile int a = 100, b, c; for (b = 0; b < 10000; b++) c = a * b; } noinline void f3(void) { volatile int i; for (i = 0; i < 10000;) { if(i%2) i++; else i++; } } noinline void f1(void) { f2(); f3(); } int main() { int i; for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++) f1(); } [lk@localhost perf_diff]$ gcc example_v1.c -o example [lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf record -o example_v1.data ./example [ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.813 MB example_v1.data (~35522 samples) ] [lk@localhost perf_diff]$ gcc example_v2.c -o example [lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf record -o example_v2.data ./example [ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.824 MB example_v2.data (~36015 samples) ] Old perf diff result: [lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf diff example_v1.data example_v2.data Event 'cycles' Baseline Delta Shared Object Symbol ........ ....... ................ ............................... [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __perf_event_task_sched_out 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] apic_timer_interrupt [kernel.vmlinux] [k] idle_cpu [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_pstate_timer_func [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_read_msr_safe 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_read_tsc 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe [kernel.vmlinux] [k] ntp_tick_length 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] rb_erase 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] tick_sched_timer 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] unmap_single_vma 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_wall_time 0.00% example [.] f1 46.24% example [.] f2 53.71% -7.55% example [.] f3 +53.81% example [.] f3 0.02% example [.] main New perf diff result: [lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf diff example_v1.data example_v2.data [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __perf_event_task_sched_out 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] apic_timer_interrupt [kernel.vmlinux] [k] idle_cpu [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_pstate_timer_func [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_read_msr_safe 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_read_tsc 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe [kernel.vmlinux] [k] ntp_tick_length 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] rb_erase 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] tick_sched_timer 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] unmap_single_vma 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_wall_time 0.00% example [.] f1 46.24% -0.08% example [.] f2 53.71% +0.11% example [.] f3 0.02% example [.] main Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1423460384-11645-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-10-15perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/DocumentationGravatar Masanari Iida 1-3/+3
This patch fix spelling typos found in tool/perf/Documentation. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410275930-17207-1-git-send-email-standby24x7@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-05-21perf tools: Allow hpp fields to be sort keysGravatar Namhyung Kim 1-2/+3
Add overhead{,_sys,_us,_guest_sys,_guest_us}, sample and period sort keys so that they can be selected with --sort/-s option. $ perf report -s period,comm --stdio ... # Overhead Period Command # ........ ............ ............... # 47.06% 152 swapper 13.93% 45 qemu-system-arm 12.38% 40 synergys 3.72% 12 firefox 2.48% 8 xchat Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400480762-22852-9-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-04-16perf diff: Add --percentage optionGravatar Namhyung Kim 1-3/+18
The --percentage option is for controlling overhead percentage displayed. It can only receive either of "relative" or "absolute" and affects -c delta output only. For more information, please see previous commit same thing done to "perf report". Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397145720-8063-5-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
2013-07-12perf diff: Add generic order option for compute sortingGravatar Jiri Olsa 1-2/+4
Adding option 'o' to allow sorting based on the input file number. By default (without -o option) the output is sorted on baseline. Also removing '+' sorting support from -c option, because it's not needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-l7dvhgt0azm7yiqg3fbn4dxw@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-07-12perf diff: Update perf diff documentation for multiple data comparisonGravatar Jiri Olsa 1-9/+64
Updating perf diff documentation to include multiple perf data files comparison. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tr6su3wfm20k2m5npjggyvtw@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-12-09perf diff: Remove displacement output optionGravatar Jiri Olsa 1-4/+0
It seems not very useful, because it's possible and event more convenient to lookup related symbol by name. Also the output value for both 'baseline' and 'new' data is quite apparent from diff output. And above all it complicates hist code factoring ;) Ditching out PERF_HPP__DISPL column with related output functions. Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121206132228.GB1080@krava.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05perf diff: Add -F option to display formula for computationGravatar Jiri Olsa 1-0/+4
Adding -F option to display the formula for specified computation. This is mainly to facilitate debugging, but can be useful anyway. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05perf diff: Add -p option to display period values for hist entriesGravatar Jiri Olsa 1-0/+4
Adding -p option to show period values for both compared hist entries. Showing hist column PERF_HPP__PERIOD and newly added hist column PERF_HPP__PERIOD_BASELINE. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05perf diff: Add weighted diff computation way to compare hist entriesGravatar Jiri Olsa 1-1/+14
Adding 'wdiff' as new computation way to compare hist entries. If specified the 'Weighted diff' column is displayed with value 'd' computed as: d = B->period * WEIGHT-A - A->period * WEIGHT-B - A/B being matching hist entry from first/second file specified (or perf.data/perf.data.old) respectively. - period being the hist entry period value - WEIGHT-A/WEIGHT-B being user suplied weights in the the '-c' option behind ':' separator like '-c wdiff:1,2'. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05perf diff: Add option to sort entries based on diff computationGravatar Jiri Olsa 1-0/+2
Adding support to sort hist entries based on the outcome of selected computation. It's now possible to specify '+' as a first character of '-c' option value to make such sort. Example: $ perf diff -c ratio -b # Event 'cache-misses' # # Baseline Ratio Shared Object Symbol # ........ .............. ................. ................................ # 19.64% 0.69 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page 0.30% 0.17 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mm_alloc 0.04% 0.20 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc $ perf diff -c +ratio -b # Event 'cache-misses' # # Baseline Ratio Shared Object Symbol # ........ .............. ................. ................................ # 19.64% 0.69 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page 0.04% 0.20 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc 0.30% 0.17 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mm_alloc Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05perf diff: Add ratio computation way to compare hist entriesGravatar Jiri Olsa 1-0/+33
Adding -c option to select computation method with the current 'Delta' computation as default. Current possible values are of this option are: 'delta' and 'ratio'. Adding 'ratio' as new computation way to compare hist entries. If specified the 'Ratio' column is displayed with value 'r' computed as: r = A->period / B->period with: - A/B being matching hist entry from first/second file specified (or perf.data/perf.data.old) respectively. - period being the hist entry period value Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05perf diff: Add -b option for perf diff to display paired entries onlyGravatar Jiri Olsa 1-0/+4
Adding -b option to perf diff command to display only entries with match in the baseline. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-09-07perf diff: Make diff command work with evsel histsGravatar Jiri Olsa 1-0/+3
Putting 'perf diff' command back on track with the 'latest' evsel hists changes. Each evsel has its own 'hists' object gathering stats for the particular event. While currently counts are accumulated for the whole session regardless of the events diversification within compared sessions. The 'perf diff' command now outputs all matching events within compared sessions (with event name specified). The per event diff output stays the same. $ ./perf diff # Event 'cycles' # # Baseline Delta Shared Object Symbol # ........ .......... ................. .............................. # 0.00% +15.14% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __wake_up 0.00% +13.38% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ext4fs_dirhash ... SNIP 0.00% +0.42% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] local_clock 0.17% -0.05% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr_safe # Event 'faults' # # Baseline Delta Shared Object Symbol # ........ .......... ................. .............................. # 0.00% +79.12% ld-2.15.so [.] _dl_relocate_object 0.00% +11.62% ld-2.15.so [.] openaux Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346946426-13496-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-21perf symbols: Add symfs option for off-box analysis using specified treeGravatar David Ahern 1-0/+2
The symfs argument allows analysis of perf.data file using a locally accessible filesystem tree with debug symbols - e.g., tree created during image builds, sshfs mount, loop mounted KVM disk images, USB keys, initrds, etc. Anything with an OS tree can be analyzed from anywhere without the need to populate a local data store with build-ids. Commiter notes: o Fixed up symfs="/" variants handling. o prefixed DSO__ORIG_GUEST_KMODULE case with symfs too, avoiding use of files outside the symfs directory. LKML-Reference: <1291926427-28846-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01perf diff: Document missing optionsGravatar Shawn Bohrer 1-1/+18
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-5-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-05perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issuesGravatar Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 1-1/+1
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2009-12-16perf diff: Use perf_session__fprintf_hists just like 'perf record'Gravatar Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 1-3/+26
That means that almost everything you can do with 'perf report' can be done with 'perf diff', for instance: $ perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2699 samples) ] $ perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2687 samples) ] perf diff | head -8 9.02% +1.00% find libc-2.10.1.so [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 2.91% -1.00% find [kernel] [k] __kmalloc 2.85% -1.00% find [kernel] [k] ext4_htree_store_dirent 1.99% -1.00% find [kernel] [k] _atomic_dec_and_lock 2.44% find [kernel] [k] half_md4_transform $ So if you want to zoom into libc: $ perf diff --dsos libc-2.10.1.so | head -8 37.34% find [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 10.34% find [.] __GI_memmove 8.25% +2.00% find [.] _int_malloc 5.07% -1.00% find [.] __GI_mempcpy 7.62% +2.00% find [.] _int_free $ And if there were multiple commands using libc, it is also possible to aggregate them all by using --sort symbol: $ perf diff --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8 37.34% [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 10.34% [.] __GI_memmove 8.25% +2.00% [.] _int_malloc 5.07% -1.00% [.] __GI_mempcpy 7.62% +2.00% [.] _int_free $ The displacement column now is off by default, to use it: perf diff -m --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8 37.34% [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 10.34% [.] __GI_memmove 8.25% +2.00% [.] _int_malloc 5.07% -1.00% +2 [.] __GI_mempcpy 7.62% +2.00% -1 [.] _int_free $ Using -t/--field-separator can be used for scripting: $ perf diff -t, -m --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8 37.34, , ,[.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 10.34, , ,[.] __GI_memmove 8.25,+2.00%, ,[.] _int_malloc 5.07,-1.00%, +2,[.] __GI_mempcpy 7.62,+2.00%, -1,[.] _int_free 6.99,+1.00%, -1,[.] _IO_new_file_xsputn 1.89,-2.00%, +4,[.] __readdir64 $ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260978567-550-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-15perf diff: Fix documentationGravatar Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 1-0/+1
Add a newline do fix this problem: ERROR: perf-diff.txt: line 31: closing [blockdef-listing] delimiter expected Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260882082-10007-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-15perf diff: Improve the help textGravatar Ingo Molnar 1-4/+4
Fix the short line displayed by 'perf' and also fix some other details in the longer text. Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 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>
2009-12-15perf diff: Introduce tool to show performance differenceGravatar Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 1-0/+31
I guess it is enough to show some examples: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# rm -f perf.data* [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* ls: cannot access perf.data*: No such file or directory [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2699 samples) ] [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* -rw------- 1 root root 74440 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2692 samples) ] [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* -rw------- 1 root root 74280 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data -rw------- 1 root root 74440 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data.old [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff | head -5 1 -34994580 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 -15307806 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 +3665941 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 +23508995 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 +38538813 [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -p | head -5 1 +1.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 -1.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -v | head -5 1 361449551 326454971 -34994580 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 151009241 135701435 -15307806 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 101805328 105471269 +3665941 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 78041440 101550435 +23508995 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 59536172 98074985 +38538813 [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -vp | head -5 1 9.00% 8.00% +1.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 3.00% 3.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 2.00% 2.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 2.00% 2.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 1.00% 2.00% -1.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# This should be enough for diffs where the system is non volatile, i.e. when one doesn't updates binaries. For volatile environments, stay tuned for the next perf tool feature: a buildid cache populated by 'perf record', managed by 'perf buildid-cache' a-la ccache, and used by all the report tools. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1260828571-3613-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>