Re: [GIT PULL 00/25] perf/core improvements and fixes

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> 	Please consider pulling,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> The following changes since commit 152fefa921535665f95840c08062844ab2f5593e:
> 
>   Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2013-01-31 10:20:14 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux tags/perf-core-for-mingo
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 2ac3634a7e1c8eedc961030c87c5c36ebd5bbf8e:
> 
>   perf: Document the ABI of perf sysfs entries (2013-01-31 13:07:51 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
> 
> . Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs, equivalent to
>   what was done on x86, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
> 
> . Add event group view, from Namyung Kim:
> 
>   To use it, 'perf record' should group events when recording. And then perf
>   report parses the saved group relation from file header and prints them
>   together if --group option is provided.  You can use 'perf evlist' command to
>   see event group information:
> 
>     $ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}' noploop 1
>     [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
>     [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.385 MB perf.data (~16807 samples) ]
> 
>     $ perf evlist --group
>     {ref-cycles,cycles}
> 
>   With this example, default perf report will show you each event
>   separately like this:
> 
>     $ perf report
>     ...
>     # group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
>     # ========
>     # Samples: 3K of event 'ref-cycles'
>     # Event count (approx.): 3153797218
>     #
>     # Overhead  Command      Shared Object                      Symbol
>     # ........  .......  .................  ..........................
>         99.84%  noploop  noploop            [.] main
>          0.07%  noploop  ld-2.15.so         [.] strcmp
>          0.03%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] timerqueue_del
>          0.03%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock_cpu
>          0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] account_user_time
>          0.01%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
>          0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
> 
>     # Samples: 3K of event 'cycles'
>     # Event count (approx.): 3722310525
>     #
>     # Overhead  Command      Shared Object                     Symbol
>     # ........  .......  .................  .........................
>         99.76%  noploop  noploop            [.] main
>          0.11%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock
>          0.06%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] find_get_page
>          0.03%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock_cpu
>          0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] rcu_check_callbacks
>          0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __current_kernel_time
>          0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
> 
>   In this case the event group information will be shown in the end of
>   header area.  So you can use --group option to enable event group view.
> 
>     $ perf report --group
>     ...
>     # group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
>     # ========
>     # Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
>     # Event count (approx.): 6876107743
>     #
>     #         Overhead  Command      Shared Object                      Symbol
>     # ................  .......  .................  ..........................
>         99.84%  99.76%  noploop  noploop            [.] main
>          0.07%   0.00%  noploop  ld-2.15.so         [.] strcmp
>          0.03%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] timerqueue_del
>          0.03%   0.03%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock_cpu
>          0.02%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] account_user_time
>          0.01%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
>          0.00%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
>          0.00%   0.11%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock
>          0.00%   0.06%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] find_get_page
>          0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] rcu_check_callbacks
>          0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __current_kernel_time
> 
>   As you can see the Overhead column now contains both of ref-cycles and
>   cycles and header line shows group information also - 'anon group {
>   ref-cycles, cycles }'.  The output is sorted by period of group leader
>   first.
> 
>   If perf.data file doesn't contain group information, this --group
>   option does nothing.  So if you want enable event group view by
>   default you can set it in ~/.perfconfig file:
> 
>     $ cat ~/.perfconfig
>     [report]
>     group = true
> 
>   It can be overridden with command line if you want:
> 
>     $ perf report --no-group
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (2):
>       perf top: Stop using exit()
>       perf top: Delete maps on exit
> 
> Namhyung Kim (18):
>       perf tools: Keep group information
>       perf tests: Add group test conditions
>       perf header: Add HEADER_GROUP_DESC feature
>       perf report: Make another loop for linking group hists
>       perf hists: Resort hist entries using group members for output
>       perf ui/hist: Consolidate hpp helpers
>       perf hists browser: Convert hpp helpers to a function
>       perf gtk/browser: Convert hpp helpers to a function
>       perf ui/hist: Add support for event group view
>       perf hists browser: Move coloring logic to hpp functions
>       perf hists browser: Add suppport for event group view
>       perf gtk/browser: Add support for event group view
>       perf gtk/browser: Trim column header string when event group enabled
>       perf report: Bypass non-leader events when event group is enabled
>       perf report: Show group description when event group is enabled
>       perf report: Add --group option
>       perf report: Add report.group config option
>       perf evlist: Add --group option
> 
> Sukadev Bhattiprolu (5):
>       perf/Power7: Use macros to identify perf events
>       perf: Make EVENT_ATTR global
>       perf/POWER7: Make generic event translations available in sysfs
>       perf/POWER7: Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs
>       perf: Document the ABI of perf sysfs entries
> 
>  .../testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events  |  62 +++++
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h       |  26 ++
>  arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c                    |  12 +
>  arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.c                     |  80 +++++-
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c                   |  13 +-
>  include/linux/perf_event.h                         |  11 +
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-evlist.txt           |   4 +
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt           |   3 +
>  tools/perf/builtin-evlist.c                        |   7 +
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c                        |   3 +
>  tools/perf/builtin-report.c                        |  47 +++-
>  tools/perf/builtin-top.c                           |  62 +++--
>  tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c                    |  28 ++
>  tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c                     | 217 ++++++++++++---
>  tools/perf/ui/gtk/hists.c                          | 130 +++++++--
>  tools/perf/ui/hist.c                               | 306 ++++++++++-----------
>  tools/perf/ui/stdio/hist.c                         |   2 +
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.c                           |   7 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.h                           |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c                            |  49 +++-
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.h                            |  16 ++
>  tools/perf/util/header.c                           | 164 +++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/header.h                           |   2 +
>  tools/perf/util/hist.c                             |  59 +++-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c                     |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.h                     |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.y                     |  10 +
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.h                           |   3 +-
>  28 files changed, 1059 insertions(+), 267 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo