From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756988AbaEPLsk (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2014 07:48:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40744 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754146AbaEPLsj (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2014 07:48:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:47:57 +0200 From: Jiri Olsa To: Don Zickus Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net, peterz@infradead.org, LKML , namhyung@gmail.com, eranian@google.com, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] perf: Add dcacheline sort Message-ID: <20140516114757.GD19475@krava.brq.redhat.com> References: <1399999697-65875-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> <1399999697-65875-7-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1399999697-65875-7-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:48:17PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > In perf's 'mem-mode', one can get access to a whole bunch of details specific to a > particular sample instruction. A bunch of those details relate to the data > address. > > One interesting thing you can do with data addresses is to convert them into a unique > cacheline they belong too. Organizing these data cachelines into similar groups and sorting > them can reveal cache contention. > > This patch creates an alogorithm based on various sample details that can help group > entries together into data cachelines and allows 'perf report' to sort on it. > > The algorithm relies on having proper mmap2 support in the kernel to help determine > if the memory map the data address belongs to is private to a pid or globally shared. > > The alogortithm is as follows: > > o group cpumodes together > o group entries with discovered maps together > o sort on major, minor, inode and inode generation numbers > o if userspace anon, then sort on pid > o sort on cachelines based on data addresses needs some collumn width refresh or something..? ;-) # Overhead Data Cacheline # ........ ....................... # 5.42% [k] 0xffff8801ed832c40 5.29% [.] sys_errlist@@GLIBC_2.12+0xffffffcbf7dfc1ff 3.16% [k] 0xffffffffff5690c0 also I've got again perf hanged up on opening device file [jolsa@krava perf]$ sudo strace -p 29445 Process 29445 attached open("/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p", O_RDONLY^CProcess 29445 detached another one I recall was /dev/dri/card0 touched by X server I guess those device files allow to mmap memory and we recorded memory access there.. we need check for this and do not try to open device files jirka