From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755696Ab3KLOrV (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:47:21 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f176.google.com ([209.85.192.176]:34880 "EHLO mail-pd0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755408Ab3KLOrQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:47:16 -0500 From: David Ahern To: acme@ghostprotocols.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@kernel.org, jolsa@redhat.com, David Ahern Subject: [PATCH 2/5] perf tool: Round mmap pages to power 2 - v2 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 07:46:54 -0700 Message-Id: <1384267617-3446-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.4 (Apple Git-47) In-Reply-To: <1384267617-3446-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com> References: <1384267617-3446-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Currently perf requires the -m / --mmap_pages option to be a power of 2. To be more user friendly perf should automatically round this up to the next power of 2. Currently: $ perf record -m 3 -a -- sleep 1 --mmap_pages/-m value must be a power of two.sleep: Terminated With patch: $ perf record -m 3 -a -- sleep 1 rounding mmap pages size to 16384 (4 pages) ... v2: Add bytes units to rounding message per Ingo's request. Other suggestions (e.g., prefixing INFO) should be addressed by wrapping pr_info to catch all instances. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa --- tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 18 ++++++------------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c index 3960560f873a..fb4727d3df85 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c @@ -710,7 +710,6 @@ int perf_evlist__parse_mmap_pages(const struct option *opt, const char *str, { unsigned int *mmap_pages = opt->value; unsigned long pages, val; - size_t size; static struct parse_tag tags[] = { { .tag = 'B', .mult = 1 }, { .tag = 'K', .mult = 1 << 10 }, @@ -726,11 +725,6 @@ int perf_evlist__parse_mmap_pages(const struct option *opt, const char *str, if (val != (unsigned long) -1) { /* we got file size value */ pages = PERF_ALIGN(val, page_size) / page_size; - if (pages < (1UL << 31) && !is_power_of_2(pages)) { - pages = next_pow2(pages); - pr_info("rounding mmap pages size to %lu (%lu pages)\n", - pages * page_size, pages); - } } else { /* we got pages count value */ char *eptr; @@ -741,14 +735,14 @@ int perf_evlist__parse_mmap_pages(const struct option *opt, const char *str, } } - if (pages > UINT_MAX || pages > SIZE_MAX / page_size) { - pr_err("--mmap_pages/-m value too big\n"); - return -1; + if (pages < (1UL << 31) && !is_power_of_2(pages)) { + pages = next_pow2(pages); + pr_info("rounding mmap pages size to %lu bytes (%lu pages)\n", + pages * page_size, pages); } - size = perf_evlist__mmap_size(pages); - if (!size) { - pr_err("--mmap_pages/-m value must be a power of two."); + if (pages > UINT_MAX || pages > SIZE_MAX / page_size) { + pr_err("--mmap_pages/-m value too big\n"); return -1; } -- 1.8.3.4 (Apple Git-47)