[PATCH 1/2] perf, tools, stat: Initialize statistics correctly

[PATCH 1/2] perf, tools, stat: Initialize statistics correctly

[Andi Kleen]

From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

perf stat did initialize the stats structure used to compute
stddev etc. incorrectly. It merely zeroes it. But one member
(min) needs to be set to a non zero value. This causes min
to be not computed at all. Call init_stats() correctly.

It doesn't matter for stat currently because it doesn't use
min, but it's still better to do it correctly.

The other users of statistics are already correct.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 8b0e1c9..65a151e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -174,13 +174,20 @@ static inline int perf_evsel__nr_cpus(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 
 static void perf_evsel__reset_stat_priv(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 {
-	memset(evsel->priv, 0, sizeof(struct perf_stat));
+	int i;
+	struct perf_stat *ps = evsel->priv;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
+		init_stats(&ps->res_stats[i]);
 }
 
 static int perf_evsel__alloc_stat_priv(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 {
 	evsel->priv = zalloc(sizeof(struct perf_stat));
-	return evsel->priv == NULL ? -ENOMEM : 0;
+	if (evsel == NULL)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	perf_evsel__reset_stat_priv(evsel);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static void perf_evsel__free_stat_priv(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
-- 
1.8.5.3

[PATCH 2/2] perf, tools: Support spark lines in perf stat

[Andi Kleen]

From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

perf stat -rX prints the stddev for multiple measurements.
Just looking at the stddev for judging the quality of the data
is a bit dangerous The simplest sanity check is to just look
at a simple plot. This patchs add a sparkline to the end
of the measurements to make it simple to judge the data.

The sparkline only uses UTF-8, so should be readable
in all modern tools and terminals.

The sparkline is between the minimum and maximum of the data,
so it's mainly a indicator of variance. To keep the code
simple and make the output not too wide only the first
8 values are printed. If more values are there it adds '..'

The code is inspired by Zach Holman's spark shell script.

Example output (view in non-proportial font):

 Performance counter stats for 'true' (10 runs):

          0.175672      task-clock (msec)         #    0.555 CPUs utilized            ( +-  1.77% ) █▄▁▁▁▁▁▁..
                 0      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
               114      page-faults               #    0.647 M/sec                    ( +-  0.14% ) ▁█▁▁████..
           520,798      cycles                    #    2.965 GHz                      ( +-  1.75% ) █▄▁▁▁▁▁▁..
           433,525      instructions              #    0.83  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.28% ) ▅▇▅▄▇█▁▆..
            83,012      branches                  #  472.537 M/sec                    ( +-  0.31% ) ▅▇▆▄▇█▁▆..
             3,157      branch-misses             #    3.80% of all branches          ( +-  2.55% ) ▇█▃▅▁▃▁▂..

       0.000316660 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  1.78% ) █▅▁▁▁▁▁▁..

As you can see even in the most simple run there are quite interesting
patterns. The time sparkline suggests it would be also useful to have an option
to throw the first measurement away.

Known issues:
- Makes the perf stat output wider. Could be adjust by shrinking
some white space. Not done so far.
- No output for -A/--per-socket/--per-core with -rX. This code
is missing the basic noise detection code. Once it's added there
sparklines could be shown too.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
---
 tools/perf/Makefile.perf  |  1 +
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 tools/perf/util/spark.c   | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/util/spark.h   |  3 +++
 tools/perf/util/stat.c    | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/util/stat.h    | 10 ++++++++++
 6 files changed, 104 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/spark.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/spark.h

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index 7257e7e..432d099 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)util/trace-event-scripting.o
 LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)util/trace-event.o
 LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)util/svghelper.o
 LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)util/sort.o
+LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)util/spark.o
 LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)util/hist.o
 LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)util/probe-event.o
 LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)util/util.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 65a151e..6bf7b6c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -1176,6 +1176,9 @@ static void print_aggr(char *prefix)
 				if (run != ena)
 					fprintf(output, "  (%.2f%%)",
 						100.0 * run / ena);
+
+				fputc(' ', output);
+				print_stat_spark(output, counter->priv);
 			}
 			fputc('\n', output);
 		}
@@ -1224,6 +1227,9 @@ static void print_counter_aggr(struct perf_evsel *counter, char *prefix)
 
 	print_noise(counter, avg);
 
+	fputc(' ', output);
+	print_stat_spark(output, counter->priv);
+
 	if (csv_output) {
 		fputc('\n', output);
 		return;
@@ -1295,6 +1301,9 @@ static void print_counter(struct perf_evsel *counter, char *prefix)
 			if (run != ena)
 				fprintf(output, "  (%.2f%%)",
 					100.0 * run / ena);
+
+			fputc(' ', output);
+			print_stat_spark(output, counter->priv);
 		}
 		fputc('\n', output);
 	}
@@ -1355,6 +1364,9 @@ static void print_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
 			fprintf(output, "                                        ");
 			print_noise_pct(stddev_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats),
 					avg_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats));
+
+			fputc(' ', output);
+			print_stat_spark(output, &walltime_nsecs_stats);
 		}
 		fprintf(output, "\n\n");
 	}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/spark.c b/tools/perf/util/spark.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a677d2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/util/spark.c
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <limits.h>
+#include "spark.h"
+
+#define NUM_SPARKS 8
+#define SPARK_SHIFT 8
+
+/* Print spark lines on outf for numval values in val. */
+void print_spark(FILE *outf, unsigned long *val, int numval)
+{
+	static const char *ticks[NUM_SPARKS] = {
+		"▁",  "▂", "▃", "▄", "▅", "▆", "▇", "█"
+	};
+	int i;
+	unsigned long min = LONG_MAX, max = 0, f;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < numval; i++) {
+		if (val[i] < min)
+			min = val[i];
+		if (val[i] > max)
+			max = val[i];
+	}
+	f = ((max - min) << SPARK_SHIFT) / (NUM_SPARKS - 1);
+	if (f < 1)
+		f = 1;
+	for (i = 0; i < numval; i++) {
+		fputs(ticks[((val[i] - min) << SPARK_SHIFT) / f], outf);
+	}
+}
+
+#ifdef TEST
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+int main(int ac, char **av)
+{
+	unsigned long *val = calloc(ac - 1, sizeof(unsigned long));
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 1; i < ac; i++)
+		val[i - 1] = strtoul(av[i], NULL, 0);
+	print_spark(stdout, val, ac - 1);
+	putchar('\n');
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/spark.h b/tools/perf/util/spark.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f2d5ac5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/util/spark.h
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#pragma once
+void print_spark(FILE *outf, unsigned long *val, int numval);
+
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat.c b/tools/perf/util/stat.c
index 6506b3d..2b26d74 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat.c
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
 #include <math.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
 
 #include "stat.h"
+#include "spark.h"
 
 void update_stats(struct stats *stats, u64 val)
 {
 	double delta;
+	int n = stats->n;
+
+	if (n < NUM_SPARK_VALS)
+		stats->svals[n] = val;
 
 	stats->n++;
 	delta = val - stats->mean;
@@ -61,3 +67,30 @@ double rel_stddev_stats(double stddev, double avg)
 
 	return pct;
 }
+
+static int all_the_same(unsigned long *vals, int len)
+{
+	int i;
+	unsigned long v0 = vals[0];
+
+	for (i = 1; i < len; i++)
+		if (vals[i] != v0)
+			return 0;
+	return 1;
+}
+
+void print_stat_spark(FILE *f, struct stats *stat)
+{
+	int n = stat->n, len;
+
+	if (n <= 1)
+		return;
+	len = n;
+	if (len > NUM_SPARK_VALS)
+		len = NUM_SPARK_VALS;
+	if (all_the_same(stat->svals, len))
+		return;
+	print_spark(f, stat->svals, len);
+	if (stat->n > NUM_SPARK_VALS)
+		fputs("..", f);
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat.h b/tools/perf/util/stat.h
index ae8ccd7..1b4dc71 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat.h
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 #ifndef __PERF_STATS_H
 #define __PERF_STATS_H
 
+#include <stdio.h>
 #include "types.h"
 
+#define NUM_SPARK_VALS 8 /* support spark line on first N items */
+
 struct stats
 {
 	double n, mean, M2;
 	u64 max, min;
+	unsigned long svals[NUM_SPARK_VALS];
 };
 
 void update_stats(struct stats *stats, u64 val);
@@ -14,12 +18,18 @@ double avg_stats(struct stats *stats);
 double stddev_stats(struct stats *stats);
 double rel_stddev_stats(double stddev, double avg);
 
+void print_stat_spark(FILE *f, struct stats *stat);
+
 static inline void init_stats(struct stats *stats)
 {
+	int i;
+
 	stats->n    = 0.0;
 	stats->mean = 0.0;
 	stats->M2   = 0.0;
 	stats->min  = (u64) -1;
 	stats->max  = 0;
+	for (i = 0; i < NUM_SPARK_VALS; i++)
+		stats->svals[i] = 0;
 }
 #endif
-- 
1.8.5.3

Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf, tools: Support spark lines in perf stat

[Jiri Olsa]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:31:39AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 

SNIP

> index 65a151e..6bf7b6c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> @@ -1176,6 +1176,9 @@ static void print_aggr(char *prefix)
>  				if (run != ena)
>  					fprintf(output, "  (%.2f%%)",
>  						100.0 * run / ena);
> +
> +				fputc(' ', output);
> +				print_stat_spark(output, counter->priv);

I dont think we want it in csv output

[jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf stat -r 20 -x , true
0.285896,,task-clock,2.39% █▃▃▂▂▁▁▁..
0,,context-switches,0.00% 
0,,cpu-migrations,100.00% 
91,,page-faults,0.08% █▁██████..
165335,,cycles,30.69% █▇▇▁▇▁▁▁..


jirka

Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf, tools: Support spark lines in perf stat

[Jiri Olsa]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:31:39AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 

SNIP

> @@ -1176,6 +1176,9 @@ static void print_aggr(char *prefix)
>  				if (run != ena)
>  					fprintf(output, "  (%.2f%%)",
>  						100.0 * run / ena);
> +
> +				fputc(' ', output);
> +				print_stat_spark(output, counter->priv);
>  			}
>  			fputc('\n', output);
>  		}
> @@ -1224,6 +1227,9 @@ static void print_counter_aggr(struct perf_evsel *counter, char *prefix)
>  
>  	print_noise(counter, avg);
>  
> +	fputc(' ', output);
> +	print_stat_spark(output, counter->priv);
> +
>  	if (csv_output) {
>  		fputc('\n', output);
>  		return;
> @@ -1295,6 +1301,9 @@ static void print_counter(struct perf_evsel *counter, char *prefix)
>  			if (run != ena)
>  				fprintf(output, "  (%.2f%%)",
>  					100.0 * run / ena);
> +
> +			fputc(' ', output);
> +			print_stat_spark(output, counter->priv);
>  		}
>  		fputc('\n', output);
>  	}
> @@ -1355,6 +1364,9 @@ static void print_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
>  			fprintf(output, "                                        ");
>  			print_noise_pct(stddev_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats),
>  					avg_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats));
> +
> +			fputc(' ', output);
> +			print_stat_spark(output, &walltime_nsecs_stats);

Do we want to be that explicit about printing ' ' here?
I dont see it elsewhere..

fput could go into print_stat_spark


SNIP

> +void print_stat_spark(FILE *f, struct stats *stat)
> +{
> +	int n = stat->n, len;
> +
> +	if (n <= 1)
> +		return;
> +	len = n;
> +	if (len > NUM_SPARK_VALS)
> +		len = NUM_SPARK_VALS;
> +	if (all_the_same(stat->svals, len))
> +		return;
> +	print_spark(f, stat->svals, len);
> +	if (stat->n > NUM_SPARK_VALS)
> +		fputs("..", f);
> +}

whats the reason for 'n' in here?  looks like you could do only with 'len'

thanks,
jirka

Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf, tools: Support spark lines in perf stat

[Andi Kleen]

> fput could go into print_stat_spark

I wanted to keep the function generic, so that it can be easily
used in other places. Adding the space is somewhat specific
to stat.

Also the rest of the stat code has the white space printing 
centralized in the caller too. I suppose makes it easier to change.

> > +	len = n;
> > +	if (len > NUM_SPARK_VALS)
> > +		len = NUM_SPARK_VALS;
> > +	if (all_the_same(stat->svals, len))
> > +		return;
> > +	print_spark(f, stat->svals, len);
> > +	if (stat->n > NUM_SPARK_VALS)
> > +		fputs("..", f);
> > +}
> 
> whats the reason for 'n' in here?  looks like you could do only with 'len'

len is capped to NUM_SPARK_VALS, but the test needs to be on the
uncapped value. Otherwise exactly NUM_SPARK_VALS entries would
get a .. incorrectly.

-Andi

Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf, tools, stat: Initialize statistics correctly

[Namhyung Kim]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:31:38 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> perf stat did initialize the stats structure used to compute
> stddev etc. incorrectly. It merely zeroes it. But one member
> (min) needs to be set to a non zero value. This causes min
> to be not computed at all. Call init_stats() correctly.
>
> It doesn't matter for stat currently because it doesn't use
> min, but it's still better to do it correctly.
>
> The other users of statistics are already correct.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Thanks,
Namhyung

Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf, tools, stat: Initialize statistics correctly

[Jiri Olsa]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:31:38AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 
> perf stat did initialize the stats structure used to compute
> stddev etc. incorrectly. It merely zeroes it. But one member
> (min) needs to be set to a non zero value. This causes min
> to be not computed at all. Call init_stats() correctly.
> 
> It doesn't matter for stat currently because it doesn't use
> min, but it's still better to do it correctly.
> 
> The other users of statistics are already correct.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

thanks,
jirka

[tip:perf/urgent] perf stat: Initialize statistics correctly

[tip-bot for Andi Kleen]

Commit-ID:  90f6bb6c98ffef42125d7be6d4612505f561fbce
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/90f6bb6c98ffef42125d7be6d4612505f561fbce
Author:     Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:31:38 -0700
Committer:  Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:56:06 +0200

perf stat: Initialize statistics correctly

perf stat did initialize the stats structure used to compute
stddev etc. incorrectly. It merely zeroes it. But one member
(min) needs to be set to a non zero value. This causes min
to be not computed at all. Call init_stats() correctly.

It doesn't matter for stat currently because it doesn't use
min, but it's still better to do it correctly.

The other users of statistics are already correct.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395768699-16060-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 8b0e1c9..65a151e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -174,13 +174,20 @@ static inline int perf_evsel__nr_cpus(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 
 static void perf_evsel__reset_stat_priv(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 {
-	memset(evsel->priv, 0, sizeof(struct perf_stat));
+	int i;
+	struct perf_stat *ps = evsel->priv;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
+		init_stats(&ps->res_stats[i]);
 }
 
 static int perf_evsel__alloc_stat_priv(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 {
 	evsel->priv = zalloc(sizeof(struct perf_stat));
-	return evsel->priv == NULL ? -ENOMEM : 0;
+	if (evsel == NULL)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	perf_evsel__reset_stat_priv(evsel);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static void perf_evsel__free_stat_priv(struct perf_evsel *evsel)