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perf stat and perf record currently look for all options on the command
line. This can lead to some confusion:
# perf stat ls -l
Error: unknown switch `l'
While we can work around this by adding '--' before the command, the git
option parsing code can stop at the first non option:
# perf stat ls -l
Performance counter stats for 'ls -l':
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Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090722130412.GD9029@kryten>
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Building builtin-stat.c reports the following errors:
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
builtin-stat.c: In function ‘run_perf_stat’:
builtin-stat.c:242: erreur: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
builtin-stat.c:255: erreur: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
make: *** [builtin-stat.o] Erreur 1
This patch handles the possible pipe read failures.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246474930-6088-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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MATCH_EVENT is useful:
1. for multiple attrs checking
2. avoid repetition of PERF_TYPE_ and PERF_COUNT_ and save space
3. avoids line breakage
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246440909.3403.5.camel@hpdv5.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Enable -Wextra. This found a few real bugs plus a number
of signed/unsigned type mismatches/uncleanlinesses. It
also required a few annotations
All things considered it was still worth it so lets try with
this enabled for now.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This provides a way to mark a counter to be enabled on the next
exec. This is useful for measuring the total activity of a
program without including overhead from the process that
launches it.
This also changes the perf stat command to use this new
facility.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <19017.43927.838745.689203@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Vince Weaver reported a 'perf stat' measurement overhead in the
count of retired instructions, which can amount to a +6000
instructions inflated count in the reported count.
At present, perf stat creates its counters on the perf process. Thus
the counters count the fork and various other activity in both the
parent and child, such as the resolver overhead for resolving PLT
entries for any libc functions that haven't been called before, such
as execvp.
This reduces the overhead by creating the counters on the child process
after the fork, using a couple of pipes to synchronize so that the
child process waits until the parent has created the counters before
doing the exec. To eliminate the PLT resolution overhead on calling
execvp, this does a dummy execvp first which will always fail.
With this, the overhead of executing a program goes down from over
4800 instructions to about 90 instructions on powerpc (32-bit).
This was measured with a statically-linked program written in
assembler which only does the 3 instructions needed to call _exit(0).
Before:
$ perf stat -e 0:1:u ./three
Performance counter stats for './three':
4858 instructions
0.001274523 seconds time elapsed
After:
$ perf stat -e 0:1:u ./three
Performance counter stats for './three':
92 instructions
0.000468153 seconds time elapsed
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <19016.41425.814043.870352@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter expressed a strong preference for percentage based
display of scaled values - so revert to that from the
recently introduced multiplication-factor unit.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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selected and !null_run
Set attrs and nr_counters if no event is selected and !null_run.
Setting of attrs should depend on number of counters,
so we need to memcpy only for sizeof(default_attrs)
Also set nr_counters as ARRAY_SIZE(default_attrs) in place of
hardcoded value.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246126749.32198.16.camel@hpdv5.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Increase size for event name to handle bigger names like
'L1-d$-prefetch-misses'
Changed scaled counters from percentage to a multiplicative
factor because the latter is more expressive.
Also aligned the scaling factor, otherwise sometimes it looks
like:
384 iTLB-load-misses (4.74x scaled)
452029 branch-loads (8.00x scaled)
5892 branch-load-misses (20.39x scaled)
972315 iTLB-loads (3.24x scaled)
Before:
150708 L1-d$-stores (scaled from 23.57%)
428804 L1-d$-prefetches (scaled from 23.47%)
314446 L1-d$-prefetch-misses (scaled from 23.42%)
252626137 L1-i$-loads (scaled from 23.24%)
5297550 dTLB-load-misses (scaled from 23.96%)
106992392 branch-loads (scaled from 23.67%)
5239561 branch-load-misses (scaled from 23.43%)
After:
1731713 L1-d$-loads ( 14.25x scaled)
44241 L1-d$-prefetches ( 3.88x scaled)
21076 L1-d$-prefetch-misses ( 3.40x scaled)
5789421 L1-i$-loads ( 3.78x scaled)
29645 dTLB-load-misses ( 2.95x scaled)
461474 branch-loads ( 6.52x scaled)
7493 branch-load-misses ( 26.57x scaled)
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246051927.2988.10.camel@hpdv5.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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In multi-run (-r/--repeat) printouts, print out the noise of
the wall-clock average as well.
Also, fix a bug in printing out scaled counters: if it was not
scaled then we should not update the average with -1.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Allow a no-counters run. This can be useful to measure just
elapsed wall-clock time - or to assess the raw overhead of perf
stat itself, without running any counters.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Remove dead code and do some code alignment.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1245847774.2681.2.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Error message should use stderr for verbose (-v), otherwise
message will be lost for:
$ ./perf stat -v <cmd> > /dev/null
For example on AMD bus-cycles event is not available so now
it looks like:
$ ./perf stat -v -e bus-cycles ls > /dev/null
Error: counter 0, sys_perf_counter_open() syscall returned with -1 (Invalid argument)
Performance counter stats for 'ls':
<not counted> bus-cycles
0.006765877 seconds time elapsed.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1245757369.3776.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On 64-bit powerpc, __u64 is defined to be unsigned long rather than
unsigned long long. This causes compiler warnings every time we
print a __u64 value with %Lx.
Rather than changing __u64, we define our own u64 to be unsigned long
long on all architectures, and similarly s64 as signed long long.
For consistency we also define u32, s32, u16, s16, u8 and s8. These
definitions are put in a new header, types.h, because these definitions
are needed in util/string.h and util/symbol.h.
The main change here is the mechanical change of __[us]{64,32,16,8}
to remove the "__". The other changes are:
* Create types.h
* Include types.h in perf.h, util/string.h and util/symbol.h
* Add types.h to the LIB_H definition in Makefile
* Added (u64) casts in process_overflow_event() and print_sym_table()
to kill two remaining warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
LKML-Reference: <19003.33494.495844.956580@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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If -vv (very verbose) is specified, print out raw data
in the following format:
$ perf stat -vv -r 3 ./loop_1b_instructions
[ perf stat: executing run #1 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #2 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #3 ... ]
debug: runtime[0]: 235871872
debug: walltime[0]: 236646752
debug: runtime_cycles[0]: 755150182
debug: counter/0[0]: 235871872
debug: counter/1[0]: 235871872
debug: counter/2[0]: 235871872
debug: scaled[0]: 0
debug: counter/0[1]: 2
debug: counter/1[1]: 235870662
debug: counter/2[1]: 235870662
debug: scaled[1]: 0
debug: counter/0[2]: 1
debug: counter/1[2]: 235870437
debug: counter/2[2]: 235870437
debug: scaled[2]: 0
debug: counter/0[3]: 140
debug: counter/1[3]: 235870298
debug: counter/2[3]: 235870298
debug: scaled[3]: 0
debug: counter/0[4]: 755150182
debug: counter/1[4]: 235870145
debug: counter/2[4]: 235870145
debug: scaled[4]: 0
debug: counter/0[5]: 1001411258
debug: counter/1[5]: 235868838
debug: counter/2[5]: 235868838
debug: scaled[5]: 0
debug: counter/0[6]: 27897
debug: counter/1[6]: 235868560
debug: counter/2[6]: 235868560
debug: scaled[6]: 0
debug: counter/0[7]: 2910
debug: counter/1[7]: 235868151
debug: counter/2[7]: 235868151
debug: scaled[7]: 0
debug: runtime[0]: 235980257
debug: walltime[0]: 236770942
debug: runtime_cycles[0]: 755114546
debug: counter/0[0]: 235980257
debug: counter/1[0]: 235980257
debug: counter/2[0]: 235980257
debug: scaled[0]: 0
debug: counter/0[1]: 3
debug: counter/1[1]: 235980049
debug: counter/2[1]: 235980049
debug: scaled[1]: 0
debug: counter/0[2]: 1
debug: counter/1[2]: 235979907
debug: counter/2[2]: 235979907
debug: scaled[2]: 0
debug: counter/0[3]: 135
debug: counter/1[3]: 235979780
debug: counter/2[3]: 235979780
debug: scaled[3]: 0
debug: counter/0[4]: 755114546
debug: counter/1[4]: 235979652
debug: counter/2[4]: 235979652
debug: scaled[4]: 0
debug: counter/0[5]: 1001439771
debug: counter/1[5]: 235979304
debug: counter/2[5]: 235979304
debug: scaled[5]: 0
debug: counter/0[6]: 23723
debug: counter/1[6]: 235979050
debug: counter/2[6]: 235979050
debug: scaled[6]: 0
debug: counter/0[7]: 2213
debug: counter/1[7]: 235978820
debug: counter/2[7]: 235978820
debug: scaled[7]: 0
debug: runtime[0]: 235888002
debug: walltime[0]: 236700533
debug: runtime_cycles[0]: 754881504
debug: counter/0[0]: 235888002
debug: counter/1[0]: 235888002
debug: counter/2[0]: 235888002
debug: scaled[0]: 0
debug: counter/0[1]: 2
debug: counter/1[1]: 235887793
debug: counter/2[1]: 235887793
debug: scaled[1]: 0
debug: counter/0[2]: 1
debug: counter/1[2]: 235887645
debug: counter/2[2]: 235887645
debug: scaled[2]: 0
debug: counter/0[3]: 135
debug: counter/1[3]: 235887499
debug: counter/2[3]: 235887499
debug: scaled[3]: 0
debug: counter/0[4]: 754881504
debug: counter/1[4]: 235887368
debug: counter/2[4]: 235887368
debug: scaled[4]: 0
debug: counter/0[5]: 1001401731
debug: counter/1[5]: 235887024
debug: counter/2[5]: 235887024
debug: scaled[5]: 0
debug: counter/0[6]: 24212
debug: counter/1[6]: 235886786
debug: counter/2[6]: 235886786
debug: scaled[6]: 0
debug: counter/0[7]: 1824
debug: counter/1[7]: 235886560
debug: counter/2[7]: 235886560
debug: scaled[7]: 0
Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/loop_1b_instructions' (3 runs):
235.913377 task-clock-msecs # 0.997 CPUs ( +- 0.011% )
2 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 0.000% )
1 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 0.000% )
136 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec ( +- 0.730% )
755048744 cycles # 3200.534 M/sec ( +- 0.009% )
1001417586 instructions # 1.326 IPC ( +- 0.001% )
25277 cache-references # 0.107 M/sec ( +- 3.988% )
2315 cache-misses # 0.010 M/sec ( +- 9.845% )
0.236706075 seconds time elapsed.
This allows the summary stats to be validated.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Add the --repeat <n> feature to perf stat, which repeats a given
command up to a 100 times, collects the stats and calculates an
average and a stddev.
For example, the following oneliner 'perf stat' command runs hackbench
5 times and prints a tabulated result of all metrics, with averages
and noise levels (in percentage) printed:
aldebaran:~/linux/linux/tools/perf> ./perf stat --repeat 5 ~/hackbench 10
Time: 0.117
Time: 0.108
Time: 0.089
Time: 0.088
Time: 0.100
Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 10' (5 runs):
1243.989586 task-clock-msecs # 10.460 CPUs ( +- 4.720% )
47706 context-switches # 0.038 M/sec ( +- 19.706% )
387 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 3.608% )
17793 page-faults # 0.014 M/sec ( +- 0.354% )
3770941606 cycles # 3031.329 M/sec ( +- 4.621% )
1566372416 instructions # 0.415 IPC ( +- 2.703% )
16783421 cache-references # 13.492 M/sec ( +- 5.202% )
7128590 cache-misses # 5.730 M/sec ( +- 7.420% )
0.118924455 seconds time elapsed.
The goal of this feature is to allow the reliance on these accurate
statistics and to know how many times a command has to be repeated
for the noise to go down to an acceptable level.
(The -v option can be used to see a line printed out as each run progresses.)
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- use IPC for the instruction normalization output
- CPUs for the CPU utilization factor value.
- print out time elapsed like the other rows
- tidy up the task-clocks/cpu-clocks printout
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Pure renames only, to PERF_COUNT_HW_* and PERF_COUNT_SW_*.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Currently report and stat catch SIGINT (and others) without altering
their exit state. This means that things like:
while :; do perf stat ./foo ; done
Loops become hard-to-interrupt, because bash never sees perf terminate
due to interruption. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Before:
7549326754 cycles # 3201.811 M/sec
10007594937 instructions # 4244.408 M/sec
After:
7542051194 cycles # 3201.996 M/sec
10007743852 instructions # 4248.811 M/sec # 1.327 per cycle
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Before:
$ perf stat ~/hackbench 5
error: syscall returned with -1 (No such device)
After:
$ perf stat ~/hackbench 5
Time: 1.640
Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 5':
6524.570382 task-clock-ticks # 3.838 CPU utilization factor
35704 context-switches # 0.005 M/sec
191 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec
8958 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec
<not counted> cycles
<not counted> instructions
<not counted> cache-references
<not counted> cache-misses
Wall-clock time elapsed: 1699.999995 msecs
Also add -v (--verbose) option to allow the printing of failed
counter opens.
Plus dont print 'inf' if wall-time is zero (due to jiffies granularity),
instead skip the printing of the CPU utilization factor.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the
(new) tools/ directory.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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