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2009-11-21perf trace: Read_tracing_data should die() another dayArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
It better propagate errors, also if we do a simple: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -R -a -f sleep 3s ; perf trace [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.182 MB perf.data (~7972 samples) ] Fatal: not an trace data file [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# That is what is expected, right? I.e. as we didn't specify any tracepoint event via -e, it should gracefully bail out and not SEGFAULT. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1258821086-11521-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> [ Fixed the error messages some more ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-07perf tools: Merge trace.info content into perf.dataFrederic Weisbecker
This drops the trace.info file and move its contents into the common perf.data file. This is done by creating a new trace_info section into this file. A user of perf headers needs to call perf_header__set_trace_info() to save the trace meta informations into the perf.data file. A file created by perf after his patch is unsupported by previous version because the size of the headers have increased. That said, it's two new fields that have been added in the end of the headers, and those could be ignored by previous versions if they just handled the dynamic header size and then ignore the unknow part. The offsets guarantee the compatibility. We'll do a -stable fix for that. But current previous versions handle the header size using its static size, not dynamic, then it's not backward compatible with trace records. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20091006213643.GA5343@nowhere> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18perf tools: Fix memory leak in read_ftrace_printk()Li Zefan
get_tracing_file() should be paired with put_tracing_file(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4AB1F48F.4070807@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-02perf tools: Work around strict aliasing related warningsIngo Molnar
Older versions of GCC are rather stupid about strict aliasing: util/trace-event-parse.c: In function 'parse_cmdlines': util/trace-event-parse.c:93: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules util/trace-event-parse.c: In function 'parse_proc_kallsyms': util/trace-event-parse.c:155: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules util/trace-event-parse.c:157: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules util/trace-event-parse.c:158: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules util/trace-event-parse.c: In function 'parse_ftrace_printk': util/trace-event-parse.c:294: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules util/trace-event-parse.c:295: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules make: *** [util/trace-event-parse.o] Error 1 Make it clear to GCC that we intend with those pointers, by passing them through via an explicit (void *) cast. We might want to add -fno-strict-aliasing as well, like the kernel itself does. 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>
2009-08-28perf tools: Only save the event formats we needFrederic Weisbecker
While opening a trace event counter, every events are saved in the trace.info file. But we only want to save the specifications of the events we are using. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1251421798-9101-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-17perf tools: Add trace event debugfs IO handlerSteven Rostedt
Add util/trace-event-info.c which handles ftrace file IO from debugfs and provides general helpers to fetch/save ftrace events informations. This file is a rename of the trace-cmd.c file from the trace-cmd tools, written by Steven Rostedt and Josh Triplett, originated from the git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git This is a perf tools integration. For now, ftrace events information is saved in a separate file than the standard perf.data [fweisbec@gmail.com: various changes for perf tools integration] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1250518688-7207-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>