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Ingo Molnar be750231ce Merge branch 'perfcounters/urgent' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/perf_counter.c

Merge reason: update to latest upstream (-rc6) and resolve
              the conflict with urgent fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-15 12:06:12 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 39e6dd7350 perf record: Fix typo in pid_synthesize_comm_event
We were using 'fd' locally, but there was a global 'fd' too, so
when converting from open to fopen the test made against fd
should be made against 'fp', but since we have that global
it didnt get discovered ...

Reported-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090814182632.GF3490@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-15 11:59:06 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker daac07b2e6 perf tools: Add a general option to enable raw sample records
While we can enable the perf sample records per tracepoint
counter, we may also want to enable this option for every
tracepoint counters to open, so that we don't need to add a
:record flag for all of them.

Add the -R, --raw-samples options for this purpose.

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>
LKML-Reference: <1250152039-7284-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-13 10:37:25 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 3a9f131fb0 perf tools: Add a per tracepoint counter attribute to get raw sample
Add a new flag field while opening a tracepoint perf counter:

	-e tracepoint_subsystem:tracepoint_name:flags

This is intended to be generic although for now it only supports the
r[e[c[o[r[d]]]]] flag:

	./perf record -e workqueue:workqueue_insertion:record
	./perf record -e workqueue:workqueue_insertion:r

will have the same effect: enabling the raw samples record for
the given tracepoint counter.

In the future, we may want to support further flags, separated
by commas.

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>
LKML-Reference: <1250152039-7284-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-13 10:37:25 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0a5ac84650 perf record: Add missing -C option support for specifying profile cpu
perf top supports a -C for setting the profile CPU, but perf
record does not. This adds the same option for perf record,
allowing the user to specify a specific target profile CPU.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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: <20090812091801.GC12579@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-12 14:10:51 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 2a8083f063 perf record: Fix .tid and .pid fill-in when synthesizing events
Noticed when trying to record events for a firefox thread. We
were synthesizing both .tid and .pid with the pid passed via
--pid.

Fix it by reading /proc/PID/status and getting the tgid
to use in .pid, .tid gets the specified "pid".

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20090811192200.GF18061@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-12 14:10:48 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 66e274f3b8 perf tools: Factorize the map helpers
Factorize the dso mapping helpers into a single purpose common file
"util/map.c"

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
2009-08-12 12:37:37 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 1fe2c1066c perf tools: Factorize the event structure definitions in a single file
Factorize the multiple definition of the events structures into a
single util/event.h file.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
2009-08-12 12:04:39 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker cd84c2ac6d perf tools: Factorize high level dso helpers
Factorize multiple definitions of high level dso helpers into the
symbol source file.

The side effect is a general export of the verbose and eprintf
debugging helpers into a new file dedicated to debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
2009-08-12 12:02:38 +02:00
Pierre Habouzit 266e0e2198 perf record: Fix the -A UI for empty or non-existent perf.data
1. Ignore the -A argument if there is no perf.data file
2. Treat an empty file like a non existent file.

Else, perf will try to read the perf.data header, and fail with
an error.

Treating an empty file like a non-existent file makes sense,
since an interupted (as in SIGKILLed) perf could leave such
files around, and you don't want to annoy the user with errors
for files with no data in it.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@intersec.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:40 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker f413cdb80c perf_counter: Fix/complete ftrace event records sampling
This patch implements the kernel side support for ftrace event
record sampling.

A new counter sampling attribute is added:

   PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD

which requests ftrace events record sampling. In this case
if a PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT counter is active and a tracepoint
fires, we emit the tracepoint binary record to the
perfcounter event buffer, as a sample.

Result, after setting PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD attribute from perf
record:

 perf record -f -F 1 -a -e workqueue:workqueue_execution
 perf report -D

 0x21e18 [0x48]: event: 9
 .
 . ... raw event: size 72 bytes
 .  0000:  09 00 00 00 01 00 48 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff  ......H........
 .  0010:  0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........!......
 .  0020:  2b 00 01 02 0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 65 76 65 6e  +...........eve
 .  0030:  74 73 2f 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00  ts/1...........
 .  0040:  e0 b1 31 81 ff ff ff ff                          .......
.
0x21e18 [0x48]: PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE (IP, 1): 10: 0xffffffff8100c7d0 period: 33

The raw ftrace binary record starts at offset 0020.

Translation:

 struct trace_entry {
	type		= 0x2b = 43;
	flags		= 1;
	preempt_count	= 2;
	pid		= 0xa = 10;
	tgid		= 0xa = 10;
 }

 thread_comm = "events/1"
 thread_pid  = 0xa = 10;
 func	    = 0xffffffff8131b1e0 = flush_to_ldisc()

What will come next?

 - Userspace support ('perf trace'), 'flight data recorder' mode
   for perf trace, etc.

 - The unconditional copy from the profiling callback brings
   some costs however if someone wants no such sampling to
   occur, and needs to be fixed in the future. For that we need
   to have an instant access to the perf counter attribute.
   This is a matter of a flag to add in the struct ftrace_event.

 - Take care of the events recursivity! Don't ever try to record
   a lock event for example, it seems some locking is used in
   the profiling fast path and lead to a tracing recursivity.
   That will be fixed using raw spinlock or recursivity
   protection.

 - [...]

 - Profit! :-)

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:53:48 +02:00
Anton Blanchard a0541234f8 perf_counter: Improve perf stat and perf record option parsing
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':
....

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090722130412.GD9029@kryten>
2009-07-22 18:05:56 +02:00
Anton Blanchard 4bba828dd9 perf_counter: Add perf record option to log addresses
Add the -d or --data option to log event addresses (eg page
faults).

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090716104817.697698033@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-18 11:21:32 +02:00
Anton Blanchard 11b5f81e1b perf_counter: Synthesize VDSO mmap event
perf record synthesizes mmap events for the running process.
Right now it just catches file mappings, but we can check for
the vdso symbol and add that too.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090716104817.517264409@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-18 11:21:30 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f37a291c52 perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them
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>
2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 3928ddbe99 perf record: Fix unhandled io return value
Building latest perfcounter fails on the following error:

 builtin-record.c: In function ‘create_counter’:
 builtin-record.c:451: erreur: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
 make: *** [builtin-record.o] Erreur 1

Just check if we successfully read the perf file descriptor.

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: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1245961287-5327-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 22:25:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 649c48a9e7 perf-report: Add modes for inherited stats and no-samples
Now that we can collect per task statistics, add modes that
make use of that facility.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 21:39:08 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7c6a1c65bb perf_counter tools: Rework the file format
Create a structured file format that includes the full
perf_counter_attr and all its relevant counter IDs so that
the reporting program has full information.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 21:39:04 +02:00
Johannes Weiner 76c64c5e4c perf record: Fix filemap pathname parsing in /proc/pid/maps
Looking backward for the first space from the end of a line in
/proc/pid/maps does not find the start of the pathname of the mapped
file if it contains a space.

Since the only slashes we have in this file occur in the (absolute!)
pathname column of file mappings, looking for the first slash in a
line is a safe method to find the name.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090624190835.GA25548@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 11:35:58 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker eadc84cc01 perfcounter: Handle some IO return values
Building perfcounter tools raises the following warnings:

 builtin-record.c: In function ‘atexit_header’:
 builtin-record.c:464: erreur: ignoring return value of ‘pwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
 builtin-record.c: In function ‘__cmd_record’:
 builtin-record.c:503: erreur: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result

 builtin-report.c: In function ‘__cmd_report’:
 builtin-report.c:1403: erreur: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result

This patch handles these IO return values.

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: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1245456100-5477-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-20 12:30:33 +02:00
Paul Mackerras 9cffa8d533 perf_counter tools: Define and use our own u64, s64 etc. definitions
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>
2009-06-19 18:25:47 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f5970550d5 perf_counter tools: Add a data file header
Add a data file header so we can transfer data between record and report.

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-19 13:42:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 9d91a6f7a4 perf_counter tools: Handle lost events
Make use of the new ->data_tail mechanism to tell kernel-space
about user-space draining the data stream. Emit lost events
(and display them) if they happen.

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>
2009-06-18 14:46:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 613d860229 perf record: Fix fast task-exit race
Recording with -a (or with -p) can race with tasks going away:

   couldn't open /proc/8440/maps

Causing an early exit() and no recording done.

Do not abort the recording session - instead just skip that task.

Also, only print the warnings under -v.

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>
2009-06-15 09:08:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 3efa1cc99e perf record/report: Add call graph / call chain profiling
Add the first steps of call-graph profiling:

 - add the -c (--call-graph) option to perf record
 - parse the call-graph record and printout out under -D (--dump-trace)

The call-graph data is not put into the histogram yet, but it
can be seen that it's being processed correctly:

0x3ce0 [0x38]: event: 35
.
. ... raw event: size 56 bytes
.  0000:  23 00 00 00 05 00 38 00 d4 df 0e 81 ff ff ff ff  #.....8........
.  0010:  60 0b 00 00 60 0b 00 00 03 00 00 00 01 00 02 00  `...`..........
.  0020:  d4 df 0e 81 ff ff ff ff a0 61 ed 41 36 00 00 00  .........a.A6..
.  0030:  04 92 e6 41 36 00 00 00                          .a.A6..
.
0x3ce0 [0x38]: PERF_EVENT (IP, 5): 2912: 0xffffffff810edfd4 period: 1
... chain: u:2, k:1, nr:3
.....  0: 0xffffffff810edfd4
.....  1: 0x3641ed61a0
.....  2: 0x3641e69204
 ... thread: perf:2912
 ...... dso: [kernel]

This shows a 3-entry call-graph: with 1 kernel-space and two user-space
entries

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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>
2009-06-14 20:34:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra bbd36e5e6a perf record: Explicity program a default counter
Up until now record has worked on the assumption that type=0, config=0
was a suitable configuration - which it is. Lets make this a little more
explicit and more readable via the use of proper symbols.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

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>
2009-06-12 14:28:52 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f4dbfa8f31 perf_counter: Standardize event names
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>
2009-06-11 17:54:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 729ff5e2aa perf_counter tools: Clean up u64 usage
A build error slipped in:

 builtin-report.c: In function ‘hist_entry__fprintf’:
 builtin-report.c:711: error: format ‘%12d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘uint64_t’

Because we got a bit sloppy with those types. uint64_t really sucks,
because there's no printf format for it. So standardize on __u64
instead - for all types that go to or come from the ABI (which is __u64),
or for values that need to be large enough even on 32-bit.

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>
2009-06-11 16:48:38 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ea1900e571 perf_counter tools: Normalize data using per sample period data
When we use variable period sampling, add the period to the sample
data and use that to normalize the samples.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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>
2009-06-11 02:39:01 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f7b7c26e01 perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly
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>
2009-06-10 16:55:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 4502d77c1d perf_counter tools: Small frequency related fixes
Create the counter in a disabled state and only enable it after we
mmap() the buffer, this allows us to see the first few samples (and
observe the frequency ramp).

Furthermore, print the period in the verbose report.

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>
2009-06-10 16:55:26 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 30c806a094 perf_counter tools: Handle kernels with !CONFIG_PERF_COUNTER
If perf is run on a !CONFIG_PERF_COUNTER kernel right now it
bails out with no messages or with confusing messages.

Standardize this case some more and explain the situation.

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>
2009-06-07 17:46:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 3da297a60f perf record: Fall back to cpu-clock-ticks if no PMU
On architectures/CPUs without PMU support but with perfcounters
enabled 'perf record' currently fails because it cannot create a
cycle based hw-perfcounter.

Fall back to the cpu-clock-tick sw-perfcounter in this case, which
is hrtimer based and will always work (as long as perfcounters
are enabled).

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>
2009-06-07 17:39:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 864709302a perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/
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>
2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00