linux/tools/perf
Linus Torvalds 6c8a53c9e6 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core kernel changes:

   - One of the more interesting features in this cycle is the ability
     to attach eBPF programs (user-defined, sandboxed bytecode executed
     by the kernel) to kprobes.

     This allows user-defined instrumentation on a live kernel image
     that can never crash, hang or interfere with the kernel negatively.
     (Right now it's limited to root-only, but in the future we might
     allow unprivileged use as well.)

     (Alexei Starovoitov)

   - Another non-trivial feature is per event clockid support: this
     allows, amongst other things, the selection of different clock
     sources for event timestamps traced via perf.

     This feature is sought by people who'd like to merge perf generated
     events with external events that were measured with different
     clocks:

       - cluster wide profiling

       - for system wide tracing with user-space events,

       - JIT profiling events

     etc.  Matching perf tooling support is added as well, available via
     the -k, --clockid <clockid> parameter to perf record et al.

     (Peter Zijlstra)

  Hardware enablement kernel changes:

   - x86 Intel Processor Trace (PT) support: which is a hardware tracer
     on steroids, available on Broadwell CPUs.

     The hardware trace stream is directly output into the user-space
     ring-buffer, using the 'AUX' data format extension that was added
     to the perf core to support hardware constraints such as the
     necessity to have the tracing buffer physically contiguous.

     This patch-set was developed for two years and this is the result.
     A simple way to make use of this is to use BTS tracing, the PT
     driver emulates BTS output - available via the 'intel_bts' PMU.
     More explicit PT specific tooling support is in the works as well -
     will probably be ready by 4.2.

     (Alexander Shishkin, Peter Zijlstra)

   - x86 Intel Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) support: this is a hardware
     feature of Intel Xeon CPUs that allows the measurement and
     allocation/partitioning of caches to individual workloads.

     These kernel changes expose the measurement side as a new PMU
     driver, which exposes various QoS related PMU events.  (The
     partitioning change is work in progress and is planned to be merged
     as a cgroup extension.)

     (Matt Fleming, Peter Zijlstra; CPU feature detection by Peter P
     Waskiewicz Jr)

   - x86 Intel Haswell LBR call stack support: this is a new Haswell
     feature that allows the hardware recording of call chains, plus
     tooling support.  To activate this feature you have to enable it
     via the new 'lbr' call-graph recording option:

        perf record --call-graph lbr
        perf report

     or:

        perf top --call-graph lbr

     This hardware feature is a lot faster than stack walk or dwarf
     based unwinding, but has some limitations:

       - It reuses the current LBR facility, so LBR call stack and
         branch record can not be enabled at the same time.

       - It is only available for user-space callchains.

     (Yan, Zheng)

   - x86 Intel Broadwell CPU support and various event constraints and
     event table fixes for earlier models.

     (Andi Kleen)

   - x86 Intel HT CPUs event scheduling workarounds.  This is a complex
     CPU bug affecting the SNB,IVB,HSW families that results in counter
     value corruption.  The mitigation code is automatically enabled and
     is transparent.

     (Maria Dimakopoulou, Stephane Eranian)

  The perf tooling side had a ton of changes in this cycle as well, so
  I'm only able to list the user visible changes here, in addition to
  the tooling changes outlined above:

  User visible changes affecting all tools:

      - Improve support of compressed kernel modules (Jiri Olsa)
      - Save DSO loading errno to better report errors (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
      - Bash completion for subcommands (Yunlong Song)
      - Add 'I' event modifier for perf_event_attr.exclude_idle bit (Jiri Olsa)
      - Support missing -f to override perf.data file ownership. (Yunlong Song)
      - Show the first event with an invalid filter (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  User visible changes in individual tools:

    'perf data':

        New tool for converting perf.data to other formats, initially
        for the CTF (Common Trace Format) from LTTng (Jiri Olsa,
        Sebastian Siewior)

    'perf diff':

        Add --kallsyms option (David Ahern)

    'perf list':

        Allow listing events with 'tracepoint' prefix (Yunlong Song)

        Sort the output of the command (Yunlong Song)

    'perf kmem':

        Respect -i option (Jiri Olsa)

        Print big numbers using thousands' group (Namhyung Kim)

        Allow -v option (Namhyung Kim)

        Fix alignment of slab result table (Namhyung Kim)

    'perf probe':

        Support multiple probes on different binaries on the same command line (Masami Hiramatsu)

        Support unnamed union/structure members data collection. (Masami Hiramatsu)

        Check kprobes blacklist when adding new events. (Masami Hiramatsu)

    'perf record':

        Teach 'perf record' about perf_event_attr.clockid (Peter Zijlstra)

        Support recording running/enabled time (Andi Kleen)

    'perf sched':

        Improve the performance of 'perf sched replay' on high CPU core count machines (Yunlong Song)

    'perf report' and 'perf top':

        Allow annotating entries in callchains in the hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Indicate which callchain entries are annotated in the
        TUI hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Add pid/tid filtering to 'report' and 'script' commands (David Ahern)

        Consider PERF_RECORD_ events with cpumode == 0 in 'perf top', removing one
        cause of long term memory usage buildup, i.e. not processing PERF_RECORD_EXIT
        events (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

    'perf stat':

        Report unsupported events properly (Suzuki K. Poulose)

        Output running time and run/enabled ratio in CSV mode (Andi Kleen)

    'perf trace':

        Handle legacy syscalls tracepoints (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Only insert blank duration bracket when tracing syscalls (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Filter out the trace pid when no threads are specified (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Dump stack on segfaults (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        No need to explicitely enable evsels for workload started from perf, let it
        be enabled via perf_event_attr.enable_on_exec, removing some events that take
        place in the 'perf trace' before a workload is really started by it.
        (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

        Allow mixing with tracepoints and suppressing plain syscalls. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  There's also been a ton of infrastructure work done, such as the
  split-out of perf's build system into tools/build/ and other changes -
  see the shortlog and changelog for details"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (358 commits)
  perf/x86/intel/pt: Clean up the control flow in pt_pmu_hw_init()
  perf evlist: Fix type for references to data_head/tail
  perf probe: Check the orphaned -x option
  perf probe: Support multiple probes on different binaries
  perf buildid-list: Fix segfault when show DSOs with hits
  perf tools: Fix cross-endian analysis
  perf tools: Fix error path to do closedir() when synthesizing threads
  perf tools: Fix synthesizing fork_event.ppid for non-main thread
  perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bit
  perf report: Don't call map__kmap if map is NULL.
  perf tests: Fix attr tests
  perf probe: Fix ARM 32 building error
  perf tools: Merge all perf_event_attr print functions
  perf record: Add clockid parameter
  perf sched replay: Use replay_repeat to calculate the runavg of cpu usage instead of the default value 10
  perf sched replay: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership
  perf sched replay: Fix the EMFILE error caused by the limitation of the maximum open files
  perf sched replay: Handle the dead halt of sem_wait when create_tasks() fails for any task
  perf sched replay: Fix the segmentation fault problem caused by pr_err in threads
  perf sched replay: Realloc the memory of pid_to_task stepwise to adapt to the different pid_max configurations
  ...
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Documentation perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bit 2015-04-08 11:00:16 -03:00
arch perf build: Add arch sparc objects building 2015-02-12 13:22:01 -03:00
bench Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-04-14 14:37:47 -07:00
config perf build: Disable libbabeltrace check by default 2015-03-30 10:24:27 -03:00
python perf python: Remove duplicate TID bit from mask 2013-08-07 17:35:25 -03:00
scripts perf build: Add scripts objects building 2015-02-12 11:49:53 -03:00
tests perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bit 2015-04-08 11:00:16 -03:00
ui perf hists browser: Indicate which callchain entries are annotated 2015-03-21 14:53:37 -03:00
util Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-04-14 14:37:47 -07:00
.gitignore perf build: Use FEATURE-DUMP instead of PERF-FEATURES in the .gitignore file 2015-03-20 17:49:51 -03:00
Build perf tools: Add new 'perf data' command 2015-02-25 12:42:25 -03:00
CREDITS perf_counter tools: Add CREDITS file for Git contributors 2009-06-24 19:54:29 +02:00
MANIFEST tools build: Add new build support 2015-02-11 18:30:03 -03:00
Makefile perf tools: Set JOBS based on CPU or processor 2015-03-26 10:52:28 -03:00
Makefile.perf perf build: Disable libbabeltrace check by default 2015-03-30 10:24:27 -03:00
builtin-annotate.c perf ordered_events: Shorten function signatures 2015-03-11 10:17:09 -03:00
builtin-bench.c perf bench: Add --repeat option 2014-06-19 16:13:15 -03:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf buildid-cache: Show usage with incorrect params 2015-02-27 15:52:40 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf ordered_events: Shorten function signatures 2015-03-11 10:17:09 -03:00
builtin-data.c perf data: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership for 'convert' 2015-04-02 13:18:52 -03:00
builtin-diff.c perf diff: Add kallsyms option 2015-03-24 13:01:54 -03:00
builtin-evlist.c perf evlist: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership 2015-04-02 13:18:45 -03:00
builtin-help.c perf tools: Add the bash completion for listing subsubcommands of perf help 2015-03-19 13:49:39 -03:00
builtin-inject.c perf inject: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership 2015-04-02 13:18:45 -03:00
builtin-kmem.c perf kmem: Respect -i option 2015-04-08 09:07:14 -03:00
builtin-kvm.c perf kvm: Support using -f to override perf.data.guest file ownership 2015-04-02 13:18:47 -03:00
builtin-list.c perf list: Extend raw-dump to certain kind of events 2015-02-27 15:52:24 -03:00
builtin-lock.c perf lock: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership 2015-04-02 13:18:48 -03:00
builtin-mem.c perf mem: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership 2015-04-02 13:18:49 -03:00
builtin-probe.c perf probe: Check the orphaned -x option 2015-04-10 10:21:30 -03:00
builtin-record.c perf evlist: Fix type for references to data_head/tail 2015-04-10 11:29:20 -03:00
builtin-report.c perf report: Don't call map__kmap if map is NULL. 2015-04-08 11:00:00 -03:00
builtin-sched.c perf sched replay: Use replay_repeat to calculate the runavg of cpu usage instead of the default value 10 2015-04-08 09:07:27 -03:00
builtin-script.c perf script: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership 2015-04-02 13:18:50 -03:00
builtin-stat.c perf evlist: Return the first evsel with an invalid filter in apply_filters() 2015-03-26 10:52:28 -03:00
builtin-timechart.c perf timechart: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership 2015-04-02 13:18:50 -03:00
builtin-top.c perf symbols: Save DSO loading errno to better report errors 2015-03-24 12:08:43 -03:00
builtin-trace.c perf trace: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership 2015-04-02 13:18:51 -03:00
builtin.h perf tools: Add new 'perf data' command 2015-02-25 12:42:25 -03:00
command-list.txt perf tools: Add new 'perf data' command 2015-02-25 12:42:25 -03:00
design.txt perf tools: Update some code references in design.txt 2014-03-18 18:17:06 -03:00
perf-archive.sh perf archive: Make 'f' the last parameter for tar 2012-09-17 13:10:42 -03:00
perf-completion.sh perf tools: Avoid confusion with preloaded bash function for perf bash completion 2015-03-19 13:53:27 -03:00
perf-read-vdso.c perf tools: Build programs to copy 32-bit compatibility 2014-10-29 10:32:48 -02:00
perf-sys.h perf tools: Avoid build splat for syscall numbers with uclibc 2015-01-16 17:49:29 -03:00
perf-with-kcore.sh perf tools: Add perf-with-kcore script 2014-09-17 17:08:08 -03:00
perf.c perf tools: Fix the bash completion problem of 'perf --*' 2015-02-27 15:52:28 -03:00
perf.h perf record: Add clockid parameter 2015-04-08 10:04:55 -03:00