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Viresh Kumar
d5b73cd870 cpufreq: Use sizeof(*ptr) convetion for computing sizes
Chapter 14 of Documentation/CodingStyle says:

The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:

	p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);

The alternative form where struct name is spelled out hurts
readability and introduces an opportunity for a bug when the pointer
variable type is changed but the corresponding sizeof that is passed
to a memory allocator is not.

This wasn't followed consistently in drivers/cpufreq, let's make it
more consistent by always following this rule.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:34:10 +02:00
Viresh Kumar
3a3e9e06d0 cpufreq: Give consistent names to cpufreq_policy objects
They are called policy, cur_policy, new_policy, data, etc.  Just call
them policy wherever possible.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:34:10 +02:00
Viresh Kumar
74aca95da7 cpufreq: Re-arrange declarations in cpufreq.h
They are pretty much mixed up.  Although generic headers are present,
definitions/declarations are present outside of them too ...

This patch just moves stuff up and down to make it look better and
consistent.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:34:10 +02:00
Viresh Kumar
5ff0a26803 cpufreq: Clean up header files included in the core
This patch addresses the following issues in the header files in the
cpufreq core:
 - Include headers in ascending order, so that we don't add same
   many times by mistake.
 - <asm/> must be included after <linux/>, so that they override
   whatever they need to.
 - Remove unnecessary includes.
 - Don't include files already included by cpufreq.h or
   cpufreq_governor.h.

[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:34:09 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
1133bfa6dc Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq-ondemand' into pm-cpufreq
* pm-cpufreq:
  cpufreq: Remove unused function __cpufreq_driver_getavg()
  cpufreq: Remove unused APERF/MPERF support
  cpufreq: ondemand: Change the calculation of target frequency
2013-08-07 23:11:43 +02:00
Trond Myklebust
eddffa4084 NFS: Remove unnecessary call to nfs_setsecurity in nfs_fhget()
We only need to call it on the creation of the inode.

Reported-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Quigley <dpquigl@davequigley.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2013-08-07 17:07:41 -04:00
Scott Mayhew
e890db0104 NFSv4: Fix the sync mount option for nfs4 mounts
The sync mount option stopped working for NFSv4 mounts after commit
c02d7adf8c (NFSv4: Replace nfs4_path_walk() with
FS path lookup in a private namespace).  If MS_SYNCHRONOUS is set in the
super_block that we're cloning from, then it should be set in the new
super_block as well.

Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2013-08-07 17:07:41 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
f8806c843f NFS: Fix writeback performance issue on cache invalidation
If a cache invalidation is triggered, and we happen to have a lot of
writebacks cached at the time, then the call to invalidate_inode_pages2()
will end up calling ->launder_page() on each and every dirty page in order
to sync its contents to disk, thus defeating write coalescing.
The following patch ensures that we try to sync the inode to disk before
calling invalidate_inode_pages2() so that we do the writeback as efficiently
as possible.

Reported-by: William Dauchy <william@gandi.net>
Reported-by: Pascal Bouchareine <pascal@gandi.net>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tested-by: William Dauchy <william@gandi.net>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:07:40 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
786615bc1c SUNRPC: If the rpcbind channel is disconnected, fail the call to unregister
If rpcbind causes our connection to the AF_LOCAL socket to close after
we've registered a service, then we want to be careful about reconnecting
since the mount namespace may have changed.

By simply refusing to reconnect the AF_LOCAL socket in the case of
unregister, we avoid the need to somehow save the mount namespace. While
this may lead to some services not unregistering properly, it should
be safe.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.9.x
2013-08-07 17:07:18 -04:00
Viresh Kumar
d8d3b47112 cpufreq: Pass policy to cpufreq_add_policy_cpu()
The caller of cpufreq_add_policy_cpu() already has a pointer to the
policy structure and there is no need to look it up again in
cpufreq_add_policy_cpu().  Let's pass it directly.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:02:50 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
10659ab7b5 cpufreq: Avoid double kobject_put() for the same kobject in error code path
The only case triggering a jump to the err_out_unregister label in
__cpufreq_add_dev() is when cpufreq_add_dev_interface() fails.
However, if cpufreq_add_dev_interface() fails, it calls kobject_put()
for the policy kobject in its error code path and since that causes
the kobject's refcount to become 0, the additional kobject_put() for
the same kobject under err_out_unregister and the
wait_for_completion() following it are pointless, so drop them.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
2013-08-07 23:02:50 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
71c3461ef7 cpufreq: Do not hold driver module references for additional policy CPUs
The cpufreq core is a little inconsistent in the way it uses the
driver module refcount.

Namely, if __cpufreq_add_dev() is called for a CPU that doesn't
share the policy object with any other CPUs, the driver module
refcount it grabs to start with will be dropped by it before
returning and will be equal to whatever it had been before that
function was invoked.

However, if the given CPU does share the policy object with other
CPUs, either cpufreq_add_policy_cpu() is called to link the new CPU
to the existing policy, or cpufreq_add_dev_symlink() is used to link
the other CPUs sharing the policy with it to the just created policy
object.  In that case, because both cpufreq_add_policy_cpu() and
cpufreq_add_dev_symlink() call cpufreq_cpu_get() for the given
policy (the latter possibly many times) without the balancing
cpufreq_cpu_put() (unless there is an error), the driver module
refcount will be left by __cpufreq_add_dev() with a nonzero value
(different from the initial one).

To remove that inconsistency make cpufreq_add_policy_cpu() execute
cpufreq_cpu_put() for the given policy before returning, which
decrements the driver module refcount so that it will be equal to its
initial value after __cpufreq_add_dev() returns.  Also remove the
cpufreq_cpu_get() call from cpufreq_add_dev_symlink(), since both the
policy refcount and the driver module refcount are nonzero when it is
called and they don't need to be bumped up by it.

Accordingly, drop the cpufreq_cpu_put() from __cpufreq_remove_dev(),
since it is only necessary to balance the cpufreq_cpu_get() called
by cpufreq_add_policy_cpu() or cpufreq_add_dev_symlink().

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
2013-08-07 23:02:50 +02:00
Viresh Kumar
308b60e715 cpufreq: Don't pass CPU to cpufreq_add_dev_{symlink|interface}()
Pointer to struct cpufreq_policy is already passed to these routines
and we don't need to send policy->cpu to them as well.  So, get rid
of this extra argument and use policy->cpu everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:02:49 +02:00
Viresh Kumar
e8fdde1011 cpufreq: Remove extra variables from cpufreq_add_dev_symlink()
We call cpufreq_cpu_get() in cpufreq_add_dev_symlink() to increase usage
refcount of policy, but not to get a policy for the given CPU.  So, we
don't really need to capture the return value of this routine.  We can
simply use policy passed as an argument to cpufreq_add_dev_symlink().

Moreover debug print is rewritten to make it more clear.

[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:02:49 +02:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat
5302c3fb2e cpufreq: Perform light-weight init/teardown during suspend/resume
Now that we have the infrastructure to perform a light-weight init/tear-down,
use that in the cpufreq CPU hotplug notifier when invoked from the
suspend/resume path.

This also ensures that the file permissions of the cpufreq sysfs files are
preserved across suspend/resume, something which commit a66b2e (cpufreq:
Preserve sysfs files across suspend/resume) originally intended to do, but
had to be reverted due to other problems.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:02:49 +02:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat
8414809c6a cpufreq: Preserve policy structure across suspend/resume
To perform light-weight cpu-init and teardown in the cpufreq subsystem
during suspend/resume, we need to separate out the 2 main functionalities
of the cpufreq CPU hotplug callbacks, as outlined below:

1. Init/tear-down of core cpufreq and CPU-specific components, which are
   critical to the correct functioning of the cpufreq subsystem.

2. Init/tear-down of cpufreq sysfs files during suspend/resume.

The first part requires accurate updates to the policy structure such as
its ->cpus and ->related_cpus masks, whereas the second part requires that
the policy->kobj structure is not released or re-initialized during
suspend/resume.

To handle both these requirements, we need to allow updates to the policy
structure throughout suspend/resume, but prevent the structure from getting
freed up. Also, we must have a mechanism by which the cpu-up callbacks can
restore the policy structure, without allocating things afresh. (That also
helps avoid memory leaks).

To achieve this, we use 2 schemes:
a. Use a fallback per-cpu storage area for preserving the policy structures
   during suspend, so that they can be restored during resume appropriately.

b. Use the 'frozen' flag to determine when to free or allocate the policy
   structure vs when to restore the policy from the saved fallback storage.
   Thus we can successfully preserve the structure across suspend/resume.

Effectively, this helps us complete the separation of the 'light-weight'
and the 'full' init/tear-down sequences in the cpufreq subsystem, so that
this can be made use of in the suspend/resume scenario.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:02:49 +02:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat
a82fab2928 cpufreq: Introduce a flag ('frozen') to separate full vs temporary init/teardown
During suspend/resume we would like to do a light-weight init/teardown of
CPUs in the cpufreq subsystem and preserve certain things such as sysfs files
etc across suspend/resume transitions. Add a flag called 'frozen' to help
distinguish the full init/teardown sequence from the light-weight one.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:02:48 +02:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat
f9ba680d23 cpufreq: Extract the handover of policy cpu to a helper function
During cpu offline, when the policy->cpu is going down, some other CPU
present in the policy->cpus mask is nominated as the new policy->cpu.
Extract this functionality from __cpufreq_remove_dev() and implement
it in a helper function. This helps in upcoming code reorganization.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:02:48 +02:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat
e18f1682bc cpufreq: Extract non-interface related stuff from cpufreq_add_dev_interface
cpufreq_add_dev_interface() includes the work of exposing the interface
to the device, as well as a lot of unrelated stuff. Move the latter to
cpufreq_add_dev(), where it is more appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:02:48 +02:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat
e9698cc5d2 cpufreq: Add helper to perform alloc/free of policy structure
Separate out the allocation of the cpufreq policy structure (along with
its error handling) to a helper function. This makes the code easier to
read and also helps with some upcoming code reorganization.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:02:48 +02:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat
23d328994b cpufreq: Fix misplaced call to cpufreq_update_policy()
The call to cpufreq_update_policy() is placed in the CPU hotplug callback
of cpufreq_stats, which has a higher priority than the CPU hotplug callback
of cpufreq-core. As a result, during CPU_ONLINE/CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN, we end up
calling cpufreq_update_policy() *before* calling cpufreq_add_dev() !
And for uninitialized CPUs, it just returns silently, not doing anything.

To add to that, cpufreq_stats is not even the right place to call
cpufreq_update_policy() to begin with. The cpufreq core ought to handle
this in its own callback, from an elegance/relevance perspective.

So move the invocation of cpufreq_update_policy() to cpufreq_cpu_callback,
and place it *after* cpufreq_add_dev().

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:02:48 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
69fdadfd22 Merge branch 'pm-fixes'
* pm-fixes:
  cpufreq: rename ignore_nice as ignore_nice_load
  cpufreq: loongson2: fix regression related to clock management
2013-08-07 22:55:38 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
5ba1aef5e5 Merge branch 'acpi-fixes'
* acpi-fixes:
  ACPI: Try harder to resolve _ADR collisions for bridges
  ACPI / processor: move try_offline_node() after acpi_unmap_lsapic()
  ACPI: Drop physical_node_id_bitmap from struct acpi_device
  ACPI / PM: Walk physical_node_list under physical_node_lock
  ACPI / video: improve quirk check in acpi_video_bqc_quirk()
2013-08-07 22:55:27 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
60f75b8e97 ACPI: Try harder to resolve _ADR collisions for bridges
In theory, under a given ACPI namespace node there should be only
one child device object with _ADR whose value matches a given bus
address exactly.  In practice, however, there are systems in which
multiple child device objects under a given parent have _ADR matching
exactly the same address.  In those cases we use _STA to determine
which of the multiple matching devices is enabled, since some systems
are known to indicate which ACPI device object to associate with the
given physical (usually PCI) device this way.

Unfortunately, as it turns out, there are systems in which many
device objects under the same parent have _ADR matching exactly the
same bus address and none of them has _STA, in which case they all
should be regarded as enabled according to the spec.  Still, if
those device objects are supposed to represent bridges (e.g. this
is the case for device objects corresponding to PCIe ports), we can
try harder and skip the ones that have no child device objects in the
ACPI namespace.  With luck, we can avoid using device objects that we
are not expected to use this way.

Although this only works for bridges whose children also have ACPI
namespace representation, it is sufficient to address graphics
adapter detection issues on some systems, so rework the code finding
a matching device ACPI handle for a given bus address to implement
this idea.

Introduce a new function, acpi_find_child(), taking three arguments:
the ACPI handle of the device's parent, a bus address suitable for
the device's bus type and a bool indicating if the device is a
bridge and make it work as outlined above.  Reimplement the function
currently used for this purpose, acpi_get_child(), as a call to
acpi_find_child() with the last argument set to 'false' and make
the PCI subsystem use acpi_find_child() with the bridge information
passed as the last argument to it.  [Lan Tianyu notices that it is
not sufficient to use pci_is_bridge() for that, because the device's
subordinate pointer hasn't been set yet at this point, so use
hdr_type instead.]

This change fixes a regression introduced inadvertently by commit
33f767d (ACPI: Rework acpi_get_child() to be more efficient) which
overlooked the fact that for acpi_walk_namespace() "post-order" means
"after all children have been visited" rather than "on the way back",
so for device objects without children and for namespace walks of
depth 1, as in the acpi_get_child() case, the "post-order" callbacks
ordering is actually the same as the ordering of "pre-order" ones.
Since that commit changed the namespace walk in acpi_get_child() to
terminate after finding the first matching object instead of going
through all of them and returning the last one, it effectively
changed the result returned by that function in some rare cases and
that led to problems (the switch from a "pre-order" to a "post-order"
callback was supposed to prevent that from happening, but it was
ineffective).

As it turns out, the systems where the change made by commit
33f767d actually matters are those where there are multiple ACPI
device objects representing the same PCIe port (which effectively
is a bridge).  Moreover, only one of them, and the one we are
expected to use, has child device objects in the ACPI namespace,
so the regression can be addressed as described above.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60561
Reported-by: Peter Wu <lekensteyn@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Vladimir Lalov <mail@vlalov.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: 3.9+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9+
2013-08-07 22:55:00 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim
cecb977e24 Revert "tools lib lk: Fix for cross build"
This reverts commit 079787f209.

Below commit already resolve a cross build problem.
I have been noticed this too lately.

    commit 3c4797d46c
    Author: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
    Date:   Fri May 17 22:27:44 2013 +0200

    tools lib lk: Respect CROSS_COMPILE

    Make lk use CROSS_COMPILE, in order to be able to cross compile perf
    again.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373936614-22224-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:41 -03:00
Jason Wessel
8f76fcd902 perf machine: Do not require /lib/modules/* on a guest
For some types of work loads and special guest environments, you might
have a kernel that has no kernel modules.  The perf kvm record tool
fails instantiate vmlinux maps when the kernel modules directory cannot
be opened, even though the kallsyms has been properly processed.  This
leads to a perf kvm report that has no guest symbols resolved.

This patch changes the failure to locate kernel modules to be non-fatal.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373920073-4874-1-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:41 -03:00
Michael Ellerman
c9ee780f27 perf tests: Add tests of new pinned modifier
Add a negative test to test__checkevent_pmu_events() to get lots of
coverage of the negative case, ie. when the modifier is not specified.

Add a test of a single event, and of the group case.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375795686-4226-2-git-send-email-michael@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:40 -03:00
Michael Ellerman
e9a7c41447 perf tools: Add support for pinned modifier
This commit adds support for a new modifier "D", which requests that the
event, or group of events, be pinned to the PMU.

The "p" modifier is already taken for precise, and "P" may be used in
future to mean "fully precise".

So we use "D", which stands for pinneD - and looks like a padlock, or if
you're using the ":D" syntax perf smiles at you.

This is an oft-requested feature from our HW folks, who want to be able
to run a large number of events, but also want 100% accurate results for
instructions per cycle.

Comparison of results with and without pinning:

$ perf stat -e '{cycles,instructions}:D' -e cycles,instructions,...

  79,590,480,683 cycles         #  0.000 GHz
 166,123,716,524 instructions   #  2.09  insns per cycle
                                #  0.11  stalled cycles per insn

  79,352,134,463 cycles         #  0.000 GHz                     [11.11%]
 165,178,301,818 instructions   #  2.08  insns per cycle
                                #  0.11  stalled cycles per insn [11.13%]

As you can see although perf does a very good job of scaling the values
in the non-pinned case, there is some small discrepancy.

The patch is fairly straight forward, the one detail is that we need to
make sure we only request pinning for the group leader when we have a
group.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375795686-4226-1-git-send-email-michael@ellerman.id.au
[ Use perf_evsel__is_group_leader instead of open coded equivalent, as
  suggested by Jiri Olsa ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:40 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
d50bf78ff6 perf ui/gtk: Fix segmentation fault on perf_hpp__for_each_format loop
The commit 2b8bfa6bb8 ("perf tools: Centralize default columns init in
perf_hpp__init") moves initialization of common overhead column to
perf_hpp__init() but forgot about the gtk code.

So the gtk code added the same column to the list twice causing infinite
loop when iterating it by perf_hpp__for_each_format loop.  When I run
perf report --gtk, I can see following messages indefinitely.

  (perf:11687): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_main_quit: assertion 'main_loops != NULL' failed
  perf: Segmentation fault

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375766056-19377-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:39 -03:00
David Ahern
2e73f00fe7 perf kvm stat report: Add option to analyze specific VM
Add an option to analyze a specific VM within a data file. This allows
the collection of kvm events for all VMs and then analyze data for each
VM (or set of VMs) individually.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375753297-69645-6-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:39 -03:00
David Ahern
62d04dbf36 perf kvm: Add min and max stats to display
Add max and min times for exit events.

v2: address Xiao's comment to use get_event function for pulling max and
    min from stats struct similar to mean and count

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375753297-69645-4-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:38 -03:00
David Ahern
1afe1d1484 perf kvm: Add live mode
perf kvm stat currently requires back to back record and report commands
to see stats. e.g,.

  perf kvm stat record -p $pid -- sleep 1
  perf kvm stat report

This is inconvenvient for on box monitoring of a VM. This patch
introduces a 'live' mode that in effect combines the record plus report
into one command. e.g., to monitor a single VM:

  perf kvm stat live -p $pid

or all VMs:

  perf kvm stat live

Same stats options for the record+report path work with the live mode.
Display rate defaults to 1 second and can be changed using the -d
option.

v4:
- address comments from Xiao -- verify_vcpu check should not look at
  processors on line for the host, prune configurable options.
- set attr->{mmap,comm,task} to 0 - don't need task events so trim events
  we have to deal with
- better control of time for queue event flushing to reduce frequency of
  "Timestamp below last timeslice flush" failures.

v3:
updated to use existing tracepoint parsing code

v2:
removed ABSTIME arg from timerfd_settime as mentioned by Namhyung
only call perf_kvm__handle_stdin when poll returns activity.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375753297-69645-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:38 -03:00
David Ahern
e30b88a77c perf session: Export queue_event function
Taking a lesson from perf-trace and bringing in control of event
processing to perf-kvm-stat-live: parse the sample to get access the
time leaving just the need to queue it to the ordered samples list.  For
that the queue_event function needs to be exported.

Unexport perf_session__process_event.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375753297-69645-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:37 -03:00
Ingo Molnar
e6f6538888 perf annotate browser: Fix typo
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130802111050.GA29126@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:37 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
fcd9fef9a6 perf annotate browser: Improve description of '?' hotkey
The previous description: "Search previous string" is usually associated
with the 'N' following a '/string', the opposite of 'n', which is
'Search next string' in the direction established with '/' or '?'.

So change it to 'Search string backwards', to clarify that.

The 'N' hotkey remains to be implemented with the semantic described
above.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5lw5y15d7vv308xbpm8pqe4g@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:36 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
b178170a38 perf annotate: Add call target name if it is missing
The /proc/kcore file has no symbols, so the call target name does not
display.  Fix by looking up the symbol name if it is on the same map.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-14-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:36 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
484a5e7476 perf annotate: Remove nop at end of annotation
When kcore is used for annotation, symbols do not have correct sizes
because they come from kallsyms, that has only its start address, with
the end address being the next symbol's minus one.

That sometimes results in an extra nop being seen after the end of a
function.  Remove it.

Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-13-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:35 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
34f77abcb3 perf annotate: Put dso name in symbol annotation title
Currently the symbol name is displayed at the top when displaying symbol
annotation.  Add to this the dso long name.

Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-12-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:35 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
bbb7f846f8 perf annotate: Allow disassembly using /proc/kcore
Annotation with /proc/kcore is possible so the logic is adjusted to
allow it.  The main difference is that /proc/kcore had no symbols so the
parsing logic needed a tweak to read jump offsets.

The other difference is that objdump cannot always read from kcore.
That seems to be a bug with objdump.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-11-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:34 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
7a77bc2c0d perf tests: Add kcore to the object code reading test
Make the "object code reading" test attempt to read from kcore.

The test uses objdump which struggles with kcore. i.e.  doesn't always
work, sometimes takes a long time.  The test has been made to work
around those issues.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-10-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:34 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
82e75d00ad perf tests: Adjust the vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms test again
The kallsyms maps now may map to kcore and the symbol values now may be
file offsets.  For comparison with vmlinux the virtual memory address is
needed which is obtained by unmapping the symbol value.

The "vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms" is adjusted accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-9-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:33 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
8e0cf965f9 perf symbols: Add support for reading from /proc/kcore
In the absence of vmlinux, perf tools uses kallsyms for symbols.  If the
user has access, now also map to /proc/kcore.

The dso data_type is now set to either DSO_BINARY_TYPE__KCORE or
DSO_BINARY_TYPE__GUEST_KCORE as approprite.

This patch breaks the "vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms" test.  That is
fixed in a following patch.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-8-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:33 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
0131c4ec79 perf tools: Make it possible to read object code from kernel modules
The new "object code reading" test shows that it is not possible to read
object code from kernel modules.  That is because the mappings do not
map to the dsos.  This patch fixes that.

This involves identifying and flagging relocatable (ELF type ET_REL)
files (e.g. kernel modules) for symbol adjustment and updating
map__rip_2objdump() accordingly.  The kmodule parameter of
dso__load_sym() is taken into use and the module map altered to map to
the dso.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-7-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:32 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
d380b34830 perf tests: Adjust the vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms test
The vmlinux maps now map to the dso and the symbol values are now file
offsets.  For comparison with kallsyms the virtual memory address is
needed which is obtained by unmapping the symbol value.

The "vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms" is adjusted accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:32 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
39b12f7812 perf tools: Make it possible to read object code from vmlinux
The new "object code reading" test shows that it is not possible to read
object code from vmlinux.  That is because the mappings do not map to
the dso.  This patch fixes that.

A side-effect of changing the kernel map is that the "reloc" offset must
be taken into account.  As a result of that separate map functions for
relocation are no longer needed.

Also fixing up the maps to match the symbols no longer makes sense and
so is not done.

The vmlinux dso data_type is now set to either DSO_BINARY_TYPE__VMLINUX
or DSO_BINARY_TYPE__GUEST_VMLINUX as approprite, which enables the
correct file name to be determined by dso__binary_type_file().

This patch breaks the "vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms" test.  That is
fixed in a following patch.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:31 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
5b7ba82a75 perf symbols: Load kernel maps before using
In order to use kernel maps to read object code, those maps must be
adjusted to map to the dso file offset.  Because lazy-initialization is
used, that is not done until symbols are loaded.  However the maps are
first used by thread__find_addr_map() before symbols are loaded.  So
this patch changes thread__find_addr() to "load" kernel maps before
using them.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:31 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
b55ae0a976 perf tests: Add test for reading object code
Using the information in mmap events, perf tools can read object code
associated with sampled addresses.  A test is added that compares bytes
read by perf with the same bytes read using objdump.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:30 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
3445432b7b perf symbols: avoid SyS kernel syscall aliases
When removing duplicate symbols, prefer to remove syscall aliases
starting with SyS or compat_SyS.

A side-effect of that is that it results in slightly improved results
for the "vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms" test.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-6-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:30 -03:00
Andi Kleen
2bbf03f16a perf stat: Flush output after each line in interval mode
When interval mode is outputting to a pipe, each measurement should be
flushed individually, so that the reader sees it timely.

With a terminal each line is automatically flushed by stdio, but that is
disabled with non terminal output.

Simply fflush output after each time interval

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375490473-1503-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:29 -03:00
Andi Kleen
411916880f perf stat: Add support for --initial-delay option
When measuring workloads the startup phase -- doing page faults, dynamic
linking, opening files -- is often very different from the rest of the
workload.  Especially with smaller kernels and using counter
multiplexing this can give significant measurement errors.

Multiplexing assumes that the workload is mostly the same over longer
periods. But at startup there is typically some spike of activity which
is relatively short.  If many groups are multiplexing the one group
seeing the spike, and which is then scaled up over the time to run all
groups, may see a significant error.

Also in general it's often not useful to measure the startup, because it
is so different from the rest.

One way around this is to use interval mode and discard the first
sample, but this can be awkward because interval mode doesn't support
intervals of less than 100ms, and also a useful interval is not
necessarily the same as a useful startup delay.

This patch adds a new --initial-delay / -D option to skip measuring for
the startup phase. The time can be specified in ms

Here's a simple example:

perf stat -e page-faults bash -c 'for i in $(seq 100000) ; do true ; done'
...
             3,721 page-faults
...

If we just wait 20 ms the number of page faults is 1/3 less:

perf stat -D 20 -e page-faults bash -c 'for i in $(seq 100000) ; do true ; done'
...
             2,823 page-faults
...

So we filtered out most of the startup noise from bash.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375490473-1503-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 17:35:29 -03:00