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Milian Wolff 7ee40678af perf script: Flush output stream after events in verbose mode
When the perf script output is written to a terminal stream, the normal
output of `perf script` would get buffered, but its debug output would
be written directly. This made it quite hard to figure out where a given
debug output is coming from.

We can improve on this by flushing the output buffer after processing an
event. To see the value, compare the following output for a `perf script
-v` run:

Before this patch:
```
unwind: reg 16, val 7faf7dfdc000
unwind: reg 7, val 7ffc80811e30
unwind: find_proc_info dso /usr/lib/ld-2.28.so
unwind: reg 6, val 0
unwind: _start:ip = 0x7faf7dfdc000 (0x2000)
unwind: reg 16, val 7faf7dfdc000
unwind: reg 7, val 7ffc80811e30
unwind: find_proc_info dso /usr/lib/ld-2.28.so
unwind: reg 6, val 0
unwind: _start:ip = 0x7faf7dfdc000 (0x2000)
unwind: reg 16, val 7faf7dfdc000
unwind: reg 7, val 7ffc80811e30
unwind: find_proc_info dso /usr/lib/ld-2.28.so
unwind: reg 6, val 0
unwind: _start:ip = 0x7faf7dfdc000 (0x2000)
unwind: reg 16, val 7faf7dfdc000
unwind: reg 7, val 7ffc80811e30
... lots and lots of verbose debug output
cpp-inlining 24617 90229.122036534:          1 cycles:uppp:
            7faf7dfdc000 _start+0x0 (/usr/lib/ld-2.28.so)

cpp-inlining 24617 90229.122043974:          1 cycles:uppp:
            7faf7dfdc000 _start+0x0 (/usr/lib/ld-2.28.so)
...
```

After this patch:
```
...
unwind: reg 16, val 7faf7dfdc000
unwind: reg 7, val 7ffc80811e30
unwind: find_proc_info dso /usr/lib/ld-2.28.so
unwind: reg 6, val 0
unwind: _start:ip = 0x7faf7dfdc000 (0x2000)
cpp-inlining 24617 90229.122036534:          1 cycles:uppp:
            7faf7dfdc000 _start+0x0 (/usr/lib/ld-2.28.so)

unwind: reg 16, val 7faf7dfdc000
unwind: reg 7, val 7ffc80811e30
unwind: find_proc_info dso /usr/lib/ld-2.28.so
unwind: reg 6, val 0
unwind: _start:ip = 0x7faf7dfdc000 (0x2000)
cpp-inlining 24617 90229.122043974:          1 cycles:uppp:
            7faf7dfdc000 _start+0x0 (/usr/lib/ld-2.28.so)
...
```

This new output format makes it much easier to use perf script output
for debugging purposes, e.g. to investigate broken dwarf unwinding.

Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181021191424.16183-2-milian.wolff@kdab.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
History 2018-10-22 14:27:11 -03:00
arch Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core 2018-10-18 11:13:01 -03:00
block blk-wbt: wake up all when we scale up, not down 2018-10-11 13:31:28 -06:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto DMAengine updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 15:55:59 -07:00
Documentation Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core 2018-10-18 11:13:01 -03:00
drivers Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core 2018-10-18 11:13:01 -03:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs afs: Fix clearance of reply 2018-10-15 15:31:47 +02:00
include More arm64 fixes 2018-10-13 09:05:37 +02:00
init Kbuild updates for v4.19 (2nd) 2018-08-25 13:40:38 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: use ERR_CAST() for shm_lock() error return 2018-10-05 16:32:04 -07:00
kernel Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core 2018-10-18 11:13:01 -03:00
lib * Fix a stack overflow in lib/bch.c 2018-10-12 12:54:26 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm mm/thp: fix call to mmu_notifier in set_pmd_migration_entry() v2 2018-10-13 09:31:02 +02:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-10-12 09:01:59 +02:00
samples samples: disable CONFIG_SAMPLES for UML 2018-10-11 02:15:46 +09:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v4.19 (2nd) 2018-10-11 19:23:07 +02:00
security Revert "uapi/linux/keyctl.h: don't use C++ reserved keyword as a struct member name" 2018-09-25 13:28:58 +02:00
sound Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core 2018-10-18 11:13:01 -03:00
tools perf script: Flush output stream after events in verbose mode 2018-10-22 14:27:11 -03:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove obsolete kvm_unmap_hva notifier backend 2018-09-07 15:06:02 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS selinux/stable-4.19 PR 20181015 2018-10-16 18:52:00 +02:00
Makefile Linux 4.19-rc8 2018-10-15 07:20:24 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.