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Hitoshi Mitake
158ba827f6 perf bench: Modify builtin-pipe.c for processing common options
This patch modifies builtin-pipe.c for processing common
options. The first option added is "--format".
Users of perf bench will be able to specify output style by
--format.

Usage example:

 % ./perf bench sched pipe		# with no style specify
 (executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks)

         Total time:5.855 sec
                 5.855061 usecs/op
                 170792 ops/sec

 % ./perf bench --format=simple sched pipe # specified simple
 5.988

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1257808802-9420-5-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-11-10 04:53:49 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake
cced06c62a perf bench: Modify bench/bench-messaging.c to adopt unified output formatting
This patch modifies bench/bench-messaging.c to adopt
unified output formatting: --format option.

Usage example:

 % ./perf bench sched messaging              # with no style
 specify (20 sender and receiver processes per group)
 (10 groups == 400 processes run)

        Total time:1.431 sec

 % ./perf bench --format=simple sched messaging # specified
 simple 1.431

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1257808802-9420-4-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-10 04:53:49 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake
386d7e9e54 perf bench: Modify builtin-bench.c for processing common options
This patch modifies builtin-bench.c for processing common
options. The first option added is "--format".
Users of perf bench will be able to specify output style by
--format.

Usage example:

 % ./perf bench sched messaging		# with no style specify
 (20 sender and receiver processes per group)
 (10 groups == 400 processes run)

         Total time:1.431 sec

 % ./perf bench --format=simple sched messaging # specified
 simple 1.431

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1257808802-9420-3-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-10 04:53:48 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake
242aa14a67 perf bench: Add format constants to bench.h for unified output formatting
This patch adds some constants and extern declaration to
bench.h. These are used for unified output formatting
of 'perf bench'.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1257808802-9420-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-10 04:53:48 +01:00
Zeev Tarantov
ca2b900f9a perf tools: Fix syntax in documentation
Fix trivial syntax in perf-events user-space tools
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Zeev Tarantov <zeev.tarantov@gmail.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: <12d7e64c0911081811i7e5b466cu6706ff6ab3e70db4@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-09 12:58:04 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake
5ff0cfc67f perf bench: Fix bench/sched-pipe.c to wait for child process
Ingo reported this small 'perf bench sched pipe' output problem:

 | $ ./perf bench sched pipe
 | (executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks)
 |
 |	Total time:4.898 sec
 | $		4.898586 usecs/op
 |		204140 ops/sec
 |
 | the shell prompt came back before the usecs/op and ops/sec line
 | was printed. Process teardown race, lack of wait() or so?

This caused by lack of calling waitpid() by parent process,
so I added it.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1257737465-7546-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-09 08:14:30 +01:00
Clark Williams
549104f22b perf tools: Modify perf routines to use new debugfs routines
modify perf.c get_debugfs_mntpnt() to use the util/debugfs.c
debugfs_find_mountpoint()

modify util/parse-events.c to use debugfs_valid_mountpoint().

Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091101155720.624cc87e@torg>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 18:01:35 +01:00
Clark Williams
afe61f6778 perf tools: Add debugfs utility routines for perf
Add routines to locate the debugfs mount point and to manage the
mounting and unmounting of the debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091101155621.2b3503ee@torg>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 18:01:34 +01:00
Pekka Enberg
c10edee2e1 perf tools: Fix permission checks
The perf_event_open() system call returns EACCES if the user is
not root which results in a very confusing error message:

  $ perf record -A -a -f

    Error: perfcounter syscall returned with -1 (Permission denied)

    Fatal: No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?

It turns out that's because perf tools are checking only for
EPERM. Fix that up to get a much better error message:

  $ perf record -A -a -f
    Fatal: Permission error - are you root?

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1257696066-4046-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 17:04:54 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
8d06367fa7 perf symbols: Use the buildids if present
With this change 'perf record' will intercept PERF_RECORD_MMAP
calls, creating a linked list of DSOs, then when the session
finishes, it will traverse this list and read the buildids,
stashing them at the end of the file and will set up a new
feature bit in the header bitmask.

'perf report' will then notice this feature and populate the
'dsos' list and set the build ids.

When reading the symtabs it will refuse to load from a file that
doesn't have the same build id. This improves the
reliability of the profiler output, as symbols and profiling
data is more guaranteed to match.

Example:

 [root@doppio ~]# perf report | head
 /home/acme/bin/perf with build id b1ea544ac3746e7538972548a09aadecc5753868 not found, continuing without symbols
  # Samples: 2621434559
  #
  # Overhead          Command                  Shared Object  Symbol
  # ........  ...............  .............................  ......
  #
       7.91%             init  [kernel]        [k] read_hpet
       7.64%             init  [kernel]        [k] mwait_idle_with_hints
       7.60%          swapper  [kernel]        [k] read_hpet
       7.60%          swapper  [kernel]        [k] mwait_idle_with_hints
       3.65%             init  [kernel]        [k] 0xffffffffa02339d9
[root@doppio ~]#

In this case the 'perf' binary was an older one, vanished,
so its symbols probably wouldn't match or would cause subtly
different (and misleading) output.

Next patches will support the kernel as well, reading the build
id notes for it and the modules from /sys.

Another patch should also introduce a new plumbing command:

'perf list-buildids'

that will then be used in porcelain that is distro specific to
fetch -debuginfo packages where such buildids are present. This
will in turn allow for one to run 'perf record' in one machine
and 'perf report' in another.

Future work on having the buildid sent directly from the kernel
in the PERF_RECORD_MMAP event is needed to close races, as the
DSO can be changed during a 'perf record' session, but this
patch at least helps with non-corner cases and current/older
kernels.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1257367843-26224-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 10:44:36 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake
bfde82ef51 perf bench: Add subcommand 'bench' to the Makefile
This patch modifies Makefile for new files related to 'bench'
subcommand. The new code is active from this point on.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1257381097-4743-8-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 10:19:20 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake
dcba8848d3 perf bench: Add new subcommand 'bench' to perf.c
This patch modifies perf.c for invoking 'bench' subcommand.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1257381097-4743-7-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 10:19:19 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake
11bd341c04 perf bench: Modify builtin.h for new prototype
This patch modifies builtin.h to add prototype of cmd_bench().

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1257381097-4743-6-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 10:19:19 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake
629cc35665 perf bench: Add builtin-bench.c: General framework for benchmark suites
This patch adds builtin-bench.c
builtin-bench.c is a general framework for benchmark suites.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1257381097-4743-5-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 10:19:18 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake
c7d9300f36 perf bench: Add sched-pipe.c: Benchmark for pipe() system call
This patch adds bench/sched-pipe.c.

bench/sched-pipe.c is a benchmark program
to measure performance of pipe() system call.
This benchmark is based on pipe-test-1m.c by Ingo Molnar:

   http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/pipe-test-1m.c

Example of use:

% perf bench sched pipe
  (executing 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks)

          Total time:4.499 sec
                  4.499179 usecs/op
                  222262 ops/sec

% perf bench sched pipe -s -l 1000
0.015

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1257381097-4743-4-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 10:19:18 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake
e27454cc63 perf bench: Add sched-messaging.c: Benchmark for scheduler and IPC mechanisms based on hackbench
This patch adds bench/sched-messaging.c.

This benchmark measures performance of scheduler and IPC
mechanisms, and is based on hackbench by Rusty Russell.

Example of usage:

  % perf bench sched messaging -g 20 -l 1000 -s
  5.432  	  	       	    	    	     # in sec

  % perf bench sched messaging                 # run with default
  options (20 sender and receiver processes per group)
  (10 groups == 400 processes run)

        Total time:0.308 sec

  % perf bench sched messaging -t -g 20	     # # be multi-thread,
  with 20 groups (20 sender and receiver threads per group)
  (20 groups == 800 threads run)

        Total time:0.582 sec

( Rusty is the original author of hackbench.c and he said the code is
  and was under the GPLv2 so fine to be merged. )

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1257381097-4743-3-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 10:19:17 +01:00
Hitoshi Mitake
c426bba069 perf bench: Add new directory and header for new subcommand 'bench'
This patch adds bench/ directory and bench/bench.h.

bench/ directory will contain modules for bench subcommand.
bench/bench.h is for listing prototypes of module functions.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1257381097-4743-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 10:19:15 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
91365bbe4f perf/probes: Rename perf probe events group name
Rename the group name of perf probe events to 'probe'.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091104001238.3454.70508.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04 13:02:47 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
a225a1d911 perf/probes: Fall back to non-dwarf if possible
Fall back to non-dwarf probe point if the probe definition may
not need dwarf analysis, when perf can't find vmlinux/debuginfo.
This might skip some inlined code of target function.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091104001229.3454.63987.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04 13:02:47 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
a7f4328b91 perf/probes: Improve error messages
Improve error messages in perf-probe so that users can figure
out problems easily.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091104001221.3454.52030.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04 13:02:46 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
c43f9d1e61 perf/probes: Update Documentation/perf-probe.txt
Update Documentation/perf-probe.txt accoding to recent
syntax changes.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091104001212.3454.19415.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04 13:02:46 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2643ce1145 perf symbols: Factor out buildid reading routine
So that we can run it without having a DSO instance.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1257291970-8208-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04 12:03:32 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a2e7127153 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc6' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/Makefile

Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, merge to upstream and merge in
              perf fixes so we can add a dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04 11:59:45 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
6d7aa9d721 perf symbols: Initialize dso->loaded
Brown paper bag bug introduced in:

 66bd8424cc05e800db384053bf7ab967e4658468 ("perf tools: Delay
 loading symtabs till we hit a map with it")

Without this we were not loading any symtabs that happened to be
on a DSO for which the allocated memory for ->loaded was !0.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1257270738-5669-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-03 18:56:06 +01:00
Thiago Farina
c1e5301785 perf: Clean up trivial style issues in builtin-help.c
Pointed out by checkpatch.

Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
LKML-Reference: <1257254925-5423-1-git-send-email-tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-03 18:37:29 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
12e4db4790 perf probe: Annotate variable initialization
Annotate away this false positive warning on older GCCs:

    cc1: warnings being treated as errors
    builtin-probe.c: In function ‘parse_probe_event’:
    builtin-probe.c:72: warning: ‘nc’ is used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1257254947-16789-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-03 16:51:28 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
900b20d590 perf tools: Fix missing symtabs printouts
Fix:

  util/map.c: In function ‘map__find_symbol’:
  util/map.c:97: error: field precision should have type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘size_t’

Also clean up some line wrap damage - we dont line-wrap printk
messages.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256927305-4628-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-02 19:34:27 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d70a5402f9 perf tools: Improve message about missing symtabs for deleted DSOs
Instead of:

  no symbols found in /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgsttypefindfunctions.so (deleted), maybe install a debug package?
  no symbols found in /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstaudioconvert.so (deleted), maybe install a debug package?

We now emit:

  /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgsttypefindfunctions.so was updated, restart the long running apps that use it!
  /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstaudioconvert.so was updated, restart the long running apps that use it!

Which is far less misleading about what the cause of the
symbol mismatch is.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256927305-4628-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-02 16:52:12 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
00a192b395 perf tools: Simplify the symbol priv area mechanism
Before we were storing this in the DSO, but in fact this is a
property of the 'symbol' class, not something that will vary
among DSOs, so move it to a global variable and initialize it
using the existing symbol__init routine.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256927305-4628-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-02 16:52:11 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
afb7b4f08e perf tools: Factor out the map initialization
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256927305-4628-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-02 16:52:11 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
b0ef073243 perf/probes: Support function entry relative line number
Add function-entry relative line number specifying support to
perf-probe. This allows users to define probes by line number
from entry of the function.

 e.g.

  perf probe schedule:16

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091027204319.30545.30678.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29 08:47:49 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
253977b0d8 perf/probes: Improve probe point syntax of perf-probe
This changes probe point syntax of perf-probe as below

 <SRC>[:ABS_LN] [ARGS]
 or
 <FUNC>[+OFFS|%return][@SRC] [ARGS]

And event name and event group name are automatically
generated based on probe-symbol and offset as below.

 perfprobes/SYMBOL_OFFSET[_NUM]

Where SYMBOL is the probing symbol and OFFSET is
the byte offset from the symbol.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091027204310.30545.84984.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29 08:47:49 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
46ab49267d perf/probes: Improve command-line option of perf-probe
Change command-line option from -P to --add, and accepting
probes without --add too.

  perf probe --add "probe-define"

or, just:

  perf probe "probe-define"

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091027204301.30545.48600.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29 08:47:48 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
8030c5f5a5 perf/probes: Exit searching after finding target function
Exit searching after finding real (not-inlined) function,
because there should be no same symbol in that CU.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091027204252.30545.19251.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29 08:47:48 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
66bd8424cc perf tools: Delay loading symtabs till we hit a map with it
So that we can have a quicker start on perf top and even
speedups in the other tools, as we can have maps with no hits,
so no need to load its symtabs.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256773881-4191-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29 08:23:40 +01:00
Anton Blanchard
f7d7986060 perf_event: Add alignment-faults and emulation-faults software events
Add two more software events that are common to many cpus.

Alignment faults: When a load or store is not aligned properly.

Emulation faults: When an instruction is emulated in software.

Both cause a very significant slowdown (100x or worse), so identifying and
fixing them is very important.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-10-28 16:13:03 +11:00
Marti Raudsepp
689d301878 perf tools: Output 'perf list' to stdout not stderr
Writing to stdout is probably the expected behavior because the
user explicitly asked for a list.

Signed-off-by: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <4ebb59420ef057972167.1256603585@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-27 14:52:32 +01:00
Marti Raudsepp
85df6f683e perf tools: Notify user when unrecognized event is specified
Previously no indication was given about what went wrong.

Signed-off-by: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <03ec9ee96f17cef05424.1256603584@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-27 14:52:31 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
5b2bb75a0d perf top: Support userspace symbols too
Example:

Compiling the kernel with 'make -k 22 allyesconfig'

[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -r 90
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   PerfTop:    3669 irqs/sec  kernel:59.9% [1000Hz cycles],  (all, 8 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

             samples  pcnt function                                 DSO
             _______ _____ ________________________________ ________________

             3062.00  6.5% clear_page_c                     [kernel]
             2233.00  4.8% _int_malloc                      /lib64/libc-2.5.so
             2100.00  4.5% yylex                            /home/acme/git/build/allyesconfig/scripts/genksyms/genksyms
             2029.00  4.3% memset                           /lib64/libc-2.5.so
             1224.00  2.6% page_fault                       [kernel]
             1075.00  2.3% __GI_strlen                      /lib64/libc-2.5.so
              863.00  1.8% sub_preempt_count                [kernel]
              822.00  1.8% __GI_memcpy                      /lib64/libc-2.5.so
              810.00  1.7% __GI_vfprintf                    /lib64/libc-2.5.so
              786.00  1.7% _int_free                        /lib64/libc-2.5.so
              775.00  1.7% __GI_strcmp                      /lib64/libc-2.5.so
              748.00  1.6% _spin_lock                       [kernel]
              699.00  1.5% main                             /home/acme/git/build/allyesconfig/scripts/basic/fixdep
              659.00  1.4% add_preempt_count                [kernel]
              649.00  1.4% yyparse                          /home/acme/git/build/allyesconfig/scripts/genksyms/genksyms
              645.00  1.4% preempt_trace                    [kernel]
              635.00  1.4% __GI___libc_free                 /lib64/libc-2.5.so
              597.00  1.3% trace_preempt_on                 [kernel]
              551.00  1.2% __GI___libc_malloc               /lib64/libc-2.5.so
              516.00  1.1% _spin_lock_irqsave               [kernel]
              481.00  1.0% copy_user_generic_string         [kernel]
              479.00  1.0% unmap_vmas                       [kernel]
              429.00  0.9% _IO_file_xsputn_internal         /lib64/libc-2.5.so
              425.00  0.9% __GI_strncpy                     /lib64/libc-2.5.so
              416.00  0.9% get_page_from_freelist           [kernel]
              414.00  0.9% malloc_consolidate               /lib64/libc-2.5.so
              406.00  0.9% get_parent_ip                    [kernel]
              362.00  0.8% __rmqueue                        [kernel]
              347.00  0.7% in_lock_functions                [kernel]
              316.00  0.7% __d_lookup                       [kernel]

[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]#

More polishing is needed to print just DSO basename when not
--verbose, etc.

Supporting a 'comm' column requires some more reworking of 'perf
top' internals as we will need to use something like the hist
entries 'perf report' uses and will be done in another patch.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256592199-9608-3-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-27 13:51:54 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
234fbbf508 perf tools: Generalize event synthesizing routines
Because we will need it in 'perf top' to support userspace
symbols for existing threads.

Now we pass a callback that will receive the synthesized event
and then write it to the output file in 'perf record' and in the
upcoming patch for 'perf top' we will just immediatelly create
the in memory representation of threads and maps.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256592199-9608-2-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-27 13:51:53 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
7f3bedcc93 perf record: Fix race where process can disappear while reading its /proc/pid/tasks
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256592199-9608-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-27 13:51:53 +01:00
Michael Cree
fcd14b3203 perf tools, Alpha: Add Alpha support to perf.h
For the perf tool the patch implements an Alpha specific section
in the perf.h header file.

Signed-off-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1256545926-6972-1-git-send-email-mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-26 09:45:41 +01:00
Paul Mundt
ec29b8d2af perf tools: Remove -Wcast-align
The present use of -Wcast-align causes the build to blow up on
SH due to generating a "cast increases required alignment of
target type" error on each invocation of list_for_each_entry().

It seems that this was previously reported and killed off in the
ia64 support patch, but nothing seems to have happened with
that. Presumably the same problem still remains there, too.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091026054000.GA13517@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-26 09:43:06 +01:00
Marti Raudsepp
84087126d5 perf tools: Fix compatibility with libelf 0.8 and autodetect
The Makefile now automatically defines LIBELF_NO_MMAP when
libelf 0.8.x is detected. libelf 0.8 is still maintained and
some distributions such as Arch Linux use it instead of
elfutils.

Signed-off-by: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256400636.3007.16.camel@newn>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-25 17:09:14 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
b7cb10e790 perf probe: Print debug messages using pr_*()
Use the new pr_{err,warning,debug,etc} printout methods, just
like in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256153646-10097-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
[ Split this patch out, to keep perf/probes separate. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23 08:24:21 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
4331595650 Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/Makefile

Merge reason:

 - fix the conflict
 - pick up the pr_*() infrastructure to queue up dependent patch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23 08:23:20 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
6beba7adbe perf tools: Unify debug messages mechanisms
We were using eprintf in some places, that looks at a global
'verbose' level, and at other places passing a 'v' parameter to
specify the verbosity level, unify it by introducing
pr_{err,warning,debug,etc}, just like in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256153646-10097-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23 08:22:47 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
802da5f228 perf tools: Drop asm/types.h wrapper
Wrapping the kernel headers is dangerous when it comes to arch
headers. Once we wrap asm/types.h, it will also replace the
glibc asm/types.h, not only the kernel one.

This results in build errors on some machines.

Drop this wrapper and do its work from linux/types.h wrapper,
also the glibc asm/types.h can already handle most of the type
definition it was doing (typedef __u64, __u32, etc...).

Todo: Check the others asm/*.h wrappers to prevent from other
conflicts.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1256246604-17156-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23 07:55:19 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
a4fb581b15 perf tools: Bind callchains to the first sort dimension column
Currently, the callchains are displayed using a constant left
margin. So depending on the current sort dimension
configuration, callchains may appear to be well attached to the
first sort dimension column field which is mostly the case,
except when the first dimension of sorting is done by comm,
because these are right aligned.

This patch binds the callchain to the first letter in the first
column, whatever type of column it is (dso, comm, symbol).
Before:

     0.80%             perf  [k] __lock_acquire
             __lock_acquire
             lock_acquire
             |
             |--58.33%-- _spin_lock
             |          |
             |          |--28.57%-- inotify_should_send_event
             |          |          fsnotify
             |          |          __fsnotify_parent

After:

     0.80%             perf  [k] __lock_acquire
                       __lock_acquire
                       lock_acquire
                       |
                       |--58.33%-- _spin_lock
                       |          |
                       |          |--28.57%-- inotify_should_send_event
                       |          |          fsnotify
                       |          |          __fsnotify_parent

Also, for clarity, we don't put anymore the callchain as is but:

- If we have a top level ancestor in the callchain, start it
  with a first ascii hook.

  Before:

     0.80%             perf  [kernel]                        [k] __lock_acquire
                       __lock_acquire
                         lock_acquire
                       |
                       |--58.33%-- _spin_lock
                       |          |
                       |          |--28.57%-- inotify_should_send_event
                       |          |          fsnotify
                      [..]       [..]

   After:

     0.80%             perf  [kernel]                         [k] __lock_acquire
                       |
                       --- __lock_acquire
                           lock_acquire
                          |
                          |--58.33%-- _spin_lock
                          |          |
                          |          |--28.57%-- inotify_should_send_event
                          |          |          fsnotify
                         [..]       [..]

- Otherwise, if we have several top level ancestors, then
  display these like we did before:

       1.69%           Xorg
                       |
                       |--21.21%-- vread_hpet
                       |          0x7fffd85b46fc
                       |          0x7fffd85b494d
                       |          0x7f4fafb4e54d
                       |
                       |--15.15%-- exaOffscreenAlloc
                       |
                       |--9.09%-- I830WaitLpRing

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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1256246604-17156-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23 07:55:18 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
af0a6fa463 perf tools: Fix missing top level callchain
While recursively printing the branches of each callchains, we
forget to display the root. It is never printed.

Say we have:

    symbol
    f1
    f2
     |
     -------- f3
     |        f4
     |
     ---------f5
              f6

Actually we never see that, instead it displays:

    symbol
    |
    --------- f3
    |         f4
    |
    --------- f5
              f6

However f1 is always the same than "symbol" and if we are
sorting by symbols first then "symbol", f1 and f2 will be well
aligned like in the above example, so displaying f1 looks
redundant here.

But if we are sorting by something else first (dso, comm,
etc...), displaying f1 doesn't look redundant but rather
necessary because the symbol is not well aligned anymore with
its callchain:

     comm     dso        symbol
     f1
     f2
     |
     --------- [...]

And we want the callchain to be obvious.
So we fix the bug by printing the root branch, but we also
filter its first entry if we are sorting by symbols first.

Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1256246604-17156-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23 07:55:16 +02:00