Re: [GIT PULL 00/43] perf/core new feature: 'perf stat record/report'

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Dec 18 2015 - 03:48:15 EST



* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Ingo,
>
> Please consider pulling, cool new feature! This is on top of the
> perf-core-for-mingo-2.1 tag, with that RHEL6.7 bugfix, I had also to go
> over this one fixing stuff in many spots :-\
>
> - Arnaldo
>
> The following changes since commit 1843b4e057b7717db21a3ad96fa16d6b4ee8f6c4:
>
> tools subcmd: Rename subcmd header include guards (2015-12-17 14:27:14 -0300)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-3
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 89af4e05c21d68f22e07fe66940ea675615a49ed:
>
> perf stat report: Allow to override aggr_mode (2015-12-17 16:30:30 -0300)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvement.
>
> User visible:
>
> - Generate perf.data files from 'perf stat', to tap into the scripting
> capabilities perf has instead of defining a 'perf stat' specific scripting
> support to calculate event ratios, etc. Simple example:
>
> $ perf stat record -e cycles usleep 1
>
> Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':
>
> 1,134,996 cycles
>
> 0.000670644 seconds time elapsed
>
> $ perf stat report
>
> Performance counter stats for '/home/acme/bin/perf stat record -e cycles usleep 1':
>
> 1,134,996 cycles
>
> 0.000670644 seconds time elapsed
>
> $
>
> It generates PERF_RECORD_ userspace records to store the details:
>
> $ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD
> 0xf0 [0x28]: PERF_RECORD_THREAD_MAP nr: 1 thread: 27637
> 0x118 [0x12]: PERF_RECORD_CPU_MAP nr: 1 cpu: 65535
> 0x12a [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_STAT_CONFIG
> 0x16a [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_STAT
> -1 -1 0x19a [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP -1/0: [0xffffffff81000000(0x1f000000) @ 0xffffffff81000000]: x [kernel.kallsyms]_text
> 0x1da [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_STAT_ROUND
> [acme@ssdandy linux]$
>
> An effort was made to make perf.data files generated like this to not
> generate cryptic messages when processed by older tools.
>
> The 'perf script' bits need rebasing, will go up later.

Nice feature!

>
> Jiri's cover letter for this series:
>
> The initial attempt defined its own formula lang and allowed triggering user's
> script on the end of the stat command:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136742146322273&w=2
>
> This patchset abandons the idea of new formula language and rather adds support
> to:
>
> - store stat data into perf.data file
> - add python support to process stat events
>
> Basically it allows to store stat data into perf.data and post process it with
> python scripts in a similar way we do for sampling data.
>
> The stat data are stored in new stat, stat-round, stat-config user events.
> stat - stored for each read syscall of the counter
> stat round - stored for each interval or end of the command invocation
> stat config - stores all the config information needed to process data
> so report tool could restore the same output as record
>
> The python script can now define 'stat__<eventname>_<modifier>' functions
> to get stat events data and 'stat__interval' to get stat-round data.
>
> See CPI script example in scripts/python/stat-cpi.py.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Jiri Olsa (43):
> perf thread_map: Add thread_map user level event
> perf thread_map: Add thread_map event sythesize function
> perf thread_map: Add thread_map__new_event function
> perf thread_map: Add perf_event__fprintf_thread_map function
> perf cpu_map: Add cpu_map user level event
> perf cpu_map: Add cpu_map event synthesize function
> perf cpu_map: Add cpu_map__new_event function
> perf cpu_map: Add perf_event__fprintf_cpu_map function
> perf tools: Add stat config user level event
> perf tools: Add stat config event synthesize function
> perf tools: Add stat config event read function
> perf tools: Add stat user level event
> perf tools: Add stat event synthesize function
> perf tools: Add stat event read function
> perf tools: Add stat round user level event
> perf tools: Add stat round event synthesize function
> perf tools: Add stat events fprintf functions
> perf tools: Add event_update user level event
> perf tools: Add event_update event unit type
> perf tools: Add event_update event scale type
> perf tools: Add event_update event name type
> perf tools: Add event_update event cpus type
> perf tools: Add perf_event__fprintf_event_update function
> perf report: Display newly added events in raw dump
> perf tools: Introduce stat perf.data header feature
> perf stat record: Add record command
> perf stat record: Initialize record features
> perf stat record: Synthesize stat record data
> perf evlist: Export id_add_fd()
> perf stat record: Store events IDs in perf data file
> perf stat record: Add pipe support for record command
> perf stat record: Write stat events on record
> perf stat record: Write stat round events on record
> perf stat record: Do not allow record with multiple runs mode
> perf stat record: Synthesize event update events
> perf stat report: Add report command
> perf stat report: Process cpu/threads maps
> perf stat report: Process stat config event
> perf stat report: Add support to initialize aggr_map from file
> perf stat report: Move csv_sep initialization before report command
> perf stat report: Process stat and stat round events
> perf stat report: Process event update events
> perf stat report: Allow to override aggr_mode
>
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 34 ++
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 614 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> tools/perf/tests/Build | 3 +
> tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c | 24 ++
> tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c | 88 +++++
> tools/perf/tests/event_update.c | 117 +++++++
> tools/perf/tests/stat.c | 111 ++++++
> tools/perf/tests/tests.h | 6 +
> tools/perf/tests/thread-map.c | 43 +++
> tools/perf/util/cpumap.c | 42 +++
> tools/perf/util/cpumap.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/event.c | 308 +++++++++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/event.h | 150 +++++++-
> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 6 +-
> tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 3 +
> tools/perf/util/header.c | 205 +++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/header.h | 17 +
> tools/perf/util/session.c | 189 ++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/stat.c | 62 ++++
> tools/perf/util/stat.h | 10 +
> tools/perf/util/thread_map.c | 27 ++
> tools/perf/util/thread_map.h | 3 +
> tools/perf/util/tool.h | 8 +-
> 24 files changed, 2054 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/event_update.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/stat.c

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

Ingo
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