Re: [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] kernel: add a netlink interface to get information about processes

[David Ahern]

On 2/17/15 1:20 AM, Andrey Vagin wrote:
> And here are statistics about syscalls which were called by each
> command.
> $ perf stat -e syscalls:sys_exit* -- ps ax -o pid,ppid  2>&1 | grep syscalls | sort -n -r | head -n 5
>              20,713      syscalls:sys_exit_open
>              20,710      syscalls:sys_exit_close
>              20,708      syscalls:sys_exit_read
>              10,348      syscalls:sys_exit_newstat
>                  31      syscalls:sys_exit_write
>
> $ perf stat -e syscalls:sys_exit* -- ./task_diag_all  2>&1 | grep syscalls | sort -n -r | head -n 5
>                 114      syscalls:sys_exit_recvfrom
>                  49      syscalls:sys_exit_write
>                   8      syscalls:sys_exit_mmap
>                   4      syscalls:sys_exit_mprotect
>                   3      syscalls:sys_exit_newfstat

'perf trace -s' gives the summary with stats.
e.g., perf trace -s --  ps ax -o pid,ppid

 ps (23850), 3117 events, 99.3%, 0.000 msec

   syscall            calls      min       avg       max      stddev
                               (msec)    (msec)    (msec)        (%)
   --------------- -------- --------- --------- ---------     ------
   read                 353     0.000     0.010     0.035      3.14%
   write                166     0.006     0.012     0.045      3.03%
   open                 365     0.002     0.005     0.178     11.29%
   close                354     0.001     0.002     0.024      3.57%
   stat                 170     0.002     0.007     0.662     52.99%
   fstat                 19     0.002     0.003     0.003      2.31%
   lseek                  2     0.003     0.003     0.003      6.49%
   mmap                  50     0.004     0.006     0.013      3.40%
...
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