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Alexey Budankov 9dc9a95f03 perf stat: Enable 1ms interval for printing event counters values
Currently print count interval for performance counters values is
limited by 10ms so reading the values at frequencies higher than 100Hz
is restricted by the tool.

This change makes perf stat -I possible on frequencies up to 1KHz and,
to some extent, makes perf stat -I to be on-par with perf record
sampling profiling.

When running perf stat -I for monitoring e.g. PCIe uncore counters and
at the same time profiling some I/O workload by perf record e.g. for
cpu-cycles and context switches, it is then possible to observe
consolidated CPU/OS/IO(Uncore) performance picture for that workload.

Tool overhead warning printed when specifying -v option can be missed
due to screen scrolling in case you have output to the console
so message is moved into help available by running perf stat -h.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b842ad6a-d606-32e4-afe5-974071b5198e@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-04-12 09:29:31 -03:00
Agustin Vega-Frias c199c11dce perf pmu: Auto-merge PMU events created by prefix or glob match
Auto-merge for these events was disabled when auto-merging of non-alias
events was disabled in commit 63ce844 (perf stat: Only auto-merge events
that are PMU aliases).

Non-merging of legacy events is preserved:

    $ perf stat -ag -e cache-misses,cache-misses sleep 1

     Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

                86,323      cache-misses
                86,323      cache-misses

           1.002623307 seconds time elapsed

But prefix or glob matching auto-merges the events created:

    $ perf stat -a -e l3cache/read-miss/ sleep 1

     Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

                   328      l3cache/read-miss/

           1.002627008 seconds time elapsed

    $ perf stat -a -e l3cache_0_[01]/read-miss/ sleep 1

     Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

                   172      l3cache/read-miss/

           1.002627008 seconds time elapsed

As with events created with aliases, auto-merging can be suppressed with
the --no-merge option:

    $ perf stat -a -e l3cache/read-miss/ --no-merge sleep 1

     Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

                    67      l3cache/read-miss/
                    67      l3cache/read-miss/
                    63      l3cache/read-miss/
                    60      l3cache/read-miss/

           1.002622192 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Change-Id: I0a47eed54c05e1982ca964d743b37f50f60c508c
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520345084-42646-4-git-send-email-agustinv@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-03-08 10:05:49 -03:00
Agustin Vega-Frias b2b9d3a3f0 perf pmu: Support wildcards on pmu name in dynamic pmu events
Starting on v4.12 event parsing code for dynamic pmu events already
supports prefix-based matching of multiple pmus when creating dynamic
events. E.g., in a system with the following dynamic pmus:

    mypmu_0
    mypmu_1
    mypmu_2
    mypmu_4

passing mypmu/<config>/ as an event spec will result in the creation of
the event in all of the pmus. This change expands this matching through
the use of fnmatch so glob-like expressions can be used to create events
in multiple pmus. E.g., in the system described above if a user only
wants to create the event in mypmu_0 and mypmu_1, mypmu_[01]/<config>/
can be passed.

Signed-off-by: Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Change-Id: Icb25653fc5d5239c20f3bffdfdf4ab4c9c9bb20b
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520454947-16977-1-git-send-email-agustinv@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-03-08 10:05:25 -03:00
weiping zhang 25f72f9ed8 perf cgroup: Simplify arguments when tracking multiple events
When using -G with one cgroup and -e with multiple events, only the
first event gets the correct cgroup setting, all events from the second
onwards will track system-wide events.

If the user wants to track multiple events for a specific cgroup, the
user must give parameters like the following:

  $ perf stat -e e1 -e e2 -e e3 -G test,test,test

This patch simplify this case, just type one cgroup:

  $ perf stat -e e1 -e e2 -e e3 -G test

  $ mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event/empty_cgroup
  $ perf stat -e cycles -e cache-misses -a -I 1000 -G empty_cgroup

Before:

     1.001007226   <not counted>      cycles	   empty_cgroup
     1.001007226           7,506      cache-misses

After:

     1.000834097   <not counted>      cycles	   empty_cgroup
     1.000834097   <not counted>      cache-misses empty_cgroup

Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129154805.GA6284@localhost.didichuxing.com
[ Improved the doc text a bit, providing an example for cgroup + system wide counting ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-02-22 10:02:27 -03:00
yuzhoujian f1f8ad52f8 perf stat: Add support to print counts after a period of time
Introduce a new option to print counts after N milliseconds and update
'perf stat' documentation accordingly.

Show below is the output of the new option for perf stat.

  $ perf stat --time 2000 -e cycles -a
  Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

        157,260,423      cycles

        2.003060766 seconds time elapsed

We can print the count deltas after N milliseconds with this new
introduced option. This option is not supported with "-I" option.

In addition, according to Kangliang's patch(19afd10410), the
monitoring overhead for system-wide core event could be very high if the
interval-print parameter was below 100ms, and the limitation value is
10ms.

So the same warning will be displayed when the time is set between 10ms
to 100ms, and the minimal time is limited to 10ms. Users can make a
decision according to their spcific cases.

Committer notes:

This actually stops the workload after the specified time, then prints
the counts.

So I renamed the option to --timeout and updated the documentation to
state that it will not just print the counts after the specified time,
but will really stop the 'perf stat' session and print the counts.

The rename from 'time' to 'timeout' also fixes the build in systems
where 'time' is used by glibc and can't be used as a name of a variable,
such as centos:5 and centos:6.

Changes since v3:
- none.

Changes since v2:
- modify the time check in __run_perf_stat func to keep some consistency
  with the workload case.
- add the warning when the time is set between 10ms to 100ms.
- add the pr_err when the time is set below 10ms.

Changes since v1:
- none.

Signed-off-by: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@didichuxing.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517217923-8302-3-git-send-email-ufo19890607@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-02-16 10:18:06 -03:00
yuzhoujian db06a269ec perf stat: Add support to print counts for fixed times
Introduce a new option to print counts for fixed number of times and
update 'perf stat' documentation accordingly.

Show below is the output of the new option for perf stat.

  $ perf stat -I 1000 --interval-count 2 -e cycles -a
  #           time             counts unit events
           1.002827089         93,884,870      cycles
           2.004231506         56,573,446      cycles

We can just print the counts for several times with this newly
introduced option. The usage of it is a little like 'vmstat', and it
should be used together with "-I" option.

  $ vmstat -n 1 2
  procs ---------memory-------------- --swap- ----io-- -system-- ------cpu---
   r  b swpd   free   buff   cache    si   so  bi   bo  in   cs us sy id wa st
   0  0    0 78270544 547484 51732076  0   0   0   20    1    1  1  0 99  0 0
   0  0    0 78270512 547484 51732080  0   0   0   16  477 1555  0  0 100 0 0

Changes since v3:
- merge interval_count check and times check to one line.
- fix the wrong indent in stat.h
- use stat_config.times instead of 'times' in cmd_stat function.

Changes since v2:
- none.

Changes since v1:
- change the name of the new option "times-print" to "interval-count".
- keep the new option interval specifically.

Signed-off-by: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@didichuxing.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517217923-8302-2-git-send-email-ufo19890607@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-02-16 10:09:24 -03:00
Andi Kleen b18f3e3650 perf stat: Support JSON metrics in perf stat
Add generic support for standalone metrics specified in JSON files to
perf stat. A metric is a formula that uses multiple events to compute a
higher level result (e.g. IPC).

Previously metrics were always tied to an event and automatically
enabled with that event. But now change it that we can have standalone
metrics. They are in the same JSON data structure as events, but don't
have an event name.

We also allow to organize the metrics in metric groups, which allows a
short cut to select several related metrics at once.

Add a new -M / --metrics option to perf stat that adds the metrics or
metric groups specified.

Add the core code to manage and parse the metric groups. They are
collected from the JSON data structures into a separate rblist.  When
computing shadow values look for metrics in that list.  Then they are
computed using the existing saved values infrastructure in stat-shadow.c

The actual JSON metrics are in a separate pull request.

  % perf stat -M Summary --metric-only -a sleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

  Instructions   CLKS          CPU_Utilization  GFLOPs   SMT_2T_Utilization   Kernel_Utilization
  317614222.0    1392930775.0  0.0              0.0      0.2                  0.1

       1.001497549 seconds time elapsed

  % perf stat -M GFLOPs flops

   Performance counter stats for 'flops':

     3,999,541,471  fp_comp_ops_exe.sse_scalar_single #  1.2 GFLOPs   (66.65%)
                14  fp_comp_ops_exe.sse_scalar_double                 (66.65%)
                 0  fp_comp_ops_exe.sse_packed_double                 (66.67%)
                 0  fp_comp_ops_exe.sse_packed_single                 (66.70%)
                 0  simd_fp_256.packed_double                         (66.70%)
                 0  simd_fp_256.packed_single                         (66.67%)
                 0  duration_time

       3.238372845 seconds time elapsed

v2: Add missing header file
v3: Move find_map to pmu.c

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831194036.30146-7-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-09-13 09:49:13 -03:00
Jack Henschel 726647d052 perf stat: Fix path to PMU formats in documentation
As defined in tools/perf/util/pmu.c, the EVENT_SOURCE_DEVICE_PATH is
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/ (no traling 's' in event_source)

This patch corrects the path in the perf stat documentation

Signed-off-by: Jack Henschel <jackdev@mailbox.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jack Henschel <jackdev@mailbox.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824132022.10934-1-jackdev@mailbox.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-08-28 11:05:09 -03:00
Kan Liang daefd0bc0b perf stat: Add support to measure SMI cost
Implementing a new --smi-cost mode in perf stat to measure SMI cost.

During the measurement, the /sys/device/cpu/freeze_on_smi will be set.

The measurement can be done with one counter (unhalted core cycles), and
two free running MSR counters (IA32_APERF and SMI_COUNT).

In practice, the percentages of SMI core cycles should be more useful
than absolute value. So the output will be the percentage of SMI core
cycles and SMI#. metric_only will be set by default.

SMI cycles% = (aperf - unhalted core cycles) / aperf

Here is an example output.

 Performance counter stats for 'sudo echo ':

SMI cycles%          SMI#
    0.1%              1

       0.010858678 seconds time elapsed

Users who wants to get the actual value can apply additional
--no-metric-only.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <Kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495825538-5230-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-06-21 11:35:35 -03:00
Andi Kleen 430daf2dc7 perf stat: Collapse identically named events
The uncore PMU has a lot of duplicated PMUs for different subsystems.
When expanding an uncore alias we usually end up with a large
number of identically named aliases, which makes perf stat
output difficult to read.

Automatically sum them up in perf stat, unless --no-merge is specified.

This can be default because only the uncores generally have duplicated
aliases. Other PMUs have unique names.

Before:

  % perf stat --no-merge -a -e unc_c_llc_lookup.any sleep 1

  Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

           694,976 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           706,304 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           956,608 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           782,720 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           605,696 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           442,816 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           659,328 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           509,312 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           263,936 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           592,448 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           672,448 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           608,640 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           641,024 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           856,896 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           808,832 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           684,864 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           710,464 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           538,304 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any

       1.002577660 seconds time elapsed

After:

  % perf stat -a -e unc_c_llc_lookup.any sleep 1

  Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

         2,685,120 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any

       1.002648032 seconds time elapsed

v2: Split collect_aliases. Rename alias flag.
v3: Make sure unsupported/not counted is always printed.
v4: Factor out callback change into separate patch.
v5: Move check for bad results here
    Move merged check into collect_data

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170320201711.14142-3-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-03-21 16:04:11 -03:00
Ravi Bangoria efc9c05681 perf stat: Correct --no-aggr description
Description of --no-aggr in perf-stat man page is outdated. --no-aggr
can also be used while profiling specific set of cpus. For ex,

  $ perf stat -e cycles,instructions -C 1-2 --no-aggr -- sleep 1

    Performance counter stats for 'CPU(s) 1-2':

    CPU1   5,94,92,795   cycles
    CPU2   2,69,72,403   cycles
    CPU1   2,02,08,327   instructions   # 0.34 insn per cycle
    CPU2     73,17,123   instructions   # 0.12 insn per cycle

    1.000989132 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490013438-5713-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-03-20 15:01:31 -03:00
Jiri Olsa 0d79f8b931 perf stat: Add -a as default target
Boris asked for default -a option in case we monitor only uncore events.

While implementing that I thought it might be actually useful to make it
overall default.

Running 'perf stat' will now collect system wide data.

Committer note:

Testing it:

  # perf stat
  ^C
   Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

         3571.559178      cpu-clock (msec)          #    4.000 CPUs utilized
               3,346      context-switches          #    0.937 K/sec
                 277      cpu-migrations            #    0.078 K/sec
              57,271      page-faults               #    0.016 M/sec
       4,535,633,835      cycles                    #    1.270 GHz
       6,389,736,516      instructions              #    1.41  insn per cycle
       1,541,293,875      branches                  #  431.547 M/sec
          14,526,396      branch-misses             #    0.94% of all branches

         0.892950118 seconds time elapsed

  #

Requested-and-Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217170034.GB15389@krava
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-02-17 17:31:10 -03:00
Andi Kleen 44b1e60ab5 perf stat: Basic support for TopDown in perf stat
Add basic plumbing for TopDown in perf stat

TopDown is intended to replace the frontend cycles idle/ backend cycles
idle metrics in standard perf stat output.  These metrics are not
reliable in many workloads, due to out of order effects.

This implements a new --topdown mode in perf stat (similar to
--transaction) that measures the pipe line bottlenecks using
standardized formulas. The measurement can be all done with 5 counters
(one fixed counter)

The result are four metrics:

FrontendBound, BackendBound, BadSpeculation, Retiring

that describe the CPU pipeline behavior on a high level.

The full top down methology has many hierarchical metrics.  This
implementation only supports level 1 which can be collected without
multiplexing. A full implementation of top down on top of perf is
available in pmu-tools toplev.  (http://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools)

The current version works on Intel Core CPUs starting with Sandy Bridge,
and Atom CPUs starting with Silvermont.  In principle the generic
metrics should be also implementable on other out of order CPUs.

TopDown level 1 uses a set of abstracted metrics which are generic to
out of order CPU cores (although some CPUs may not implement all of
them):

  topdown-total-slots       Available slots in the pipeline
  topdown-slots-issued      Slots issued into the pipeline
  topdown-slots-retired     Slots successfully retired
  topdown-fetch-bubbles     Pipeline gaps in the frontend
  topdown-recovery-bubbles  Pipeline gaps during recovery
                            from misspeculation

These metrics then allow to compute four useful metrics:

FrontendBound, BackendBound, Retiring, BadSpeculation.

Add a new --topdown options to enable events.  When --topdown is
specified set up events for all topdown events supported by the kernel.
Add topdown-* as a special case to the event parser, as is needed for
all events containing -.

The actual code to compute the metrics is in follow-on patches.

v2: Use standard sysctl read function.
v3: Move x86 specific code to arch/
v4: Enable --metric-only implicitly for topdown.
v5: Add --single-thread option to not force per core mode
v6: Fix output order of topdown metrics
v7: Allow combining with -d
v8: Remove --single-thread again
v9: Rename functions, adding arch_ and topdown_.
v10: Expand man page and describe TopDown better
Paste intro into commit description.
Print error when malloc fails.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464119559-17203-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-06-06 17:04:15 -03:00
Andi Kleen 206cab651d perf stat: Add --metric-only support for -A
Add metric only support for -A too. This requires a new print function
that prints the metrics in the right order.

v2: Fix manpage
v3: Simplify nrcpus computation

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457049458-28956-7-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-10 16:50:47 -03:00
Andi Kleen 54b5091606 perf stat: Implement --metric-only mode
Add a new mode to only print metrics. Sometimes we don't care about the
raw values, just want the computed metrics. This allows more compact
printing, so with -I each sample is only a single line.  This also
allows easier plotting and processing with other tools.

The main target is with using --topdown, but it also works with -T and
standard perf stat. A few metrics are not supported.

To avoiding having to hardcode all the metrics in the code it uses a two
pass approach: first compute dummy metrics and only print the headers in
the print_metric callback. Then use the callback to print the actual
values.

There are some additional changes in the stat printout code to handle
all metrics being on a single line.

One issue is that the column code doesn't know in advance what events
are not supported by the CPU, and it would be hard to find out as this
could change based on dynamic conditions. That causes empty columns in
some cases.

The output can be fairly wide, often you may need more than 80 columns.

Example:

% perf stat -a -I 1000 --metric-only
     1.001452803 frontend cycles idle insn per cycle       stalled cycles per insn branch-misses of all branches
     1.001452803  158.91%               0.66                2.39                    2.92%
     2.002192321  180.63%               0.76                2.08                    2.96%
     3.003088282  150.59%               0.62                2.57                    2.84%
     4.004369835  196.20%               0.98                1.62                    3.79%
     5.005227314  231.98%               0.84                1.90                    4.71%

v2: Lots of updates.
v3: Use slightly narrower columns
v4: Add comment

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457049458-28956-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-10 16:49:40 -03:00
Andi Kleen 6b45f7b2a3 perf stat: Document CSV format in manpage
With all the recently added fields in the perf stat CSV output we should
finally document them in the man page. Do this here.

v2: Fix fields in documentation (Jiri)
v3: fix order of fields again (Jiri)
v4: Change order again.
v5: Document more fields (Jiri)
v6: Move time stamp first
v7: More fixes (Jiri)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457049458-28956-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-10 16:49:06 -03:00
Borislav Petkov f594bae081 perf stat: Document --detailed option
I'm surprised this remained undocumented since at least 2011. And it is
actually a very useful switch, as Steve and I came to realize recently.

Add the text from

  2cba3ffb9a ("perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events")

which added the incrementing aspect to -d.

Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 2cba3ffb9a ("perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457347294-32546-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-08 10:11:18 +01:00
Jiri Olsa 89af4e05c2 perf stat report: Allow to override aggr_mode
Allowing to override record aggr_mode. It's possible to use perf stat
like:

   $ perf stat report -A
   $ perf stat report --per-core
   $ perf stat report --per-socket

To customize the recorded aggregate mode regardless what was used during
the stat record command.

Reported-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446734469-11352-19-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
[ Renamed 'stat' parameter to 'st' to fix 'already defined' build error with older distros (e.g. RHEL6.7) ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-12-17 16:30:30 -03:00
Jiri Olsa ba6039b6c8 perf stat report: Add report command
Adding 'perf stat report' command support. ATM it only processes attr
events and display nothing.

Reported-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446734469-11352-12-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-12-17 16:00:34 -03:00
Jiri Olsa 4979d0c7d0 perf stat record: Add record command
Add 'perf stat record' command support. It creates simple (header only)
perf.data file ATM.

The record command could be specified anywhere among stat options. All
stat command options are valid for stat record command with '-o' option
exception. If specified for record command it denotes the perf data file
name.

Committer note:

Set sample_type to PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER, which should be harmless
while avoiding that older tools show confusing messages, for instance,
with sample_type = 0, we get:

  $ perf stat record usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

          0.630237      task-clock (msec)         #    0.528 CPUs utilized
                 1      context-switches          #    0.002 M/sec
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                52      page-faults               #    0.083 M/sec
           978,312      cycles                    #    1.552 GHz
           671,931      stalled-cycles-frontend   #   68.68% frontend cycles idle
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
           646,379      instructions              #    0.66  insns per cycle
                                                  #    1.04  stalled cycles per insn
           131,046      branches                  #  207.931 M/sec
             7,073      branch-misses             #    5.40% of all branches

       0.001193240 seconds time elapsed

  $ oldperf evlist
  WARNING: The perf.data file's data size field is 0 which is unexpected.
  Was the 'perf record' command properly terminated?
  non matching sample_type
  $

While with sample_type set to PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER, after we re-run 'perf
stat record usleep' we get:

  $ oldperf evlist
  WARNING: The perf.data file's data size field is 0 which is unexpected.
  Was the 'perf record' command properly terminated?
  task-clock
  context-switches
  cpu-migrations
  page-faults
  cycles
  stalled-cycles-frontend
  stalled-cycles-backend
  instructions
  branches
  branch-misses
  $

Which at least shows the names of the events in the perf.data file.

Additionally, such files, when passed to 'perf report' will produce:

  $ oldperf report --stdio
  WARNING: The perf.data file's data size field is 0 which is unexpected.
  Was the 'perf record' command properly terminated?
  Warning:
  Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) were restricted.

  Check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict before running 'perf record'.

  As no suitable kallsyms nor vmlinux was found, kernel samples
  can't be resolved.

  Samples in kernel modules can't be resolved as well.

  Error:
  The perf.data file has no samples!
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  #
  $

Which is confusing and can be solved by just adding the kernel mmap record,
which will also remove that warning about the data size field being equal to
zero, after generating the mmap record:

  $ perf stat record usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

          0.600796      task-clock (msec)         #    0.478 CPUs utilized
                 1      context-switches          #    0.002 M/sec
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                54      page-faults               #    0.090 M/sec
           886,844      cycles                    #    1.476 GHz
           582,169      stalled-cycles-frontend   #   65.65% frontend cycles idle
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
           638,344      instructions              #    0.72  insns per cycle
                                                  #    0.91  stalled cycles per insn
           130,204      branches                  #  216.719 M/sec
             7,500      branch-misses             #    5.76% of all branches

       0.001255897 seconds time elapsed

  $ oldperf evlist
  task-clock
  context-switches
  cpu-migrations
  page-faults
  cycles
  stalled-cycles-frontend
  stalled-cycles-backend
  instructions
  branches
  branch-misses
  $ oldperf report --stdio
  Error:
  The perf.data file has no samples!
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  #
  [acme@zoo linux]$

No warnings, sensible output about what are the events in the perf.data file and also
a "file has no samples" message, which indeed it doesn't.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: htp://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446734469-11352-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-12-17 15:15:15 -03:00
Kan Liang 19afd10410 perf stat: Reduce min --interval-print to 10ms
The --interval-print parameter was limited to 100ms. However, for
example, 10ms is required to do sophisticated bandwidth analysis using
uncore events.

The test shows that the overhead of the system-wide uncore monitoring
with 10ms interval is only ~2%. So this patch reduces the minimal
interval-print allowd to 10ms.

But 10ms may not work well for all cases. For example, when the
cpus/threads number is very large, for system-wide core event monitoring
the overhead could be high.

To handle this issue, a warning will be displayed when the
interval-print is set between 10ms to 100ms. So users can make a
decision according to their specific cases.

 # perf stat -e uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/ -a --interval-print 10 -- sleep 1

 print interval < 100ms. The overhead percentage could be high in some
 cases. Please proceed with caution.
 #           time             counts unit events
      0.010200451               0.10 MiB  uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/
      0.020475117               0.02 MiB  uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/
      0.030692800               0.01 MiB  uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/
      0.040948161               0.02 MiB  uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/
      0.051159564               0.00 MiB  uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443776674-42511-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
[ Added warning about overhead when using sub 100ms intervals to the man page ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-10-02 17:07:55 -03:00
Jiri Olsa 32b8af82e3 perf stat: Introduce --per-thread option
Currently all the -p option PID arguments tasks values get aggregated
and printed as single values.

Adding --per-tasks option to print values per task.

  $ perf stat  -e cycles,instructions --per-thread -p 30190,30242
  ^C
   Performance counter stats for process id '30190,30242':

               cat-30190                     0      cycles
               yes-30242         3,842,525,421      cycles
               cat-30190                     0      instructions
               yes-30242        10,370,817,010      instructions

         1.143155657 seconds time elapsed

Also works under interval mode:

  $ perf stat  -e cycles,instructions --per-thread -p 30190,30242 -I 1000
  #           time             comm-pid                  counts unit events
       1.000073435              cat-30190                89,058      cycles
       1.000073435              yes-30242         3,360,786,902      cycles                     (100.00%)
       1.000073435              cat-30190                14,066      instructions
       1.000073435              yes-30242         9,069,937,462      instructions
       2.000204830              cat-30190                     0      cycles
       2.000204830              yes-30242         3,351,667,626      cycles
       2.000204830              cat-30190                     0      instructions
       2.000204830              yes-30242         9,045,796,885      instructions
  ^C     2.771286639              cat-30190                     0      cycles
       2.771286639              yes-30242         2,593,884,166      cycles
       2.771286639              cat-30190                     0      instructions
       2.771286639              yes-30242         7,001,171,191      instructions

It works only with -t and -p options, otherwise following error is
printed:

  $ perf stat  -e cycles --per-thread  -I 1000 ls
  The --per-thread option is only available when monitoring via -p -t options.
      -p, --pid <pid>       stat events on existing process id
      -t, --tid <tid>       stat events on existing thread id

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435310967-14570-23-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-06-26 12:05:04 -03:00
Cody P Schafer f9ab9c196d perf tools: Document parameterized and symbolic events
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420679633-28856-5-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-01-21 13:24:33 -03:00
Andi Kleen 8f3dd2b096 perf stat: Fix --delay option in man page
The --delay option was documented as --initial-delay in the manpage. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389132847-31982-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-01-13 10:06:24 -03:00
Andi Kleen 4cabc3d1cb tools/perf/stat: Add perf stat --transaction
Add support to perf stat to print the basic transactional execution statistics:
Total cycles, Cycles in Transaction, Cycles in aborted transsactions
using the in_tx and in_tx_checkpoint qualifiers.
Transaction Starts and Elision Starts, to compute the average transaction
length.

This is a reasonable overview over the success of the transactions.

Also support architectures that have a transaction aborted cycles
counter like POWER8. Since that is awkward to handle in the kernel
abstract handle both cases here.

Enable with a new --transaction / -T option.

This requires measuring these events in a group, since they depend on each
other.

This is implemented by using TM sysfs events exported by the kernel

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377128846-977-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-04 10:06:07 +02:00
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
Stephane Eranian 12c08a9f59 perf stat: Add per-core aggregation
This patch adds the --per-core option to perf stat.

This option is used to aggregate system-wide counts
on a per physical core basis. On processors with
hyperthreading, this means counts of all HT threads
running on a physical core are aggregated.

This mode is useful to find imblance between physical
cores running an uniform workload. Cores are identified
by socket: S0-C1, means physical core 1 on socket 0. Note
that cores are identified using their physical core id,
thus their numbering may not be continuous.

Per core aggregation can be combined with interval printing:

 # perf stat -a --per-core -I 1000 -e cycles sleep 1000
 #           time core         cpus             counts events
      1.000090030 S0-C0           1          4,765,747 cycles
      1.000090030 S0-C1           1          5,580,647 cycles
      1.000090030 S0-C2           1            221,181 cycles
      1.000090030 S0-C3           1            266,092 cycles

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360846649-6411-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
[ committer note: Remove parts already applied on 86ee6e1 to keep bisectability ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-03-25 16:13:26 -03:00
Stephane Eranian d4304958a2 perf stat: Rename --aggr-socket to --per-socket
To make it more obvious what this option does as suggested by Andi on
LKML.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360846649-6411-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-03-25 16:09:24 -03:00
Frederik Deweerdt a7e191c376 perf stat: Introduce --repeat forever
The following patch causes 'perf stat --repeat 0' to be interpreted as
'forever', displaying the stats for every run.

We act as if a single run was asked, and reset the stats in each
iteration. In this mode SIGINT is passed to perf to be able to stop the
loop with Ctrl+C.

Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130301180227.GA24385@ks398093.ip-192-95-24.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-03-15 14:01:26 -03:00
Stephane Eranian d7e7a451c1 perf stat: Add per processor socket count aggregation
This patch adds per-processor socket count aggregation for system-wide
mode measurements. This is a useful mode to detect imbalance between
sockets.

To enable this mode, use --aggr-socket in addition
to -a. (system-wide).

The output includes the socket number and the number of online
processors on that socket. This is useful to gauge the amount of
aggregation.

 # ./perf stat -I 1000 -a --aggr-socket -e cycles sleep 2
 #           time socket cpus             counts events
      1.000097680 S0        4          5,788,785 cycles
      2.000379943 S0        4         27,361,546 cycles
      2.001167808 S0        4            818,275 cycles

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360161962-9675-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
[ committer note: Added missing man page entry based on above comments ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-02-06 18:09:27 -03:00
Stephane Eranian 13370a9b5b perf stat: Add interval printing
This patch adds a new printing mode for perf stat.  It allows interval
printing. That means perf stat can now print event deltas at regular
time interval.  This is useful to detect phases in programs.

The -I option enables interval printing. It expects an interval duration
in milliseconds. Minimum is 100ms. Once, activated perf stat prints
events deltas since last printout. All modes are supported.

$ perf stat -I 1000 -e cycles noploop 10
noploop for 10 seconds
 #           time             counts events
      1.000109853      2,388,560,546 cycles
      2.000262846      2,393,332,358 cycles
      3.000354131      2,393,176,537 cycles
      4.000439503      2,393,203,790 cycles
      5.000527075      2,393,167,675 cycles
      6.000609052      2,393,203,670 cycles
      7.000691082      2,393,175,678 cycles

The output format makes it easy to feed into a plotting program such as
gnuplot when the -I option is used in combination with the -x option:

$ perf stat -x, -I 1000 -e cycles noploop 10
noploop for 10 seconds
1.000084113,2378775498,cycles
2.000245798,2391056897,cycles
3.000354445,2392089414,cycles
4.000459115,2390936603,cycles
5.000565341,2392108173,cycles

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359460064-3060-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-01-30 10:36:53 -03:00
Peter Zijlstra 1f16c5754d perf stat: Add --pre and --post command
In order to measure kernel builds, one has to do some pre/post cleanup
work in order to do the repeat build.

So provide --pre and --post command hooks to allow doing just that.

  perf stat --repeat 10 --null --sync --pre 'make -s O=defconfig-build/clean' \
	-- make -s -j64 O=defconfig-build/ bzImage

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350992414.13456.5.camel@twins
[ committer note: Added respective entries in Documentation/perf-stat.txt ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-26 11:22:25 -02:00
David Ahern b52956c961 perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top
Allow a user to collect events for multiple threads or processes
using a comma separated list.

e.g., collect data on a VM and its vhost thread:
  perf top -p 21483,21485
  perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
  perf record -p 21483,21485

or monitoring vcpu threads
  perf top -t 21488,21489
  perf stat -t 21488,21489 -ddd
  perf record -t 21488,21489

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328718772-16688-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-02-13 22:54:11 -02:00
Jim Cromie 56f3bae706 perf stat: Add --log-fd <N> option to redirect stderr elsewhere
This perf stat option emulates valgrind's --log-fd option, allowing the
user to send perf results elsewhere, and leaving stderr for use by the
program under test.  This complements --output file option, and is
mutually exclusive with it.

   3>results  perf stat --log-fd 3          -- $cmd
   3>>results perf stat --log-fd 3 --append -- $cmd

The perl distro's make test.valgrind target uses valgrind's --log-fd
option, I've adapted it to invoke perf also, and tested this patch
there.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315437244-3788-2-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-29 17:03:23 -03:00
Stephane Eranian 4aa9015f8b perf stat: Add -o and --append options
This patch adds an option (-o) to save the output of perf stat into a
file. You could do this with perf record but not with perf stat.
Instead, you had to fiddle with stderr to save the counts into a
separate file.

The patch also adds the --append option so that results can be
concatenated into a single file across runs. Each run of the tool is
clearly separated by a comment line starting with a hash mark. The -A
option of perf record is already used by perf stat, so we only add a
long option.

$ perf stat -o res.txt date
$ cat res.txt

 Performance counter stats for 'date':

          0.791306 task-clock                #    0.668 CPUs utilized
                 2 context-switches          #    0.003 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec
               197 page-faults               #    0.249 M/sec
           1878143 cycles                    #    2.373 GHz
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
           1083367 instructions              #    0.58  insns per cycle
            193027 branches                  #  243.935 M/sec
              9014 branch-misses             #    4.67% of all branches

       0.001184746 seconds time elapsed

The option can be combined with -x to make the output file much easier
to parse.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110815202233.GA18535@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-08-18 07:46:13 -03:00
Stephane Eranian 023695d96e perf tool: Add cgroup support
This patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on container groups
(cgroups) for both perf stat and perf record. It is possible to monitor
multiple cgroup in parallel. There is one cgroup per event. The cgroups to
monitor are passed via a new -G option followed by a comma separated list of
cgroup names.

The cgroup filesystem has to be mounted. Given a cgroup name, the perf tool
finds the corresponding directory in the cgroup filesystem and opens it. It
then passes that file descriptor to the kernel.

Example:

$ perf stat -B -a -e cycles:u,cycles:u,cycles:u -G test1,,test2 -- sleep 1
 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

      2,368,667,414  cycles                   test1
      2,369,661,459  cycles
      <not counted>  cycles                   test2

        1.001856890  seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4d590290.825bdf0a.7d0a.4890@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-16 13:30:48 +01:00
Stephane Eranian d7470b6afc perf stat: Add csv-style output
This patch adds an option (-x/--field-separator) to print counts using a
CSV-style output. The user can pass a custom separator. This makes it very easy
to import counts directly into your favorite spreadsheet without having to
write scripts.

Example:
$ perf stat --field-separator=,  -a -- sleep 1
4009.961740,task-clock-msecs
13,context-switches
2,CPU-migrations
189,page-faults
9596385684,cycles
3493659441,instructions
872897069,branches
41562,branch-misses
22424,cache-references
1289,cache-misses

Works also in non-aggregated mode:

$ perf stat -x ,  -a -A -- sleep 1
CPU0,1002.526168,task-clock-msecs
CPU1,1002.528365,task-clock-msecs
CPU2,1002.523360,task-clock-msecs
CPU3,1002.519878,task-clock-msecs
CPU0,1,context-switches
CPU1,5,context-switches
CPU2,5,context-switches
CPU3,6,context-switches
CPU0,0,CPU-migrations
CPU1,1,CPU-migrations
CPU2,0,CPU-migrations
CPU3,1,CPU-migrations
CPU0,2,page-faults
CPU1,6,page-faults
CPU2,9,page-faults
CPU3,174,page-faults
CPU0,2399439771,cycles
CPU1,2380369063,cycles
CPU2,2399142710,cycles
CPU3,2373161192,cycles
CPU0,872900618,instructions
CPU1,873030960,instructions
CPU2,872714525,instructions
CPU3,874460580,instructions
CPU0,221556839,branches
CPU1,218134342,branches
CPU2,218161730,branches
CPU3,218284093,branches
CPU0,18556,branch-misses
CPU1,1449,branch-misses
CPU2,3447,branch-misses
CPU3,12714,branch-misses
CPU0,8330,cache-references
CPU1,313844,cache-references
CPU2,47993728,cache-references
CPU3,826481,cache-references
CPU0,272,cache-misses
CPU1,5360,cache-misses
CPU2,1342193,cache-misses
CPU3,13992,cache-misses

This second version adds the ability to name a separator and uses
field-separator as the long option to be consistent with perf report.

Commiter note: Since we enabled --big-num by default in 201e0b0 and -x can't be
used with it, we need to notice if the user explicitely enabled or disabled -B,
add code to disable big_num if the user didn't explicitely set --big_num when
-x is used.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederik Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <4cf68aa7.0fedd80a.5294.1203@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 19:47:41 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer 8c207692fc perf stat: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-12-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:49 -02:00
Stephane Eranian f5b4a9c3ab perf stat: Add no-aggregation mode to -a
This patch adds a new -A option to perf stat. If specified then perf stat does
not aggregate counts across all monitored CPUs in system-wide mode, i.e., when
using -a. This option is not supported in per-thread mode.

Being able to get a per-cpu breakdown is useful to detect imbalances between
CPUs when running a uniform workload than spans all monitored CPUs.

The second version corrects the missing cpumap[] support, so that it works when
the -C option is used.

The third version fixes a missing cpumap[] in print_counter() and removes a
stray patch in builtin-trace.c.

Examples on a 4-way system:

# perf stat -a   -e cycles,instructions -- sleep 1
 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
         9592808135  cycles
         3490380006  instructions             #      0.364 IPC
        1.001584632  seconds time elapsed

# perf stat -a -A -e cycles,instructions -- sleep 1
 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
CPU0            2398163767  cycles
CPU1            2398180817  cycles
CPU2            2398217115  cycles
CPU3            2398247483  cycles
CPU0             872282046  instructions             #      0.364 IPC
CPU1             873481776  instructions             #      0.364 IPC
CPU2             872638127  instructions             #      0.364 IPC
CPU3             872437789  instructions             #      0.364 IPC
        1.001556052  seconds time elapsed

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <4ce257b5.1e07e30a.7b6b.3aa9@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-11-19 16:16:53 -02:00
Stephane Eranian c45c6ea2e5 perf tools: Add the ability to specify list of cpus to monitor
This patch adds a -C option to stat, record, top to designate a list of CPUs to
monitor. CPUs can be specified as a comma-separated list or ranges, no space
allowed.

Examples:
$ perf record -a -C0-1,4-7 sleep 1
$ perf top -C0-4
$ perf stat -a -C1,2,3,4 sleep 1

With perf record in per-thread mode with inherit mode on, samples are collected
only when the thread runs on the designated CPUs.

The -C option does not turn on system-wide mode automatically.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4bff9496.d345d80a.41fe.7b00@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-05 09:33:01 -03:00
Stephane Eranian 5af52b51f7 perf stat: add perf stat -B to pretty print large numbers
It is hard to read very large numbers so provide an option to perf stat
to separate thousands using a separator. The patch leverages the locale
support of stdio. You need to set your LC_NUMERIC appropriately, for
instance LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF8. You need to pass -B to activate this
feature. This way existing scripts parsing the output do not need to be
changed. Here is an example.

$ perf stat noploop 2
noploop for 2 seconds

 Performance counter stats for 'noploop 2':

        1998.347031  task-clock-msecs         #      0.998 CPUs
                 61  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
                  0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
                118  page-faults              #      0.000 M/sec
      4,138,410,900  cycles                   #   2070.917 M/sec  (scaled from 70.01%)
      2,062,650,268  instructions             #      0.498 IPC    (scaled from 70.01%)
      2,057,653,466  branches                 #   1029.678 M/sec  (scaled from 70.01%)
             40,267  branch-misses            #      0.002 %      (scaled from 30.04%)
      2,055,961,348  cache-references         #   1028.831 M/sec  (scaled from 30.03%)
             53,725  cache-misses             #      0.027 M/sec  (scaled from 30.02%)

        2.001393933  seconds time elapsed

$ perf stat -B  noploop 2
noploop for 2 seconds

 Performance counter stats for 'noploop 2':

        1998.297883  task-clock-msecs         #      0.998 CPUs
                 59  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
                  0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
                119  page-faults              #      0.000 M/sec
      4,131,380,160  cycles                   #   2067.450 M/sec  (scaled from 70.01%)
      2,059,096,507  instructions             #      0.498 IPC    (scaled from 70.01%)
      2,054,681,303  branches                 #   1028.216 M/sec  (scaled from 70.01%)
             25,650  branch-misses            #      0.001 %      (scaled from 30.05%)
      2,056,283,014  cache-references         #   1029.017 M/sec  (scaled from 30.03%)
             47,097  cache-misses             #      0.024 M/sec  (scaled from 30.02%)

        2.001391016  seconds time elapsed

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4bf28fe8.914ed80a.01ca.fffff5f5@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-18 23:03:22 -03:00
Stephane Eranian 2e6cdf996b perf tools: change event inheritance logic in stat and record
By default, event inheritance across fork and pthread_create was on but the -i
option of stat and record, which enabled inheritance, led to believe it was off
by default.

This patch fixes this logic by inverting the meaning of the -i option.  By
default inheritance is on whether you attach to a process (-p), a thread (-t)
or start a process. If you pass -i, then you turn off inheritance. Turning off
inheritance if you don't need it, helps limit perf resource usage as well.

The patch also fixes perf stat -t xxxx and perf record -t xxxx which did not
start the counters.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4bea9d2f.d60ce30a.0b5b.08e1@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-13 16:39:12 -03:00
Brice Goglin b26bc5a7f8 perf stat: Fix tool option consistency: rename -S/--scale to -c/--scale
We want to use a coherent flag for -S/--stat across all tools,
so free up -S in perf stat.

Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:37 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput dee412066a perf stat: Fix command option / manpage
-l is not supported, it should be -S for scale.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1245703959.6167.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-23 10:20:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 864709302a perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/
Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the
(new) tools/ directory.

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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00