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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2015-08-08 00:54:24 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-08-10 22:20:25 +0200
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parentperf hists: Update the column width for the "srcline" sort key (diff)
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perf report: Add support for srcfile sort key
In some cases it's useful to characterize samples by file. This is useful to get a higher level categorization, for example to map cost to subsystems. Add a srcfile sort key to perf report. It builds on top of the existing srcline support. Commiter notes: E.g.: # perf record -F 10000 usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.016 MB perf.data (13 samples) ] [root@zoo ~]# perf report -s srcfile --stdio # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 13 of event 'cycles' # Event count (approx.): 869878 # # Overhead Source File # ........ ........... 60.99% . 20.62% paravirt.h 14.23% rmap.c 4.04% signal.c 0.11% msr.h # The first line is collecting all the files for which srcfiles couldn't somehow get resolved to: # perf report -s srcfile,dso --stdio # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 13 of event 'cycles' # Event count (approx.): 869878 # # Overhead Source File Shared Object # ........ ........... ................ 40.97% . ld-2.20.so 20.62% paravirt.h [kernel.vmlinux] 20.02% . libc-2.20.so 14.23% rmap.c [kernel.vmlinux] 4.04% signal.c [kernel.vmlinux] 0.11% msr.h [kernel.vmlinux] # XXX: Investigate why that is not resolving on Fedora 21, Andi says he hasn't seen this on Fedora 22. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438988064-21834-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org [ Added column length update, from 0e65bdb3f90f ('perf hists: Update the column width for the "srcline" sort key') ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ OPTIONS
- cpu: cpu number the task ran at the time of sample
- srcline: filename and line number executed at the time of sample. The
DWARF debugging info must be provided.
+ - srcfile: file name of the source file of the same. Requires dwarf
+ information.
- weight: Event specific weight, e.g. memory latency or transaction
abort cost. This is the global weight.
- local_weight: Local weight version of the weight above.