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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-03-31 20:13:25 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-03-31 20:13:25 +0200 |
commit | 8c292f11744297dfb3a69f4a0bccbe4a6417b50d (patch) | |
tree | f1a89560de25a69b697d459a9b5cf2e738038d9f /tools/perf/design.txt | |
parent | Merge branch 'core-types-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ker... (diff) | |
parent | Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/... (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
Kernel side changes:
- Add SNB/IVB/HSW client uncore memory controller support (Stephane
Eranian)
- Fix various x86/P4 PMU driver bugs (Don Zickus)
Tooling, user visible changes:
- Add several futex 'perf bench' microbenchmarks (Davidlohr Bueso)
- Speed up thread map generation (Don Zickus)
- Introduce 'perf kvm --list-cmds' command line option for use by
scripts (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
- Print the evsel name in the annotate stdio output, prep to fix
support outputting annotation for multiple events, not just for the
first one (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Allow setting preferred callchain method in .perfconfig (Jiri Olsa)
- Show in what binaries/modules 'perf probe's are set (Masami
Hiramatsu)
- Support distro-style debuginfo for uprobe in 'perf probe' (Masami
Hiramatsu)
Tooling, internal changes and fixes:
- Use tid in mmap/mmap2 events to find maps (Don Zickus)
- Record the reason for filtering an address_location (Namhyung Kim)
- Apply all filters to an addr_location (Namhyung Kim)
- Merge al->filtered with hist_entry->filtered in report/hists
(Namhyung Kim)
- Fix memory leak when synthesizing thread records (Namhyung Kim)
- Use ui__has_annotation() in 'report' (Namhyung Kim)
- hists browser refactorings to reuse code accross UIs (Namhyung Kim)
- Add support for the new DWARF unwinder library in elfutils (Jiri
Olsa)
- Fix build race in the generation of bison files (Jiri Olsa)
- Further streamline the feature detection display, trimming it a bit
to show just the libraries detected, using VF=1 gets a more verbose
output, showing the less interesting feature checks as well (Jiri
Olsa).
- Check compatible symtab type before loading dso (Namhyung Kim)
- Check return value of filename__read_debuglink() (Stephane Eranian)
- Move some hashing and fs related code from tools/perf/util/ to
tools/lib/ so that it can be used by more tools/ living utilities
(Borislav Petkov)
- Prepare DWARF unwinding code for using an elfutils alternative
unwinding library (Jiri Olsa)
- Fix DWARF unwind max_stack processing (Jiri Olsa)
- Add dwarf unwind 'perf test' entry (Jiri Olsa)
- 'perf probe' improvements including memory leak fixes, sharing the
intlist class with other tools, uprobes/kprobes code sharing and
use of ref_reloc_sym (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Shorten sample symbol resolving by adding cpumode to struct
addr_location (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Fix synthesizing mmaps for threads (Don Zickus)
- Fix invalid output on event group stdio report (Namhyung Kim)
- Fixup header alignment in 'perf sched latency' output (Ramkumar
Ramachandra)
- Fix off-by-one error in 'perf timechart record' argv handling
(Ramkumar Ramachandra)
Tooling, cleanups:
- Remove unused thread__find_map function (Jiri Olsa)
- Remove unused simple_strtoul() function (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
Tooling, documentation updates:
- Update function names in debug messages (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
- Update some code references in design.txt (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
- Clarify load-latency information in the 'perf mem' docs (Andi
Kleen)
- Clarify x86 register naming in 'perf probe' docs (Andi Kleen)"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (96 commits)
perf tools: Remove unused simple_strtoul() function
perf tools: Update some code references in design.txt
perf evsel: Update function names in debug messages
perf tools: Remove thread__find_map function
perf annotate: Print the evsel name in the stdio output
perf report: Use ui__has_annotation()
perf tools: Fix memory leak when synthesizing thread records
perf tools: Use tid in mmap/mmap2 events to find maps
perf report: Merge al->filtered with hist_entry->filtered
perf symbols: Apply all filters to an addr_location
perf symbols: Record the reason for filtering an address_location
perf sched: Fixup header alignment in 'latency' output
perf timechart: Fix off-by-one error in 'record' argv handling
perf machine: Factor machine__find_thread to take tid argument
perf tools: Speed up thread map generation
perf kvm: introduce --list-cmds for use by scripts
perf ui hists: Pass evsel to hpp->header/width functions explicitly
perf symbols: Introduce thread__find_cpumode_addr_location
perf session: Change header.misc dump from decimal to hex
perf ui/tui: Reuse generic __hpp__fmt() code
...
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/design.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/design.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt index 63a0e6f04a01..a28dca2582aa 100644 --- a/tools/perf/design.txt +++ b/tools/perf/design.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ underlying hardware counters. Performance counters are accessed via special file descriptors. There's one file descriptor per virtual counter used. -The special file descriptor is opened via the perf_event_open() +The special file descriptor is opened via the sys_perf_event_open() system call: int sys_perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *hw_event_uptr, @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ machine-specific. If 'raw_type' is 0, then the 'type' field says what kind of counter this is, with the following encoding: -enum perf_event_types { +enum perf_type_id { PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE = 0, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE = 1, PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT = 2, @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ specified by 'event_id': * Generalized performance counter event types, used by the hw_event.event_id * parameter of the sys_perf_event_open() syscall: */ -enum hw_event_ids { +enum perf_hw_id { /* * Common hardware events, generalized by the kernel: */ @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ software events, selected by 'event_id': * physical and sw events of the kernel (and allow the profiling of them as * well): */ -enum sw_event_ids { +enum perf_sw_ids { PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK = 0, PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK = 1, PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS = 2, @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ these events are recorded in the ring-buffer (see below). The 'comm' bit allows tracking of process comm data on process creation. This too is recorded in the ring-buffer (see below). -The 'pid' parameter to the perf_event_open() system call allows the +The 'pid' parameter to the sys_perf_event_open() system call allows the counter to be specific to a task: pid == 0: if the pid parameter is zero, the counter is attached to the @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ The 'flags' parameter is currently unused and must be zero. The 'group_fd' parameter allows counter "groups" to be set up. A counter group has one counter which is the group "leader". The leader -is created first, with group_fd = -1 in the perf_event_open call +is created first, with group_fd = -1 in the sys_perf_event_open call that creates it. The rest of the group members are created subsequently, with group_fd giving the fd of the group leader. (A single counter on its own is created with group_fd = -1 and is |