perf tools: handle PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES

This patch modifies the perf tool to handle the new RECORD type,
PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES.

The number of lost-sample events is stored in
.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES]. The exact number of samples
which the kernel dropped is stored in total_lost_samples.

When the percentage of dropped samples is greater than 5%, a warning
is printed.

Here are some examples:

Eg 1, Recording different frequently-occurring events is safe with the
      patch. Only a very low drop rate is associated with such actions.

$ perf record -e '{cycles:p,instructions:p}' -c 20003 --no-time ~/tchain ~/tchain

$ perf report -D | tail
          SAMPLE events:     120243
           MMAP2 events:          5
    LOST_SAMPLES events:         24
  FINISHED_ROUND events:         15
cycles:p stats:
           TOTAL events:      59348
          SAMPLE events:      59348
instructions:p stats:
           TOTAL events:      60895
          SAMPLE events:      60895

$ perf report --stdio --group
 # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
 #
 #
 # Total Lost Samples: 24
 #
 # Samples: 120K of event 'anon group { cycles:p, instructions:p }'
 # Event count (approx.): 24048600000
 #
 #         Overhead  Command      Shared Object     Symbol
 # ................  ...........  ................
 ..................................
 #
    99.74%  99.86%  tchain_edit  tchain_edit       [.] f3
     0.09%   0.02%  tchain_edit  tchain_edit       [.] f2
     0.04%   0.00%  tchain_edit  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] ixgbe_read_reg

Eg 2, Recording the same thing multiple times can lead to high drop
      rate, but it is not a useful configuration.

$ perf record -e '{cycles:p,cycles:p}' -c 20003 --no-time ~/tchain
Warning: Processed 600592 samples and lost 99.73% samples!
[perf record: Woken up 148 times to write data]
[perf record: Captured and wrote 36.922 MB perf.data (1206322 samples)]
[perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data]
[perf record: Captured and wrote 0.121 MB perf.data (1629 samples)]

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431285195-14269-9-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.c b/tools/perf/util/event.c
index c1925968a8af..793b1503d437 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/event.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ static const char *perf_event__names[] = {
 	[PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE]			= "SAMPLE",
 	[PERF_RECORD_AUX]			= "AUX",
 	[PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START]		= "ITRACE_START",
+	[PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES]		= "LOST_SAMPLES",
 	[PERF_RECORD_HEADER_ATTR]		= "ATTR",
 	[PERF_RECORD_HEADER_EVENT_TYPE]		= "EVENT_TYPE",
 	[PERF_RECORD_HEADER_TRACING_DATA]	= "TRACING_DATA",
@@ -712,6 +713,14 @@ int perf_event__process_itrace_start(struct perf_tool *tool __maybe_unused,
 	return machine__process_itrace_start_event(machine, event);
 }
 
+int perf_event__process_lost_samples(struct perf_tool *tool __maybe_unused,
+				     union perf_event *event,
+				     struct perf_sample *sample,
+				     struct machine *machine)
+{
+	return machine__process_lost_samples_event(machine, event, sample);
+}
+
 size_t perf_event__fprintf_mmap(union perf_event *event, FILE *fp)
 {
 	return fprintf(fp, " %d/%d: [%#" PRIx64 "(%#" PRIx64 ") @ %#" PRIx64 "]: %c %s\n",