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* perf diff: Support --pid/--tid filter optionsJin Yao2019-03-061-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using the existing symbol_conf.pid_list_str and symbol_conf.tid_list_str logic. For example: perf diff --tid 13965 It'll only diff the samples for thread 13965. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@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: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1551791143-10334-4-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Support --cpu filter optionJin Yao2019-03-061-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To improve 'perf diff', implement a --cpu filter option. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to report samples on all CPUs. For example, perf diff --cpu 0,1 It only diff the samples for CPU0 and CPU1. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@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: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1551791143-10334-3-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Support --time filter optionJin Yao2019-03-061-0/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To improve 'perf diff', implement a --time filter option to diff the samples within given time window. It supports time percent with multiple time ranges. The time string format is 'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'. For example: Select the second 10% time slice to diff: perf diff --time 10%/2 Select from 0% to 10% time slice to diff: perf diff --time 0%-10% Select the first and the second 10% time slices to diff: perf diff --time 10%/1,10%/2 Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices to diff: perf diff --time 0%-10%,30%-40% It also supports analysing samples within a given time window <start>,<stop>. Times have the format seconds.microseconds. If 'start' is not given (i.e., time string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If the stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes to end of file. Time string is 'a1.b1,c1.d1:a2.b2,c2.d2'. Use ':' to separate timestamps for different perf.data files. For example, we get the timestamp information from perf script. perf script -i perf.data.old mgen 13940 [000] 3946.361400: ... perf script -i perf.data mgen 13940 [000] 3971.150589 ... perf diff --time 3946.361400,:3971.150589, It analyzes the perf.data.old from the timestamp 3946.361400 to the end of perf.data.old and analyzes the perf.data from the timestamp 3971.150589 to the end of perf.data. v4: --- Update abstime_str_dup(), let it return error if strdup is failed, and update __cmd_diff() accordingly. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@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: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1551791143-10334-2-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Add -q/--quiet optionNamhyung Kim2017-02-201-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The -q/--quiet option is to suppress any message. Sometimes users just want to see the numbers and it can be used for that case. Committer notes: Before: # perf diff | head -10 Failed to open /tmp/perf-6678.map, continuing without symbols Failed to open /tmp/perf-6678.map, continuing without symbols Failed to open /tmp/perf-2646.map, continuing without symbols # Event 'cycles' # # Baseline Delta Abs Shared Object Symbol # ........ ......... .......................... ............................................ # 5.36% -1.76% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle 2.80% +1.48% firefox [.] 0x00000000000101fe 57.12% -1.25% libxul.so [.] 0x00000000009bea92 1.36% -1.11% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __schedule 4.26% -1.00% perf-6678.map [.] 0x00007fac4b0e9320 After: # perf diff -q | head -10 5.36% -1.76% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle 2.80% +1.48% firefox [.] 0x00000000000101fe 57.12% -1.25% libxul.so [.] 0x00000000009bea92 1.36% -1.11% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __schedule 4.26% -1.00% perf-6678.map [.] 0x00007fac4b0e9320 1.86% +0.95% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_blocked_averages 0.80% -0.70% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_sched_clock 0.74% -0.58% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr 0.76% -0.56% qemu-system-x86_64 [.] 0x00000000002395c0 +0.54% libpulsecommon-10.0.so [.] 0x000000000002d91b # Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Suggested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: kernel-team@lge.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217081742.17417-5-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Change default setting to "delta-abs"Namhyung Kim2017-02-131-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The "delta-abs" compute method will show most changed entries on top. So users can easily see how much effect between the data. Note that it also changes the default of -o option to 1 in order to apply the compute method. To see original-style (sorted by baseline) use -o 0 option. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170210161856.18422-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Add diff.compute config optionNamhyung Kim2017-02-131-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The diff.compute config variable is to set the default compute method of perf diff command (-c option). Possible values 'delta' (default), 'delta-abs', 'ratio' and 'wdiff'. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170210073614.24584-4-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Add diff.order config optionNamhyung Kim2017-02-131-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In many cases, I need to look at differences between two data so I often used the -o option to sort the result base on the difference first. It'd be nice to have a config option to set it by default. The diff.order config option is to set the default value of -o/--order option. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170210073614.24584-3-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Add 'delta-abs' compute methodNamhyung Kim2017-02-131-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 'delta-abs' compute method is same as 'delta' but shows entries with bigger absolute delta first instead of sorting numerically. This is only useful together with -o option. Below is default output (-c delta): $ perf diff -o 1 -c delta | grep -v ^# | head 42.22% +4.97% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] cfb_imageblit 0.62% +1.23% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mutex_lock +1.15% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_user_generic_string 2.40% +0.95% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] bit_putcs 0.31% +0.79% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] link_path_walk +0.64% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc 0.00% +0.57% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __rcu_read_unlock +0.45% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] alloc_set_pte 0.16% +0.45% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] menu_select +0.41% ld-2.24.so [.] do_lookup_x Now with 'delta-abs' it shows entries have bigger delta value either positive or negative. $ perf diff -o 1 -c delta-abs | grep -v ^# | head 42.22% +4.97% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] cfb_imageblit 12.72% -3.01% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle 9.72% -1.31% [unknown] [.] 0x0000000000411343 0.62% +1.23% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mutex_lock 2.40% +0.95% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] bit_putcs 0.31% +0.79% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] link_path_walk 1.35% -0.71% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] smp_call_function_single 0.00% +0.57% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __rcu_read_unlock 0.16% +0.45% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] menu_select 0.72% -0.44% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] lookup_fast Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170210073614.24584-2-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf tools: Make -f/--force option documentation consistent across toolsJiri Olsa2016-03-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> 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/1458823940-24583-6-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Add kallsyms optionDavid Ahern2015-03-241-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | Required for off-box analysis to convert kernel addresses. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427212317-7018-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Support for different binariesKan Liang2015-02-271-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, the perf diff only works with same binaries. That's because it compares the symbol start address. It doesn't work if the perf.data comes from different binaries. This patch matches the symbol names. Actually, perf diff once intended to compare the symbol names. The commit as below can look for a pair by name. 604c5c92972d (perf diff: Change the default sort order to "dso,symbol") However, at that time, perf diff used a global list of dsos. That means the binaries which has same name can only be loaded once. That's a problem for comparing different binaries. For example, we have an old binary and an updated binary. They very likely have same name and most of the functions, so only dsos from old binary will be loaded. When processing the data from updated binary, perf still use the symbol information from old binary. That's wrong. Then the commit as below used IP to replace symbol name. 9c443dfdd31e ("perf diff: Fix support for all --sort combinations") >From that time, perf diff starts to compare the symbol address. The global dsos is discarded from a patch in 2010. a1645ce12adb ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host") However, at that time, perf diff already compared by address. So perf diff cannot work for different binaries as well. This patch actually rolls back the perf diff to original design. The document is also changed, so everybody knows the original design is to compare the symbol names. Here are some examples: The only difference between example_v1.c and example_v2.c is the location of f2 and f3. There is no change in behavior, but the previous perf diff display the wrong differential profile. example_v1.c noinline void f3(void) { volatile int i; for (i = 0; i < 10000;) { if(i%2) i++; else i++; } } noinline void f2(void) { volatile int a = 100, b, c; for (b = 0; b < 10000; b++) c = a * b; } noinline void f1(void) { f2(); f3(); } int main() { int i; for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++) f1(); } example_v2.c noinline void f2(void) { volatile int a = 100, b, c; for (b = 0; b < 10000; b++) c = a * b; } noinline void f3(void) { volatile int i; for (i = 0; i < 10000;) { if(i%2) i++; else i++; } } noinline void f1(void) { f2(); f3(); } int main() { int i; for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++) f1(); } [lk@localhost perf_diff]$ gcc example_v1.c -o example [lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf record -o example_v1.data ./example [ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.813 MB example_v1.data (~35522 samples) ] [lk@localhost perf_diff]$ gcc example_v2.c -o example [lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf record -o example_v2.data ./example [ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.824 MB example_v2.data (~36015 samples) ] Old perf diff result: [lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf diff example_v1.data example_v2.data Event 'cycles' Baseline Delta Shared Object Symbol ........ ....... ................ ............................... [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __perf_event_task_sched_out 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] apic_timer_interrupt [kernel.vmlinux] [k] idle_cpu [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_pstate_timer_func [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_read_msr_safe 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_read_tsc 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe [kernel.vmlinux] [k] ntp_tick_length 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] rb_erase 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] tick_sched_timer 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] unmap_single_vma 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_wall_time 0.00% example [.] f1 46.24% example [.] f2 53.71% -7.55% example [.] f3 +53.81% example [.] f3 0.02% example [.] main New perf diff result: [lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf diff example_v1.data example_v2.data [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __perf_event_task_sched_out 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] apic_timer_interrupt [kernel.vmlinux] [k] idle_cpu [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_pstate_timer_func [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_read_msr_safe 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_read_tsc 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe [kernel.vmlinux] [k] ntp_tick_length 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] rb_erase 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] tick_sched_timer 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] unmap_single_vma 0.00% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_wall_time 0.00% example [.] f1 46.24% -0.08% example [.] f2 53.71% +0.11% example [.] f3 0.02% example [.] main Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1423460384-11645-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/DocumentationMasanari Iida2014-10-151-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fix spelling typos found in tool/perf/Documentation. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410275930-17207-1-git-send-email-standby24x7@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf tools: Allow hpp fields to be sort keysNamhyung Kim2014-05-211-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add overhead{,_sys,_us,_guest_sys,_guest_us}, sample and period sort keys so that they can be selected with --sort/-s option. $ perf report -s period,comm --stdio ... # Overhead Period Command # ........ ............ ............... # 47.06% 152 swapper 13.93% 45 qemu-system-arm 12.38% 40 synergys 3.72% 12 firefox 2.48% 8 xchat Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400480762-22852-9-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
* perf diff: Add --percentage optionNamhyung Kim2014-04-161-3/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The --percentage option is for controlling overhead percentage displayed. It can only receive either of "relative" or "absolute" and affects -c delta output only. For more information, please see previous commit same thing done to "perf report". Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397145720-8063-5-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Add generic order option for compute sortingJiri Olsa2013-07-121-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding option 'o' to allow sorting based on the input file number. By default (without -o option) the output is sorted on baseline. Also removing '+' sorting support from -c option, because it's not needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-l7dvhgt0azm7yiqg3fbn4dxw@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Update perf diff documentation for multiple data comparisonJiri Olsa2013-07-121-9/+64
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updating perf diff documentation to include multiple perf data files comparison. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tr6su3wfm20k2m5npjggyvtw@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Remove displacement output optionJiri Olsa2012-12-091-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems not very useful, because it's possible and event more convenient to lookup related symbol by name. Also the output value for both 'baseline' and 'new' data is quite apparent from diff output. And above all it complicates hist code factoring ;) Ditching out PERF_HPP__DISPL column with related output functions. Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121206132228.GB1080@krava.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Add -F option to display formula for computationJiri Olsa2012-10-051-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding -F option to display the formula for specified computation. This is mainly to facilitate debugging, but can be useful anyway. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Add -p option to display period values for hist entriesJiri Olsa2012-10-051-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding -p option to show period values for both compared hist entries. Showing hist column PERF_HPP__PERIOD and newly added hist column PERF_HPP__PERIOD_BASELINE. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Add weighted diff computation way to compare hist entriesJiri Olsa2012-10-051-1/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding 'wdiff' as new computation way to compare hist entries. If specified the 'Weighted diff' column is displayed with value 'd' computed as: d = B->period * WEIGHT-A - A->period * WEIGHT-B - A/B being matching hist entry from first/second file specified (or perf.data/perf.data.old) respectively. - period being the hist entry period value - WEIGHT-A/WEIGHT-B being user suplied weights in the the '-c' option behind ':' separator like '-c wdiff:1,2'. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Add option to sort entries based on diff computationJiri Olsa2012-10-051-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding support to sort hist entries based on the outcome of selected computation. It's now possible to specify '+' as a first character of '-c' option value to make such sort. Example: $ perf diff -c ratio -b # Event 'cache-misses' # # Baseline Ratio Shared Object Symbol # ........ .............. ................. ................................ # 19.64% 0.69 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page 0.30% 0.17 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mm_alloc 0.04% 0.20 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc $ perf diff -c +ratio -b # Event 'cache-misses' # # Baseline Ratio Shared Object Symbol # ........ .............. ................. ................................ # 19.64% 0.69 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page 0.04% 0.20 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc 0.30% 0.17 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mm_alloc Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Add ratio computation way to compare hist entriesJiri Olsa2012-10-051-0/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding -c option to select computation method with the current 'Delta' computation as default. Current possible values are of this option are: 'delta' and 'ratio'. Adding 'ratio' as new computation way to compare hist entries. If specified the 'Ratio' column is displayed with value 'r' computed as: r = A->period / B->period with: - A/B being matching hist entry from first/second file specified (or perf.data/perf.data.old) respectively. - period being the hist entry period value Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Add -b option for perf diff to display paired entries onlyJiri Olsa2012-10-051-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding -b option to perf diff command to display only entries with match in the baseline. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Make diff command work with evsel histsJiri Olsa2012-09-081-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Putting 'perf diff' command back on track with the 'latest' evsel hists changes. Each evsel has its own 'hists' object gathering stats for the particular event. While currently counts are accumulated for the whole session regardless of the events diversification within compared sessions. The 'perf diff' command now outputs all matching events within compared sessions (with event name specified). The per event diff output stays the same. $ ./perf diff # Event 'cycles' # # Baseline Delta Shared Object Symbol # ........ .......... ................. .............................. # 0.00% +15.14% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __wake_up 0.00% +13.38% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ext4fs_dirhash ... SNIP 0.00% +0.42% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] local_clock 0.17% -0.05% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr_safe # Event 'faults' # # Baseline Delta Shared Object Symbol # ........ .......... ................. .............................. # 0.00% +79.12% ld-2.15.so [.] _dl_relocate_object 0.00% +11.62% ld-2.15.so [.] openaux Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346946426-13496-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf symbols: Add symfs option for off-box analysis using specified treeDavid Ahern2010-12-211-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The symfs argument allows analysis of perf.data file using a locally accessible filesystem tree with debug symbols - e.g., tree created during image builds, sshfs mount, loop mounted KVM disk images, USB keys, initrds, etc. Anything with an OS tree can be analyzed from anywhere without the need to populate a local data store with build-ids. Commiter notes: o Fixed up symfs="/" variants handling. o prefixed DSO__ORIG_GUEST_KMODULE case with symfs too, avoiding use of files outside the symfs directory. LKML-Reference: <1291926427-28846-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Document missing optionsShawn Bohrer2010-12-011-1/+18
| | | | | | | | | Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-5-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>
* perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issuesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2010-05-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf diff: Use perf_session__fprintf_hists just like 'perf record'Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-12-161-3/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | That means that almost everything you can do with 'perf report' can be done with 'perf diff', for instance: $ perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2699 samples) ] $ perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2687 samples) ] perf diff | head -8 9.02% +1.00% find libc-2.10.1.so [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 2.91% -1.00% find [kernel] [k] __kmalloc 2.85% -1.00% find [kernel] [k] ext4_htree_store_dirent 1.99% -1.00% find [kernel] [k] _atomic_dec_and_lock 2.44% find [kernel] [k] half_md4_transform $ So if you want to zoom into libc: $ perf diff --dsos libc-2.10.1.so | head -8 37.34% find [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 10.34% find [.] __GI_memmove 8.25% +2.00% find [.] _int_malloc 5.07% -1.00% find [.] __GI_mempcpy 7.62% +2.00% find [.] _int_free $ And if there were multiple commands using libc, it is also possible to aggregate them all by using --sort symbol: $ perf diff --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8 37.34% [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 10.34% [.] __GI_memmove 8.25% +2.00% [.] _int_malloc 5.07% -1.00% [.] __GI_mempcpy 7.62% +2.00% [.] _int_free $ The displacement column now is off by default, to use it: perf diff -m --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8 37.34% [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 10.34% [.] __GI_memmove 8.25% +2.00% [.] _int_malloc 5.07% -1.00% +2 [.] __GI_mempcpy 7.62% +2.00% -1 [.] _int_free $ Using -t/--field-separator can be used for scripting: $ perf diff -t, -m --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8 37.34, , ,[.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 10.34, , ,[.] __GI_memmove 8.25,+2.00%, ,[.] _int_malloc 5.07,-1.00%, +2,[.] __GI_mempcpy 7.62,+2.00%, -1,[.] _int_free 6.99,+1.00%, -1,[.] _IO_new_file_xsputn 1.89,-2.00%, +4,[.] __readdir64 $ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1260978567-550-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf diff: Fix documentationArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-12-151-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a newline do fix this problem: ERROR: perf-diff.txt: line 31: closing [blockdef-listing] delimiter expected Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1260882082-10007-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf diff: Improve the help textIngo Molnar2009-12-151-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the short line displayed by 'perf' and also fix some other details in the longer text. Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf diff: Introduce tool to show performance differenceArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-12-151-0/+31
I guess it is enough to show some examples: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# rm -f perf.data* [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* ls: cannot access perf.data*: No such file or directory [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2699 samples) ] [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* -rw------- 1 root root 74440 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2692 samples) ] [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* -rw------- 1 root root 74280 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data -rw------- 1 root root 74440 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data.old [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff | head -5 1 -34994580 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 -15307806 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 +3665941 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 +23508995 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 +38538813 [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -p | head -5 1 +1.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 -1.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -v | head -5 1 361449551 326454971 -34994580 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 151009241 135701435 -15307806 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 101805328 105471269 +3665941 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 78041440 101550435 +23508995 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 59536172 98074985 +38538813 [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -vp | head -5 1 9.00% 8.00% +1.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 3.00% 3.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 2.00% 2.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 2.00% 2.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 1.00% 2.00% -1.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# This should be enough for diffs where the system is non volatile, i.e. when one doesn't updates binaries. For volatile environments, stay tuned for the next perf tool feature: a buildid cache populated by 'perf record', managed by 'perf buildid-cache' a-la ccache, and used by all the report tools. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1260828571-3613-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>