linux/tools/perf/builtin-script.c, branch v3.8

perf script: Add more filter to find_scripts()

2012-10-29T13:46:23Z

As suggested by Arnaldo, many scripts have their own usages and need capture specific events or tracepoints, so only those scripts whose target events match the events in current perf data file should be listed in the script browser menu. This patch will add the event match checking, by opening "xxx-record" script to cherry pick out all events name and comparing them with those inside the perf data file. Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351569369-26732-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add a global variable "const char *input_name"

2012-10-29T13:45:34Z

Currently many perf commands annotate/evlist/report/script/lock etc all support "-i" option to chose a specific perf data, and all of them create a local "input_name" to save the file name for that perf data. Since most of these commands need it, we can add a global variable for it, also it can some other benefits: 1. When calling script browser inside hists/annotation browser, it needs to know the perf data file name to run that script. 2. For further feature like runtime switching to another perf data file, this variable can also help. Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351569369-26732-2-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf event: No need to create a thread when handling PERF_RECORD_EXIT

2012-10-06T19:33:45Z

When we were processing a PERF_RECORD_EXIT event we first used machine__findnew_thread for both the thread exiting and for its parent, only to use just the thread struct associated with the one exiting, and to just delete it. If it existed, i.e. not created at this very moment in machine__findnew_thread, it will be moved to the machine->dead_threads linked list, because we may have hist_entries pointing to it, but if it was created just do be deleted, it will just sit there with no references at all. Use the new machine__find_thread() method so that if it is not there, we don't create it. As a bonus the parent thread will also not be created at this point. Create process_fork() and process_exit() helpers to use this and make the builtins use it instead of the generic process_task(), ditched by this patch. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z7n2y98ebjyrvmytaope4vdl@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Don't use globals where not needed to

2012-10-02T21:36:30Z

Some variables were global but used in just one function, so move it to where it belongs. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-eukt8bzp4t2n2z3s8ue5ofwb@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf scripts: Export a find_scripts() function

2012-09-17T16:11:26Z

So that other perf commands/browser has a way to dig out the available scripts info in system, this is a preparation for the script browser. Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347007349-3102-5-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf scripts: Add --symbols option to handle specific symbols

2012-09-17T16:11:06Z

Since perf script no longer only handle the trace points, we can add the symbol filter option so that scripts can handle specified samples. Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347007349-3102-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use __maybe_used for unused variables

2012-09-11T15:19:15Z

perf defines both __used and __unused variables to use for marking unused variables. The variable __used is defined to __attribute__((__unused__)), which contradicts the kernel definition to __attribute__((__used__)) for new gcc versions. On Android, __used is also defined in system headers and this leads to warnings like: warning: '__used__' attribute ignored __unused is not defined in the kernel and is not a standard definition. If __unused is included everywhere instead of __used, this leads to conflicts with glibc headers, since glibc has a variables with this name in its headers. The best approach is to use __maybe_unused, the definition used in the kernel for __attribute__((unused)). In this way there is only one definition in perf sources (instead of 2 definitions that point to the same thing: __used and __unused) and it works on both Linux and Android. This patch simply replaces all instances of __used and __unused with __maybe_unused. Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347315303-29906-7-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@intel.com [ committer note: fixed up conflict with a116e05 in builtin-sched.c ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Remove use of die/exit

2012-09-05T20:21:39Z

Allows perf to clean up properly on exit. Only exits left are exec failures which are appropriate and usage callbacks that list available options. Signed-off-by: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346005487-62961-7-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Support for DWARF CFI unwinding on post processing

2012-08-11T18:06:56Z

This brings the support for DWARF cfi unwinding on perf post processing. Call frame informations are retrieved and then passed to libunwind that requests memory and register content from the applications. Adding unwind object to handle the user stack backtrace based on the user register values and user stack dump. The unwind object access the libunwind via remote interface and provides to it all the necessary data to unwind the stack. The unwind interface provides following function: unwind__get_entries And callback (specified in above function) to retrieve the backtrace entries: typedef int (*unwind_entry_cb_t)(struct unwind_entry *entry, void *arg); Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Arun Sharma Cc: Benjamin Redelings Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Ulrich Drepper Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-12-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com [ Replaced use of perf_session by usage of perf_evsel ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Replace "struct thread" with "struct addr_location" as a parameter for "process_event()"

2012-08-08T15:46:40Z

Both perl and python script start processing events other than trace points, and it's useful to pass the resolved symbol and the dso info to the event handler in script for better analysis and statistics. Struct thread is already a member of struct addr_location, using addr_location will keep the thread info, while providing additional symbol and dso info if exist, so that the script itself doesn't need to bother to do the symbol resolving and dso searching work. Tested-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Acked-by: David Ahern Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344419875-21665-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo