linux/tools/perf/util/usage.c, branch v4.5

perf test: Suppress libtraceevent warnings

2015-10-19T17:58:10Z

Currently libtraceevent emits warning on unsupported event formats. However it'd be better to see them only -v option is given. To do that, it needs to override the warning() function which is used in the libtracevent. Thus add set_warning_routine() same as set_die_routine() and check the verbose flag in our warning routine. Before: # perf test 5 5: parse events tests : Warning: [kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_get_page] bad op token { Warning: [kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_sync_page] bad op token { Warning: [kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_unsync_page] bad op token { Warning: [kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page] bad op token { Warning: [kvmmmu:fast_page_fault] function is_writable_pte not defined ... Ok After: # perf test 5 5: parse events tests : Ok Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Acked-by: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445268229-1601-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf target: Introduce perf_target__parse_uid()

2012-05-07T19:46:48Z

Add and use the modern perf_target__parse_uid() and get rid of the old parse_target_uid(). Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Reviewed-by: David Ahern Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336367344-28071-5-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf target: Split out perf_target handling code

2012-05-02T18:41:11Z

For further work on perf_target, it'd be better off splitting the code into a separate file. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Reviewed-by: David Ahern Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335417327-11796-9-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com [ committer note: Fixed perl build by using stdbool and types.h in target.h ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Check more combinations of PID/TID, UID and CPU switches

2012-05-02T18:24:14Z

There were some combinations of these switches that are not so appropriate IMHO. Since there are implicit priorities between them and they worked well anyway, but it ends up opening useless duplicated events. For example, 'perf stat -t -a' will open multiple events for the thread instead of one. Add explicit checks and warn user in perf_target__validate(). Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Reviewed-by: David Ahern Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335417327-11796-7-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Introduce perf_target__validate() helper

2012-05-02T18:22:08Z

The perf_target__validate function is used to check given PID/TID/UID/CPU target options and warn if some combination is impossible. Also this can make some arguments of parse_target_uid() function useless as it is checked before the call via our new helper. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Reviewed-by: David Ahern Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335417327-11796-5-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top

2012-02-14T00:54:11Z

Allow a user to collect events for multiple threads or processes using a comma separated list. e.g., collect data on a VM and its vhost thread: perf top -p 21483,21485 perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd perf record -p 21483,21485 or monitoring vcpu threads perf top -t 21488,21489 perf stat -t 21488,21489 -ddd perf record -t 21488,21489 Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328718772-16688-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Introduce per user view

2012-01-24T21:47:37Z

The new --uid command line option will show only the tasks for a given user, using the proc interface to figure out the existing tasks. Kernel work is needed to close races at startup, but this should already be useful in many use cases. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bdnspm000gw2l984a2t53o8z@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove stale git headlines from top comment

2011-12-20T15:43:36Z

These files are part of PERF not GIT although they're come from there :) Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Schindelin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323784323-2150-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf top: Fall back to cpu-clock-tick hrtimer sampling if no cycle counter available

2009-06-07T15:31:52Z

On architectures/CPUs without PMU support but with perfcounters enabled 'perf top' currently fails because it cannot create a cycle based hw-perfcounter. Fall back to the cpu-clock-tick sw-perfcounter in this case, which is hrtimer based and will always work (as long as perfcounters is enabled). Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/

2009-06-06T18:33:43Z

Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the (new) tools/ directory. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar