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  1. Nov 05, 2013
  3. Nov 04, 2013
  5. Nov 01, 2013
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf test: Update command line callchain attribute tests · 46d525ea
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      
The "struct perf_event_attr setup" entry in 'perf test' is in fact a
series of tests that will exec the tools, passing different sets of
command line arguments to then intercept the sys_perf_event_open
syscall, in user space, to check that the perf_event_attr->sample_type
and other feature request bits are setup as expected.

We recently restored the callchain requesting command line argument, -g,
to not require a parameter ("dwarf" or "fp"), instead using a default
("fp" for now) and making the long option variant, --call-chain, be the
one to be used when a different callchain collection method is
preferred.

The "struct perf_event_attr setup" test failed because we forgot to
update the tests involving callchains, not switching from, '-g dwarf' to
'--call-chain dwarf', making 'perf test' detect it:

  [root@sandy ~]# perf test -v 13
  13: struct perf_event_attr setup                           :
  --- start ---
  running '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-basic'
  running '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-branch-any'
  <SNIP>
  running '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-graph-default'
  running '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-graph-dwarf'
  expected sample_type=12583, got 295
  expected exclude_callchain_user=1, got 0
  expected sample_stack_user=8192, got 0
  FAILED '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-graph-dwarf' - match failure
  ---- end ----
  struct perf_event_attr setup: FAILED!
  [root@sandy ~]#

Fix all of them now to use --call-chain when explicitely specifying a
method.

There is still work to do, as '-g fp', for instance, passed without
problems.

In that case 'perf test' saw no problems as the intercepted syscall got
the bits as expected, i.e. the default is 'fp', but the fact that 'fp'
may be an existing program and the specified workload would then be
passed as a parameter to it is an usability problem that needs fixing.

Next merge window tho.

Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jr3oq1k5iywnp7vvqlslzydm@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      46d525ea
    • Wei Yang's avatar
      perf bench: Fix two warnings · 32bf5bd1
      Wei Yang authored 
      
There are two warnings in bench/numa, when building this on 32-bit
machine.

The warning output is attached:

bench/numa.c:1113:20: error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Werror=sign-compare]
bench/numa.c:1161:6: error: format ‘%lx’ expects argument of t'long unsigned int’, but argument 5 has type ‘u64’ [-Werror=format]

This patch fixes these two warnings.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379839764-9245-1-git-send-email-weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      32bf5bd1
    • Michael Hudson-Doyle's avatar
      perf tools: Remove cast of non-variadic function to variadic · 53805eca
      Michael Hudson-Doyle authored 
      
The 4fb71074 (perf ui/hist: Consolidate hpp helpers) cset introduced
a cast of percent_color_snprintf to a function pointer type with
varargs.  Change percent_color_snprintf to be variadic and remove the
cast.

The symptom of this was all percentages being reported as 0.00% in perf
report --stdio output on the armhf arch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87zjppvw7y.fsf@canonical.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      53805eca
  7. Oct 28, 2013
  9. Oct 24, 2013
    • Joseph Schuchart's avatar
      perf script python: Fix mem leak due to missing Py_DECREFs on dict entries · c0268e8d
      Joseph Schuchart authored 
      We are using the Python scripting interface in perf to extract kernel
events relevant for performance analysis of HPC codes. We noticed that
the "perf script" call allocates a significant amount of memory (in the
order of several 100 MiB) during it's run, e.g. 125 MiB for a 25 MiB
input file:

  $> perf record -o perf.data -a -R -g fp \
       -e power:cpu_frequency -e sched:sched_switch \
       -e sched:sched_migrate_task -e sched:sched_process_exit \
       -e sched:sched_process_fork -e sched:sched_process_exec \
       -e cycles  -m 4096 --freq 4000
  $> /usr/bin/time perf script -i perf.data -s dummy_script.py
  0.84user 0.13system 0:01.92elapsed 51%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
  125532maxresident)k
  73072inputs+0outputs (57major+33086minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Upon further investigation using the valgrind massif tool, we noticed
that Python objects that are created in trace-event-python.c via
PyString_FromString*() (and their Integer and Long counterparts) are
never free'd.

The reason for this seem to be missing Py_DECREF calls on the objects
that are returned by these functions and stored in the Python
dictionaries. The Python dictionaries do not steal references (as
opposed to Python tuples and lists) but instead add their own reference.

Hence, the reference that is returned by these object creation functions
is never released and the memory is leaked. (see [1,2])

The attached patch fixes this by wrapping all relevant calls to
PyDict_SetItemString() and decrementing the reference counter
immediately after the Python function call.

This reduces the allocated memory to a reasonable amount:

  $> /usr/bin/time perf script -i perf.data -s dummy_script.py
  0.73user 0.05system 0:00.79elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
  49132maxresident)k
  0inputs+0outputs (0major+14045minor)pagefaults 0swaps

For comparison, with a 120 MiB input file the memory consumption
reported by time drops from almost 600 MiB to 146 MiB.

The patch has been tested using Linux 3.8.2 with Python 2.7.4 and Linux
3.11.6 with Python 2.7.5.

Please let me know if you need any further information.

[1] http://docs.python.org/2/c-api/tuple.html#PyTuple_SetItem
[2] http://docs.python.org/2/c-api/dict.html#PyDict_SetItemString



Signed-off-by: default avatarJoseph Schuchart <joseph.schuchart@tu-dresden.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381468543-25334-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      c0268e8d
  11. Oct 23, 2013