Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | David Ahern <> | Subject | [PATCH 03/11] perf kvm: guest userspace samples should not be lumped with host uspace | Date | Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:25:48 -0600 |
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e.g., perf kvm --host --guest report -i perf.data --stdio -D shows:
1 599127912065356 0x143b8 [0x48]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 5): 5671/5676: 0x7fdf95a061c0 period: 1 addr: 0 ... chain: nr:2 ..... 0: ffffffffffffff80 ..... 1: fffffffffffffe00 ... thread: qemu-kvm:5671 ...... dso: <not found>
(IP, 5) means sample in guest userspace. Those samples should not be lumped into the VMM's host thread. i.e, the report output:
56.86% qemu-kvm [unknown] [u] 0x00007fdf95a061c0
With this patch the output emphasizes it is a guest userspace hit:
56.86% [guest/5671] [unknown] [u] 0x00007fdf95a061c0
Looking at 3 VMs (2 64-bit, 1 32-bit) with each running a CPU bound process (openssl speed), perf report currently shows:
93.84% 117726 qemu-kvm [unknown] [u] 0x00007fd7dcaea8e5
which is wrong. With this patch you get:
31.50% 39258 [guest/18772] [unknown] [u] 0x00007fd7dcaea8e5 31.50% 39236 [guest/11230] [unknown] [u] 0x0000000000a57340 30.84% 39232 [guest/18395] [unknown] [u] 0x00007f66f641e107
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> --- tools/perf/util/session.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c index 8e48559..90ee39d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/session.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c @@ -918,7 +918,9 @@ static struct machine * { const u8 cpumode = event->header.misc & PERF_RECORD_MISC_CPUMODE_MASK; - if (cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL && perf_guest) { + if (perf_guest && + ((cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL) || + (cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER))) { u32 pid; if (event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_MMAP) -- 1.7.10.1
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