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SubjectRe: [PATCH V3 00/25] perf tools: Introduce an abstraction for AUX Area and Instruction Tracing
Em Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:29:42PM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
> Hi
>
> Here is V3 patches for the introduction of an abstraction for
> using the AUX area and Instruction tracing.
>
> The patches can also be found here:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/users/ahunter/linux-perf.git
>
> An example perf.data file and build id archive can be found here:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/~ahunter/tfr/
>
> There is also a tar of the 3 most relevant files with debugging
> symbols. These need to be placed in under the correct paths in
> /usr/lib/debug to get symbols.

Thanks a lot for making those files available, I'll try and push a first
batch from what is in perf/core by now, the try those files, and then
apply some more, hopefully finishing the outstanding ones over the
weekend.

- Arnaldo

> Changes in V3:
>
> New patch:
> perf tools: Amend mmap ref counting for the AUX area mmap
>
> Move some code under arch:
> perf tools: Add Intel PT support
> perf tools: Add Intel BTS support
>
> Updated documentation:
> perf report: Add Instruction Tracing support
> perf auxtrace: Add option to synthesize events for transactions
> perf tools: Take Intel PT into use
> perf tools: Add Intel BTS support
>
> Patches already applied:
> perf header: Add AUX area tracing feature
> perf evlist: Add support for mmapping an AUX area buffer
> perf tools: Add user events for AUX area tracing
> perf tools: Add support for AUX area recording
> perf record: Add basic AUX area tracing support
> perf record: Extend -m option for AUX area tracing mmap pages
> perf tools: Add a user event for AUX area tracing errors
> perf session: Add hooks to allow transparent decoding of AUX area tracing data
> perf session: Add instruction tracing options
> perf auxtrace: Add helpers for AUX area tracing errors
> perf auxtrace: Add helpers for queuing AUX area tracing data
> perf auxtrace: Add a heap for sorting AUX area tracing queues
> perf auxtrace: Add processing for AUX area tracing events
> perf auxtrace: Add a hashtable for caching
> perf tools: Add member to struct dso for an instruction cache
> perf script: Add Instruction Tracing support
> perf inject: Re-pipe AUX area tracing events
> perf inject: Add Instruction Tracing support
> perf script: Add field option 'flags' to print sample flags
> perf tools: Add aux_watermark member of struct perf_event_attr
>
> Changes in V2:
>
> Get rid of MIN()
> perf auxtrace: Add helpers for AUX area tracing errors
> perf inject: Re-pipe AUX area tracing events
> perf tools: Add build option NO_AUXTRACE to exclude AUX area tracing
>
>
> Intel BTS can be used on most recent Intel CPUs. Intel PT
> is available on Broadwell.
>
> Examples:
>
> Trace 'ls' with Intel BTS userspace only
>
> perf record --per-thread -e intel_bts//u ls
> perf report
> perf script
>
> Trace 'ls' with Intel BTS kernel and userspace
>
> ~/libexec/perf-core/perf-with-kcore record bts-ls --per-thread -e intel_bts// -- ls
> ~/libexec/perf-core/perf-with-kcore report bts-ls
> ~/libexec/perf-core/perf-with-kcore script bts-ls
>
> Trace 'ls' with Intel PT userspace only
>
> perf record -e intel_pt//u ls
> perf report
> perf script
>
> Trace 'ls' with Intel PT kernel and userspace
>
> ~/libexec/perf-core/perf-with-kcore record pt-ls -e intel_pt// -- ls
> ~/libexec/perf-core/perf-with-kcore report pt-ls
> ~/libexec/perf-core/perf-with-kcore script pt-ls
>
>
> The abstraction has two separate aspects:
> 1. recording AUX area data
> 2. processing AUX area data
>
> Recording consists of mmapping a separate buffer and copying
> the data into the perf.data file. The buffer is an AUX area
> buffer. The data is written preceded by a new user event
> PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE. The data is too big to fit in the event
> but follows immediately afterward. Session processing has to
> skip to get to the next event header in a similar fashion to
> the existing PERF_RECORD_HEADER_TRACING_DATA
> event. The main recording patches are:
>
> perf evlist: Add support for mmapping an AUX area buffer
> perf tools: Add user events for AUX area tracing
> perf tools: Add support for AUX area recording
> perf record: Add basic AUX area tracing support
>
> Processing consists of providing hooks in session processing
> to enable a decoder to see all the events and deliver synthesized
> events transparently into the event stream. The main processing
> patch is:
>
> perf session: Add hooks to allow transparent decoding of AUX area tracing data
>
>
> Adrian Hunter (25):
> perf tools: Amend mmap ref counting for the AUX area mmap
> perf script: Always allow fields 'addr' and 'cpu' for auxtrace
> perf report: Add Instruction Tracing support
> perf tools: Add AUX area tracing index
> perf tools: Hit all build ids when AUX area tracing
> perf tools: Add build option NO_AUXTRACE to exclude AUX area tracing
> perf auxtrace: Add option to synthesize events for transactions
> perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_AUX
> perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START
> perf tools: Add AUX area tracing Snapshot Mode
> perf record: Add AUX area tracing Snapshot Mode support
> perf auxtrace: Add Intel PT as an AUX area tracing type
> perf tools: Add Intel PT packet decoder
> perf tools: Add Intel PT instruction decoder
> perf tools: Add Intel PT log
> perf tools: Add Intel PT decoder
> perf tools: Add Intel PT support
> perf tools: Take Intel PT into use
> perf tools: Allow auxtrace data alignment
> perf tools: Add Intel BTS support
> perf tools: Output sample flags and insn_len from intel_pt
> perf tools: Output sample flags and insn_len from intel_bts
> perf tools: Intel PT to always update thread stack trace number
> perf tools: Intel BTS to always update thread stack trace number
> perf tools: Add example call-graph script
>
> tools/build/Makefile.build | 2 +
> tools/perf/.gitignore | 2 +
> tools/perf/Documentation/intel-bts.txt | 69 +
> tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt | 467 +++++
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt | 9 +-
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 7 +
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 28 +
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt | 9 +-
> tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 8 +-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build | 5 +
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/auxtrace.c | 83 +
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-bts.c | 458 +++++
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c | 752 ++++++++
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/pmu.c | 15 +
> tools/perf/builtin-buildid-list.c | 9 +
> tools/perf/builtin-inject.c | 78 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 172 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 11 +
> tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 29 +-
> tools/perf/config/Makefile | 5 +
> tools/perf/perf.h | 3 +
> .../scripts/python/call-graph-from-postgresql.py | 285 +++
> tools/perf/tests/make | 2 +
> tools/perf/util/Build | 5 +-
> tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 322 +++-
> tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 220 +++
> tools/perf/util/event.c | 39 +
> tools/perf/util/event.h | 24 +
> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/util/header.c | 31 +-
> tools/perf/util/intel-bts.c | 919 ++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/intel-bts.h | 43 +
> tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/Build | 14 +
> .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 1738 ++++++++++++++++++
> .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.h | 89 +
> .../util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c | 246 +++
> .../util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.h | 65 +
> tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-log.c | 155 ++
> tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-log.h | 52 +
> .../util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-pkt-decoder.c | 400 +++++
> .../util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-pkt-decoder.h | 64 +
> tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c | 1897 ++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/intel-pt.h | 57 +
> tools/perf/util/machine.c | 21 +
> tools/perf/util/machine.h | 4 +
> tools/perf/util/parse-options.h | 4 +
> tools/perf/util/session.c | 32 +
> tools/perf/util/session.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/tool.h | 2 +
> 49 files changed, 8882 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/intel-bts.txt
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/auxtrace.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-bts.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/pmu.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/scripts/python/call-graph-from-postgresql.py
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-bts.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-bts.h
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/Build
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.h
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.h
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-log.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-log.h
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-pkt-decoder.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-pkt-decoder.h
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/intel-pt.h
>
>
> Regards
> Adrian


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