perf trace: Introduce --max-events
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:38:27 +0000 (16:38 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:58:33 +0000 (11:58 -0300)
commit5067a8cdd4ce3588fca2e0ee554f0f081650de8f
tree8e3b7c085e1d120dfd7d5ac14ca21fc1229637d8
parent4ba8b3ebf4f8f583c2c01da20e4d110a5881ffdd
perf trace: Introduce --max-events

Allow stopping tracing after a number of events take place, considering
strace-like syscalls formatting as one event per enter/exit pair or when
in a multi-process tracing session a syscall is interrupted and printed
ending with '...'.

Examples included in the documentation:

Trace the first 4 open, openat or open_by_handle_at syscalls (in the future more syscalls may match here):

  $ perf trace -e open* --max-events 4
  [root@jouet perf]# trace -e open* --max-events 4
  2272.992 ( 0.037 ms): gnome-shell/1370 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /proc/self/stat) = 31
  2277.481 ( 0.139 ms): gnome-shell/3039 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /proc/self/stat) = 65
  3026.398 ( 0.076 ms): gnome-shell/3039 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /proc/self/stat) = 65
  4294.665 ( 0.015 ms): sed/15879 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /etc/ld.so.cache, flags: CLOEXEC) = 3
  $

Trace the first minor page fault when running a workload:

  # perf trace -F min --max-stack=7 --max-events 1 sleep 1
     0.000 ( 0.000 ms): sleep/18006 minfault [__clear_user+0x1a] => 0x5626efa56080 (?k)
                                       __clear_user ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       load_elf_binary ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       search_binary_handler ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       __do_execve_file.isra.33 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       __x64_sys_execve ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       entry_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
  #

Trace the next min page page fault to take place on the first CPU:

  # perf trace -F min --call-graph=dwarf --max-events 1 --cpu 0
     0.000 ( 0.000 ms): Web Content/17136 minfault [js::gc::Chunk::fetchNextDecommittedArena+0x4b] => 0x7fbe6181b000 (?.)
                                       js::gc::FreeSpan::initAsEmpty (inlined)
                                       js::gc::Arena::setAsNotAllocated (inlined)
                                       js::gc::Chunk::fetchNextDecommittedArena (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
                                       js::gc::Chunk::allocateArena (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
                                       js::gc::GCRuntime::allocateArena (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
                                       js::gc::ArenaLists::allocateFromArena (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
                                       js::gc::GCRuntime::tryNewTenuredThing<JSString, (js::AllowGC)1> (inlined)
                                       js::AllocateString<JSString, (js::AllowGC)1> (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
                                       js::Allocate<JSThinInlineString, (js::AllowGC)1> (inlined)
                                       JSThinInlineString::new_<(js::AllowGC)1> (inlined)
                                       AllocateInlineString<(js::AllowGC)1, unsigned char> (inlined)
                                       js::ConcatStrings<(js::AllowGC)1> (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
                                       [0x18b26e6bc2bd] (/tmp/perf-17136.map)

Tracing the next four ext4 operations on a specific CPU:

  # perf trace -e ext4:*/call-graph=fp/ --max-events 4 --cpu 3
     0.000 mutt/3849 ext4:ext4_es_lookup_extent_enter:dev 253,2 ino 57277 lblk 0
                                       ext4_es_lookup_extent ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       read (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
     0.097 mutt/3849 ext4:ext4_es_lookup_extent_exit:dev 253,2 ino 57277 found 0 [0/0) 0
                                       ext4_es_lookup_extent ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       read (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
     0.141 mutt/3849 ext4:ext4_ext_map_blocks_enter:dev 253,2 ino 57277 lblk 0 len 1 flags
                                       ext4_ext_map_blocks ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       read (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
     0.184 mutt/3849 ext4:ext4_ext_load_extent:dev 253,2 ino 57277 lblk 1516511 pblk 18446744071750013657
                                       __read_extent_tree_block ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       __read_extent_tree_block ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       ext4_find_extent ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       ext4_ext_map_blocks ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       ext4_map_blocks ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       ext4_mpage_readpages ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       read_pages ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       __do_page_cache_readahead ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       ondemand_readahead ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       generic_file_read_iter ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       __vfs_read ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       vfs_read ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       ksys_read ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       entry_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       read (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
  #

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Rudá Moura <ruda.moura@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-sweh107bs7ol5bzls0m4tqdz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c