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2010-07-05	perf: Fix endianness argument compatibility with OPT_BOOLEAN() and introduce ↵	Ian Munsie
	OPT_INCR() commit c05556421742eb47f80301767653a4bcb19de9de upstream. Parsing an option from the command line with OPT_BOOLEAN on a bool data type would not work on a big-endian machine due to the manner in which the boolean was being cast into an int and incremented. For example, running 'perf probe --list' on a PowerPC machine would fail to properly set the list_events bool and would therefore print out the usage information and terminate. This patch makes OPT_BOOLEAN work as expected with a bool datatype. For cases where the original OPT_BOOLEAN was intentionally being used to increment an int each time it was passed in on the command line, this patch introduces OPT_INCR with the old behaviour of OPT_BOOLEAN (the verbose variable is currently the only such example of this). I have reviewed every use of OPT_BOOLEAN to verify that a true C99 bool was passed. Where integers were used, I verified that they were only being used for boolean logic and changed them to bools to ensure that they would not be mistakenly used as ints. The major exception was the verbose variable which now uses OPT_INCR instead of OPT_BOOLEAN. Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au.ibm.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Git development list <git@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1271147857-11604-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-27	perf lock: Drop the buffers multiplexing dependency	Frederic Weisbecker
	We need to deal with time ordered events to build a correct state machine of lock events. This is why we multiplex the lock events buffers. But the ordering is done from the kernel, on the tracing fast path, leading to high contention between cpus. Without multiplexing, the events appears in a weak order. If we have four events, each split per cpu, perf record will read the events buffers in the following order: [ CPU0 ev0, CPU0 ev1, CPU0 ev3, CPU0 ev4, CPU1 ev0, CPU1 ev0....] To handle a post processing reordering, we could just read and sort the whole in memory, but it just doesn't scale with high amounts of events: lock events can fill huge amounts in few times. Basically we need to sort in memory and find a "grace period" point when we know that a given slice of previously sorted events can be committed for post-processing, so that we can unload the memory usage step by step and keep a scalable sorting list. There is no strong rules about how to define such "grace period". What does this patch is: We define a FLUSH_PERIOD value that defines a grace period in seconds. We want to have a slice of events covering 2 * FLUSH_PERIOD in our sorted list. If FLUSH_PERIOD is big enough, it ensures every events that occured in the first half of the timeslice have all been buffered and there are none remaining and there won't be further to put inside this first timeslice. Then once we reach the 2 * FLUSH_PERIOD timeslice, we flush the first half to be gentle with the memory (the second half can still get new events in the middle, so wait another period to flush it) FLUSH_PERIOD is defined to 5 seconds. Say the first event started on time t0. We can safely assume that at the time we are processing events of t0 + 10 seconds, ther won't be anymore events to read from perf.data that occured between t0 and t0 + 5 seconds. Hence we can safely flush the first half. To point out funky bugs, we have a guardian that checks a new event timestamp is not below the last event's timestamp flushed and that displays a warning in this case. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-31	perf lock: Clean up various details	Ingo Molnar
	Fix up a few small stylistic details: - use consistent vertical spacing/alignment - remove line80 artifacts - group some global variables better - remove dead code Plus rename 'prof' to 'report' to make it more in line with other tools, and remove the line/file keying as we really want to use IPs like the other tools do. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-12-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-31	perf lock: Introduce new tool "perf lock", for analyzing lock statistics	Hitoshi Mitake
	Adding new subcommand "perf lock" to perf. I have a lot of remaining ToDos, but for now perf lock can already provide minimal functionality for analyzing lock statistics. Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-12-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>