perf data: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership for 'convert'

2015-04-02T16:18:52Z

Enable perf data convert to use perf.data when it is not owned by current user or root. Example: # perf record ls # chown Yunlong.Song:Yunlong.Song perf.data # ls -al perf.data -rw------- 1 Yunlong.Song Yunlong.Song 28260 Apr 2 17:35 perf.data # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),64(pkcs11) Before this patch: # perf data convert --to-ctf=./ctf-data/ File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override) # perf data convert --to-ctf=./ctf-data/ -f Error: unknown switch `f' usage: perf data convert [] -v, --verbose be more verbose -i, --input input file name --to-ctf ... Convert to CTF format After this patch: # perf data convert --to-ctf=./ctf-data/ File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override) # perf data convert --to-ctf=./ctf-data/ -f # ls ctf-data/ metadata perf_stream_0 As shown above, the -f option really works now. Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427982439-27388-11-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf data: Add perf data to CTF conversion support

2015-02-25T19:13:12Z

Adding 'perf data convert' to convert perf data file into different format. This patch adds support for CTF format conversion. To convert perf.data into CTF run: $ perf data convert --to-ctf=./ctf-data/ [ perf data convert: Converted 'perf.data' into CTF data './ctf-data/' ] [ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 11.268 MB (100230 samples) ] The command will create CTF metadata out of perf.data file (or one specified via -i option) and then convert all sample events into single CTF stream. Each sample_type bit is translated into separated CTF event field apart from following exceptions: PERF_SAMPLE_RAW - added in next patch PERF_SAMPLE_READ - TODO PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN - TODO PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK - TODO PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER - TODO PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER - TODO $ perf --debug=data-convert=2 data convert ... The converted CTF data could be analyzed by CTF tools, like babletrace or tracecompass [1]. $ babeltrace ./ctf-data/ [03:19:13.962125533] (+?.?????????) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1 } [03:19:13.962130001] (+0.000004468) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1 } [03:19:13.962131936] (+0.000001935) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 8 } [03:19:13.962133732] (+0.000001796) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 114 } [03:19:13.962135557] (+0.000001825) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 2087 } [03:19:13.962137627] (+0.000002070) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF81361938, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 37582 } [03:19:13.962161091] (+0.000023464) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8124218F, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 600246 } [03:19:13.962517569] (+0.000356478) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF811A75DB, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1325731 } [03:19:13.969518008] (+0.007000439) cycles: { }, { ip = 0x34080917B2, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1144298 } The following members to the ctf-environment were decided to be added to distinguish and specify perf CTF data: - domain It says "kernel" because it contains a kernel trace (not to be confused with a user space like lttng-ust does) - tracer_name It says perf. This can be used to distinguish between lttng and perf CTF based trace. - version The kernel version from stream. In addition to release, this is what it looks like on a Debian kernel: release = "3.14-1-amd64"; version = "3.14.0"; [1] http://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.tracecompass Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Reviewed-by: David Ahern Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jeremie Galarneau Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424470628-5969-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

kernel/tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.h, branch linux-4.3.y

perf data: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership for 'convert'

perf data: Add perf data to CTF conversion support