kernel/tools/perf/util/record.c, branch linux-4.1.y

perf tools: Use sysctl__read_int instead of ad-hoc copies

2014-12-11T20:53:04Z

Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: David Ahern Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pt2u7a3b50oddggecx7rwq2n@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Add perf_evlist__set_tracking_event()

2014-08-13T22:21:32Z

Add a function to change which event is used to track mmap, comm and task events. This is needed with Instruction Tracing because the Instruction Tracing event must come first but cannot be used for tracking because it will be disabled under some circumstances. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406786474-9306-10-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix probing the kernel API with cpu-wide events

2014-08-13T19:22:06Z

Fall back to probing with the current pid if cpu-wide probing fails. This primarily affects the setting of comm_exec flag when the user is un-privileged and /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid > 0. The change to comm_exec can be observed by using -vv with perf record and a kernel that supports comm_exec. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407855871-15024-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix one of the probe events to exclude kernel

2014-08-13T19:20:33Z

When probing the kernel API the kernel should be excluded otherwise the probe will fail for users with insufficient privilege to profile the kernel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407855871-15024-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Enable close-on-exec flag on perf file descriptor

2014-07-18T07:09:34Z

In commit a21b0b354d4a ('perf: Introduce a flag to enable close-on-exec in perf_event_open()'), flag PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC was added to perf_event_open(2) syscall to allows userspace to atomically enable close-on-exec behavor when creating the file descriptor. This patch makes perf tools use the new flag if supported by the kernel, so that the event file descriptors got automatically closed if perf tool exec a sub-command. Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1404160127-7475-1-git-send-email-ydroneaud@opteya.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf record: Select comm_exec flag if supported

2014-07-16T20:57:34Z

The comm_exec flag on the attribute can later be found in the perf.data file allowing a tool to know in advance if the captured data has the flag. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1405332185-4050-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move fs.* to lib/api/fs/

2014-02-18T12:34:49Z

Move to generic library and kill magic.h as it is needed only in fs.h. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stanislav Fomichev Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386605664-24041-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Introduce evlist__for_each() & friends

2014-01-13T13:06:25Z

For the common evsel list traversal, so that it becomes more compact. Use the opportunity to start ditching the 'perf_' from 'perf_evlist__', as discussed, as the whole conversion touches a lot of places, lets do it piecemeal when we have the chance due to other work, like in this case. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qnkx7dzm2h6m6uptkfk03ni6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Rename 'perf_record_opts' to 'record_opts

2013-12-19T17:43:45Z

Reduce typing, functions use class__method convention, so unlikely to clash with other libraries. This actually was discussed in the "Link:" referenced message below. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131112113427.GA4053@ghostprotocols.net Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Add can_select_event() method

2013-12-13T13:30:20Z

Add a function to determine whether an event can be selected. This function is needed to allow a tool to automatically select additional events, but only if they are available. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386765443-26966-18-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo