For long running sessions with many threads with short lifetimes the
amount of memory that the buildid process takes is too much.
Since we don't have hist_entries that may be pointing to them, we can
just release the resources associated with each thread when the exit
(PERF_RECORD_EXIT) event is received.
For normal processing we need to annotate maps with hits, and thus
hist_entries pointing to it and drop the ones that had none. Will be
done in a followup patch.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds the ability to specify an alternate directory to store the
buildid cache (buildids, copy of binaries). By default, it is hardcoded to
$HOME/.debug. This directory contains immutable data. The layout of the
directory is such that no conflicts in filenames are possible. A modification
in a file, yields a different buildid and thus a different location in the
subdir hierarchy.
You may want to put the buildid cache elsewhere because of disk space
limitation or simply to share the cache between users. It is also useful for
remote collect vs. local analysis of profiles.
This patch adds a new config option to the perfconfig file. Under the tag
'buildid', there is a dir option. For instance, if you have:
$ cat /etc/perfconfig
[buildid]
dir = /var/cache/perf-buildid
All buildids and binaries are be saved in the directory specified. The perf
record, buildid-list, buildid-cache, report, annotate, and archive commands
will it to pull information out.
The option can be set in the system-wide perfconfig file or in the
$HOME/.perfconfig file.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4c055fb7.df0ce30a.5f0d.ffffae52@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We were still using the pathname found on the MMAP event, that could not
be the one we used when recording, so use the build-id cache for that,
only falling back to use the pathname in the MMAP event if no build-ids
are available.
With this we now also are able to do secure, seamless offline annotation.
Example:
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report -g none -v 2> /dev/null | head -10
8.12% Xorg /usr/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0.14.0 0x0000000000026d02 B [.] pixman_rasterize_edges
4.68% firefox /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so 0x00000000005dbdba B [.] 0x000000005dbdba
3.70% swapper /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc6/build/vmlinux 0xffffffff81022cea ! [k] read_hpet
2.96% init /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc6/build/vmlinux 0xffffffff81022cea ! [k] read_hpet
2.73% swapper /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc6/build/vmlinux 0xffffffff8100a738 ! [k] mwait_idle_with_hints
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf annotate -v pixman_rasterize_edges 2>&1 | grep Executing
Executing: objdump --start-address=0x000000371ce26670 --stop-address=0x000000371ce2709f -dS /root/.debug/.build-id/bd/6ac5199137aaeb279f864717d8d061477466c1|grep -v /root/.debug/.build-id/bd/6ac5199137aaeb279f864717d8d061477466c1|expand
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf buildid-list | grep libpixman-1.so.0.14.0
bd6ac5199137aaeb279f864717d8d061477466c1 /usr/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0.14.0
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Because 'perf record' will have to find the build-ids in after
we stop recording, so as to reduce even more the impact in the
workload while we do the measurement.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Stephane Eranian
Zhang, Yanmin