perf stat: Add -n/--null option to run without counters

Allow a no-counters run. This can be useful to measure just
elapsed wall-clock time - or to assess the raw overhead of perf
stat itself, witho

perf stat: Add -n/--null option to run without counters

Allow a no-counters run. This can be useful to measure just
elapsed wall-clock time - or to assess the raw overhead of perf
stat itself, without running any counters.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf stat: Remove dead code

Remove dead code and do some code alignment.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference:

perf stat: Remove dead code

Remove dead code and do some code alignment.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1245847774.2681.2.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf stat: Fix verbose for perf stat

Error message should use stderr for verbose (-v), otherwise
message will be lost for:

$ ./perf stat -v <cmd> > /dev/null

For example on AMD bus-cycles event

perf stat: Fix verbose for perf stat

Error message should use stderr for verbose (-v), otherwise
message will be lost for:

$ ./perf stat -v <cmd> > /dev/null

For example on AMD bus-cycles event is not available so now
it looks like:

$ ./perf stat -v -e bus-cycles ls > /dev/null
Error: counter 0, sys_perf_counter_open() syscall returned with -1 (Invalid argument)

Performance counter stats for 'ls':

<not counted> bus-cycles

0.006765877 seconds time elapsed.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1245757369.3776.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf_counter tools: Define and use our own u64, s64 etc. definitions

On 64-bit powerpc, __u64 is defined to be unsigned long rather than
unsigned long long. This causes compiler warnings every time

perf_counter tools: Define and use our own u64, s64 etc. definitions

On 64-bit powerpc, __u64 is defined to be unsigned long rather than
unsigned long long. This causes compiler warnings every time we
print a __u64 value with %Lx.

Rather than changing __u64, we define our own u64 to be unsigned long
long on all architectures, and similarly s64 as signed long long.
For consistency we also define u32, s32, u16, s16, u8 and s8. These
definitions are put in a new header, types.h, because these definitions
are needed in util/string.h and util/symbol.h.

The main change here is the mechanical change of __[us]{64,32,16,8}
to remove the "__". The other changes are:

* Create types.h
* Include types.h in perf.h, util/string.h and util/symbol.h
* Add types.h to the LIB_H definition in Makefile
* Added (u64) casts in process_overflow_event() and print_sym_table()
to kill two remaining warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
LKML-Reference: <19003.33494.495844.956580@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf stat: Enable raw data to be printed

If -vv (very verbose) is specified, print out raw data
in the following format:

$ perf stat -vv -r 3 ./loop_1b_instructions

[ perf stat: executing run #1 .

perf stat: Enable raw data to be printed

If -vv (very verbose) is specified, print out raw data
in the following format:

$ perf stat -vv -r 3 ./loop_1b_instructions

[ perf stat: executing run #1 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #2 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #3 ... ]

debug: runtime[0]: 235871872
debug: walltime[0]: 236646752
debug: runtime_cycles[0]: 755150182
debug: counter/0[0]: 235871872
debug: counter/1[0]: 235871872
debug: counter/2[0]: 235871872
debug: scaled[0]: 0
debug: counter/0[1]: 2
debug: counter/1[1]: 235870662
debug: counter/2[1]: 235870662
debug: scaled[1]: 0
debug: counter/0[2]: 1
debug: counter/1[2]: 235870437
debug: counter/2[2]: 235870437
debug: scaled[2]: 0
debug: counter/0[3]: 140
debug: counter/1[3]: 235870298
debug: counter/2[3]: 235870298
debug: scaled[3]: 0
debug: counter/0[4]: 755150182
debug: counter/1[4]: 235870145
debug: counter/2[4]: 235870145
debug: scaled[4]: 0
debug: counter/0[5]: 1001411258
debug: counter/1[5]: 235868838
debug: counter/2[5]: 235868838
debug: scaled[5]: 0
debug: counter/0[6]: 27897
debug: counter/1[6]: 235868560
debug: counter/2[6]: 235868560
debug: scaled[6]: 0
debug: counter/0[7]: 2910
debug: counter/1[7]: 235868151
debug: counter/2[7]: 235868151
debug: scaled[7]: 0
debug: runtime[0]: 235980257
debug: walltime[0]: 236770942
debug: runtime_cycles[0]: 755114546
debug: counter/0[0]: 235980257
debug: counter/1[0]: 235980257
debug: counter/2[0]: 235980257
debug: scaled[0]: 0
debug: counter/0[1]: 3
debug: counter/1[1]: 235980049
debug: counter/2[1]: 235980049
debug: scaled[1]: 0
debug: counter/0[2]: 1
debug: counter/1[2]: 235979907
debug: counter/2[2]: 235979907
debug: scaled[2]: 0
debug: counter/0[3]: 135
debug: counter/1[3]: 235979780
debug: counter/2[3]: 235979780
debug: scaled[3]: 0
debug: counter/0[4]: 755114546
debug: counter/1[4]: 235979652
debug: counter/2[4]: 235979652
debug: scaled[4]: 0
debug: counter/0[5]: 1001439771
debug: counter/1[5]: 235979304
debug: counter/2[5]: 235979304
debug: scaled[5]: 0
debug: counter/0[6]: 23723
debug: counter/1[6]: 235979050
debug: counter/2[6]: 235979050
debug: scaled[6]: 0
debug: counter/0[7]: 2213
debug: counter/1[7]: 235978820
debug: counter/2[7]: 235978820
debug: scaled[7]: 0
debug: runtime[0]: 235888002
debug: walltime[0]: 236700533
debug: runtime_cycles[0]: 754881504
debug: counter/0[0]: 235888002
debug: counter/1[0]: 235888002
debug: counter/2[0]: 235888002
debug: scaled[0]: 0
debug: counter/0[1]: 2
debug: counter/1[1]: 235887793
debug: counter/2[1]: 235887793
debug: scaled[1]: 0
debug: counter/0[2]: 1
debug: counter/1[2]: 235887645
debug: counter/2[2]: 235887645
debug: scaled[2]: 0
debug: counter/0[3]: 135
debug: counter/1[3]: 235887499
debug: counter/2[3]: 235887499
debug: scaled[3]: 0
debug: counter/0[4]: 754881504
debug: counter/1[4]: 235887368
debug: counter/2[4]: 235887368
debug: scaled[4]: 0
debug: counter/0[5]: 1001401731
debug: counter/1[5]: 235887024
debug: counter/2[5]: 235887024
debug: scaled[5]: 0
debug: counter/0[6]: 24212
debug: counter/1[6]: 235886786
debug: counter/2[6]: 235886786
debug: scaled[6]: 0
debug: counter/0[7]: 1824
debug: counter/1[7]: 235886560
debug: counter/2[7]: 235886560
debug: scaled[7]: 0

Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/loop_1b_instructions' (3 runs):

235.913377 task-clock-msecs # 0.997 CPUs ( +- 0.011% )
2 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 0.000% )
1 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 0.000% )
136 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec ( +- 0.730% )
755048744 cycles # 3200.534 M/sec ( +- 0.009% )
1001417586 instructions # 1.326 IPC ( +- 0.001% )
25277 cache-references # 0.107 M/sec ( +- 3.988% )
2315 cache-misses # 0.010 M/sec ( +- 9.845% )

0.236706075 seconds time elapsed.

This allows the summary stats to be validated.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf stat: Add feature to run and measure a command multiple times

Add the --repeat <n> feature to perf stat, which repeats a given
command up to a 100 times, collects the stats and calculates an
av

perf stat: Add feature to run and measure a command multiple times

Add the --repeat <n> feature to perf stat, which repeats a given
command up to a 100 times, collects the stats and calculates an
average and a stddev.

For example, the following oneliner 'perf stat' command runs hackbench
5 times and prints a tabulated result of all metrics, with averages
and noise levels (in percentage) printed:

aldebaran:~/linux/linux/tools/perf> ./perf stat --repeat 5 ~/hackbench 10
Time: 0.117
Time: 0.108
Time: 0.089
Time: 0.088
Time: 0.100

Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 10' (5 runs):

1243.989586 task-clock-msecs # 10.460 CPUs ( +- 4.720% )
47706 context-switches # 0.038 M/sec ( +- 19.706% )
387 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 3.608% )
17793 page-faults # 0.014 M/sec ( +- 0.354% )
3770941606 cycles # 3031.329 M/sec ( +- 4.621% )
1566372416 instructions # 0.415 IPC ( +- 2.703% )
16783421 cache-references # 13.492 M/sec ( +- 5.202% )
7128590 cache-misses # 5.730 M/sec ( +- 7.420% )

0.118924455 seconds time elapsed.

The goal of this feature is to allow the reliance on these accurate
statistics and to know how many times a command has to be repeated
for the noise to go down to an acceptable level.

(The -v option can be used to see a line printed out as each run progresses.)

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf stat: Reorganize output

- use IPC for the instruction normalization output
- CPUs for the CPU utilization factor value.
- print out time elapsed like the other rows
- tidy up the task-clock

perf stat: Reorganize output

- use IPC for the instruction normalization output
- CPUs for the CPU utilization factor value.
- print out time elapsed like the other rows
- tidy up the task-clocks/cpu-clocks printout

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf_counter: Standardize event names

Pure renames only, to PERF_COUNT_HW_* and PERF_COUNT_SW_*.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul M

perf_counter: Standardize event names

Pure renames only, to PERF_COUNT_HW_* and PERF_COUNT_SW_*.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly

Currently report and stat catch SIGINT (and others) without altering
their exit state. This means that things like:

while :; do perf stat ./foo ; d

perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly

Currently report and stat catch SIGINT (and others) without altering
their exit state. This means that things like:

while :; do perf stat ./foo ; done

Loops become hard-to-interrupt, because bash never sees perf terminate
due to interruption. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf stat: Print out instructins/cycle metric

Before:

7549326754 cycles # 3201.811 M/sec
10007594937 instructions # 4244.408 M/sec

After:

7542051194 c

perf stat: Print out instructins/cycle metric

Before:

7549326754 cycles # 3201.811 M/sec
10007594937 instructions # 4244.408 M/sec

After:

7542051194 cycles # 3201.996 M/sec
10007743852 instructions # 4248.811 M/sec # 1.327 per cycle

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf stat: Continue even on counter creation error

Before:

$ perf stat ~/hackbench 5

error: syscall returned with -1 (No such device)

After:

$ perf stat ~/hackbench 5
Time: 1.640

Performan

perf stat: Continue even on counter creation error

Before:

$ perf stat ~/hackbench 5

error: syscall returned with -1 (No such device)

After:

$ perf stat ~/hackbench 5
Time: 1.640

Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 5':

6524.570382 task-clock-ticks # 3.838 CPU utilization factor
35704 context-switches # 0.005 M/sec
191 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec
8958 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec
<not counted> cycles
<not counted> instructions
<not counted> cache-references
<not counted> cache-misses

Wall-clock time elapsed: 1699.999995 msecs

Also add -v (--verbose) option to allow the printing of failed
counter opens.

Plus dont print 'inf' if wall-time is zero (due to jiffies granularity),
instead skip the printing of the CPU utilization factor.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/

Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it

perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/

Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the
(new) tools/ directory.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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