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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
108 files changed, 93653 insertions, 4853 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/guest-files.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/guest-files.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8cc0b092f996 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/guest-files.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +include::guestmount.txt[] + +--guestkallsyms=<path>:: + Guest OS /proc/kallsyms file copy. perf reads it to get guest + kernel symbols. Users copy it out from guest OS. + +--guestmodules=<path>:: + Guest OS /proc/modules file copy. perf reads it to get guest + kernel module information. Users copy it out from guest OS. + +--guestvmlinux=<path>:: + Guest OS kernel vmlinux. + +--guest-code:: + Indicate that guest code can be found in the hypervisor process, + which is a common case for KVM test programs. diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/guestmount.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/guestmount.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6edf12363add --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/guestmount.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--guestmount=<path>:: + Guest OS root file system mount directory. Users mount guest OS + root directories under <path> by a specific filesystem access method, + typically, sshfs. + For example, start 2 guest OS, one's pid is 8888 and the other's is 9999: +[verse] + $ mkdir \~/guestmount + $ cd \~/guestmount + $ sshfs -o allow_other,direct_io -p 5551 localhost:/ 8888/ + $ sshfs -o allow_other,direct_io -p 5552 localhost:/ 9999/ + $ perf {GMEXAMPLECMD} --guestmount=~/guestmount {GMEXAMPLESUBCMD} diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt index 6f69173731aa..f1f7ae6b08d1 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt @@ -109,7 +109,9 @@ REPORT OPTIONS -d:: --display:: - Switch to HITM type (rmt, lcl) to display and sort on. Total HITMs as default. + Switch to HITM type (rmt, lcl) or peer snooping type (peer) to display + and sort on. Total HITMs (tot) as default, except Arm64 uses peer mode + as default. --stitch-lbr:: Show callgraph with stitched LBRs, which may have more complete @@ -174,12 +176,18 @@ For each cacheline in the 1) list we display following data: Cacheline - cacheline address (hex number) - Rmt/Lcl Hitm + Rmt/Lcl Hitm (Display with HITM types) - cacheline percentage of all Remote/Local HITM accesses - LLC Load Hitm - Total, LclHitm, RmtHitm + Peer Snoop (Display with peer type) + - cacheline percentage of all peer accesses + + LLC Load Hitm - Total, LclHitm, RmtHitm (For display with HITM types) - count of Total/Local/Remote load HITMs + Load Peer - Total, Local, Remote (For display with peer type) + - count of Total/Local/Remote load from peer cache or DRAM + Total records - sum of all cachelines accesses @@ -201,16 +209,21 @@ For each cacheline in the 1) list we display following data: - count of LLC load accesses, includes LLC hits and LLC HITMs RMT Load Hit - RmtHit, RmtHitm - - count of remote load accesses, includes remote hits and remote HITMs + - count of remote load accesses, includes remote hits and remote HITMs; + on Arm neoverse cores, RmtHit is used to account remote accesses, + includes remote DRAM or any upward cache level in remote node Load Dram - Lcl, Rmt - count of local and remote DRAM accesses For each offset in the 2) list we display following data: - HITM - Rmt, Lcl + HITM - Rmt, Lcl (Display with HITM types) - % of Remote/Local HITM accesses for given offset within cacheline + Peer Snoop - Rmt, Lcl (Display with peer type) + - % of Remote/Local peer accesses for given offset within cacheline + Store Refs - L1 Hit, L1 Miss, N/A - % of store accesses that hit L1, missed L1 and N/A (no available) memory level for given offset within cacheline @@ -227,9 +240,12 @@ For each offset in the 2) list we display following data: Code address - code address responsible for the accesses - cycles - rmt hitm, lcl hitm, load + cycles - rmt hitm, lcl hitm, load (Display with HITM types) - sum of cycles for given accesses - Remote/Local HITM and generic load + cycles - rmt peer, lcl peer, load (Display with peer type) + - sum of cycles for given accesses - Remote/Local peer load and generic load + cpu cnt - number of cpus that participated on the access @@ -251,7 +267,8 @@ The 'Node' field displays nodes that accesses given cacheline offset. Its output comes in 3 flavors: - node IDs separated by ',' - node IDs with stats for each ID, in following format: - Node{cpus %hitms %stores} + Node{cpus %hitms %stores} (Display with HITM types) + Node{cpus %peers %stores} (Display with peer type) - node IDs with list of affected CPUs in following format: Node{cpu list} diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt index 646aa31586ed..ffc293fdf61d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt @@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ include::itrace.txt[] should be used, and also --buildid-all and --switch-events may be useful. +:GMEXAMPLECMD: inject +:GMEXAMPLESUBCMD: +include::guestmount.txt[] + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], linkperf:perf-archive[1], diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt index 83c742adf86e..2ad3f5d9f72b 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt @@ -77,26 +77,11 @@ OPTIONS Collect host side performance profile. --guest:: Collect guest side performance profile. ---guestmount=<path>:: - Guest os root file system mount directory. Users mounts guest os - root directories under <path> by a specific filesystem access method, - typically, sshfs. For example, start 2 guest os. The one's pid is 8888 - and the other's is 9999. - #mkdir ~/guestmount; cd ~/guestmount - #sshfs -o allow_other,direct_io -p 5551 localhost:/ 8888/ - #sshfs -o allow_other,direct_io -p 5552 localhost:/ 9999/ - #perf kvm --host --guest --guestmount=~/guestmount top ---guestkallsyms=<path>:: - Guest os /proc/kallsyms file copy. 'perf' kvm' reads it to get guest - kernel symbols. Users copy it out from guest os. ---guestmodules=<path>:: - Guest os /proc/modules file copy. 'perf' kvm' reads it to get guest - kernel module information. Users copy it out from guest os. ---guestvmlinux=<path>:: - Guest os kernel vmlinux. ---guest-code:: - Indicate that guest code can be found in the hypervisor process, - which is a common case for KVM test programs. + +:GMEXAMPLECMD: kvm --host --guest +:GMEXAMPLESUBCMD: top +include::guest-files.txt[] + -v:: --verbose:: Be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc). diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt index c09cc44e50ee..68e37de5fae4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ OPTIONS Instruction Trace |