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------------------------------ ****** perf by examples ****** ------------------------------ [ From an e-mail by Ingo Molnar, https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20090804195717.GA5998@elte.hu ] First, discovery/enumeration of available counters can be done via 'perf list': titan:~> perf list [...] kmem:kmalloc [Tracepoint event] kmem:kmem_cache_alloc [Tracepoint event] kmem:kmalloc_node [Tracepoint event] kmem:kmem_cache_alloc_node [Tracepoint event] kmem:kfree [Tracepoint event] kmem:kmem_cache_free [Tracepoint event] kmem:mm_page_free [Tracepoint event] kmem:mm_page_free_batched [Tracepoint event] kmem:mm_page_alloc [Tracepoint event] kmem:mm_page_alloc_zone_locked [Tracepoint event] kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain [Tracepoint event] kmem:mm_page_alloc_extfrag [Tracepoint event] Then any (or all) of the above event sources can be activated and measured. For example the page alloc/free properties of a 'hackbench run' are: titan:~> perf stat -e kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched -e kmem:mm_page_free ./hackbench 10 Time: 0.575 Performance counter stats for './hackbench 10': 13857 kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain 27576 kmem:mm_page_alloc 6025 kmem:mm_page_free_batched 20934 kmem:mm_page_free 0.613972165 seconds time elapsed You can observe the statistical properties as well, by using the 'repeat the workload N times' feature of perf stat: titan:~> perf stat --repeat 5 -e kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched -e kmem:mm_page_free ./hackbench 10 Time: 0.627 Time: 0.644 Time: 0.564 Time: 0.559 Time: 0.626 Performance counter stats for './hackbench 10' (5 runs): 12920 kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain ( +- 3.359% ) 25035 kmem:mm_page_alloc ( +- 3.783% ) 6104 kmem:mm_page_free_batched ( +- 0.934% ) 18376 kmem:mm_page_free ( +- 4.941% ) 0.643954516 seconds time elapsed ( +- 2.363% ) Furthermore, these tracepoints can be used to sample the workload as well. For example the page allocations done by a 'git gc' can be captured the following way: titan:~/git> perf record -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc Counting objects: 1148, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (450/450), done. Writing objects: 100% (1148/1148), done. Total 1148 (delta 690), reused 1148 (delta 690) [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.267 MB perf.data (~11679 samples) ] To check which functions generated page allocations: titan:~/git> perf report # Samples: 10646 # # Overhead Command Shared Object # ........ ............... .......................... # 23.57% git-repack /lib64/libc-2.5.so 21.81% git /lib64/libc-2.5.so 14.59% git ./git 11.79% git-repack ./git 7.12% git /lib64/ld-2.5.so 3.16% git-repack /lib64/libpthread-2.5.so 2.09% git-repack /bin/bash 1.97% rm /lib64/libc-2.5.so 1.39% mv /lib64/ld-2.5.so 1.37% mv /lib64/libc-2.5.so 1.12% git-repack /lib64/ld-2.5.so 0.95% rm /lib64/ld-2.5.so 0.90% git-update-serv /lib64/libc-2.5.so 0.73% git-update-serv /lib64/ld-2.5.so 0.68% perf /lib64/libpthread-2.5.so 0.64% git-repack /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 Or to see it on a more finegrained level: titan:~/git> perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol # Samples: 10646 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............... .......................... ...... # 9.35% git-repack ./git [.] insert_obj_hash 9.12% git ./git [.] insert_obj_hash 7.31% git /lib64/libc-2.5.so [.] memcpy 6.34% git-repack /lib64/libc-2.5.so [.] _int_malloc 6.24% git-repack /lib64/libc-2.5.so [.] memcpy 5.82% git-repack /lib64/libc-2.5.so [.] __GI___fork 5.47% git /lib64/libc-2.5.so [.] _int_malloc 2.99% git /lib64/libc-2.5.so [.] memset Furthermore, call-graph sampling can be done too, of page allocations - to see precisely what kind of page allocations there are: titan:~/git> perf record -g -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc Counting objects: 1148, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (450/450), done. Writing objects: 100% (1148/1148), done. Total 1148 (delta 690), reused 1148 (delta 690) [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.963 MB perf.data (~42069 samples) ] titan:~/git> perf report -g # Samples: 10686 # # Overhead Command Shared Object # ........ ............... .......................... # 23.25% git-repack /lib64/libc-2.5.so | |--50.00%-- _int_free | |--37.50%-- __GI___fork | make_child | |--12.50%-- ptmalloc_unlock_all2 | make_child | --6.25%-- __GI_strcpy 21.61% git /lib64/libc-2.5.so | |--30.00%-- __GI_read | | | --83.33%-- git_config_from_file | git_config | | [...] Or you can observe the whole system's page allocations for 10 seconds: titan:~/git> perf stat -a -e kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched -e kmem:mm_page_free sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10': 171585 kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain 322114 kmem:mm_page_alloc 73623 kmem:mm_page_free_batched 254115 kmem:mm_page_free 10.000591410 seconds time elapsed Or observe how fluctuating the page allocations are, via statistical analysis done over ten 1-second intervals: titan:~/git> perf stat --repeat 10 -a -e kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched -e kmem:mm_page_free sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1' (10 runs): 17254 kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain ( +- 3.709% ) 34394 kmem:mm_page_alloc ( +- 4.617% ) 7509 kmem:mm_page_free_batched ( +- 4.820% ) 25653 kmem:mm_page_free ( +- 3.672% ) 1.058135029 seconds time elapsed ( +- 3.089% ) Or you can annotate the recorded 'git gc' run on a per symbol basis and check which instructions/source-code generated page allocations: titan:~/git> perf annotate __GI___fork ------------------------------------------------ Percent | Source code & Disassembly of libc-2.5.so ------------------------------------------------ : : : Disassembly of section .plt: : Disassembly of section .text: : : 00000031a2e95560 <__fork>: [...] 0.00 : 31a2e95602: b8 38 00 00 00 mov $0x38,%eax 0.00 : 31a2e95607: 0f 05 syscall 83.42 : 31a2e95609: 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff cmp $0xfffffffffffff000,%rax 0.00 : 31a2e9560f: 0f 87 4d 01 00 00 ja 31a2e95762 <__fork+0x202> 0.00 : 31a2e95615: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax ( this shows that 83.42% of __GI___fork's page allocations come from the 0x38 system call it performs. ) etc. etc. - a lot more is possible. I could list a dozen of other different usecases straight away - neither of which is possible via /proc/vmstat. /proc/vmstat is not in the same league really, in terms of expressive power of system analysis and performance analysis. All that the above results needed were those new tracepoints in include/tracing/events/kmem.h. Ingo
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