perf trace: Support 'strace' syscall event groups
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:02:09 +0000 (12:02 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:16:32 +0000 (15:16 -0300)
commit005438a8eef063495ac059d128eea71b58de50e5
tree2becf82f62cda11a67cb7ac034e029254e1a5f68
parent8816d38d49d37e255d98d0204af2acba7094385b
perf trace: Support 'strace' syscall event groups

I.e.:

  $ cat ~/share/perf-core/strace/groups/file
  access
  chmod
  creat
  execve
  faccessat
  getcwd
  lstat
  mkdir
  open
  openat
  quotactl
  readlink
  rename
  rmdir
  stat
  statfs
  symlink
  unlink
  $

Then, on a quiet desktop, try running this and then moving your mouse to
see the deluge of mouse related activity:

  # perf probe 'vfs_getname=getname_flags:72 pathname=filename:string'
  Added new event:
    probe:vfs_getname    (on getname_flags:72 with pathname=filename:string)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe:vfs_getname -aR sleep 1
  #
  # trace --ev probe:vfs_getname --filter-pids 2232 -e file
   0.042 (0.042 ms): mousetweaks/2235 open(filename: 0x14e3910, mode: 438                                   ) ...
   0.042 (        ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff812230bc) pathname="/home/acme/.icons/Adwaita/cursors/xterm")
   0.100 (0.100 ms): mousetweaks/2235  ... [continued]: open()) = -1 ENOENT No such file or directory
   0.142 (0.018 ms): mousetweaks/2235 open(filename: 0x14c3c10, mode: 438                                   ) ...
   0.142 (        ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff812230bc) pathname="/home/acme/.icons/Adwaita/index.theme")
   0.192 (0.069 ms): mousetweaks/2235  ... [continued]: open()) = -1 ENOENT No such file or directory
   0.230 (0.017 ms): mousetweaks/2235 open(filename: 0x14c3c10, mode: 438                                   ) ...
   0.230 (        ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff812230bc) pathname="/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursors/xterm")
   0.253 (0.041 ms): mousetweaks/2235  ... [continued]: open()) = 14
   0.459 (0.008 ms): mousetweaks/2235 open(filename: 0x14e3910, mode: 438                                   ) ...
   0.459 (        ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff812230bc) pathname="/home/acme/.icons/Adwaita/cursors/left_side")
   0.468 (0.017 ms): mousetweaks/2235  ... [continued]: open()) = -1 ENOENT No such file or directory

Need to combine that raw_syscalls:sys_enter(open) + probe:vfs_getname +
raw_syscalls:sys_exit(open) sequence...

Now, if you're bored, please write some more syscall groups, like the ones
in 'strace' and send it our way :-)

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-a42xklu59lcbxp7bbnic74a8@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Build
tools/perf/Makefile.perf
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
tools/perf/config/Makefile
tools/perf/trace/strace/groups/file [new file with mode: 0644]