Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753804Ab0KDIwZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2010 04:52:25 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:62259 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752718Ab0KDIwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2010 04:52:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=YuHrndrGxpsUKVcl4qHvxi4gezJh6J0BV2ZFhV10+cTvLqdvQ80Xel5SWfW3j5aYyr HtOqCQLFElvMYLu95KR/4qoGcqZT90Of5V7WmLHh+9xbcVdNmWRJFdc/kp+QzFWPnrpt 3b2N7Q81t0cxtRpeBWTMdku7a0t5mmi0lkXtE= From: Francis Moreau To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Stephane Eranian , linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: perf tools miscellaneous questions References: Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:52:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Frederic Weisbecker's message of "Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:43:33 UTC") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2981 Lines: 86 Frederic Weisbecker writes: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 08:28:59PM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to use perf-tools and also to learn some internals about >> them. So I prefer to ask all of them in one email. >> >> The first one is about the list of pre-defined events given by >> perf-list. I couldn't find any documentations that describes these >> events so excuse me if the question is stupid. > > > > Sorry about that. We indeed need to improve a lot the documentation. > May be this particular part could come with the future sysfs exposure > of the events. > No problem, but yes this part should be documented somewhere. And I think the syntax of event too, specially the modifier like 'u' or 'p'. >> >> What's the difference between 'cpu-clock' and 'task-clock' event ? > > > cpu-clock is based on the total time spent on the cpu. task-clock is > based only on the time spent on the profiled task, so that doesn't count > time spent on other tasks, it has a per thread granularity. Ok, so 'cpu-clock' could have been named 'proc-clock' even though a task is a processus on Linux. [...] >> The last question is about the source code annotation done by >> perf-report. I'm using it to locate the place in my code that generates >> the most data cache miss events. I can read this during a perf-report >> session: >> >> [...] >> 0.00 : df215: c3 retq >> 0.00 : df216: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1) >> 0.00 : df21d: 00 00 00 >> 10.00 : df220: 48 8b 75 00 mov 0x0(%rbp),%rsi >> 80.00 : df224: 48 89 df mov %rbx,%rdi >> 0.00 : df227: 41 ff d4 callq *%r12 >> 0.00 : df22a: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax >> [...] >> >> If I read the output correctly, most of the dcache misses are coming from >> 'mov %rbx, %rdi', and AFAIK this intruction can't generate any dcache >> miss. What am I missing ? > > > Perhaps you need pebs to get the very precise location on your event. > > perf stat -e cache-misses:up,l1d-loads-misses:up true > > > I think the more you add 'p', the more precise it is. > Like: > > perf stat -e cache-misses:uppp,l1d-loads-misses:uppp true > > Not sure how much it will accept though :) Well it doesn't want one actually: $ perf stat -v -e cache-misses:up true Error: counter 0, sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with -1 (No space left on device) No permission to collect stats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid. Where can I find a description of PEB ? Thanks -- Francis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/