[tip:perf/core] perf stat: Enable counters when collecting process-wide or system-wide data

From: tip-bot for Zhang, Yanmin
Date: Thu Mar 18 2010 - 13:37:21 EST


Commit-ID: 6be2850effd6a8bae11d623c8c52e88d2fbc0e96
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6be2850effd6a8bae11d623c8c52e88d2fbc0e96
Author: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:36:03 -0300
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:21:11 +0100

perf stat: Enable counters when collecting process-wide or system-wide data

Command 'perf stat' doesn't enable counters when collecting an
existing (by -p) process or system-wide statistics. Fix the
issue.

Change the condition of fork/exec subcommand. If there is a
subcommand parameter, perf always forks/execs it. The usage
example is:

# perf stat -a sleep 10

So this command could collect statistics for 10 seconds
precisely. User still could stop it by CTRL+C. Without the new
capability, user could only use CTRL+C to stop it without
precise time clock.

Another issue is 'perf stat -a' consumes 100% time of a full
single logical cpu. It has a bad impact on running workload.

Fix it by adding a sleep(1) in the while(!done) loop in function
run_perf_stat.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <zhiteng.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1268922965-14774-1-git-send-email-acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 95db31c..5f41244 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -159,8 +159,10 @@ static void create_perf_stat_counter(int counter, int pid)
}
} else {
attr->inherit = inherit;
- attr->disabled = 1;
- attr->enable_on_exec = 1;
+ if (target_pid == -1) {
+ attr->disabled = 1;
+ attr->enable_on_exec = 1;
+ }

fd[0][counter] = sys_perf_event_open(attr, pid, -1, -1, 0);
if (fd[0][counter] < 0 && verbose)
@@ -251,9 +253,9 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
unsigned long long t0, t1;
int status = 0;
int counter;
- int pid = target_pid;
+ int pid;
int child_ready_pipe[2], go_pipe[2];
- const bool forks = (target_pid == -1 && argc > 0);
+ const bool forks = (argc > 0);
char buf;

if (!system_wide)
@@ -265,10 +267,10 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
}

if (forks) {
- if ((pid = fork()) < 0)
+ if ((child_pid = fork()) < 0)
perror("failed to fork");

- if (!pid) {
+ if (!child_pid) {
close(child_ready_pipe[0]);
close(go_pipe[1]);
fcntl(go_pipe[0], F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
@@ -297,8 +299,6 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
exit(-1);
}

- child_pid = pid;
-
/*
* Wait for the child to be ready to exec.
*/
@@ -309,6 +309,10 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
close(child_ready_pipe[0]);
}

+ if (target_pid == -1)
+ pid = child_pid;
+ else
+ pid = target_pid;
for (counter = 0; counter < nr_counters; counter++)
create_perf_stat_counter(counter, pid);

@@ -321,7 +325,7 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
close(go_pipe[1]);
wait(&status);
} else {
- while(!done);
+ while(!done) sleep(1);
}

t1 = rdclock();
@@ -459,7 +463,7 @@ static volatile int signr = -1;

static void skip_signal(int signo)
{
- if(target_pid != -1)
+ if(child_pid == -1)
done = 1;

signr = signo;
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