On 4/12/2017 6:58 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 06:21:01AM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:

SNIP

quoted

3. Use 2 bits in perf_branch_entry for a "cross" metrics checking
    for branch cross 4K or 2M area. It's an approximate computing
    for checking if the branch cross 4K page or 2MB page.

For example:

perf record -g --branch-filter any,save_type <command>

perf report --stdio

      JCC forward:  27.7%
     JCC backward:   9.8%
              JMP:   0.0%
          IND_JMP:   6.5%
             CALL:  26.6%
         IND_CALL:   0.0%
              RET:  29.3%
             IRET:   0.0%
         CROSS_4K:   0.0%
         CROSS_2M:  14.3%

got mangled perf report --stdio output for:


[root@ibm-x3650m4-02 perf]# ./perf record -j any,save_type kill
kill: not enough arguments
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.013 MB perf.data (18 samples) ]

[root@ibm-x3650m4-02 perf]# ./perf report --stdio -f | head -30
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 253  of event 'cycles'
# Event count (approx.): 253
#
# Overhead  Command  Source Shared Object  Source Symbol                            Target Symbol                            Basic Block Cycles
# ........  .......  ....................  .......................................  .......................................  ..................
#
      8.30%  perf
Um  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] __intel_pmu_enable_all.constprop.17  [k] native_write_msr                     -
      7.91%  perf
Um  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] intel_pmu_lbr_enable_all             [k] __intel_pmu_enable_all.constprop.17  -
      7.91%  perf
Um  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] native_write_msr                     [k] intel_pmu_lbr_enable_all             -
      6.32%  kill     libc-2.24.so          [.] _dl_addr                             [.] _dl_addr                             -
      5.93%  perf
Um  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] perf_iterate_ctx                     [k] perf_iterate_ctx                     -
      2.77%  kill     libc-2.24.so          [.] malloc                               [.] malloc                               -
      1.98%  kill     libc-2.24.so          [.] _int_malloc                          [.] _int_malloc                          -
      1.58%  kill     [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] __rb_insert_augmented                [k] __rb_insert_augmented                -
      1.58%  perf
Um  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] perf_event_exec                      [k] perf_event_exec                      -
      1.19%  kill     [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] anon_vma_interval_tree_insert        [k] anon_vma_interval_tree_insert        -
      1.19%  kill     [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] free_pgd_range                       [k] free_pgd_range                       -
      1.19%  kill     [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] n_tty_write                          [k] n_tty_write                          -
      1.19%  perf
Um  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] native_sched_clock                   [k] sched_clock                          -
...
SNIP


jirka

Hi,

Thanks so much for trying this patch.

The branch statistics is printed at the end of perf report --stdio.

For example, on my machine,

root@skl:/tmp# perf record -j any,save_type kill
. . . . . .

For more details see kill(1).
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data (1 samples) ]

root@skl:/tmp# perf report --stdio
# To display the perf.data header info, please use 
--header/--header-only options.
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 3  of event 'cycles'
# Event count (approx.): 3
#
# Overhead  Command  Source Shared Object  Source Symbol                 
Target Symbol                 Basic Block Cycles
# ........  .......  .................... ............................  
............................ ..................
#
     33.33%  perf     [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] 
__intel_pmu_enable_all    [k] native_write_msr          10
     33.33%  perf     [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] 
intel_pmu_lbr_enable_all  [k] __intel_pmu_enable_all    4
     33.33%  perf     [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] 
native_write_msr          [k] intel_pmu_lbr_enable_all  -


#
# (Tip: Show current config key-value pairs: perf config --list)
#

#
# Branch Statistics:
#
     CROSS_4K: 100.0%
         CALL:  33.3%
          RET:  66.7%

Thanks
Jin Yao