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  1. May 29, 2012
  3. May 23, 2012
  5. May 22, 2012
  7. May 21, 2012
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      ktest: Add MIN_CONFIG_TYPE to allow making a minum .config that has network · ccc513b6
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      

Add a MIN_CONFIG_TYPE that can be set to 'test' or 'boot'. The default
is 'boot' which is what make_min_config has done previously: makes a
config file that is the minimum needed to boot the target.

But when MIN_CONFIG_TYPE is set to 'test', not only must the target
boot, but it must also successfully run the TEST. This allows the
creation of a config file that is the minimum to boot and also
perform ssh to the target, or anything else a developer wants.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      ccc513b6
  9. May 18, 2012
    • David Ahern's avatar
      perf evsel: Create events initially disabled -- again · 5e1c81d9
      David Ahern authored 
      

764e16a3 changed perf-record to create events disabled by default and
enable them once perf initializations are done. This setting was dropped
by 0f82ebc4. Now perf events are once again generated during perf's
initialization phase (e.g., generating maps).

As an example, perf opens a lot of files at startup. Unpatched:

perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_open -ga -fo /tmp/perf.data -- sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.087 MB /tmp/perf.data (~3798 samples) ]

Using perf-script to look at the samples shows the perf command generating
563 of the 566 total events.

Patched:

perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_open -ga -fo /tmp/perf.data -- sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.028 MB /tmp/perf.data (~1206 samples) ]

Using perf-script to look at the samples does not show perf command.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336968088-11531-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      5e1c81d9
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      ktest: Fix kernelrevision with POST_BUILD · 683a3e64
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      

The PRE_BUILD and POST_BUILD options of ktest are added to allow the
user to add temporary patch to the system and remove it on builds. This
is sometimes use to take a change from another git branch and add it to
a series without the fix so that this series can be tested, when an
unrelated bug exists in the series.

The problem comes when a tagged commit is being used. For example, if
v3.2 is being tested, and we add a patch to it, the kernelrelease for
that commit will be 3.2.0+, but without the patch the version will be
3.2.0. This can cause problems when the kernelrelease is determined for
creating the /lib/modules directory. The kernel booting has the '+' but
the module directory will not, and the modules will be missing for that
boot, and may not allow the kernel to succeed.

The fix is to put the creation of the kernelrelease in the POST_BUILD
logic, before it applies the POST_BUILD operation. The POST_BUILD is
where the patch may be removed, removing the '+' from the kernelrelease.

The calculation of the kernelrelease will also stay in its current
location but will be ignored if it was already calculated previously.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      683a3e64
    • Jiri Olsa's avatar
      perf tools: Split term type into value type and term type · 16fa7e82
      Jiri Olsa authored 
      

Introducing type_val and type_term for term instead of a single type
value. Currently the term type marked out the value type as well.

With this change we can have future string term values being specified
by user and translated into proper number along the processing.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335371102-11358-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      16fa7e82
  11. May 17, 2012
    • Jiri Olsa's avatar
      perf hists: Fix callchain ip printf format · a0187060
      Jiri Olsa authored 
      

The callchain address is stored as u64. Current code uses following
format string to display callchain address:

  "%p\n", (void *)(long)chain->ip

This way we lose upper 32 bits if we report 64 bit addresses in 32 bit
environment. Fixing this to always display whole 64 bits.

Note, running following to test perf endianity handling:
test 1)
  - origin system:
    # perf record -a -- sleep 10 (any perf record will do)
    # perf report > report.origin
    # perf archive perf.data

  - copy the perf.data, report.origin and perf.data.tar.bz2
    to a target system and run:
    # tar xjvf perf.data.tar.bz2 -C ~/.debug
    # perf report > report.target
    # diff -u report.origin report.target

  - the diff should produce no output
    (besides some white space stuff and possibly different
     date/TZ output)

test 2)
  - origin system:
    # perf record -ag -fo /tmp/perf.data -- sleep 1
  - mount origin system root to the target system on /mnt/origin
  - target system:
    # perf script --symfs /mnt/origin -I -i /mnt/origin/tmp/perf.data \
     --kallsyms /mnt/origin/proc/kallsyms
  - complete perf.data header is displayed

Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337151548-2396-8-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      a0187060
    • Namhyung Kim's avatar
      perf target: Add uses_mmap field · d1cb9fce
      Namhyung Kim authored 
      

If perf doesn't mmap on event (like perf stat), it should not create
per-task-per-cpu events. So just use a dummy cpu map to create a
per-task event for this case.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNamhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337161549-9870-3-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com


[ committer note: renamed .need_mmap to .uses_mmap ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      d1cb9fce
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobs · 8e7fbcbc
      Peter Zijlstra authored 
      

It's been broken forever (i.e. it's not scheduling in a power
aware fashion), as reported by Suresh and others sending
patches, and nobody cares enough to fix it properly ...
so remove it to make space free for something better.

There's various problems with the code as it stands today, first
and foremost the user interface which is bound to topology
levels and has multiple values per level. This results in a
state explosion which the administrator or distro needs to
master and almost nobody does.

Furthermore large configuration state spaces aren't good, it
means the thing doesn't just work right because it's either
under so many impossibe to meet constraints, or even if
there's an achievable state workloads have to be aware of
it precisely and can never meet it for dynamic workloads.

So pushing this kind of decision to user-space was a bad idea
even with a single knob - it's exponentially worse with knobs
on every node of the topology.

There is a proposal to replace the user interface with a single
3 state knob:

 sched_balance_policy := { performance, power, auto }

where 'auto' would be the preferred default which looks at things
like Battery/AC mode and possible cpufreq state or whatever the hw
exposes to show us power use expectations - but there's been no
progress on it in the past many months.

Aside from that, the actual implementation of the various knobs
is known to be broken. There have been sporadic attempts at
fixing things but these always stop short of reaching a mergable
state.

Therefore this wholesale removal with the hopes of spurring
people who care to come forward once again and work on a
coherent replacement.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326104915.2442.53.camel@twins


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      8e7fbcbc
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