From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754470AbcBEOFz (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Feb 2016 09:05:55 -0500 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com ([58.251.152.64]:13605 "EHLO szxga01-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754443AbcBEOFx (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Feb 2016 09:05:53 -0500 From: Wang Nan To: Alexei Starovoitov , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Brendan Gregg CC: Adrian Hunter , Cody P Schafer , "David S. Miller" , He Kuang , =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=A9r=C3=A9mie=20Galarneau?= , Jiri Olsa , Kirill Smelkov , Li Zefan , Masami Hiramatsu , Namhyung Kim , Peter Zijlstra , , Wang Nan , Subject: [PATCH 54/54] perf tools: Don't warn about out of order event if write_backward is used Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 14:02:19 +0000 Message-ID: <1454680939-24963-55-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.4 In-Reply-To: <1454680939-24963-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com> References: <1454680939-24963-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Originating-IP: [10.107.193.248] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020203.56B4ABF3.02E0,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2013-06-18 04:22:30, dmn=2013-03-21 17:37:32 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: 0f3d670a8f74e87ac6c556ab51d2d9c5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If write_backward attribute is set, records are written into kernel ring buffer from end to beginning, but read from beginning to end. To avoid 'XX out of order events recorded' warning message (timestamps of records is in reverse order when using write_backward), suppress the warning message if write_backward is selected by at lease one event. Result: Before this patch: # perf record -m 1 -e raw_syscalls:sys_exit/overwrite/ \ -e raw_syscalls:sys_enter \ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=300 300+0 records in 300+0 records out 153600 bytes (154 kB) copied, 0.000601617 s, 255 MB/s [ perf record: Woken up 5 times to write data ] Warning: 40 out of order events recorded. [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.096 MB perf.data (696 samples) ] After this patch: # perf record -m 1 -e raw_syscalls:sys_exit/overwrite/ \ -e raw_syscalls:sys_enter \ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=300 300+0 records in 300+0 records out 153600 bytes (154 kB) copied, 0.000644873 s, 238 MB/s [ perf record: Woken up 5 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.096 MB perf.data (696 samples) ] Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Signed-off-by: He Kuang Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com --- tools/perf/util/session.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c index 40b7a0d..132c6ab 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/session.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c @@ -1516,10 +1516,27 @@ int perf_session__register_idle_thread(struct perf_session *session) return err; } +static void +perf_session__warn_order(const struct perf_session *session) +{ + const struct ordered_events *oe = &session->ordered_events; + struct perf_evsel *evsel; + bool should_warn = true; + + evlist__for_each(session->evlist, evsel) { + if (evsel->attr.write_backward) + should_warn = false; + } + + if (!should_warn) + return; + if (oe->nr_unordered_events != 0) + ui__warning("%u out of order events recorded.\n", oe->nr_unordered_events); +} + static void perf_session__warn_about_errors(const struct perf_session *session) { const struct events_stats *stats = &session->evlist->stats; - const struct ordered_events *oe = &session->ordered_events; if (session->tool->lost == perf_event__process_lost && stats->nr_events[PERF_RECORD_LOST] != 0) { @@ -1576,8 +1593,7 @@ static void perf_session__warn_about_errors(const struct perf_session *session) stats->nr_unprocessable_samples); } - if (oe->nr_unordered_events != 0) - ui__warning("%u out of order events recorded.\n", oe->nr_unordered_events); + perf_session__warn_order(session); events_stats__auxtrace_error_warn(stats); -- 1.8.3.4