[PATCH v2 00/13] perf tools: Support overwritable ring buffer

From	Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH v2 00/13] perf tools: Support overwritable ring buffer
Date	2016-05-20 18:50 +0200
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This patch set enables daemonized perf recording by utilizing
overwritable backward ring buffer. With this feature one can
put perf background, and dump ring buffer records by a SIGUSR2
when he/she find something unusual. For example, following
command record system calls, schedule events and samples on cpu cycles
continously:

 # perf record -g -e cycles -e raw_syscalls:*/call-graph=no/ \
                  -e sched:sched_switch/call-graph=no/ \
                  --switch-output --overwrite -a

Then by sending SIGUSR2 to perf when lagging is happen, we get multiple
perf.data output, each of them correspond a abnormal event, and the data
size is reasonable:

 # ls -l ./perf.data*
 -rw------- 1 root root 5122165 May 13 23:51 ./perf.data.2016051323511683
 -rw------- 1 root root 5135093 May 13 23:51 ./perf.data.2016051323512107
 -rw------- 1 root root 5135213 May 13 23:51 ./perf.data.2016051323512215
 -rw------- 1 root root 5135157 May 13 23:51 ./perf.data.2016051323512387

v1 -> v2: Totally redesign: drop the principle of 'channal', use
          auxiliary evlist instead. Fix missing documentation.

Wang Nan (13):
  perf tools: Add overwrite attribute to evsel and check write_backward
  perf tools: Record fd into perf_mmap
  perf tools: Add API to pause a evlist
  perf record: Prevent reading invalid data in record__mmap_read
  perf record: Rename variable to make code clear
  perf record: Read from backward ring buffer
  perf evlist: Introduce aux perf evlist
  perf tools: Don't poll and mmap overwritable events
  perf tools: Enable overwrite settings
  perf record: Introduce rec->overwrite_evlist for overwritable events
  perf record: Toggle overwrite ring buffer for reading
  perf tools: Don't warn about out of order event if write_backward is
    used
  perf tools: Check write_backward during evlist config

 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt |  14 ++
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/tsc.c           |   2 +
 tools/perf/builtin-record.c              | 344 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 tools/perf/perf.h                        |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/evlist.c                 |  81 ++++++--
 tools/perf/util/evlist.h                 |   6 +
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c                  |  38 +++-
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h                  |  16 ++
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c           |  20 +-
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.h           |   2 +
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.l           |   2 +
 tools/perf/util/record.c                 |  17 ++
 tools/perf/util/session.c                |  22 +-
 13 files changed, 497 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com

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[PATCH v2 00/13] perf tools: Support overwritable ring buffer Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2016-05-20 18:50 +0200
  [PATCH v2 01/13] perf tools: Add overwrite attribute to evsel and check write_backward Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2016-05-20 18:50 +0200
    [tip:perf/urgent] perf evsel: Add overwrite attribute and check  write_backward tip-bot for Wang Nan <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-05-24 07:50 +0200

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