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authorXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-09-17 16:31:15 +0800
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-09-21 12:51:22 -0300
commitbcf6edcd6fdb8965290f0b635a530fa3c6c212e1 (patch)
treef07af361e02f82408bdad2122d93b739b4470484 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
parent26bf264e871a4b9a8ac09c21a2b518e7f23830d5 (diff)
perf kvm: Events analysis tool
Add 'perf kvm stat' support to analyze kvm vmexit/mmio/ioport smartly Usage: - kvm stat run a command and gather performance counter statistics, it is the alias of perf stat - trace kvm events: perf kvm stat record, or, if other tracepoints are interesting as well, we can append the events like this: perf kvm stat record -e timer:* -a If many guests are running, we can track the specified guest by using -p or --pid, -a is used to track events generated by all guests. - show the result: perf kvm stat report The output example is following: 13005 13059 total 2 guests are running on the host Then, track the guest whose pid is 13059: ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.253 MB perf.data.guest (~11065 samples) ] See the vmexit events: Analyze events for all VCPUs: VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Avg time APIC_ACCESS 460 70.55% 0.01% 22.44us ( +- 1.75% ) HLT 93 14.26% 99.98% 832077.26us ( +- 10.42% ) EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT 64 9.82% 0.00% 35.35us ( +- 14.21% ) PENDING_INTERRUPT 24 3.68% 0.00% 9.29us ( +- 31.39% ) CR_ACCESS 7 1.07% 0.00% 8.12us ( +- 5.76% ) IO_INSTRUCTION 3 0.46% 0.00% 18.00us ( +- 11.79% ) EXCEPTION_NMI 1 0.15% 0.00% 5.83us ( +- -nan% ) Total Samples:652, Total events handled time:77396109.80us. See the mmio events: Analyze events for all VCPUs: MMIO Access Samples Samples% Time% Avg time 0xfee00380:W 387 84.31% 79.28% 8.29us ( +- 3.32% ) 0xfee00300:W 24 5.23% 9.96% 16.79us ( +- 1.97% ) 0xfee00300:R 24 5.23% 7.83% 13.20us ( +- 3.00% ) 0xfee00310:W 24 5.23% 2.93% 4.94us ( +- 3.84% ) Total Samples:459, Total events handled time:4044.59us. See the ioport event: Analyze events for all VCPUs: IO Port Access Samples Samples% Time% Avg time 0xc050:POUT 3 100.00% 100.00% 13.75us ( +- 10.83% ) Total Samples:3, Total events handled time:41.26us. And, --vcpu is used to track the specified vcpu and --key is used to sort the result: Analyze events for VCPU 0: VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Avg time HLT 27 13.85% 99.97% 405790.24us ( +- 12.70% ) EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT 13 6.67% 0.00% 27.94us ( +- 22.26% ) APIC_ACCESS 146 74.87% 0.03% 21.69us ( +- 2.91% ) IO_INSTRUCTION 2 1.03% 0.00% 17.77us ( +- 20.56% ) CR_ACCESS 2 1.03% 0.00% 8.55us ( +- 6.47% ) PENDING_INTERRUPT 5 2.56% 0.00% 6.27us ( +- 3.94% ) Total Samples:195, Total events handled time:10959950.90us. Signed-off-by: Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>: - rebase it on current acme's tree - fix the compiling-error on i386 ] Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347870675-31495-4-git-send-email-haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
index dd84cb2f0a88..326f2cb333cb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--guestkallsyms=<path> --guestmodules=<path> | --guestvmlinux=<path>]]
{top|record|report|diff|buildid-list}
'perf kvm' [--host] [--guest] [--guestkallsyms=<path> --guestmodules=<path>
- | --guestvmlinux=<path>] {top|record|report|diff|buildid-list}
+ | --guestvmlinux=<path>] {top|record|report|diff|buildid-list|stat}
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -38,6 +38,18 @@ There are a couple of variants of perf kvm:
so that other tools can be used to fetch packages with matching symbol tables
for use by perf report.
+ 'perf kvm stat <command>' to run a command and gather performance counter
+ statistics.
+ Especially, perf 'kvm stat record/report' generates a statistical analysis
+ of KVM events. Currently, vmexit, mmio and ioport events are supported.
+ 'perf kvm stat record <command>' records kvm events and the events between
+ start and end <command>.
+ And this command produces a file which contains tracing results of kvm
+ events.
+
+ 'perf kvm stat report' reports statistical data which includes events
+ handled time, samples, and so on.
+
OPTIONS
-------
-i::
@@ -68,7 +80,21 @@ OPTIONS
--guestvmlinux=<path>::
Guest os kernel vmlinux.
+STAT REPORT OPTIONS
+-------------------
+--vcpu=<value>::
+ analyze events which occures on this vcpu. (default: all vcpus)
+
+--events=<value>::
+ events to be analyzed. Possible values: vmexit, mmio, ioport.
+ (default: vmexit)
+-k::
+--key=<value>::
+ Sorting key. Possible values: sample (default, sort by samples
+ number), time (sort by average time).
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-top[1], linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1],
-linkperf:perf-diff[1], linkperf:perf-buildid-list[1]
+linkperf:perf-diff[1], linkperf:perf-buildid-list[1],
+linkperf:perf-stat[1]