4 * Builtin stat command: Give a precise performance counters summary
5 * overview about any workload, CPU or specific PID.
9 $ perf stat ~/hackbench 10
12 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench':
14 1255.538611 task clock ticks # 10.143 CPU utilization factor
15 54011 context switches # 0.043 M/sec
16 385 CPU migrations # 0.000 M/sec
17 17755 pagefaults # 0.014 M/sec
18 3808323185 CPU cycles # 3033.219 M/sec
19 1575111190 instructions # 1254.530 M/sec
20 17367895 cache references # 13.833 M/sec
21 7674421 cache misses # 6.112 M/sec
23 Wall-clock time elapsed: 123.786620 msecs
26 * Copyright (C) 2008, Red Hat Inc, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
28 * Improvements and fixes by:
30 * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
31 * Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
32 * Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
33 * Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
34 * Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
35 * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
37 * Released under the GPL v2. (and only v2, not any later version)
42 #include "util/util.h"
43 #include "util/parse-options.h"
44 #include "util/parse-events.h"
45 #include "util/event.h"
46 #include "util/debug.h"
48 #include <sys/prctl.h>
51 static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs
[] = {
53 { .type
= PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE
, .config
= PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK
},
54 { .type
= PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE
, .config
= PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES
},
55 { .type
= PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE
, .config
= PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS
},
56 { .type
= PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE
, .config
= PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS
},
58 { .type
= PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE
, .config
= PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES
},
59 { .type
= PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE
, .config
= PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS
},
60 { .type
= PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE
, .config
= PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES
},
61 { .type
= PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE
, .config
= PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES
},
65 static int system_wide
= 0;
66 static unsigned int nr_cpus
= 0;
67 static int run_idx
= 0;
69 static int run_count
= 1;
70 static int inherit
= 1;
72 static pid_t target_pid
= -1;
73 static pid_t child_pid
= -1;
74 static int null_run
= 0;
76 static int fd
[MAX_NR_CPUS
][MAX_COUNTERS
];
78 static int event_scaled
[MAX_COUNTERS
];
85 static void update_stats(struct stats
*stats
, u64 val
)
90 delta
= val
- stats
->mean
;
91 stats
->mean
+= delta
/ stats
->n
;
92 stats
->M2
+= delta
*(val
- stats
->mean
);
95 static double avg_stats(struct stats
*stats
)
101 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance
103 * (\Sum n_i^2) - ((\Sum n_i)^2)/n
104 * s^2 = -------------------------------
107 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stddev
109 * The std dev of the mean is related to the std dev by:
116 static double stddev_stats(struct stats
*stats
)
118 double variance
= stats
->M2
/ (stats
->n
- 1);
119 double variance_mean
= variance
/ stats
->n
;
121 return sqrt(variance_mean
);
124 struct stats event_res_stats
[MAX_COUNTERS
][3];
125 struct stats runtime_nsecs_stats
;
126 struct stats walltime_nsecs_stats
;
127 struct stats runtime_cycles_stats
;
129 #define MATCH_EVENT(t, c, counter) \
130 (attrs[counter].type == PERF_TYPE_##t && \
131 attrs[counter].config == PERF_COUNT_##c)
133 #define ERR_PERF_OPEN \
134 "Error: counter %d, sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with %d (%s)\n"
136 static void create_perf_stat_counter(int counter
, int pid
)
138 struct perf_event_attr
*attr
= attrs
+ counter
;
141 attr
->read_format
= PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED
|
142 PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING
;
147 for (cpu
= 0; cpu
< nr_cpus
; cpu
++) {
148 fd
[cpu
][counter
] = sys_perf_event_open(attr
, -1, cpu
, -1, 0);
149 if (fd
[cpu
][counter
] < 0 && verbose
)
150 fprintf(stderr
, ERR_PERF_OPEN
, counter
,
151 fd
[cpu
][counter
], strerror(errno
));
154 attr
->inherit
= inherit
;
156 attr
->enable_on_exec
= 1;
158 fd
[0][counter
] = sys_perf_event_open(attr
, pid
, -1, -1, 0);
159 if (fd
[0][counter
] < 0 && verbose
)
160 fprintf(stderr
, ERR_PERF_OPEN
, counter
,
161 fd
[0][counter
], strerror(errno
));
166 * Does the counter have nsecs as a unit?
168 static inline int nsec_counter(int counter
)
170 if (MATCH_EVENT(SOFTWARE
, SW_CPU_CLOCK
, counter
) ||
171 MATCH_EVENT(SOFTWARE
, SW_TASK_CLOCK
, counter
))
178 * Read out the results of a single counter:
180 static void read_counter(int counter
)
182 u64 count
[3], single_count
[3];
188 count
[0] = count
[1] = count
[2] = 0;
191 for (cpu
= 0; cpu
< nr_cpus
; cpu
++) {
192 if (fd
[cpu
][counter
] < 0)
195 res
= read(fd
[cpu
][counter
], single_count
, nv
* sizeof(u64
));
196 assert(res
== nv
* sizeof(u64
));
198 close(fd
[cpu
][counter
]);
199 fd
[cpu
][counter
] = -1;
201 count
[0] += single_count
[0];
203 count
[1] += single_count
[1];
204 count
[2] += single_count
[2];
211 event_scaled
[counter
] = -1;
216 if (count
[2] < count
[1]) {
217 event_scaled
[counter
] = 1;
218 count
[0] = (unsigned long long)
219 ((double)count
[0] * count
[1] / count
[2] + 0.5);
223 for (i
= 0; i
< 3; i
++)
224 update_stats(&event_res_stats
[counter
][i
], count
[i
]);
227 fprintf(stderr
, "%s: %Ld %Ld %Ld\n", event_name(counter
),
228 count
[0], count
[1], count
[2]);
232 * Save the full runtime - to allow normalization during printout:
234 if (MATCH_EVENT(SOFTWARE
, SW_TASK_CLOCK
, counter
))
235 update_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats
, count
[0]);
236 if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE
, HW_CPU_CYCLES
, counter
))
237 update_stats(&runtime_cycles_stats
, count
[0]);
240 static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used
, const char **argv
)
242 unsigned long long t0
, t1
;
246 int child_ready_pipe
[2], go_pipe
[2];
252 if (pipe(child_ready_pipe
) < 0 || pipe(go_pipe
) < 0) {
253 perror("failed to create pipes");
257 if ((pid
= fork()) < 0)
258 perror("failed to fork");
261 close(child_ready_pipe
[0]);
263 fcntl(go_pipe
[0], F_SETFD
, FD_CLOEXEC
);
266 * Do a dummy execvp to get the PLT entry resolved,
267 * so we avoid the resolver overhead on the real
270 execvp("", (char **)argv
);
273 * Tell the parent we're ready to go
275 close(child_ready_pipe
[1]);
278 * Wait until the parent tells us to go.
280 if (read(go_pipe
[0], &buf
, 1) == -1)
281 perror("unable to read pipe");
283 execvp(argv
[0], (char **)argv
);
292 * Wait for the child to be ready to exec.
294 close(child_ready_pipe
[1]);
296 if (read(child_ready_pipe
[0], &buf
, 1) == -1)
297 perror("unable to read pipe");
298 close(child_ready_pipe
[0]);
300 for (counter
= 0; counter
< nr_counters
; counter
++)
301 create_perf_stat_counter(counter
, pid
);
304 * Enable counters and exec the command:
313 update_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats
, t1
- t0
);
315 for (counter
= 0; counter
< nr_counters
; counter
++)
316 read_counter(counter
);
318 return WEXITSTATUS(status
);
321 static void print_noise(int counter
, double avg
)
326 fprintf(stderr
, " ( +- %7.3f%% )",
327 100 * stddev_stats(&event_res_stats
[counter
][0]) / avg
);
330 static void nsec_printout(int counter
, double avg
)
332 double msecs
= avg
/ 1e6
;
334 fprintf(stderr
, " %14.6f %-24s", msecs
, event_name(counter
));
336 if (MATCH_EVENT(SOFTWARE
, SW_TASK_CLOCK
, counter
)) {
337 fprintf(stderr
, " # %10.3f CPUs ",
338 avg
/ avg_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats
));
342 static void abs_printout(int counter
, double avg
)
344 double total
, ratio
= 0.0;
346 fprintf(stderr
, " %14.0f %-24s", avg
, event_name(counter
));
348 if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE
, HW_INSTRUCTIONS
, counter
)) {
349 total
= avg_stats(&runtime_cycles_stats
);
354 fprintf(stderr
, " # %10.3f IPC ", ratio
);
356 total
= avg_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats
);
359 ratio
= 1000.0 * avg
/ total
;
361 fprintf(stderr
, " # %10.3f M/sec", ratio
);
366 * Print out the results of a single counter:
368 static void print_counter(int counter
)
370 double avg
= avg_stats(&event_res_stats
[counter
][0]);
371 int scaled
= event_scaled
[counter
];
374 fprintf(stderr
, " %14s %-24s\n",
375 "<not counted>", event_name(counter
));
379 if (nsec_counter(counter
))
380 nsec_printout(counter
, avg
);
382 abs_printout(counter
, avg
);
384 print_noise(counter
, avg
);
387 double avg_enabled
, avg_running
;
389 avg_enabled
= avg_stats(&event_res_stats
[counter
][1]);
390 avg_running
= avg_stats(&event_res_stats
[counter
][2]);
392 fprintf(stderr
, " (scaled from %.2f%%)",
393 100 * avg_running
/ avg_enabled
);
396 fprintf(stderr
, "\n");
399 static void print_stat(int argc
, const char **argv
)
405 fprintf(stderr
, "\n");
406 fprintf(stderr
, " Performance counter stats for \'%s", argv
[0]);
408 for (i
= 1; i
< argc
; i
++)
409 fprintf(stderr
, " %s", argv
[i
]);
411 fprintf(stderr
, "\'");
413 fprintf(stderr
, " (%d runs)", run_count
);
414 fprintf(stderr
, ":\n\n");
416 for (counter
= 0; counter
< nr_counters
; counter
++)
417 print_counter(counter
);
419 fprintf(stderr
, "\n");
420 fprintf(stderr
, " %14.9f seconds time elapsed",
421 avg_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats
)/1e9
);
423 fprintf(stderr
, " ( +- %7.3f%% )",
424 100*stddev_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats
) /
425 avg_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats
));
427 fprintf(stderr
, "\n\n");
430 static volatile int signr
= -1;
432 static void skip_signal(int signo
)
437 static void sig_atexit(void)
440 kill(child_pid
, SIGTERM
);
445 signal(signr
, SIG_DFL
);
446 kill(getpid(), signr
);
449 static const char * const stat_usage
[] = {
450 "perf stat [<options>] <command>",
454 static const struct option options
[] = {
455 OPT_CALLBACK('e', "event", NULL
, "event",
456 "event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events",
458 OPT_BOOLEAN('i', "inherit", &inherit
,
459 "child tasks inherit counters"),
460 OPT_INTEGER('p', "pid", &target_pid
,
461 "stat events on existing pid"),
462 OPT_BOOLEAN('a', "all-cpus", &system_wide
,
463 "system-wide collection from all CPUs"),
464 OPT_BOOLEAN('c', "scale", &scale
,
465 "scale/normalize counters"),
466 OPT_BOOLEAN('v', "verbose", &verbose
,
467 "be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc)"),
468 OPT_INTEGER('r', "repeat", &run_count
,
469 "repeat command and print average + stddev (max: 100)"),
470 OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "null", &null_run
,
471 "null run - dont start any counters"),
475 int cmd_stat(int argc
, const char **argv
, const char *prefix __used
)
479 argc
= parse_options(argc
, argv
, options
, stat_usage
,
480 PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION
);
482 usage_with_options(stat_usage
, options
);
484 usage_with_options(stat_usage
, options
);
486 /* Set attrs and nr_counters if no event is selected and !null_run */
487 if (!null_run
&& !nr_counters
) {
488 memcpy(attrs
, default_attrs
, sizeof(default_attrs
));
489 nr_counters
= ARRAY_SIZE(default_attrs
);
492 nr_cpus
= sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN
);
493 assert(nr_cpus
<= MAX_NR_CPUS
);
494 assert((int)nr_cpus
>= 0);
497 * We dont want to block the signals - that would cause
498 * child tasks to inherit that and Ctrl-C would not work.
499 * What we want is for Ctrl-C to work in the exec()-ed
500 * task, but being ignored by perf stat itself:
503 signal(SIGINT
, skip_signal
);
504 signal(SIGALRM
, skip_signal
);
505 signal(SIGABRT
, skip_signal
);
508 for (run_idx
= 0; run_idx
< run_count
; run_idx
++) {
509 if (run_count
!= 1 && verbose
)
510 fprintf(stderr
, "[ perf stat: executing run #%d ... ]\n", run_idx
+ 1);
511 status
= run_perf_stat(argc
, argv
);
514 print_stat(argc
, argv
);