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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-23 13:28:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-23 13:28:57 -0700 |
| commit | 4352b8aee98005853aa63f57d6377282de17a33f (patch) | |
| tree | 27614d7a9ef05c32d089004e104364ce42324837 /tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt | |
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Merge tag 'i3c/for-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/i3c/linuxgrafted
Pull I3C updates from Alexandre Belloni:
"A new driver this cycle, for the AMD AXI I3C controller.
There are also new features such as IBI wakeup support, SETAASA device
discovery and ACPI support for the the DAA methods, meaning we can now
communicate with the SPD devices on DDR5 modules.
New driver:
- AMD AXI I3C master controller
Subsystem:
- I3C Common Command Code (CCC) handling improvements, especially
around GET CCCs
- SETAASA device discovery support
- ACPI support for all existing DAA methods like SETDASA, SETNEWDA as
well as I2C devices on I3C bus
- IBI-based wakeup support
Drivers:
- dw: SETAASA support
- mipi-i3c-hci: advertise IBI wakeup capability, AMD_PT I3C
controller support, PIO queue management support for HCI v1.2
- renesas: improve suspend to RAM support, add runtime PM support"
* tag 'i3c/for-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/i3c/linux: (70 commits)
i3c: dw: reduce do_daa time if there's no client
i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Add support for AMD_PT I3C controller
i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Add PIO queue management support for HCI v1.2
i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Fix missing STAT_IBI_STATUS_THLD in PIO mode
i3c: dw: rename "pclk" to "apb" to match dt-binding
i3c: dw: make struct dw_i3c_cmd smaller
i3c: dw: use COMMAND_PORT_TRANSFER_ARG instead of hardcoding
i3c: renesas: Don't register devices when ENTDAA times out
i3c: master: dw-i3c-master: fix OD timing for first broadcast
i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Advertise IBI wakeup capability
i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Factor out i3c_hci_sysdev()
i3c: mipi-i3c-hci-pci: Propagate I3C wakeup requirements to PCI
i3c: master: Reject IBI requests from non-IBI-capable devices
i3c: master: Add helper to query bus wakeup requirements
i3c: master: Report wakeup events for IBIs
i3c: master: Support IBI-based wakeup capability
i3c: master: Fix potential UAF in i3c_device_match()
i3c: master: Fix potential UAF in i3c_device_uevent()
i3c: Make dev->desc locking assumptions explicit
i3c: master: Fix use-after-free of master->this
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c0d22fbe9 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/examples.txt @@ -0,0 +1,225 @@ + + ------------------------------ + ****** perf by examples ****** + ------------------------------ + +[ From an e-mail by Ingo Molnar, https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20090804195717.GA5998@elte.hu ] + + +First, discovery/enumeration of available counters can be done via +'perf list': + +titan:~> perf list + [...] + kmem:kmalloc [Tracepoint event] + kmem:kmem_cache_alloc [Tracepoint event] + kmem:kmalloc_node [Tracepoint event] + kmem:kmem_cache_alloc_node [Tracepoint event] + kmem:kfree [Tracepoint event] + kmem:kmem_cache_free [Tracepoint event] + kmem:mm_page_free [Tracepoint event] + kmem:mm_page_free_batched [Tracepoint event] + kmem:mm_page_alloc [Tracepoint event] + kmem:mm_page_alloc_zone_locked [Tracepoint event] + kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain [Tracepoint event] + kmem:mm_page_alloc_extfrag [Tracepoint event] + +Then any (or all) of the above event sources can be activated and +measured. For example the page alloc/free properties of a 'hackbench +run' are: + + titan:~> perf stat -e kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain -e kmem:mm_page_alloc + -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched -e kmem:mm_page_free ./hackbench 10 + Time: 0.575 + + Performance counter stats for './hackbench 10': + + 13857 kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain + 27576 kmem:mm_page_alloc + 6025 kmem:mm_page_free_batched + 20934 kmem:mm_page_free + + 0.613972165 seconds time elapsed + +You can observe the statistical properties as well, by using the +'repeat the workload N times' feature of perf stat: + + titan:~> perf stat --repeat 5 -e kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain -e + kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched -e + kmem:mm_page_free ./hackbench 10 + Time: 0.627 + Time: 0.644 + Time: 0.564 + Time: 0.559 + Time: 0.626 + + Performance counter stats for './hackbench 10' (5 runs): + + 12920 kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain ( +- 3.359% ) + 25035 kmem:mm_page_alloc ( +- 3.783% ) + 6104 kmem:mm_page_free_batched ( +- 0.934% ) + 18376 kmem:mm_page_free ( +- 4.941% ) + + 0.643954516 seconds time elapsed ( +- 2.363% ) + +Furthermore, these tracepoints can be used to sample the workload as +well. For example the page allocations done by a 'git gc' can be +captured the following way: + + titan:~/git> perf record -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc + Counting objects: 1148, done. + Delta compression using up to 2 threads. + Compressing objects: 100% (450/450), done. + Writing objects: 100% (1148/1148), done. + Total 1148 (delta 690), reused 1148 (delta 690) + [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.267 MB perf.data (~11679 samples) ] + +To check which functions generated page allocations: + + titan:~/git> perf report + # Samples: 10646 + # + # Overhead Command Shared Object + # ........ ............... .......................... + # + 23.57% git-repack /lib64/libc-2.5.so + 21.81% git /lib64/libc-2.5.so + 14.59% git ./git + 11.79% git-repack ./git + 7.12% git /lib64/ld-2.5.so + 3.16% git-repack /lib64/libpthread-2.5.so + 2.09% git-repack /bin/bash + 1.97% rm /lib64/libc-2.5.so + 1.39% mv /lib64/ld-2.5.so + 1.37% mv /lib64/libc-2.5.so + 1.12% git-repack /lib64/ld-2.5.so + 0.95% rm /lib64/ld-2.5.so + 0.90% git-update-serv /lib64/libc-2.5.so + 0.73% git-update-serv /lib64/ld-2.5.so + 0.68% perf /lib64/libpthread-2.5.so + 0.64% git-repack /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 + +Or to see it on a more finegrained level: + +titan:~/git> perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol +# Samples: 10646 +# +# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol +# ........ ............... .......................... ...... +# + 9.35% git-repack ./git [.] insert_obj_hash + 9.12% git ./git [.] insert_obj_hash + 7.31% git /lib64/libc-2.5.so [.] memcpy + 6.34% git-repack /lib64/libc-2.5.so [.] _int_malloc + 6.24% git-repack /lib64/libc-2.5.so [.] memcpy + 5.82% git-repack /lib64/libc-2.5.so [.] __GI___fork + 5.47% git /lib64/libc-2.5.so [.] _int_malloc + 2.99% git /lib64/libc-2.5.so [.] memset + +Furthermore, call-graph sampling can be done too, of page +allocations - to see precisely what kind of page allocations there +are: + + titan:~/git> perf record -g -e kmem:mm_page_alloc -c 1 ./git gc + Counting objects: 1148, done. + Delta compression using up to 2 threads. + Compressing objects: 100% (450/450), done. + Writing objects: 100% (1148/1148), done. + Total 1148 (delta 690), reused 1148 (delta 690) + [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.963 MB perf.data (~42069 samples) ] + + titan:~/git> perf report -g + # Samples: 10686 + # + # Overhead Command Shared Object + # ........ ............... .......................... + # + 23.25% git-repack /lib64/libc-2.5.so + | + |--50.00%-- _int_free + | + |--37.50%-- __GI___fork + | make_child + | + |--12.50%-- ptmalloc_unlock_all2 + | make_child + | + --6.25%-- __GI_strcpy + 21.61% git /lib64/libc-2.5.so + | + |--30.00%-- __GI_read + | | + | --83.33%-- git_config_from_file + | git_config + | | + [...] + +Or you can observe the whole system's page allocations for 10 +seconds: + +titan:~/git> perf stat -a -e kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain -e +kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched -e +kmem:mm_page_free sleep 10 + + Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10': + + 171585 kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain + 322114 kmem:mm_page_alloc + 73623 kmem:mm_page_free_batched + 254115 kmem:mm_page_free + + 10.000591410 seconds time elapsed + +Or observe how fluctuating the page allocations are, via statistical +analysis done over ten 1-second intervals: + + titan:~/git> perf stat --repeat 10 -a -e kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain -e + kmem:mm_page_alloc -e kmem:mm_page_free_batched -e + kmem:mm_page_free sleep 1 + + Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1' (10 runs): + + 17254 kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain ( +- 3.709% ) + 34394 kmem:mm_page_alloc ( +- 4.617% ) + 7509 kmem:mm_page_free_batched ( +- 4.820% ) + 25653 kmem:mm_page_free ( +- 3.672% ) + + 1.058135029 seconds time elapsed ( +- 3.089% ) + +Or you can annotate the recorded 'git gc' run on a per symbol basis +and check which instructions/source-code generated page allocations: + + titan:~/git> perf annotate __GI___fork + ------------------------------------------------ + Percent | Source code & Disassembly of libc-2.5.so + ------------------------------------------------ + : + : + : Disassembly of section .plt: + : Disassembly of section .text: + : + : 00000031a2e95560 <__fork>: + [...] + 0.00 : 31a2e95602: b8 38 00 00 00 mov $0x38,%eax + 0.00 : 31a2e95607: 0f 05 syscall + 83.42 : 31a2e95609: 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff cmp $0xfffffffffffff000,%rax + 0.00 : 31a2e9560f: 0f 87 4d 01 00 00 ja 31a2e95762 <__fork+0x202> + 0.00 : 31a2e95615: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax + +( this shows that 83.42% of __GI___fork's page allocations come from + the 0x38 system call it performs. ) + +etc. etc. - a lot more is possible. I could list a dozen of +other different usecases straight away - neither of which is +possible via /proc/vmstat. + +/proc/vmstat is not in the same league really, in terms of +expressive power of system analysis and performance +analysis. + +All that the above results needed were those new tracepoints +in include/tracing/events/kmem.h. + + Ingo + + |
