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;
128 struct stats runtime_branches_stats;
130 #define MATCH_EVENT(t, c, counter) \
131 (attrs[counter].type == PERF_TYPE_##t && \
132 attrs[counter].config == PERF_COUNT_##c)
134 #define ERR_PERF_OPEN \
135 "Error: counter %d, sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with %d (%s)\n"
137 static void create_perf_stat_counter(int counter, int pid)
139 struct perf_event_attr *attr = attrs + counter;
142 attr->read_format = PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED |
143 PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING;
148 for (cpu = 0; cpu < nr_cpus; cpu++) {
149 fd[cpu][counter] = sys_perf_event_open(attr, -1, cpu, -1, 0);
150 if (fd[cpu][counter] < 0 && verbose)
151 fprintf(stderr, ERR_PERF_OPEN, counter,
152 fd[cpu][counter], strerror(errno));
155 attr->inherit = inherit;
157 attr->enable_on_exec = 1;
159 fd[0][counter] = sys_perf_event_open(attr, pid, -1, -1, 0);
160 if (fd[0][counter] < 0 && verbose)
161 fprintf(stderr, ERR_PERF_OPEN, counter,
162 fd[0][counter], strerror(errno));
167 * Does the counter have nsecs as a unit?
169 static inline int nsec_counter(int counter)
171 if (MATCH_EVENT(SOFTWARE, SW_CPU_CLOCK, counter) ||
172 MATCH_EVENT(SOFTWARE, SW_TASK_CLOCK, counter))
179 * Read out the results of a single counter:
181 static void read_counter(int counter)
183 u64 count[3], single_count[3];
189 count[0] = count[1] = count[2] = 0;
192 for (cpu = 0; cpu < nr_cpus; cpu++) {
193 if (fd[cpu][counter] < 0)
196 res = read(fd[cpu][counter], single_count, nv * sizeof(u64));
197 assert(res == nv * sizeof(u64));
199 close(fd[cpu][counter]);
200 fd[cpu][counter] = -1;
202 count[0] += single_count[0];
204 count[1] += single_count[1];
205 count[2] += single_count[2];
212 event_scaled[counter] = -1;
217 if (count[2] < count[1]) {
218 event_scaled[counter] = 1;
219 count[0] = (unsigned long long)
220 ((double)count[0] * count[1] / count[2] + 0.5);
224 for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
225 update_stats(&event_res_stats[counter][i], count[i]);
228 fprintf(stderr, "%s: %Ld %Ld %Ld\n", event_name(counter),
229 count[0], count[1], count[2]);
233 * Save the full runtime - to allow normalization during printout:
235 if (MATCH_EVENT(SOFTWARE, SW_TASK_CLOCK, counter))
236 update_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats, count[0]);
237 if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_CPU_CYCLES, counter))
238 update_stats(&runtime_cycles_stats, count[0]);
239 if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS, counter))
240 update_stats(&runtime_branches_stats, count[0]);
243 static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
245 unsigned long long t0, t1;
249 int child_ready_pipe[2], go_pipe[2];
255 if (pipe(child_ready_pipe) < 0 || pipe(go_pipe) < 0) {
256 perror("failed to create pipes");
260 if ((pid = fork()) < 0)
261 perror("failed to fork");
264 close(child_ready_pipe[0]);
266 fcntl(go_pipe[0], F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
269 * Do a dummy execvp to get the PLT entry resolved,
270 * so we avoid the resolver overhead on the real
273 execvp("", (char **)argv);
276 * Tell the parent we're ready to go
278 close(child_ready_pipe[1]);
281 * Wait until the parent tells us to go.
283 if (read(go_pipe[0], &buf, 1) == -1)
284 perror("unable to read pipe");
286 execvp(argv[0], (char **)argv);
295 * Wait for the child to be ready to exec.
297 close(child_ready_pipe[1]);
299 if (read(child_ready_pipe[0], &buf, 1) == -1)
300 perror("unable to read pipe");
301 close(child_ready_pipe[0]);
303 for (counter = 0; counter < nr_counters; counter++)
304 create_perf_stat_counter(counter, pid);
307 * Enable counters and exec the command:
316 update_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats, t1 - t0);
318 for (counter = 0; counter < nr_counters; counter++)
319 read_counter(counter);
321 return WEXITSTATUS(status);
324 static void print_noise(int counter, double avg)
329 fprintf(stderr, " ( +- %7.3f%% )",
330 100 * stddev_stats(&event_res_stats[counter][0]) / avg);
333 static void nsec_printout(int counter, double avg)
335 double msecs = avg / 1e6;
337 fprintf(stderr, " %14.6f %-24s", msecs, event_name(counter));
339 if (MATCH_EVENT(SOFTWARE, SW_TASK_CLOCK, counter)) {
340 fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f CPUs ",
341 avg / avg_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats));
345 static void abs_printout(int counter, double avg)
347 double total, ratio = 0.0;
349 fprintf(stderr, " %14.0f %-24s", avg, event_name(counter));
351 if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_INSTRUCTIONS, counter)) {
352 total = avg_stats(&runtime_cycles_stats);
357 fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f IPC ", ratio);
358 } else if (MATCH_EVENT(HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_MISSES, counter)) {
359 total = avg_stats(&runtime_branches_stats);
362 ratio = avg * 100 / total;
364 fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f %% ", ratio);
367 total = avg_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats);
370 ratio = 1000.0 * avg / total;
372 fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f M/sec", ratio);
377 * Print out the results of a single counter:
379 static void print_counter(int counter)
381 double avg = avg_stats(&event_res_stats[counter][0]);
382 int scaled = event_scaled[counter];
385 fprintf(stderr, " %14s %-24s\n",
386 "<not counted>", event_name(counter));
390 if (nsec_counter(counter))
391 nsec_printout(counter, avg);
393 abs_printout(counter, avg);
395 print_noise(counter, avg);
398 double avg_enabled, avg_running;
400 avg_enabled = avg_stats(&event_res_stats[counter][1]);
401 avg_running = avg_stats(&event_res_stats[counter][2]);
403 fprintf(stderr, " (scaled from %.2f%%)",
404 100 * avg_running / avg_enabled);
407 fprintf(stderr, "\n");
410 static void print_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
416 fprintf(stderr, "\n");
417 fprintf(stderr, " Performance counter stats for \'%s", argv[0]);
419 for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
420 fprintf(stderr, " %s", argv[i]);
422 fprintf(stderr, "\'");
424 fprintf(stderr, " (%d runs)", run_count);
425 fprintf(stderr, ":\n\n");
427 for (counter = 0; counter < nr_counters; counter++)
428 print_counter(counter);
430 fprintf(stderr, "\n");
431 fprintf(stderr, " %14.9f seconds time elapsed",
432 avg_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats)/1e9);
434 fprintf(stderr, " ( +- %7.3f%% )",
435 100*stddev_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats) /
436 avg_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats));
438 fprintf(stderr, "\n\n");
441 static volatile int signr = -1;
443 static void skip_signal(int signo)
448 static void sig_atexit(void)
451 kill(child_pid, SIGTERM);
456 signal(signr, SIG_DFL);
457 kill(getpid(), signr);
460 static const char * const stat_usage[] = {
461 "perf stat [<options>] <command>",
465 static const struct option options[] = {
466 OPT_CALLBACK('e', "event", NULL, "event",
467 "event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events",
469 OPT_BOOLEAN('i', "inherit", &inherit,
470 "child tasks inherit counters"),
471 OPT_INTEGER('p', "pid", &target_pid,
472 "stat events on existing pid"),
473 OPT_BOOLEAN('a', "all-cpus", &system_wide,
474 "system-wide collection from all CPUs"),
475 OPT_BOOLEAN('c', "scale", &scale,
476 "scale/normalize counters"),
477 OPT_BOOLEAN('v', "verbose", &verbose,
478 "be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc)"),
479 OPT_INTEGER('r', "repeat", &run_count,
480 "repeat command and print average + stddev (max: 100)"),
481 OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "null", &null_run,
482 "null run - dont start any counters"),
486 int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
490 argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, stat_usage,
491 PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
493 usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
495 usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
497 /* Set attrs and nr_counters if no event is selected and !null_run */
498 if (!null_run && !nr_counters) {
499 memcpy(attrs, default_attrs, sizeof(default_attrs));
500 nr_counters = ARRAY_SIZE(default_attrs);
503 nr_cpus = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
504 assert(nr_cpus <= MAX_NR_CPUS);
505 assert((int)nr_cpus >= 0);
508 * We dont want to block the signals - that would cause
509 * child tasks to inherit that and Ctrl-C would not work.
510 * What we want is for Ctrl-C to work in the exec()-ed
511 * task, but being ignored by perf stat itself:
514 signal(SIGINT, skip_signal);
515 signal(SIGALRM, skip_signal);
516 signal(SIGABRT, skip_signal);
519 for (run_idx = 0; run_idx < run_count; run_idx++) {
520 if (run_count != 1 && verbose)
521 fprintf(stderr, "[ perf stat: executing run #%d ... ]\n", run_idx + 1);
522 status = run_perf_stat(argc, argv);
525 print_stat(argc, argv);