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authorDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>2012-07-20 17:25:48 -0600
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-07-25 11:29:46 -0300
commit7c0f4a4113ba5de7898c246eeaeee4c23d94b887 (patch)
treedacbffa32d90fe5810745854f525c3591d3c78c3 /tools
parent5cd95c2db479aa7a66f6fa572dfa410c6314c78e (diff)
downloadlinux-7c0f4a4113ba5de7898c246eeaeee4c23d94b887.tar.gz
perf kvm: Guest userspace samples should not be lumped with host uspace
e.g., perf kvm --host  --guest report -i perf.data --stdio -D
shows:

1 599127912065356 0x143b8 [0x48]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 5): 5671/5676: 0x7fdf95a061c0 period: 1 addr: 0
... chain: nr:2
.....  0: ffffffffffffff80
.....  1: fffffffffffffe00
 ... thread: qemu-kvm:5671
 ...... dso: <not found>

(IP, 5) means sample in guest userspace. Those samples should not be lumped
into the VMM's host thread. i.e, the report output:

    56.86%  qemu-kvm  [unknown]         [u] 0x00007fdf95a061c0

With this patch the output emphasizes it is a guest userspace hit:

    56.86%  [guest/5671]  [unknown]         [u] 0x00007fdf95a061c0

Looking at 3 VMs (2 64-bit, 1 32-bit) with each running a CPU bound
process (openssl speed), perf report currently shows:

  93.84%  117726   qemu-kvm  [unknown]   [u] 0x00007fd7dcaea8e5

which is wrong. With this patch you get:

  31.50%   39258   [guest/18772]  [unknown]   [u] 0x00007fd7dcaea8e5
  31.50%   39236   [guest/11230]  [unknown]   [u] 0x0000000000a57340
  30.84%   39232   [guest/18395]  [unknown]   [u] 0x00007f66f641e107

Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342826756-64663-4-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/session.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 8e485592ca20..90ee39dd8ab2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -918,7 +918,9 @@ static struct machine *
 {
 	const u8 cpumode = event->header.misc & PERF_RECORD_MISC_CPUMODE_MASK;
 
-	if (cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL && perf_guest) {
+	if (perf_guest &&
+	    ((cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL) ||
+	     (cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER))) {
 		u32 pid;
 
 		if (event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_MMAP)