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1perf-report(1)
2==============
3
4NAME
5----
6perf-report - Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the profile
7
8SYNOPSIS
9--------
10[verse]
11'perf report' [-i <file> | --input=file]
12
13DESCRIPTION
14-----------
15This command displays the performance counter profile information recorded
16via perf record.
17
18OPTIONS
19-------
20-i::
21--input=::
22 Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)
23
24-v::
25--verbose::
26 Be more verbose. (show symbol address, etc)
27
28-q::
29--quiet::
30 Do not show any message. (Suppress -v)
31
32-n::
33--show-nr-samples::
34 Show the number of samples for each symbol
35
36--show-cpu-utilization::
37 Show sample percentage for different cpu modes.
38
39-T::
40--threads::
41 Show per-thread event counters. The input data file should be recorded
42 with -s option.
43-c::
44--comms=::
45 Only consider symbols in these comms. CSV that understands
46 file://filename entries. This option will affect the percentage of
47 the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
48--pid=::
49 Only show events for given process ID (comma separated list).
50
51--tid=::
52 Only show events for given thread ID (comma separated list).
53-d::
54--dsos=::
55 Only consider symbols in these dsos. CSV that understands
56 file://filename entries. This option will affect the percentage of
57 the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
58-S::
59--symbols=::
60 Only consider these symbols. CSV that understands
61 file://filename entries. This option will affect the percentage of
62 the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
63
64--symbol-filter=::
65 Only show symbols that match (partially) with this filter.
66
67-U::
68--hide-unresolved::
69 Only display entries resolved to a symbol.
70
71-s::
72--sort=::
73 Sort histogram entries by given key(s) - multiple keys can be specified
74 in CSV format. Following sort keys are available:
75 pid, comm, dso, symbol, parent, cpu, socket, srcline, weight,
76 local_weight, cgroup_id.
77
78 Each key has following meaning:
79
80 - comm: command (name) of the task which can be read via /proc/<pid>/comm
81 - pid: command and tid of the task
82 - dso: name of library or module executed at the time of sample
83 - dso_size: size of library or module executed at the time of sample
84 - symbol: name of function executed at the time of sample
85 - symbol_size: size of function executed at the time of sample
86 - parent: name of function matched to the parent regex filter. Unmatched
87 entries are displayed as "[other]".
88 - cpu: cpu number the task ran at the time of sample
89 - socket: processor socket number the task ran at the time of sample
90 - srcline: filename and line number executed at the time of sample. The
91 DWARF debugging info must be provided.
92 - srcfile: file name of the source file of the same. Requires dwarf
93 information.
94 - weight: Event specific weight, e.g. memory latency or transaction
95 abort cost. This is the global weight.
96 - local_weight: Local weight version of the weight above.
97 - cgroup_id: ID derived from cgroup namespace device and inode numbers.
98 - transaction: Transaction abort flags.
99 - overhead: Overhead percentage of sample
100 - overhead_sys: Overhead percentage of sample running in system mode
101 - overhead_us: Overhead percentage of sample running in user mode
102 - overhead_guest_sys: Overhead percentage of sample running in system mode
103 on guest machine
104 - overhead_guest_us: Overhead percentage of sample running in user mode on
105 guest machine
106 - sample: Number of sample
107 - period: Raw number of event count of sample
108
109 By default, comm, dso and symbol keys are used.
110 (i.e. --sort comm,dso,symbol)
111
112 If --branch-stack option is used, following sort keys are also
113 available:
114
115 - dso_from: name of library or module branched from
116 - dso_to: name of library or module branched to
117 - symbol_from: name of function branched from
118 - symbol_to: name of function branched to
119 - srcline_from: source file and line branched from
120 - srcline_to: source file and line branched to
121 - mispredict: "N" for predicted branch, "Y" for mispredicted branch
122 - in_tx: branch in TSX transaction
123 - abort: TSX transaction abort.
124 - cycles: Cycles in basic block
125
126 And default sort keys are changed to comm, dso_from, symbol_from, dso_to
127 and symbol_to, see '--branch-stack'.
128
129 If the --mem-mode option is used, the following sort keys are also available
130 (incompatible with --branch-stack):
131 symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, locked, tlb, mem, snoop, dcacheline.
132
133 - symbol_daddr: name of data symbol being executed on at the time of sample
134 - dso_daddr: name of library or module containing the data being executed
135 on at the time of the sample
136 - locked: whether the bus was locked at the time of the sample
137 - tlb: type of tlb access for the data at the time of the sample
138 - mem: type of memory access for the data at the time of the sample
139 - snoop: type of snoop (if any) for the data at the time of the sample
140 - dcacheline: the cacheline the data address is on at the time of the sample
141 - phys_daddr: physical address of data being executed on at the time of sample
142
143 And the default sort keys are changed to local_weight, mem, sym, dso,
144 symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, snoop, tlb, locked, see '--mem-mode'.
145
146 If the data file has tracepoint event(s), following (dynamic) sort keys
147 are also available:
148 trace, trace_fields, [<event>.]<field>[/raw]
149
150 - trace: pretty printed trace output in a single column
151 - trace_fields: fields in tracepoints in separate columns
152 - <field name>: optional event and field name for a specific field
153
154 The last form consists of event and field names. If event name is
155 omitted, it searches all events for matching field name. The matched
156 field will be shown only for the event has the field. The event name
157 supports substring match so user doesn't need to specify full subsystem
158 and event name everytime. For example, 'sched:sched_switch' event can
159 be shortened to 'switch' as long as it's not ambiguous. Also event can
160 be specified by its index (starting from 1) preceded by the '%'.
161 So '%1' is the first event, '%2' is the second, and so on.
162
163 The field name can have '/raw' suffix which disables pretty printing
164 and shows raw field value like hex numbers. The --raw-trace option
165 has the same effect for all dynamic sort keys.
166
167 The default sort keys are changed to 'trace' if all events in the data
168 file are tracepoint.
169
170-F::
171--fields=::
172 Specify output field - multiple keys can be specified in CSV format.
173 Following fields are available:
174 overhead, overhead_sys, overhead_us, overhead_children, sample and period.
175 Also it can contain any sort key(s).
176
177 By default, every sort keys not specified in -F will be appended
178 automatically.
179
180 If the keys starts with a prefix '+', then it will append the specified
181 field(s) to the default field order. For example: perf report -F +period,sample.
182
183-p::
184--parent=<regex>::
185 A regex filter to identify parent. The parent is a caller of this
186 function and searched through the callchain, thus it requires callchain
187 information recorded. The pattern is in the extended regex format and
188 defaults to "\^sys_|^do_page_fault", see '--sort parent'.
189
190-x::
191--exclude-other::
192 Only display entries with parent-match.
193
194-w::
195--column-widths=<width[,width...]>::
196 Force each column width to the provided list, for large terminal
197 readability. 0 means no limit (default behavior).
198
199-t::
200--field-separator=::
201 Use a special separator character and don't pad with spaces, replacing
202 all occurrences of this separator in symbol names (and other output)
203 with a '.' character, that thus it's the only non valid separator.
204
205-D::
206--dump-raw-trace::
207 Dump raw trace in ASCII.
208
209-g::
210--call-graph=<print_type,threshold[,print_limit],order,sort_key[,branch],value>::
211 Display call chains using type, min percent threshold, print limit,
212 call order, sort key, optional branch and value. Note that ordering
213 is not fixed so any parameter can be given in an arbitrary order.
214 One exception is the print_limit which should be preceded by threshold.
215
216 print_type can be either:
217 - flat: single column, linear exposure of call chains.
218 - graph: use a graph tree, displaying absolute overhead rates. (default)
219 - fractal: like graph, but displays relative rates. Each branch of
220 the tree is considered as a new profiled object.
221 - folded: call chains are displayed in a line, separated by semicolons
222 - none: disable call chain display.
223
224 threshold is a percentage value which specifies a minimum percent to be
225 included in the output call graph. Default is 0.5 (%).
226
227 print_limit is only applied when stdio interface is used. It's to limit
228 number of call graph entries in a single hist entry. Note that it needs
229 to be given after threshold (but not necessarily consecutive).
230 Default is 0 (unlimited).
231
232 order can be either:
233 - callee: callee based call graph.
234 - caller: inverted caller based call graph.
235 Default is 'caller' when --children is used, otherwise 'callee'.
236
237 sort_key can be:
238 - function: compare on functions (default)
239 - address: compare on individual code addresses
240 - srcline: compare on source filename and line number
241
242 branch can be:
243 - branch: include last branch information in callgraph when available.
244 Usually more convenient to use --branch-history for this.
245
246 value can be:
247 - percent: diplay overhead percent (default)
248 - period: display event period
249 - count: display event count
250
251--children::
252 Accumulate callchain of children to parent entry so that then can
253 show up in the output. The output will have a new "Children" column
254 and will be sorted on the data. It requires callchains are recorded.
255 See the `overhead calculation' section for more details. Enabled by
256 default, disable with --no-children.
257
258--max-stack::
259 Set the stack depth limit when parsing the callchain, anything
260 beyond the specified depth will be ignored. This is a trade-off
261 between information loss and faster processing especially for
262 workloads that can have a very long callchain stack.
263 Note that when using the --itrace option the synthesized callchain size
264 will override this value if the synthesized callchain size is bigger.
265
266 Default: 127
267
268-G::
269--inverted::
270 alias for inverted caller based call graph.
271
272--ignore-callees=<regex>::
273 Ignore callees of the function(s) matching the given regex.
274 This has the effect of collecting the callers of each such
275 function into one place in the call-graph tree.
276
277--pretty=<key>::
278 Pretty printing style. key: normal, raw
279
280--stdio:: Use the stdio interface.
281
282--stdio-color::
283 'always', 'never' or 'auto', allowing configuring color output
284 via the command line, in addition to via "color.ui" .perfconfig.
285 Use '--stdio-color always' to generate color even when redirecting
286 to a pipe or file. Using just '--stdio-color' is equivalent to
287 using 'always'.
288
289--tui:: Use the TUI interface, that is integrated with annotate and allows
290 zooming into DSOs or threads, among other features. Use of --tui
291 requires a tty, if one is not present, as when piping to other
292 commands, the stdio interface is used.
293
294--gtk:: Use the GTK2 interface.
295
296-k::
297--vmlinux=<file>::
298 vmlinux pathname
299
300--ignore-vmlinux::
301 Ignore vmlinux files.
302
303--kallsyms=<file>::
304 kallsyms pathname
305
306-m::
307--modules::
308 Load module symbols. WARNING: This should only be used with -k and
309 a LIVE kernel.
310
311-f::
312--force::
313 Don't do ownership validation.
314
315--symfs=<directory>::
316 Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
317
318-C::
319--cpu:: Only report samples for the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can
320 be provided as a comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of
321 CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to report samples on all
322 CPUs.
323
324-M::
325--disassembler-style=:: Set disassembler style for objdump.
326
327--source::
328 Interleave source code with assembly code. Enabled by default,
329 disable with --no-source.
330
331--asm-raw::
332 Show raw instruction encoding of assembly instructions.
333
334--show-total-period:: Show a column with the sum of periods.
335
336-I::
337--show-info::
338 Display extended information about the perf.data file. This adds
339 information which may be very large and thus may clutter the display.
340 It currently includes: cpu and numa topology of the host system.
341
342-b::
343--branch-stack::
344 Use the addresses of sampled taken branches instead of the instruction
345 address to build the histograms. To generate meaningful output, the
346 perf.data file must have been obtained using perf record -b or
347 perf record --branch-filter xxx where xxx is a branch filter option.
348 perf report is able to auto-detect whether a perf.data file contains
349 branch stacks and it will automatically switch to the branch view mode,
350 unless --no-branch-stack is used.
351
352--branch-history::
353 Add the addresses of sampled taken branches to the callstack.
354 This allows to examine the path the program took to each sample.
355 The data collection must have used -b (or -j) and -g.
356
357--objdump=<path>::
358 Path to objdump binary.
359
360--group::
361 Show event group information together. It forces group output also
362 if there are no groups defined in data file.
363
364--demangle::
365 Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default,
366 disable with --no-demangle.
367
368--demangle-kernel::
369 Demangle kernel symbol names to human readable form (for C++ kernels).
370
371--mem-mode::
372 Use the data addresses of samples in addition to instruction addresses
373 to build the histograms. To generate meaningful output, the perf.data
374 file must have been obtained using perf record -d -W and using a
375 special event -e cpu/mem-loads/p or -e cpu/mem-stores/p. See
376 'perf mem' for simpler access.
377
378--percent-limit::
379 Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent.
380 (Default: 0). Note that this option also sets the percent limit (threshold)
381 of callchains. However the default value of callchain threshold is
382 different than the default value of hist entries. Please see the
383 --call-graph option for details.
384
385--percentage::
386 Determine how to display the overhead percentage of filtered entries.
387 Filters can be applied by --comms, --dsos and/or --symbols options and
388 Zoom operations on the TUI (thread, dso, etc).
389
390 "relative" means it's relative to filtered entries only so that the
391 sum of shown entries will be always 100%. "absolute" means it retains
392 the original value before and after the filter is applied.
393
394--header::
395 Show header information in the perf.data file. This includes
396 various information like hostname, OS and perf version, cpu/mem
397 info, perf command line, event list and so on. Currently only
398 --stdio output supports this feature.
399
400--header-only::
401 Show only perf.data header (forces --stdio).
402
403--time::
404 Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
405 have the format seconds.microseconds. If start is not given (i.e., time
406 string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
407 stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
408 to end of file.
409
410 Also support time percent with multiple time range. Time string is
411 'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'.
412
413 For example:
414 Select the second 10% time slice:
415
416 perf report --time 10%/2
417
418 Select from 0% to 10% time slice:
419
420 perf report --time 0%-10%
421
422 Select the first and second 10% time slices:
423
424 perf report --time 10%/1,10%/2
425
426 Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices:
427
428 perf report --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
429
430--itrace::
431 Options for decoding instruction tracing data. The options are:
432
433include::itrace.txt[]
434
435 To disable decoding entirely, use --no-itrace.
436
437--full-source-path::
438 Show the full path for source files for srcline output.
439
440--show-ref-call-graph::
441 When multiple events are sampled, it may not be needed to collect
442 callgraphs for all of them. The sample sites are usually nearby,
443 and it's enough to collect the callgraphs on a reference event.
444 So user can use "call-graph=no" event modifier to disable callgraph
445 for other events to reduce the overhead.
446 However, perf report cannot show callgraphs for the event which
447 disable the callgraph.
448 This option extends the perf report to show reference callgraphs,
449 which collected by reference event, in no callgraph event.
450
451--socket-filter::
452 Only report the samples on the processor socket that match with this filter
453
454--raw-trace::
455 When displaying traceevent output, do not use print fmt or plugins.
456
457--hierarchy::
458 Enable hierarchical output.
459
460--inline::
461 If a callgraph address belongs to an inlined function, the inline stack
462 will be printed. Each entry is function name or file/line. Enabled by
463 default, disable with --no-inline.
464
465--mmaps::
466 Show --tasks output plus mmap information in a format similar to
467 /proc/<PID>/maps.
468
469 Please note that not all mmaps are stored, options affecting which ones
470 are include 'perf record --data', for instance.
471
472--stats::
473 Display overall events statistics without any further processing.
474 (like the one at the end of the perf report -D command)
475
476--tasks::
477 Display monitored tasks stored in perf data. Displaying pid/tid/ppid
478 plus the command string aligned to distinguish parent and child tasks.
479
480include::callchain-overhead-calculation.txt[]
481
482SEE ALSO
483--------
484linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-annotate[1], linkperf:perf-record[1]
1perf-report(1)
2==============
3
4NAME
5----
6perf-report - Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the profile
7
8SYNOPSIS
9--------
10[verse]
11'perf report' [-i <file> | --input=file]
12
13DESCRIPTION
14-----------
15This command displays the performance counter profile information recorded
16via perf record.
17
18OPTIONS
19-------
20-i::
21--input=::
22 Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)
23
24-v::
25--verbose::
26 Be more verbose. (show symbol address, etc)
27
28-q::
29--quiet::
30 Do not show any warnings or messages. (Suppress -v)
31
32-n::
33--show-nr-samples::
34 Show the number of samples for each symbol
35
36--show-cpu-utilization::
37 Show sample percentage for different cpu modes.
38
39-T::
40--threads::
41 Show per-thread event counters. The input data file should be recorded
42 with -s option.
43-c::
44--comms=::
45 Only consider symbols in these comms. CSV that understands
46 file://filename entries. This option will affect the percentage of
47 the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
48--pid=::
49 Only show events for given process ID (comma separated list).
50
51--tid=::
52 Only show events for given thread ID (comma separated list).
53-d::
54--dsos=::
55 Only consider symbols in these dsos. CSV that understands
56 file://filename entries. This option will affect the percentage of
57 the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
58-S::
59--symbols=::
60 Only consider these symbols. CSV that understands
61 file://filename entries. This option will affect the percentage of
62 the overhead column. See --percentage for more info.
63
64--symbol-filter=::
65 Only show symbols that match (partially) with this filter.
66
67-U::
68--hide-unresolved::
69 Only display entries resolved to a symbol.
70
71-s::
72--sort=::
73 Sort histogram entries by given key(s) - multiple keys can be specified
74 in CSV format. Following sort keys are available:
75 pid, comm, dso, symbol, parent, cpu, socket, srcline, weight,
76 local_weight, cgroup_id, addr.
77
78 Each key has following meaning:
79
80 - comm: command (name) of the task which can be read via /proc/<pid>/comm
81 - pid: command and tid of the task
82 - dso: name of library or module executed at the time of sample
83 - dso_size: size of library or module executed at the time of sample
84 - symbol: name of function executed at the time of sample
85 - symbol_size: size of function executed at the time of sample
86 - parent: name of function matched to the parent regex filter. Unmatched
87 entries are displayed as "[other]".
88 - cpu: cpu number the task ran at the time of sample
89 - socket: processor socket number the task ran at the time of sample
90 - srcline: filename and line number executed at the time of sample. The
91 DWARF debugging info must be provided.
92 - srcfile: file name of the source file of the samples. Requires dwarf
93 information.
94 - weight: Event specific weight, e.g. memory latency or transaction
95 abort cost. This is the global weight.
96 - local_weight: Local weight version of the weight above.
97 - cgroup_id: ID derived from cgroup namespace device and inode numbers.
98 - cgroup: cgroup pathname in the cgroupfs.
99 - transaction: Transaction abort flags.
100 - overhead: Overhead percentage of sample
101 - overhead_sys: Overhead percentage of sample running in system mode
102 - overhead_us: Overhead percentage of sample running in user mode
103 - overhead_guest_sys: Overhead percentage of sample running in system mode
104 on guest machine
105 - overhead_guest_us: Overhead percentage of sample running in user mode on
106 guest machine
107 - sample: Number of sample
108 - period: Raw number of event count of sample
109 - time: Separate the samples by time stamp with the resolution specified by
110 --time-quantum (default 100ms). Specify with overhead and before it.
111 - code_page_size: the code page size of sampled code address (ip)
112 - ins_lat: Instruction latency in core cycles. This is the global instruction
113 latency
114 - local_ins_lat: Local instruction latency version
115 - p_stage_cyc: On powerpc, this presents the number of cycles spent in a
116 pipeline stage. And currently supported only on powerpc.
117 - addr: (Full) virtual address of the sampled instruction
118 - retire_lat: On X86, this reports pipeline stall of this instruction compared
119 to the previous instruction in cycles. And currently supported only on X86
120 - simd: Flags describing a SIMD operation. "e" for empty Arm SVE predicate. "p" for partial Arm SVE predicate
121 - type: Data type of sample memory access.
122 - typeoff: Offset in the data type of sample memory access.
123 - symoff: Offset in the symbol.
124
125 By default, comm, dso and symbol keys are used.
126 (i.e. --sort comm,dso,symbol)
127
128 If --branch-stack option is used, following sort keys are also
129 available:
130
131 - dso_from: name of library or module branched from
132 - dso_to: name of library or module branched to
133 - symbol_from: name of function branched from
134 - symbol_to: name of function branched to
135 - srcline_from: source file and line branched from
136 - srcline_to: source file and line branched to
137 - mispredict: "N" for predicted branch, "Y" for mispredicted branch
138 - in_tx: branch in TSX transaction
139 - abort: TSX transaction abort.
140 - cycles: Cycles in basic block
141
142 And default sort keys are changed to comm, dso_from, symbol_from, dso_to
143 and symbol_to, see '--branch-stack'.
144
145 When the sort key symbol is specified, columns "IPC" and "IPC Coverage"
146 are enabled automatically. Column "IPC" reports the average IPC per function
147 and column "IPC coverage" reports the percentage of instructions with
148 sampled IPC in this function. IPC means Instruction Per Cycle. If it's low,
149 it indicates there may be a performance bottleneck when the function is
150 executed, such as a memory access bottleneck. If a function has high overhead
151 and low IPC, it's worth further analyzing it to optimize its performance.
152
153 If the --mem-mode option is used, the following sort keys are also available
154 (incompatible with --branch-stack):
155 symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, locked, tlb, mem, snoop, dcacheline, blocked.
156
157 - symbol_daddr: name of data symbol being executed on at the time of sample
158 - dso_daddr: name of library or module containing the data being executed
159 on at the time of the sample
160 - locked: whether the bus was locked at the time of the sample
161 - tlb: type of tlb access for the data at the time of the sample
162 - mem: type of memory access for the data at the time of the sample
163 - snoop: type of snoop (if any) for the data at the time of the sample
164 - dcacheline: the cacheline the data address is on at the time of the sample
165 - phys_daddr: physical address of data being executed on at the time of sample
166 - data_page_size: the data page size of data being executed on at the time of sample
167 - blocked: reason of blocked load access for the data at the time of the sample
168
169 And the default sort keys are changed to local_weight, mem, sym, dso,
170 symbol_daddr, dso_daddr, snoop, tlb, locked, blocked, local_ins_lat,
171 see '--mem-mode'.
172
173 If the data file has tracepoint event(s), following (dynamic) sort keys
174 are also available:
175 trace, trace_fields, [<event>.]<field>[/raw]
176
177 - trace: pretty printed trace output in a single column
178 - trace_fields: fields in tracepoints in separate columns
179 - <field name>: optional event and field name for a specific field
180
181 The last form consists of event and field names. If event name is
182 omitted, it searches all events for matching field name. The matched
183 field will be shown only for the event has the field. The event name
184 supports substring match so user doesn't need to specify full subsystem
185 and event name everytime. For example, 'sched:sched_switch' event can
186 be shortened to 'switch' as long as it's not ambiguous. Also event can
187 be specified by its index (starting from 1) preceded by the '%'.
188 So '%1' is the first event, '%2' is the second, and so on.
189
190 The field name can have '/raw' suffix which disables pretty printing
191 and shows raw field value like hex numbers. The --raw-trace option
192 has the same effect for all dynamic sort keys.
193
194 The default sort keys are changed to 'trace' if all events in the data
195 file are tracepoint.
196
197-F::
198--fields=::
199 Specify output field - multiple keys can be specified in CSV format.
200 Following fields are available:
201 overhead, overhead_sys, overhead_us, overhead_children, sample and period.
202 Also it can contain any sort key(s).
203
204 By default, every sort keys not specified in -F will be appended
205 automatically.
206
207 If the keys starts with a prefix '+', then it will append the specified
208 field(s) to the default field order. For example: perf report -F +period,sample.
209
210-p::
211--parent=<regex>::
212 A regex filter to identify parent. The parent is a caller of this
213 function and searched through the callchain, thus it requires callchain
214 information recorded. The pattern is in the extended regex format and
215 defaults to "\^sys_|^do_page_fault", see '--sort parent'.
216
217-x::
218--exclude-other::
219 Only display entries with parent-match.
220
221-w::
222--column-widths=<width[,width...]>::
223 Force each column width to the provided list, for large terminal
224 readability. 0 means no limit (default behavior).
225
226-t::
227--field-separator=::
228 Use a special separator character and don't pad with spaces, replacing
229 all occurrences of this separator in symbol names (and other output)
230 with a '.' character, that thus it's the only non valid separator.
231
232-D::
233--dump-raw-trace::
234 Dump raw trace in ASCII.
235
236--disable-order::
237 Disable raw trace ordering.
238
239-g::
240--call-graph=<print_type,threshold[,print_limit],order,sort_key[,branch],value>::
241 Display call chains using type, min percent threshold, print limit,
242 call order, sort key, optional branch and value. Note that ordering
243 is not fixed so any parameter can be given in an arbitrary order.
244 One exception is the print_limit which should be preceded by threshold.
245
246 print_type can be either:
247 - flat: single column, linear exposure of call chains.
248 - graph: use a graph tree, displaying absolute overhead rates. (default)
249 - fractal: like graph, but displays relative rates. Each branch of
250 the tree is considered as a new profiled object.
251 - folded: call chains are displayed in a line, separated by semicolons
252 - none: disable call chain display.
253
254 threshold is a percentage value which specifies a minimum percent to be
255 included in the output call graph. Default is 0.5 (%).
256
257 print_limit is only applied when stdio interface is used. It's to limit
258 number of call graph entries in a single hist entry. Note that it needs
259 to be given after threshold (but not necessarily consecutive).
260 Default is 0 (unlimited).
261
262 order can be either:
263 - callee: callee based call graph.
264 - caller: inverted caller based call graph.
265 Default is 'caller' when --children is used, otherwise 'callee'.
266
267 sort_key can be:
268 - function: compare on functions (default)
269 - address: compare on individual code addresses
270 - srcline: compare on source filename and line number
271
272 branch can be:
273 - branch: include last branch information in callgraph when available.
274 Usually more convenient to use --branch-history for this.
275
276 value can be:
277 - percent: display overhead percent (default)
278 - period: display event period
279 - count: display event count
280
281--children::
282 Accumulate callchain of children to parent entry so that then can
283 show up in the output. The output will have a new "Children" column
284 and will be sorted on the data. It requires callchains are recorded.
285 See the `overhead calculation' section for more details. Enabled by
286 default, disable with --no-children.
287
288--max-stack::
289 Set the stack depth limit when parsing the callchain, anything
290 beyond the specified depth will be ignored. This is a trade-off
291 between information loss and faster processing especially for
292 workloads that can have a very long callchain stack.
293 Note that when using the --itrace option the synthesized callchain size
294 will override this value if the synthesized callchain size is bigger.
295
296 Default: 127
297
298-G::
299--inverted::
300 alias for inverted caller based call graph.
301
302--ignore-callees=<regex>::
303 Ignore callees of the function(s) matching the given regex.
304 This has the effect of collecting the callers of each such
305 function into one place in the call-graph tree.
306
307--pretty=<key>::
308 Pretty printing style. key: normal, raw
309
310--stdio:: Use the stdio interface.
311
312--stdio-color::
313 'always', 'never' or 'auto', allowing configuring color output
314 via the command line, in addition to via "color.ui" .perfconfig.
315 Use '--stdio-color always' to generate color even when redirecting
316 to a pipe or file. Using just '--stdio-color' is equivalent to
317 using 'always'.
318
319--tui:: Use the TUI interface, that is integrated with annotate and allows
320 zooming into DSOs or threads, among other features. Use of --tui
321 requires a tty, if one is not present, as when piping to other
322 commands, the stdio interface is used.
323
324--gtk:: Use the GTK2 interface.
325
326-k::
327--vmlinux=<file>::
328 vmlinux pathname
329
330--ignore-vmlinux::
331 Ignore vmlinux files.
332
333--kallsyms=<file>::
334 kallsyms pathname
335
336-m::
337--modules::
338 Load module symbols. WARNING: This should only be used with -k and
339 a LIVE kernel.
340
341-f::
342--force::
343 Don't do ownership validation.
344
345--symfs=<directory>::
346 Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
347
348-C::
349--cpu:: Only report samples for the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can
350 be provided as a comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of
351 CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to report samples on all
352 CPUs.
353
354-M::
355--disassembler-style=:: Set disassembler style for objdump.
356
357--source::
358 Interleave source code with assembly code. Enabled by default,
359 disable with --no-source.
360
361--asm-raw::
362 Show raw instruction encoding of assembly instructions.
363
364--show-total-period:: Show a column with the sum of periods.
365
366-I::
367--show-info::
368 Display extended information about the perf.data file. This adds
369 information which may be very large and thus may clutter the display.
370 It currently includes: cpu and numa topology of the host system.
371
372-b::
373--branch-stack::
374 Use the addresses of sampled taken branches instead of the instruction
375 address to build the histograms. To generate meaningful output, the
376 perf.data file must have been obtained using perf record -b or
377 perf record --branch-filter xxx where xxx is a branch filter option.
378 perf report is able to auto-detect whether a perf.data file contains
379 branch stacks and it will automatically switch to the branch view mode,
380 unless --no-branch-stack is used.
381
382--branch-history::
383 Add the addresses of sampled taken branches to the callstack.
384 This allows to examine the path the program took to each sample.
385 The data collection must have used -b (or -j) and -g.
386
387--addr2line=<path>::
388 Path to addr2line binary.
389
390--objdump=<path>::
391 Path to objdump binary.
392
393--prefix=PREFIX::
394--prefix-strip=N::
395 Remove first N entries from source file path names in executables
396 and add PREFIX. This allows to display source code compiled on systems
397 with different file system layout.
398
399--group::
400 Show event group information together. It forces group output also
401 if there are no groups defined in data file.
402
403--group-sort-idx::
404 Sort the output by the event at the index n in group. If n is invalid,
405 sort by the first event. It can support multiple groups with different
406 amount of events. WARNING: This should be used on grouped events.
407
408--demangle::
409 Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default,
410 disable with --no-demangle.
411
412--demangle-kernel::
413 Demangle kernel symbol names to human readable form (for C++ kernels).
414
415--mem-mode::
416 Use the data addresses of samples in addition to instruction addresses
417 to build the histograms. To generate meaningful output, the perf.data
418 file must have been obtained using perf record -d -W and using a
419 special event -e cpu/mem-loads/p or -e cpu/mem-stores/p. See
420 'perf mem' for simpler access.
421
422--percent-limit::
423 Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent.
424 (Default: 0). Note that this option also sets the percent limit (threshold)
425 of callchains. However the default value of callchain threshold is
426 different than the default value of hist entries. Please see the
427 --call-graph option for details.
428
429--percentage::
430 Determine how to display the overhead percentage of filtered entries.
431 Filters can be applied by --comms, --dsos and/or --symbols options and
432 Zoom operations on the TUI (thread, dso, etc).
433
434 "relative" means it's relative to filtered entries only so that the
435 sum of shown entries will be always 100%. "absolute" means it retains
436 the original value before and after the filter is applied.
437
438--header::
439 Show header information in the perf.data file. This includes
440 various information like hostname, OS and perf version, cpu/mem
441 info, perf command line, event list and so on. Currently only
442 --stdio output supports this feature.
443
444--header-only::
445 Show only perf.data header (forces --stdio).
446
447--time::
448 Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
449 have the format seconds.nanoseconds. If start is not given (i.e. time
450 string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
451 stop time is not given (i.e. time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
452 to end of file. Multiple ranges can be separated by spaces, which
453 requires the argument to be quoted e.g. --time "1234.567,1234.789 1235,"
454
455 Also support time percent with multiple time ranges. Time string is
456 'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'.
457
458 For example:
459 Select the second 10% time slice:
460
461 perf report --time 10%/2
462
463 Select from 0% to 10% time slice:
464
465 perf report --time 0%-10%
466
467 Select the first and second 10% time slices:
468
469 perf report --time 10%/1,10%/2
470
471 Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices:
472
473 perf report --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
474
475--switch-on EVENT_NAME::
476 Only consider events after this event is found.
477
478 This may be interesting to measure a workload only after some initialization
479 phase is over, i.e. insert a perf probe at that point and then using this
480 option with that probe.
481
482--switch-off EVENT_NAME::
483 Stop considering events after this event is found.
484
485--show-on-off-events::
486 Show the --switch-on/off events too. This has no effect in 'perf report' now
487 but probably we'll make the default not to show the switch-on/off events
488 on the --group mode and if there is only one event besides the off/on ones,
489 go straight to the histogram browser, just like 'perf report' with no events
490 explicitly specified does.
491
492--itrace::
493 Options for decoding instruction tracing data. The options are:
494
495include::itrace.txt[]
496
497 To disable decoding entirely, use --no-itrace.
498
499--full-source-path::
500 Show the full path for source files for srcline output.
501
502--show-ref-call-graph::
503 When multiple events are sampled, it may not be needed to collect
504 callgraphs for all of them. The sample sites are usually nearby,
505 and it's enough to collect the callgraphs on a reference event.
506 So user can use "call-graph=no" event modifier to disable callgraph
507 for other events to reduce the overhead.
508 However, perf report cannot show callgraphs for the event which
509 disable the callgraph.
510 This option extends the perf report to show reference callgraphs,
511 which collected by reference event, in no callgraph event.
512
513--stitch-lbr::
514 Show callgraph with stitched LBRs, which may have more complete
515 callgraph. The perf.data file must have been obtained using
516 perf record --call-graph lbr.
517 Disabled by default. In common cases with call stack overflows,
518 it can recreate better call stacks than the default lbr call stack
519 output. But this approach is not foolproof. There can be cases
520 where it creates incorrect call stacks from incorrect matches.
521 The known limitations include exception handing such as
522 setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns not match.
523
524--socket-filter::
525 Only report the samples on the processor socket that match with this filter
526
527--samples=N::
528 Save N individual samples for each histogram entry to show context in perf
529 report tui browser.
530
531--raw-trace::
532 When displaying traceevent output, do not use print fmt or plugins.
533
534--hierarchy::
535 Enable hierarchical output.
536
537--inline::
538 If a callgraph address belongs to an inlined function, the inline stack
539 will be printed. Each entry is function name or file/line. Enabled by
540 default, disable with --no-inline.
541
542--mmaps::
543 Show --tasks output plus mmap information in a format similar to
544 /proc/<PID>/maps.
545
546 Please note that not all mmaps are stored, options affecting which ones
547 are include 'perf record --data', for instance.
548
549--ns::
550 Show time stamps in nanoseconds.
551
552--stats::
553 Display overall events statistics without any further processing.
554 (like the one at the end of the perf report -D command)
555
556--tasks::
557 Display monitored tasks stored in perf data. Displaying pid/tid/ppid
558 plus the command string aligned to distinguish parent and child tasks.
559
560--percent-type::
561 Set annotation percent type from following choices:
562 global-period, local-period, global-hits, local-hits
563
564 The local/global keywords set if the percentage is computed
565 in the scope of the function (local) or the whole data (global).
566 The period/hits keywords set the base the percentage is computed
567 on - the samples period or the number of samples (hits).
568
569--time-quantum::
570 Configure time quantum for time sort key. Default 100ms.
571 Accepts s, us, ms, ns units.
572
573--total-cycles::
574 When --total-cycles is specified, it supports sorting for all blocks by
575 'Sampled Cycles%'. This is useful to concentrate on the globally hottest
576 blocks. In output, there are some new columns:
577
578 'Sampled Cycles%' - block sampled cycles aggregation / total sampled cycles
579 'Sampled Cycles' - block sampled cycles aggregation
580 'Avg Cycles%' - block average sampled cycles / sum of total block average
581 sampled cycles
582 'Avg Cycles' - block average sampled cycles
583
584--skip-empty::
585 Do not print 0 results in the --stat output.
586
587include::callchain-overhead-calculation.txt[]
588
589SEE ALSO
590--------
591linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-annotate[1], linkperf:perf-record[1],
592linkperf:perf-intel-pt[1]