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# 259065 07-Dec-2013 gjb

- Copy stable/10 (r259064) to releng/10.0 as part of the
10.0-RELEASE cycle.
- Update __FreeBSD_version [1]
- Set branch name to -RC1

[1] 10.0-CURRENT __FreeBSD_version value ended at '55', so
start releng/10.0 at '100' so the branch is started with
a value ending in zero.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 236509 03-Jun-2012 joel

Minor spelling fixes.


# 233522 26-Mar-2012 joel

mdoc: correct .Bd/.Bl arguments.

Reviewed by: brueffer


# 206622 14-Apr-2010 uqs

mdoc: order prologue macros consistently by Dd/Dt/Os

Although groff_mdoc(7) gives another impression, this is the ordering
most widely used and also required by mdocml/mandoc.

Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: philip, ed (mentors)


# 203790 11-Feb-2010 fabient

- Reorganize code in 'plugin' to share log processing.
- Kcachegrind (calltree) support with assembly/source
code mapping and call count estimator (-F).
- Top mode for calltree and callgraph plugin (-T).

MFC after: 1 month


# 193296 02-Jun-2009 jkoshy

Catch up with the times: "mozilla" -> "firefox".


# 185322 25-Nov-2008 attilio

Add the -m option to pmcstat.
This option prints the list of sampled PCs along with the function name,
the start and end addresses of this where their live within.

Reviewed by: jkoshy
Tested by: gnn
Sponsored by: Nokia


# 183672 07-Oct-2008 jkoshy

- Avoid a spurious error when a command line is specified without
any process scope PMCs.
- Change the -c '*' option to denote non-halted CPUs.


# 183183 19-Sep-2008 jkoshy

Add an example illustrating the use sleep(1) for performing timed
measurements.


# 180091 29-Jun-2008 jkoshy

Document messages printed in verbose mode.

Requested by: Fabien Thomas <fabien.thomas at netasq dot com>


# 174396 07-Dec-2007 jkoshy

Introduce pmcstat(8) changes for summarizing hwpmc(4) callchain records in
in textual form and in gmon.out format.

Update manual page.

Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation and Google Inc.


# 169069 27-Apr-2007 jkoshy

MFP4: Enhancements to pmcstat(8):

- Allow the "-t" option to take a regular expression naming command
line processes to attach process PMCs to.

- Update the manual page and add an example showing the use of the
new functionality.

- Update the (c) year on the affected source files.


# 168949 22-Apr-2007 jkoshy

MFP4: Enhancements and bug-fixes to pmcstat(8):

- The '-c' option now takes a comma-separated list of CPU
numbers, or a literal '*' denoting all CPUs in the system.
Subsequent system PMCs are allocated on the CPUs so specified.

Change the default behaviour to allocate system PMCs on all CPUs,
not just CPU 0.

Update the manual page and add an example of how to use the new
functionality.

- Attach PMCs to a (commandline) child process more reliably. This
fixes a long standing bug in counting events incurred by short-lived
processes.


# 162806 29-Sep-2006 ru

Markup fixes.


# 157406 02-Apr-2006 jkoshy

- Teach pmcstat(8) to log over the network; the -O option now
takes a host:port specification.
- Update the manual page and add an example showing how log
over the network using pmcstat(8) and nc(1). Document the
current inability to process logs in cross-platform manner.
- Have pmcstat_open_log() call err(3) directly in case
of an error; this simplifies error handling in its caller.

MFC after: 1 week


# 157144 26-Mar-2006 jkoshy

MFP4: Support for profiling dynamically loaded objects.

Kernel changes:

Inform hwpmc of executable objects brought into the system by
kldload() and mmap(), and of their removal by kldunload() and
munmap(). A helper function linker_hwpmc_list_objects() has been
added to "sys/kern/kern_linker.c" and is used by hwpmc to retrieve
the list of currently loaded kernel modules.

The unused `MAPPINGCHANGE' event has been deprecated in favour
of separate `MAP_IN' and `MAP_OUT' events; this change reduces
space wastage in the log.

Bump the hwpmc's ABI version to "2.0.00". Teach hwpmc(4) to
handle the map change callbacks.

Change the default per-cpu sample buffer size to hold
32 samples (up from 16).

Increment __FreeBSD_version.

libpmc(3) changes:

Update libpmc(3) to deal with the new events in the log file; bring
the pmclog(3) manual page in sync with the code.

pmcstat(8) changes:

Introduce new options to pmcstat(8): "-r" (root fs path), "-M"
(mapfile name), "-q"/"-v" (verbosity control). Option "-k" now
takes a kernel directory as its argument but will also work with
the older invocation syntax.

Rework string handling in pmcstat(8) to use an opaque type for
interned strings. Clean up ELF parsing code and add support for
tracking dynamic object mappings reported by a v2.0.00 hwpmc(4).

Report statistics at the end of a log conversion run depending
on the requested verbosity level.

Reviewed by: jhb, dds (kernel parts of an earlier patch)
Tested by: gallatin (earlier patch)


# 151433 18-Oct-2005 jkoshy

Document pmcstat's inability to handle 32 bit executables on the
AMD64 while I work on a fix.

Noticed by: ps


# 147953 13-Jul-2005 rwatson

Fix spelling error in sample command.

MFC after: 3 days


# 147713 01-Jul-2005 jkoshy

Add examples illustrating how to record system-wide profiles and
how to convert these to gprof(1) flat profiles. Augment description
for the '-g' option.

Remove superfluous quotes around a macro argument, bump document date [1].

Reminded by: ru [1]
Approved by: re (blanket hwpmc)


# 147708 30-Jun-2005 jkoshy

MFP4:

- pmcstat(8) gprof output mode fixes:

lib/libpmc/pmclog.{c,h}, sys/sys/pmclog.h:
+ Add a 'is_usermode' field to the PMCLOG_PCSAMPLE event
+ Add an 'entryaddr' field to the PMCLOG_PROCEXEC event,
so that pmcstat(8) can determine where the runtime loader
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 is getting loaded.

sys/kern/kern_exec.c:
+ Use a local struct to group the entry address of the image being
exec()'ed and the process credential changed flag to the exec
handling hook inside hwpmc(4).

usr.sbin/pmcstat/*:
+ Support "-k kernelpath", "-D sampledir".
+ Implement the ELF bits of 'gmon.out' profile generation in a new
file "pmcstat_log.c". Move all log related functions to this
file.
+ Move local definitions and prototypes to "pmcstat.h"

- Other bug fixes:
+ lib/libpmc/pmclog.c: correctly handle EOF in pmclog_read().
+ sys/dev/hwpmc_mod.c: unconditionally log a PROCEXIT event to all
attached PMCs when a process exits.
+ sys/sys/pmc.h: correct a function prototype.
+ Improve usage checks in pmcstat(8).

Approved by: re (blanket hwpmc)


# 147587 24-Jun-2005 jkoshy

- Tidy markup. [1]
- Remove mention of an unimplemented option.
- Clarify the behavior of pmcstat when logging PMCs are
requested, but no log output file is specified.
- Add a cross-reference to pmclog(3).
- Bump document date.

Reviewed by: ru
Submitted by: ru [1]
Approved by: re (blanket hwpmc)


# 147191 09-Jun-2005 jkoshy

MFP4:

- Implement sampling modes and logging support in hwpmc(4).

- Separate MI and MD parts of hwpmc(4) and allow sharing of
PMC implementations across different architectures.
Add support for P4 (EMT64) style PMCs to the amd64 code.

- New pmcstat(8) options: -E (exit time counts) -W (counts
every context switch), -R (print log file).

- pmc(3) API changes, improve our ability to keep ABI compatibility
in the future. Add more 'alias' names for commonly used events.

- bug fixes & documentation.


# 145256 19-Apr-2005 jkoshy

Bring a working snapshot of hwpmc(4), its associated libraries, userland utilities
and documentation into -CURRENT.

Bump FreeBSD_version.

Reviewed by: alc, jhb (kernel changes)