The Linux Perf Tools: Overview and Current Developments

Arnaldo Carvahlo de Melo <email address hidden>

This presentation will provide an overview of these tools, including:

Profiling tools
Scripting support: python, perl
perf probe: Dynamic events for user and kernel space

The presenter will also talk about recent developments and plans, such
as the annotation browser improvements, including:

. Live mode, directly from 'perf top'
. Simplification of disassembler output
. Navigation thru call, rets, jumps
. Augmentation of jumps with arrows to targets
. Showing number of sources to a jump target
. Correlation of multiple events

And other topics such as:

. perf probe support for userpace probes
. Userspace callchains
. Regression testing improvements
. Hardware based branch profiling (LBR)

And interact with the audience looking for feature requests and feedback
about the tools.

Intended audience:

kernel and userspace developers interested in understanding what is
happening on their systems using a growing set of observability tools.

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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo is a Principal Software Engineer at the Real
Time team at Red Hat.