linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c, branch v4.2.7

perf inject: Fill in the missing session freeing after an error occurs

2015-07-01T20:53:49+00:00

When an error occur an error value is just returned without freeing the
session. So allocating and freeing session have to be matched as a pair
even if an error occurs.

Signed-off-by: Taeung Song 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435652124-22414-2-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Protect the machine->threads with a rwlock

2015-05-08T19:19:27+00:00

In addition to using refcounts for the struct thread lifetime
management, we need to protect access to machine->threads from
concurrent access.

That happens in 'perf top', where a thread processes events, inserting
and deleting entries from that rb_tree while another thread decays
hist_entries, that end up dropping references and ultimately deleting
threads from the rb_tree and releasing its resources when no further
hist_entry (or other data structures, like in 'perf sched') references
it.

So the rule is the same for refcounts + protected trees in the kernel,
get the tree lock, find object, bump the refcount, drop the tree lock,
return, use object, drop the refcount if no more use of it is needed,
keep it if storing it in some other data structure, drop when releasing
that data structure.

I.e. pair "t = machine__find(new)_thread()" with a "thread__put(t)", and
"perf_event__preprocess_sample(&al)" with "addr_location__put(&al)".

The addr_location__put() one is because as we return references to
several data structures, we may end up adding more reference counting
for the other data structures and then we'll drop it at
addr_location__put() time.

Acked-by: David Ahern 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bs9rt4n0jw3hi9f3zxyy3xln@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START

2015-05-05T21:12:58+00:00

Add support for the PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START event type.  This event can
be used to determine the pid and tid that are running when Instruction
Tracing starts.  Generally that information would come from a
sched_switch event but, at the start, no sched_switch events may yet
have been recorded.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430404667-10593-8-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_AUX

2015-05-05T21:12:57+00:00

Add support for the PERF_RECORD_AUX event type.

PERF_RECORD_AUX is a new kernel event that records when new data lands
in the AUX buffer. Currently it is assumed that AUX data follows the
same ring buffer conventions used by the perf events buffer, and
consequently the AUX event is not processed during recording.

It is processed during session processing so that the information in the
'flags' member is made available.

The format of PERF_RECORD_AUX is outlined in the linux/perf_events.h
header file. The 'flags' are also enumerated.

Intel PT and Intel BTS use the flag named PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED to
determine if data has been lost because the buffer became full as perf
was not able to empty it fast enough.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430404667-10593-7-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add build option NO_AUXTRACE to exclude AUX area tracing

2015-05-05T21:12:53+00:00

Add build option NO_AUXTRACE to exclude compiling support for AUX area
tracing. Support for both recording and processing is excluded and by
implication any future additions such as Intel PT and Intel BTS will
also not be compiled in with this option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430404667-10593-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Hit all build ids when AUX area tracing

2015-05-04T22:49:42+00:00

We need to include all buildids when a perf.data file contains AUX area
tracing data because we do not decode the trace for that purpose because
it would take too long.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430404667-10593-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add AUX area tracing index

2015-05-04T22:48:47+00:00

Add an index of AUX area tracing events within a perf.data file.

perf record uses a special user event PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND to
enable sorting of events in chunks instead of having to sort all events
altogether.

AUX area tracing events contain data that can span back to the very
beginning of the recording period. i.e. they do not obey the rules of
PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND.

By adding an index, AUX area tracing events can be found in advance and
the PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND approach works as usual.

The index is recorded with the auxtrace feature in the perf.data file.
A session reads the index but does not process it.  An AUX area decoder
can queue all the AUX area data in advance using
auxtrace_queues__process_index() or otherwise process the index in some
custom manner.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430404667-10593-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf inject: Add Instruction Tracing support

2015-04-29T13:37:57+00:00

Add support for decoding an AUX area assuming it contains instruction
tracing data.  The AUX area tracing events are stripped and replaced by
synthesized events.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428594864-29309-21-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
[ Do not use -Z as an alternative to --itrace ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf inject: Re-pipe AUX area tracing events

2015-04-29T13:37:57+00:00

New AUX area tracing events must be re-piped by default.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429608114-18194-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf inject: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership

2015-04-02T16:18:45+00:00

Enable perf inject to use perf.data when it is not owned by current user
or root.

Example:

 # perf record ls
 # chown Yunlong.Song:Yunlong.Song perf.data
 # ls -al perf.data
 -rw------- 1 Yunlong.Song Yunlong.Song 28260 Apr  2 10:37 perf.data
 # id
 uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),64(pkcs11)

Before this patch:

 # perf inject -v -b -i perf.data -o perf.data.new
 File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
 # perf inject -v -b -i perf.data -o perf.data.new -f
   Error: unknown switch `f'

  usage: perf inject []

     -b, --build-ids       Inject build-ids into the output stream
     -i, --input     input file name
     -o, --output    output file name
     -s, --sched-stat      Merge sched-stat and sched-switch for getting
     events where and how long tasks slept
     -v, --verbose         be more verbose (show build ids, etc)
         --kallsyms 
                           kallsyms pathname

As shown above, the -f option does not work at all.

After this patch:

 # perf inject -v -b -i perf.data -o perf.data.new
 File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
 # perf inject -v -b -i perf.data -o perf.data.new -f
 build id event received for [kernel.kallsyms]:
 f6dcb66d8b98f1c0d9eb87bf043444b69f91d30c
 symsrc__init: cannot get elf header.
 Looking at the vmlinux_path (7 entries long)
 Using /proc/kcore for kernel object code
 Using /proc/kallsyms for symbols

As shown above, the -f option really works now.

Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427982439-27388-3-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo