linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/builtin-script.c, branch v4.7-rc2

perf tools: Set buildid dir under symfs when --symfs is provided

2016-05-20T14:43:58+00:00

This patch moves the reference of buildid dir to 'symfs/.debug' and
skips the local buildid dir when '--symfs' is given, so that every
single file opened by perf is relative to symfs directory now.

Signed-off-by: He Kuang 
Acked-by: David Ahern 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Ekaterina Tumanova 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463658462-85131-2-git-send-email-hekuang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix usage of max_stack sysctl

2016-05-20T14:43:56+00:00

We cannot limit processing stacks from the current value of the sysctl,
as we may be processing perf.data files, possibly from other machines.

Instead use the old PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH, the sysctl default, that can
be overriden using --max-stack or equivalent.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Fixes: 4cb93446c587 ("perf tools: Set the maximum allowed stack from /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-eqeutsr7n7wy0c36z24ytvii@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Set the maximum allowed stack from /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack

2016-04-27T13:29:07+00:00

There is an upper limit to what tooling considers a valid callchain,
and it was tied to the hardcoded value in the kernel,
PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH (127), now that this can be tuned via a sysctl,
make it read it and use that as the upper limit, falling back to
PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH for kernels where this sysctl isn't present.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yjqsd30nnkogvj5oyx9ghir9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Fix segfault when printing callchains

2016-04-25T15:49:17+00:00

This fixes a bug caused by an unitialized callchain cursor. The crash
frist appeared in:

6f736735e30f ("perf evsel: Require that callchains be resolved before
calling fprintf_{sym,callchain}")

The callchain cursor is a struct that contains pointers, that when
uninitialized will cause unpredictable behavior (usually a crash)
when trying to append to the callchain.

The existing implementation has the following issues:

1. The callchain cursor used is not initialized, resulting in
	unpredictable behavior when used.
2. The cursor is declared on the stack. Even if it is properly initalized,
	the implmentation will leak memory when the function returns,
	since all the references to the callchain_nodes allocated by
	callchain_cursor_append will be lost when the cursor goes out of
	scope.
3. Storing the cursor on the stack is inefficient. Even if memory is
	properly freed when it goes out of scope, a performance penalty
	will be incurred due to reallocation of callchain nodes.
	callchain_cursor_append is designed to avoid these reallocations
	when an existing cursor is reused.

This patch fixes the crash by replacing cursor_callchain with a reference
to the global callchain_cursor which also resolves all 3 issues mentioned
above.

How to reproduce the crash:

  $ perf record --call-graph=dwarf stress -t 1 -c 1
  $ perf script > /dev/null
  Segfault

Signed-off-by: Chris Phlipot 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Fixes: 6f736735e30f ("perf evsel: Require that callchains be resolved before calling fprintf_{sym,callchain}")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461119531-2529-1-git-send-email-cphlipot0@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Check sample->callchain before using it

2016-04-18T14:31:46+00:00

Found by code inspection, while looking at thread__resolve_callchain()
callsites, one had it, the other didn't.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6r8i2afd3523thuuaxl39yhk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Add --max-stack knob

2016-04-14T22:46:57+00:00

Works just like with 'perf report'. In some cases we may want to have
more than 127 entries, the default maximum.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mqkz2p5ok2978gztb0vsnocc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Require that callchains be resolved before calling fprintf_{sym,callchain}

2016-04-14T22:46:56+00:00

This way the print routine merely does printing, not requiring access to
the resolving machinery, which helps disentangling the object files and
easing creating subsets with a limited functionality set.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2ti2jbra8fypdfawwwm3aee3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Remove symbol_conf usage

2016-04-14T17:56:06+00:00

  # perf test -v python
  16: Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems      :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 672
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "", line 1, in 
  ImportError: /tmp/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol:
  symbol_conf
  test child finished with -1
  ---- end ----
  Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems: FAILED!
  #

To fix it just pass a parameter to perf_evsel__fprintf_sym telling if
callchains should be printed.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-comrsr20bsnr8bg0n6rfwv12@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Move some methods from session.[ch] to evsel.[ch]

2016-04-13T13:11:52+00:00

Those were converted to be evsel methods long ago, move the
source to where it belongs.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vja8rjmkw3gd5ungaeyb5s2j@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Rename print_ip() to fprintf_sym()

2016-04-12T01:18:17+00:00

As it receives a FILE, and its more than just the IP, which can even be
requested not to be printed.

For consistency with other similar methods in tools/perf/, name it as
perf_evsel__fprintf_sym() and make it return the number of bytes
printed, just like 'fprintf(3)'

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-84gawlqa3lhk63nf0t9vnqnn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo