linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/util, branch v3.7-rc5

perf test: Fix exclude_guest parse events tests

2012-10-22T16:02:01+00:00

Event parsing tests are broken by following commit:

  perf tool: Precise mode requires exclude_guest
  commit 1342798cc13e3b48d9b5738f0c8fa812ccea8101
  Author: David Ahern 
  Date:   Thu Sep 13 14:59:13 2012 -0600

which enables 'exclude_guest' modifier any time the 'precise'
modifier is detected.

Fixing related tests and adding special comment.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: David Ahern 
Acked-by: David Ahern 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: do not flush maps on COMM for perf report

2012-10-22T15:55:53+00:00

This fixes a long-standing bug caused by the lack of separate COMM and EXEC
record types, which makes "perf report" lose track of symbols when a process
renames itself.

With this fix (suggested by Stephane Eranian), a COMM (rename) no longer
flushes the maps, which is the correct behavior.  An EXEC also no longer
flushes the maps, but this doesn't matter because as new mappings are created
(for the executable and the libraries) the old mappings are automatically
removed.  This is not by accident: the functionality is necessary because DLLs
can be explicitly loaded at any time with dlopen(), possibly on top of existing
text, so "perf report" handles correctly the clobbering of new mappings on top
of old ones.

An alternative patch (which I proposed earlier) would be to introduce a
separate PERF_RECORD_EXEC type, but it is a much larger change (about 300
lines) and is not necessary.

Signed-off-by: Luigi Semenzato 
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian 
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lucas De Marchi 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Olof Johansson 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Cc: Sonny Rao 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Stephen Wilson 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345585940-6497-1-git-send-email-semenzato@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf python: Properly link with libtraceevent

2012-10-20T00:43:08+00:00

Namhyung Kim reported that the build fails with:

  GEN python/perf.so
  gcc: error: python_ext_build/tmp//../../libtraceevent.a: No such file or directory
  error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
  cp: cannot stat `python_ext_build/lib/perf.so': No such file or directory
  make: *** [python/perf.so] Error 1

We need to propagate the TE_PATH variable to the setup.py file.

Reported-by: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8umiPbm4sxpknKivbjgykhut@git.kernel.org
[ Fixed superfluous variable build error. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent

2012-10-20T00:40:26+00:00

Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

* The python binding needs to link with libtraceevent and to initialize
  the 'page_size' variable so that mmaping works again.

* The callchain folding character that appears on the TUI just before
  the overhead had disappeared due to recent changes, add it back.

* Intel PEBS in VT-x context uses the DS address as a guest linear address,
  even though its programmed by the host as a host linear address. This either
  results in guest memory corruption and or the hardware faulting and 'crashing'
  the virtual machine.  Therefore we have to disable PEBS on VT-x enter and
  re-enable on VT-x exit, enforcing a strict exclude_guest.

  Kernel side enforcement fix by Peter Zijlstra, tooling side fix by David Ahern.

* Fix build on sparc due to UAPI, fix from David Miller.

* Fixes for the srclike sort key for unresolved symbols and when processing
  samples in JITted code, where we don't have an ELF file, just an special
  symbol table, fixes from Namhyung Kim.

* Fix some leaks in libtraceevent, from Steven Rostedt.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf python: Link with libtraceevent

2012-10-17T14:45:46+00:00

The evsel methods to read tracepoint fields uses libtraceevent
functions, becoming needed by the python binding as well.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j3o4v7jyvp9ke9n230l96a1m@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf python: Initialize 'page_size' variable

2012-10-17T14:45:38+00:00

The commit 0c1fe6b:

 'perf tools: Have the page size value available for all tools'

Broke the python binding because the global variable 'page_size' is
initialized on the main() routine, that is not called when using
just the python binding, causing evlist.mmap() to fail because it
expects that variable to be initialized to the system's page size.

Fix it by initializing it on the binding init routine.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vrvp3azmbfzexnpmkhmvtzzc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove warnings on JIT samples for srcline sort key

2012-10-16T16:05:38+00:00

When using the srcline sort key with perf report, I see many lines of
warning related to JIT samples like below:

  addr2line: '/tmp/perf-1397.map': No such file

Since it's not a ELF binary and doesn't provide such information, just
use the raw ip address.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Irina Tirdea 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350272383-7016-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix segfault when using srcline sort key

2012-10-16T16:05:07+00:00

The srcline sort key is for grouping samples based on their source file
and line number.  It use addr2line tool to get the information but it
requires dso name.  It caused a segfault when a sample does not have the
name by dereferencing a NULL pointer.  Fix it by using raw ip addresses
for those samples.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350272383-7016-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tool: Precise mode requires exclude_guest

2012-10-16T15:43:31+00:00

Summary of events per Peter:

  "Intel PEBS in VT-x context uses the DS address as a guest linear address,
  even though its programmed by the host as a host linear address. This
  either results in guest memory corruption and or the hardware faulting and
  'crashing' the virtual machine.  Therefore we have to disable PEBS on VT-x
  enter and re-enable on VT-x exit, enforcing a strict exclude_guest.

  AMB IBS does work but doesn't currently support exclude_* at all,
  setting an exclude_* bit will make it fail."

This patch handles userspace perf command, setting the exclude_guest
attribute if precise mode is requested, but only if a user has not
specified a request for guest or host only profiling (G or H attribute).

Kernel side AMD currently ignores all exclude_* bits, so there is no impact
to existing IBS code paths. Robert Richter has a patch where IBS code will
return EINVAL if an exclude_* bit is set. When this goes in it means use
of :p on AMD with IBS will first fail with EINVAL (because exclude_guest
will be set). Then the existing fallback code within perf will unset
exclude_guest and try again. The second attempt will succeed if the CPU
supports IBS profiling.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Robert Richter 
Tested-by: Robert Richter 
Reviewed-by: Robert Richter 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Gleb Natapov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347569955-54626-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: Fix UAPI fallout

2012-10-14T19:22:52+00:00

The UAPI commits forgot to test tooling builds such as tools/perf/,
and this fixes the fallout.

Manual conversion.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds