linux-toradex.git/tools/perf, branch v3.2.9

perf tools: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86_64

2012-02-20T20:46:13+00:00

commit 7a0153ee15575a4d07b5da8c96b79e0b0fd41a12 upstream.

By adding following objects:
  bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o
the x86_64 perf binary ended up with executable stack.

The reason was that above object are assembler sourced and is missing the
GNU-stack note section. In such case the linker assumes that the final binary
should not be restricted at all and mark the stack as RWX.

Adding section ".note.GNU-stack" definition to mentioned object, with all
flags disabled, thus omiting this object from linker stack flags decision.

Problem introduced in:

  $ git describe ea7872b
  v2.6.37-rc2-19-gea7872b

Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783570
Reported-by: Clark Williams 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328100848-5630-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
[ committer note: Backported fix to perf/urgent (3.3-rc2+) ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf evsel: Fix an issue where perf report fails to show the proper percentage

2012-02-20T20:46:13+00:00

commit a4a03fc7ef89020baca4f19174e6a43767c6d78a upstream.

This patch fixes an issue where perf report shows nan% for certain
perf.data files. The below is from a report for a do_fork probe:

   -nan%           sshd  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   -nan%    packagekitd  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   -nan%    dbus-daemon  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   -nan%           bash  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork

A git bisect shows commit f3bda2c as the cause. However, looking back
through the git history, I saw commit 640c03c which seems to have
removed the required initialization for perf_sample->period. The problem
only started showing after commit f3bda2c. The below patch re-introduces
the initialization and it fixes the problem for me.

With the below patch, for the same perf.data:

  73.08%             bash  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   8.97%      11-dhclient  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   6.41%             sshd  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   3.85%        20-chrony  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   2.56%         sendmail  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork

This patch applies over current linux-tip commit 9949284.

Problem introduced in:

$ git describe 640c03c
v2.6.37-rc3-83-g640c03c

Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120203170113.5190.25558.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: Fix parsing of __print_flags() in TP_printk()

2012-01-12T19:29:27+00:00

commit 49908a1b25d448d68fd26faca260e1850201575f upstream.

A update is made to the sched:sched_switch event that adds some
logic to the first parameter of the __print_flags() that shows the
state of tasks. This change cause perf to fail parsing the flags.

A simple fix is needed to have the parser be able to process ops
within the argument.

Reported-by: Andrew Vagin 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://github.com/acmel/linux into perf/urgent

2011-12-07T22:23:44+00:00

perf header: Use event_name() to get an event name

2011-12-06T11:22:48+00:00

perf_evsel.name may be not initialized

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Arun Sharma 
Cc: devel@openvz.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322471015-107825-2-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: Fix parsing of __print_flags() in TP_printk()

2011-12-05T18:28:47+00:00

A update is made to the sched:sched_switch event that adds some
logic to the first parameter of the __print_flags() that shows the
state of tasks. This change cause perf to fail parsing the flags.

A simple fix is needed to have the parser be able to process ops
within the argument.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andrew Vagin 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

perf stat: Failure with "Operation not supported"

2011-12-05T16:32:40+00:00

perf stat is failing on PowerPC:

  Error: open_counter returned with 95 (Operation not supported). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

commit 370faf1dd046 (perf stat: Fail softly on unsupported events)
added a check for failure returning ENOENT, but the POWER backend
returns EOPNOTSUPP. It looks like alpha, blackfin and mips do the
same.

With the patch applied, things work as expected:

 Performance counter stats for '/bin/true':

          0.362176 task-clock                #    0.623 CPUs utilized
                 0 context-switches          #    0.000 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec
                28 page-faults               #    0.077 M/sec
         1,677,020 cycles                    #    4.630 GHz
    stalled-cycles-frontend
    stalled-cycles-backend
           431,220 instructions              #    0.26  insns per cycle
           101,889 branches                  #  281.325 M/sec
             4,145 branch-misses             #    4.07% of all branches

       0.000581361 seconds time elapsed

Cc:  # 3.0+
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202093833.5fef7226@kryten
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf session: Fix crash with invalid CPU list

2011-11-16T12:02:26+00:00

commit 5d67be9 added the option to specify a range of CPUs of interest,
but does not catch an invalid CPU list:

$ perf script -c foo
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Cc: Anton Blanchard 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321206327-5881-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf python: Fix undefined symbol problem

2011-11-16T12:02:26+00:00

Recently we made perf_evsel__init call hists__init, which broke the perf
python binding:

[root@emilia linux]# ./tools/perf/python/twatch.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./tools/perf/python/twatch.py", line 16, in 
    import perf
ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: hists__init

Fix it by moving the hists__init function to its only caller, evsel.c.

This way we avoid dragging in other parts of tools/perf/util/ to the
perf python binding.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5nffmdt5mu6ozxgj54oi4qon@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2011-11-07T20:38:11+00:00

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf top: Fix live annotation in the --stdio interface
  perf top tui: Don't recalc column widths considering just the first page
  perf report: Add progress bar when processing time ordered events
  perf hists browser: Warn about lost events
  perf tools: Fix a typo of command name as trace-cmd
  perf hists: Fix recalculation of total_period when sorting entries
  perf header: Fix build on old systems
  perf ui browser: Handle K_RESIZE in dialog windows
  perf ui browser: No need to switch char sets that often
  perf hists browser: Use K_TIMER
  perf ui: Rename ui__warning_paranoid to ui__error_paranoid
  perf ui: Reimplement the popup windows using libslang
  perf ui: Reimplement ui__popup_menu using ui__browser
  perf ui: Reimplement ui_helpline using libslang
  perf ui: Improve handling sigwinch a bit
  perf ui progress: Reimplement using slang
  perf evlist: Fix grouping of multiple events