linux-toradex.git/tools/perf, branch v4.15-rc2

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

2017-11-17T22:23:52+00:00

Pull second round of s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:

 - rework of the vdso code to avoid the use of the access register mode

 - use perf AUX buffers for the transport of diagnostic sample data

 - add perf_regs and user stack dump support

 - enable perf call graphs for user space programs

 - add perf register support for floating-point registers

 - all remaining s390 related timer_setup conversions

 - bug fixes and cleanups

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (30 commits)
  s390: remove unused parameter from Makefile
  zfcp: purely mechanical update using timer API, plus blank lines
  s390/scsi: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  s390/cpum_sf: correctly set the PID and TID in perf samples
  s390/cpum_sf: load program parameter at sampler enablement
  s390/perf: add perf register support for floating-point registers
  s390/perf: extend perf_regs support to include floating-point registers
  s390/perf: define common DWARF register string table
  s390/perf: add support for perf_regs and libdw
  s390/perf: add perf_regs support and user stack dump
  s390/cpum_sf: do not register PMU if no sampling mode is authorized
  s390/cpumf: remove raw event support in basic-only sampling mode
  s390/perf: add callback to perf to enable using AUX buffer
  s390/cpumf: enable using AUX buffer
  s390/cpumf: introduce AUX buffer for dump diagnostic sample data
  s390/disassembler: increase show_code buffer size
  s390: Remove CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY
  s390: enable CPU alternatives unconditionally
  s390/nmi: remove unused code
  s390/mm: remove unused code
  ...

s390/perf: add perf register support for floating-point registers

2017-11-16T14:06:15+00:00

For correct unwinding of user space processes, the floating-point
register contents are required.  For example, leaf functions might
use fp registers to temporarily store the return address.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner 
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Richter 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/perf: define common DWARF register string table

2017-11-16T14:06:13+00:00

Instead of defining DWARF register to string table in dwarf-regs-table.h
and dwarf-regs.c, use a common table in dwarf-regs-table.h.

Ensure that the DWARF register table is up-to-date with
http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ELF/zSeries/lzsabi0_s390/x1542.html.

For unwinding with libdw, also ensure to correctly setup the DWARF
register frame according to the register mappings.  Currently, libdw
supports up to 32 registers only.

Suggested-by: Thomas Richter 
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner 
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Richter 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/perf: add support for perf_regs and libdw

2017-11-16T14:06:12+00:00

With support for perf_regs and libdw, you can record and report
call graphs for user space programs. Simply invoke perf with
the --call-graph=dwarf command line option.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
[brueckner: added dwfl_thread_state_register_pc() call]
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner 
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Richter 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/perf: add callback to perf to enable using AUX buffer

2017-11-16T14:06:08+00:00

Perf tool need implement a callback to enable using AUX buffer. Perf
will do another mmap() to trigger the setup of AUX buffer in kernel
if there is such callback. The default size of the AUX buffer is set
properly according to the sampling frequency to avoid overflow. It
could also be manually set by -m option of perf.

The interface of perf is not changed. Diagnostic mode sampling
could be started by `perf record -e rBD000` like before.

Signed-off-by: Pu Hou 
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

mm: remove __GFP_COLD

2017-11-16T02:21:06+00:00

As the page free path makes no distinction between cache hot and cold
pages, there is no real useful ordering of pages in the free list that
allocation requests can take advantage of.  Juding from the users of
__GFP_COLD, it is likely that a number of them are the result of copying
other sites instead of actually measuring the impact.  Remove the
__GFP_COLD parameter which simplifies a number of paths in the page
allocator.

This is potentially controversial but bear in mind that the size of the
per-cpu pagelists versus modern cache sizes means that the whole per-cpu
list can often fit in the L3 cache.  Hence, there is only a potential
benefit for microbenchmarks that alloc/free pages in a tight loop.  It's
even worse when THP is taken into account which has little or no chance
of getting a cache-hot page as the per-cpu list is bypassed and the
zeroing of multiple pages will thrash the cache anyway.

The truncate microbenchmarks are not shown as this patch affects the
allocation path and not the free path.  A page fault microbenchmark was
tested but it showed no sigificant difference which is not surprising
given that the __GFP_COLD branches are a miniscule percentage of the
fault path.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-9-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kmemcheck: remove whats left of NOTRACK flags

2017-11-16T02:21:05+00:00

Now that kmemcheck is gone, we don't need the NOTRACK flags.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-5-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Tim Hansen 
Cc: Vegard Nossum 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2017-11-13T21:05:08+00:00

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

  Kernel:

   - kprobes updates: use better W^X patterns for code modifications,
     improve optprobes, remove jprobes. (Masami Hiramatsu, Kees Cook)

   - core fixes: event timekeeping (enabled/running times statistics)
     fixes, perf_event_read() locking fixes and cleanups, etc. (Peter
     Zijlstra)

   - Extend x86 Intel free-running PEBS support and support x86
     user-register sampling in perf record and perf script. (Andi Kleen)

  Tooling:

   - Completely rework the way inline frames are handled. Instead of
     querying for the inline nodes on-demand in the individual tools, we
     now create proper callchain nodes for inlined frames. (Milian
     Wolff)

   - 'perf trace' updates (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Implement a way to print formatted output to per-event files in
     'perf script' to facilitate generate flamegraphs, elliminating the
     need to write scripts to do that separation (yuzhoujian, Arnaldo
     Carvalho de Melo)

   - Update vendor events JSON metrics for Intel's Broadwell, Broadwell
     Server, Haswell, Haswell Server, IvyBridge, IvyTown, JakeTown,
     Sandy Bridge, Skylake, SkyLake Server - and Goldmont Plus V1 (Andi
     Kleen, Kan Liang)

   - Multithread the synthesizing of PERF_RECORD_ events for
     pre-existing threads in 'perf top', speeding up that phase, greatly
     improving the user experience in systems such as Intel's Knights
     Mill (Kan Liang)

   - Introduce the concept of weak groups in 'perf stat': try to set up
     a group, but if it's not schedulable fallback to not using a group.
     That gives us the best of both worlds: groups if they work, but
     still a usable fallback if they don't. E.g: (Andi Kleen)

   - perf sched timehist enhancements (David Ahern)

   - ... various other enhancements, updates, cleanups and fixes"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (139 commits)
  kprobes: Don't spam the build log with deprecation warnings
  arm/kprobes: Remove jprobe test case
  arm/kprobes: Fix kretprobe test to check correct counter
  perf srcline: Show correct function name for srcline of callchains
  perf srcline: Fix memory leak in addr2inlines()
  perf trace beauty kcmp: Beautify arguments
  perf trace beauty: Implement pid_fd beautifier
  tools include uapi: Grab a copy of linux/kcmp.h
  perf callchain: Fix double mapping al->addr for children without self period
  perf stat: Make --per-thread update shadow stats to show metrics
  perf stat: Move the shadow stats scale computation in perf_stat__update_shadow_stats
  perf tools: Add perf_data_file__write function
  perf tools: Add struct perf_data_file
  perf tools: Rename struct perf_data_file to perf_data
  perf script: Print information about per-event-dump files
  perf trace beauty prctl: Generate 'option' string table from kernel headers
  tools include uapi: Grab a copy of linux/prctl.h
  perf script: Allow creating per-event dump files
  perf evsel: Restore evsel->priv as a tool private area
  perf script: Use event_format__fprintf()
  ...

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

2017-11-13T20:38:26+00:00

Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - Another attempt at enabling cross-release lockdep dependency
     tracking (automatically part of CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y), this time
     with better performance and fewer false positives. (Byungchul Park)

   - Introduce lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled()/disabled() and convert
     open-coded equivalents to lockdep variants. (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - Add down_read_killable() and use it in the VFS's iterate_dir()
     method. (Kirill Tkhai)

   - Convert remaining uses of ACCESS_ONCE() to
     READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE(). Most of the conversion was Coccinelle
     driven. (Mark Rutland, Paul E. McKenney)

   - Get rid of lockless_dereference(), by strengthening Alpha atomics,
     strengthening READ_ONCE() with smp_read_barrier_depends() and thus
     being able to convert users of lockless_dereference() to
     READ_ONCE(). (Will Deacon)

   - Various micro-optimizations:

        - better PV qspinlocks (Waiman Long),
        - better x86 barriers (Michael S. Tsirkin)
        - better x86 refcounts (Kees Cook)

   - ... plus other fixes and enhancements. (Borislav Petkov, Juergen
     Gross, Miguel Bernal Marin)"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits)
  locking/x86: Use LOCK ADD for smp_mb() instead of MFENCE
  rcu: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  netpoll: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  timers/posix-cpu-timers: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  sched/clock, sched/cputime: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  irq_work: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  irq/timings: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  perf/core: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  x86: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  smp/core: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  timers/hrtimer: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  timers/nohz: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  workqueue: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  irq/softirqs: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
  locking/lockdep: Add IRQs disabled/enabled assertion APIs: lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled()/disabled()
  locking/pvqspinlock: Implement hybrid PV queued/unfair locks
  locking/rwlocks: Fix comments
  x86/paravirt: Set up the virt_spin_lock_key after static keys get initialized
  block, locking/lockdep: Assign a lock_class per gendisk used for wait_for_completion()
  workqueue: Remove now redundant lock acquisitions wrt. workqueue flushes
  ...

perf trace: Call machine__exit() at exit

2017-11-09T13:17:32+00:00

Otherwise 'perf trace' leaves a temporary file /tmp/perf-vdso.so-XXXXXX.

  $ perf trace -o log true
  $ ls -l /tmp/perf-vdso.*
  -rw------- 1 root root 8192 Nov  8 03:08 /tmp/perf-vdso.so-5bCpD0

Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin 
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Vasily Averin 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171108002246.8924-1-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo