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2011-12-09perf: Fix parsing of __print_flags() in TP_printk()Steven Rostedt
commit d06c27b22aa66e48e32f03f9387328a9af9b0625 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 <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-11-11perf probe: Fix to show correct error stringMasami Hiramatsu
commit 44a56040a0037a845d5fa218dffde464579f0cab upstream. Fix perf probe to show correct error string when it fails to delete an event. The write(2) returns -1 if failed, and errno stores real error number. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111004104504.14591.41266.stgit@fedora15 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-10-03perf symbols: Fix ppc64 SEGV in dso__load_sym with debuginfo filesAnton Blanchard
commit adb091846318f86e4f46c7d6a7b40d2f478abdbe upstream. 64bit PowerPC debuginfo files have an empty function descriptor section. I hit a SEGV when perf tried to use this section for symbol resolution. To fix this we need to check the section is valid and we can do this by checking for type SHT_PROGBITS. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110824065242.895239970@samba.org Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-17perf tools: do not look at ./config for configurationJonathan Nieder
commit aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea upstream. In addition to /etc/perfconfig and $HOME/.perfconfig, perf looks for configuration in the file ./config, imitating git which looks at $GIT_DIR/config. If ./config is not a perf configuration file, it fails, or worse, treats it as a configuration file and changes behavior in some unexpected way. "config" is not an unusual name for a file to be lying around and perf does not have a private directory dedicated for its own use, so let's just stop looking for configuration in the cwd. Callers needing context-sensitive configuration can use the PERF_CONFIG environment variable. Requested-by: Christian Ohm <chr.ohm@gmx.net> Cc: 632923@bugs.debian.org Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Christian Ohm <chr.ohm@gmx.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110805165838.GA7237@elie.gateway.2wire.net Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-04perf tools: Fix endian conversion reading event attr from file headerDavid Ahern
commit eda3913bb70ecebac13adccffe1e7f96e93cee02 upstream. The perf_event_attr struct has two __u32's at the top and they need to be swapped individually. With this change I was able to analyze a perf.data collected in a 32-bit PPC VM on an x86 system. I tested both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries for the Intel analysis side; both read the PPC perf.data file correctly. -v2: - changed the existing perf_event__attr_swap() to swap only elements of perf_event_attr and exported it for use in swapping the attributes in the file header - updated swap_ops used for processing events Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: paulus@samba.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310754849-12474-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-04perf tools, x86: Fix 32-bit compile on 64-bit systemDavid Ahern
commit 08a4a43fc407d780bdde36d98f89c0dbb2a6be6b upstream. Builds for 32-bit perf binaries on a 64-bit host currently fail with this error: [...] bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S: Assembler messages: bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:29: Error: bad register name `%rdi' bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:34: Error: invalid instruction suffix for `movs' bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:50: Error: bad register name `%rdi' bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:61: Error: bad register name `%rdi' ... The problem is the detection of the host arch without considering passed in flags. This change fixes 32-bit builds via: make EXTRA_CFLAGS=-m32 and 64-bit builds still reference the memcpy_64.S. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310420304-21452-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-19Merge branches 'perf-urgent-for-linus', 'sched-urgent-for-linus', ↵Linus Torvalds
'timers-urgent-for-linus' and 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tools/perf: Fix static build of perf tool tracing: Fix regression in printk_formats file * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling interrupts * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: clocksource: Make watchdog robust vs. interruption timerfd: Fix wakeup of processes when timer is cancelled on clock change * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, MAINTAINERS: Add x86 MCE people x86, efi: Do not reserve boot services regions within reserved areas
2011-06-19Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: rcu: Move RCU_BOOST #ifdefs to header file rcu: use softirq instead of kthreads except when RCU_BOOST=y rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression rcu: Simplify curing of load woes
2011-06-16Merge branch 'rc-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: kbuild: Call depmod.sh via shell perf: clear out make flags when calling kernel make kernelver
2011-06-16tools/perf: Fix static build of perf toolMathias Krause
To build a statically linked version of the perf tool all needed libraries must be added in the correct order to get the symbols resolved. Currently this is broken when, e.g. python or newt support is enabled -- libpython needs libpthread which is an unconditional link dependency of the perf tool; libslang needs libm, another unconditional dependency. To solve the problem in the long run without the need to keep track of transitive library dependencies, simply make the linker look at the EXTLIBS multiple times until it has all symbols resolved. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308171818-20370-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-15perf: clear out make flags when calling kernel make kernelverAndy Whitcroft
When generating the perf version from the kernel version using 'make kernelver' it is necessary to clear out any MAKEFLAGS otherwise they may trigger additional output which pollute the contents. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-06-14rcu: Use softirq to address performance regressionShaohua Li
Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread) introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded performance by about 40%. The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has 64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks, but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods. This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related processing to be done. Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes, perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.) This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context, so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-06-09Merge branch 'rc-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: perf: Use make kernelversion instead of parsing the Makefile kbuild: Hack for depmod not handling X.Y versions kbuild: Move depmod call to a separate script kbuild: Fix <linux/version.h> for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL kbuild: Fix KERNELVERSION for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL kbuild: silence Nothing to be done for 'all' message
2011-06-09perf: Use make kernelversion instead of parsing the MakefileMichal Marek
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-06-08Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf: Fix comments in include/linux/perf_event.h perf: Comment /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to be part of user ABI perf python: Fix argument name list of read_on_cpu() perf evlist: Don't die if sample_{id_all|type} is invalid perf python: Use exception to propagate errors perf evlist: Remove dependency on debug routines perf, cgroups: Fix up for new API
2011-06-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest: ktest: Ignore unset values of the minconfig in config_bisect ktest: Fix result of rebooting the kernel ktest: Fix off-by-one in config bisect result
2011-06-03perf python: Fix argument name list of read_on_cpu()Frederic Weisbecker
Mandatory arguments need to be present in the argument name list, as well as optional arguments, otherwise python barfs: # ./python/twatch.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "./python/twatch.py", line 41, in <module> main() File "./python/twatch.py", line 32, in main event = evlist.read_on_cpu(cpu) RuntimeError: more argument specifiers than keyword list entries Hence, add cpu to the name list. Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1301588863-20210-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-06-03perf evlist: Don't die if sample_{id_all|type} is invalidArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Fixes two more cases where the python binding would not load: . Not finding die(), which it shouldn't anyway, not good to just stop the world because some particular perf.data file is invalid, just propagate the error to the caller. . Not finding perf_sample_size: fix it by moving it from event.c to evsel, where it belongs, as most cases are moving to operate on an evsel object.o One of the fixed problems: [root@emilia ~]# python >>> import perf Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: perf_sample_size >>> [root@emilia ~]# Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1hkj7b2cvgbfnoizsekjb6c9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-06-03perf python: Use exception to propagate errorsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
We were using pr_debug to tell the user about not being able to parse a sample where we should really use the python way of reporting errors: exceptions. Fixes this problem: [root@emilia ~]# python >>> import perf Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: eprintf >>> [root@emilia ~] As we want to keep the objects linked in the python binding (and in the future in a shared library) minimal. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-m9dba9kaluas0kq8r58z191c@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-06-03perf evlist: Remove dependency on debug routinesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
So far we avoided having to link debug.o in the python binding, keep it that way by not using ui__warning() in evlist.c. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4wtew8hd3g7ejnlehtspys2t@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-06-02ktest: Ignore unset values of the minconfig in config_bisectSteven Rostedt
By ignoring the unset values of the minconfig in deciding what to test in the config_bisect can cause the problem config from being tested too. Just do not test the configs that are set in the minconfig. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-02ktest: Fix result of rebooting the kernelSteven Rostedt
The command that is called that reboots the kernel may fail but the return code is not passed back to the ktest.pl script. This is because a ';' is used between the two commands and if the second command fails, only the first command's return code is returned. Using a '&&' between the two commands fixes this. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-02ktest: Fix off-by-one in config bisect resultSteven Rostedt
Because in perl the array size returned by $#arr, is the last index and not the actually size of the array, we end the config bisect early, thinking there is only one config left when there are in fact two. Thus the result has a 50% chance of picking the correct config that caused the problem. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-30virtio_test: support event indexMichael S. Tsirkin
Add ability to test the new event idx feature, enable by default. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-05-27perf top: Don't stop if no kernel symtab is foundArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
We now just warn the user about the fact and go on providing just userspace samples. This fixes a problem when no vmlinux is explicetely passed by the user, thus symbol_conf.vmlinux_name is NULL, no suitable vmlinux is found, and then we get: aldebaran:~> perf top -p 7557 [kernel.kallsyms] with build id 44d9a989eabbd79e486bc079d6b743d397c204e0 not found, continuing without symbols The (null) file can't be used Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cj2g81hn64wv2bipmqk4fy2m@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-27perf top: Handle kptr_restrictArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cyl5zmi1nu35vyu7l5im2pyv@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-27perf top: Remove unused macroArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-weqbs0tkk2u0qp1xxdxxosfg@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-27perf events: initialize fd array to -1 instead of 0David Ahern
perf_evsel__alloc_fd allocates an array of file descriptors with the memory initialized to 0. The array has dimensions for cpus and threads. Later, __perf_evsel__open calls sys_perf_event_open for each cpu and thread dimensions. If the open fails for any of the cpus or threads then the fd's for this event are closed and the fd entry in the array is set to -1. Now, if the first attempt fails for the event (e.g., the event is not supported) the remaining dimensions (cpu > 0 and thread > 0) are not touched and left at the initialized value of 0. builtin-stat catches ENOENT and ENOSYS failures and allows the command to continue. The end result is that stat attempts to read from an fd of 0 which of course is stdin and so the command hangs until you type ctrl-D. Resolve by initializing the array to -1 since an fd < 0 is already handled. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306511914-8016-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-27perf tools: Make sure kptr_restrict warnings fit 80 col termsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-i1p8vrhq7xveyui6t1sc914e@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-26perf tools: Fix build on older systemsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Where /usr/include/linux/const.h is not present, e.g. RHEL5. Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ypcw2mu0w7dl1rrc6ncz3pee@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-26perf symbols: Handle /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrictArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Perf uses /proc/modules to figure out where kernel modules are loaded. With the advent of kptr_restrict, non root users get zeroes for all module start addresses. So check if kptr_restrict is non zero and don't generate the syntethic PERF_RECORD_MMAP events for them. Warn the user about it in perf record and in perf report. In perf report the reference relocation symbol being zero means that kptr_restrict was set, thus /proc/kallsyms has only zeroed addresses, so don't use it to fixup symbol addresses when using a valid kallsyms (in the buildid cache) or vmlinux (in the vmlinux path) build-id located automatically or specified by the user. Provide an explanation about it in 'perf report' if kernel samples were taken, checking if a suitable vmlinux or kallsyms was found/specified. Restricted /proc/kallsyms don't go to the buildid cache anymore. Example: [acme@emilia ~]$ perf record -F 100000 sleep 1 WARNING: Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) are restricted, check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict. Samples in kernel functions may not be resolved if a suitable vmlinux file is not found in the buildid cache or in the vmlinux path. Samples in kernel modules won't be resolved at all. If some relocation was applied (e.g. kexec) symbols may be misresolved even with a suitable vmlinux or kallsyms file. [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.005 MB perf.data (~231 samples) ] [acme@emilia ~]$ [acme@emilia ~]$ perf report --stdio Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) were restricted, check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict before running 'perf record'. If some relocation was applied (e.g. kexec) symbols may be misresolved. Samples in kernel modules can't be resolved as well. # Events: 13 cycles # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................. ..................... # 20.24% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] page_fault 20.04% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] filemap_fault 19.78% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __lru_cache_add 19.69% sleep ld-2.12.so [.] memcpy 14.71% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] dput 4.70% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] flush_signal_handlers 0.73% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] perf_event_comm 0.11% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr_safe # # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso) # [acme@emilia ~]$ This is because it found a suitable vmlinux (build-id checked) in /lib/modules/2.6.39-rc7+/build/vmlinux (use -v in perf report to see the long file name). If we remove that file from the vmlinux path: [root@emilia ~]# mv /lib/modules/2.6.39-rc7+/build/vmlinux \ /lib/modules/2.6.39-rc7+/build/vmlinux.OFF [acme@emilia ~]$ perf report --stdio [kernel.kallsyms] with build id 57298cdbe0131f6871667ec0eaab4804dcf6f562 not found, continuing without symbols Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) were restricted, check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict before running 'perf record'. As no suitable kallsyms nor vmlinux was found, kernel samples can't be resolved. Samples in kernel modules can't be resolved as well. # Events: 13 cycles # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................. ...... # 80.31% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] 0xffffffff8103425a 19.69% sleep ld-2.12.so [.] memcpy # # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso) # [acme@emilia ~]$ Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mt512joaxxbhhp1odop04yit@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-26perf: Remove duplicate headersJesper Juhl
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: trivial@kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1105261011290.17400@swampdragon.chaosbits.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-23Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Fix sample type size calculation in 32 bits archs profile: Use vzalloc() rather than vmalloc() & memset()
2011-05-24perf tools: Fix sample type size calculation in 32 bits archsFrederic Weisbecker
The shift used here to count the number of bits set in the mask doesn't work above the low part for archs that are not 64 bits. Fix the constant used for the shift. This fixes a 32-bit perf top failure reported by Eric Dumazet: Can't parse sample, err = -14 Can't parse sample, err = -14 ... Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306200686-17317-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-23Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Fix sample size bit operations perf tools: Fix ommitted mmap data update on remap watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based on watchdog_thresh watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zero watchdog: Only disable/enable watchdog if neccessary watchdog: Fix rounding bug in get_sample_period() perf tools: Propagate event parse error handling perf tools: Robustify dynamic sample content fetch perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsing perf tools: Move evlist sample helpers to evlist area perf tools: Remove junk code in mmap size handling perf tools: Check we are able to read the event size on mmap
2011-05-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined") perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course'). treewide: fix a few typos in comments regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations" audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured' arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option. treewide: remove extra semicolons ...
2011-05-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest: ktest: Allow options to be used by other options ktest: Create variables for the ktest config files ktest: Reboot after each patchcheck run ktest: Reboot to good kernel after every bisect run ktest: If test failed due to timeout, print that ktest: Fix post install command
2011-05-23perf tools: Fix sample size bit operationsFrederic Weisbecker
What we want is to count the number of bits in the mask, not some other random operation written in the middle of the night. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306148788-6179-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com [ Fixed perf_event__names[] alignment which was nearby and hurting my eyes ... ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-23perf tools: Fix ommitted mmap data update on remapFrederic Weisbecker
Commit eac9eacee16 "perf tools: Check we are able to read the event size on mmap" brought a check to ensure we can read the size of the event before dereferencing it, and do a remap otherwise to move the buffer forward. However that remap was ommitting all the necessary work to update the new page offset, head, and to unmap previous pages, etc... To fix this, gather all the code that fetches the event in a seperate helper which does all the necessary checks about the header/event size and tells us anytime a remap is needed. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306148788-6179-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-22Merge branch 'perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent Conflicts: tools/perf/builtin-top.c Semantic conflict: util/include/linux/list.h # fix prefetch.h removal fallout Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-22perf tools: Propagate event parse error handlingFrederic Weisbecker
Better handle event parsing error by propagating the details in upper layers or by dumping some failure message. So that the user knows he has some crazy events in the batch. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
2011-05-22perf tools: Robustify dynamic sample content fetchFrederic Weisbecker
Ensure the size of the dynamic fields such as callchains or raw events don't overlap the whole event boundaries. This prevents from dereferencing junk if the given size of the callchain goes too eager. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
2011-05-22perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsingFrederic Weisbecker
Check that the total size of the sample fields having a fixed size do not exceed the one of the whole event. This robustifies the sample parsing. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
2011-05-22perf tools: Move evlist sample helpers to evlist areaFrederic Weisbecker
These APIs should belong to evlist.c as they may not be exclusively tied to the headers. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com
2011-05-22perf tools: Remove junk code in mmap size handlingFrederic Weisbecker
size is overriden later and used only then. Those lines are only junk, probably a leftover. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
2011-05-22perf tools: Check we are able to read the event size on mmapFrederic Weisbecker
Check we have enough mmaped space to read the current event size from its headers, otherwise we may dereference some hell there. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
2011-05-20sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usageLinus Torvalds
Commit e66eed651fd1 ("list: remove prefetching from regular list iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather obscure header file dependency. So this fixes things up a bit, using grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]') grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]') to guide us in finding files that either need <linux/prefetch.h> inclusion, or have it despite not needing it. There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets many core ones. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-20ktest: Allow options to be used by other optionsSteven Rostedt
There are cases where one ktest option may be used within another ktest option. Allow them to be reused just like config variables but there are evaluated at time of test not config processing time. Thus having something like: MAKE_CMD = make ARCH=${ARCH} TEST_START ARCH = powerpc TEST_START ARCH = arm Will have the arch defined for each test iteration. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-20ktest: Create variables for the ktest config filesSteven Rostedt
I found that I constantly reuse information for each test case. It would be nice to just define a variable to reuse. For example I may have: TEST_START [...] TEST = ssh root@mybox /path/to/my/script TEST_START [...] TEST = ssh root@mybox /path/to/my/script [etc] The issue is, I may wont to change that script or one of the other fields. Then I need to update each line individually. With the addition of config variables (variables only used during parsing the config) we can simplify the config files. These variables can also be defined multiple times and each time the new value will overwrite the old value. The convention to use a config variable over a ktest option is to use := instead of =. Now we could do: USER := root TARGET := mybox TEST_SCRIPT := /path/to/my/script TEST_CASE := ${USER}@${TARGET} ${TEST_SCRIPT} TEST_START [...] TEST = ${TEST_CASE} TEST_START [...] TEST = ${TEST_CASE} [etc] Now we just need to update the variables at the top. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-20ktest: Reboot after each patchcheck runSteven Rostedt
The patches being checked may not leave the kernel in a state that the next run will allow the new kernel to be copied to the machine. Reboot to a known good kernel before continuing to the next kernel to test. Added option PATCHCHECK_SLEEP_TIME for the max time to sleep between patchcheck reboots. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>