linux-stable.git/tools/perf/Makefile.perf, branch v4.2

perf tools: Really allow to specify custom CC, AR or LD

2015-07-15T14:57:28+00:00

Commit 5ef7bbb09f7b ("perf tools: Allow to specify custom linker
command") was meant to enable usage non $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld linker during
perf building.

But implementation didn't take into account the fact that LD is a
pre-defined variable in GNU Make. I.e. it is always defined.

Which means there's no point to check "LD ?= ..." because it will never
succeed.

And so LD will be either that explicitly passed to make like this:

 ------->8-------
 make LD=path_to_my_ld ...
 ------->8-------
 or default value, which is host's "ld".

Latter leads to failure of cross-linkage because instead of cross linker
"$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld" host's "ld" is used.

Fortunately there's a way to do correct substitution of $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld
with user defined LD on command-line.

As a reference was used implementation in "tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile".

Build tested for x86_64 and ARC.

Thanks Jiri for this hint.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin 
Fixes: 5ef7bbb09f7b ("perf tools: Allow to specify custom linker command")
Cc: Aaro Koskinen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436864720-26316-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Allow to specify custom linker command

2015-07-01T20:53:50+00:00

Allow to specify custom linker command. This fixes MIPS64 builds for
64-bit userspace as it will allow to pass a linker using the correct
linker flags for 64-bit ABI (by default GNU binutils ld will assume
N32).

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435751683-18500-2-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Create config.detected into OUTPUT directory

2015-07-01T20:53:49+00:00

Create config.detected into OUTPUT directory instead of source
directory.

This fixes parallel builds that share the same source directory.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435751683-18500-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move libtraceevent dynamic list to separated LDFLAGS variable

2015-06-17T19:29:25+00:00

Commit e3d09ec8126fe2c9a3ade661e2126e215ca27a80 ("tools lib traceevent:
Export dynamic symbols used by traceevent plugins") adds libtraceevent
dynamic list directly into LDFLAGS, which makes all targets depend on
that list through LDFLAGS.

This is not good since some of targets like libgtk.so doesn't use plugin
at all, but require the existance of that list because of linker
options.

This patch isolates the -Xlink option into LIBTRACEEVENT_DYNAMIC_LIST_LDFLAGS,
makes only perf and perf.so use it.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434552389-89144-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools lib traceevent: Fix python/perf.so compiling error

2015-06-16T13:34:38+00:00

'make build-test' finds an error that make_python_perf_so fails due to
missing of libtraceevent-dynamic-list:

 '.../python2' util/setup.py \
   --quiet build_ext; \
   mkdir -p python && \
   cp python_ext_build/lib/perf.so python/
   /path/to/ld: cannot open linker script file /path/to/kernel/tools/lib/traceevent/libtraceevent-dynamic-list: No such file or directory
   collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
   error: command 'x86_64-linux-gcc' failed with exit status 1
   cp: cannot stat 'python_ext_build/lib/perf.so': No such file or directory
   make[3]: *** [python/perf.so] Error 1
   make[2]: *** [python/perf.so] Error 2
     test: test -f ./python/perf.so
     make[1]: *** [make_python_perf_so] Error 1
     make: *** [build-test] Error 2
     make: Leaving directory `/path/to/kernel/tools/perf'

This is caused by commit e3d09ec8126fe2c9a3ade661e2126e215ca27a80
("tools lib traceevent: Export dynamic symbols used by traceevent
plugins") that, it adds the list file to LDFLAGS but forgot to add it to
dependency list of python/perf.so.

This patch fixes this problem.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434079031-123162-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools lib traceevent: Export dynamic symbols used by traceevent plugins

2015-06-08T13:30:31+00:00

Traceevent plugins need dynamic symbols exported from libtraceevent.a,
otherwise a dlopen error will occur during plugins loading.

This patch uses dynamic-list-file to export dynamic symbols which will
be used in plugins to perf executable.

The problem is covered up if feature-libpython is enabled, because
PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS contains '-Xlinker --export-dynamic' which adds all
symbols to the dynamic symbol table. So we should reproduce the problem
by setting NO_LIBPYTHON=1.

Before this patch:

  (Prepare plugins)
  $ ls /root/.traceevent/plugins/
  plugin_sched_switch.so
  plugin_function.so
  ...

  $ perf record -e 'ftrace:function' ls

  $ perf script
    Warning: could not load plugin '/mnt/data/root/.traceevent/plugins/plugin_sched_switch.so'
    /root/.traceevent/plugins/plugin_sched_switch.so: undefined symbol: pevent_unregister_event_handler

    Warning: could not load plugin '/root/.traceevent/plugins/plugin_function.so'
    /root/.traceevent/plugins/plugin_function.so: undefined symbol: warning
    ...
           :1049  1049 [000]  9666.754487: ftrace:function:  ffffffff8118bc50 <-- ffffffff8118c5b3
           :1049  1049 [000]  9666.754487: ftrace:function:  ffffffff818e2440 <-- ffffffff8118bc75
           :1049  1049 [000]  9666.754487: ftrace:function:  ffffffff8106eee0 <-- ffffffff811212e2

After this patch:

  $ perf record -e 'ftrace:function' ls
  $ perf script
           :1049  1049 [000]  9666.754487: ftrace:function: __set_task_comm
           :1049  1049 [000]  9666.754487: ftrace:function:    _raw_spin_lock
           :1049  1049 [000]  9666.754487: ftrace:function: task_tgid_nr_ns
           ...

Signed-off-by: He Kuang 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432819735-35040-1-git-send-email-hekuang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Separate the tests and tools in installation

2015-05-27T15:21:43+00:00

This refactors out install-bin to install-tests and install-tools so
that downstream could opt to only install the tools, and not the tests.

Signed-off-by: Nam T. Nguyen 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Simon Que 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431974247-22275-1-git-send-email-namnguyen@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add build option NO_AUXTRACE to exclude AUX area tracing

2015-05-05T21:12:53+00:00

Add build option NO_AUXTRACE to exclude compiling support for AUX area
tracing. Support for both recording and processing is excluded and by
implication any future additions such as Intel PT and Intel BTS will
also not be compiled in with this option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430404667-10593-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf build: Disable libbabeltrace check by default

2015-03-30T13:24:27+00:00

Disabling libbabeltrace check by default and replacing the
NO_LIBBABELTRACE make variable with LIBBABELTRACE.

Users wanting the libbabeltrace feature need to build via:

  $ make LIBBABELTRACE=1

The reason for this is that the libababeltrace interface we use (version
1.3) hasn't been packaged/released yet, thus the failing feature check
only slows down build and confuses other (non CTF) developers.

Requested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150328103030.GA8431@krava.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add lzma decompression support for kernel module

2015-03-21T17:53:40+00:00

In short, Fedora compresses kernel modules now (since version 21) with
lzma compression.

Adding lzma decompress support into the dso.c:compressions array
introduced by Namhyung earlier.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2glp65kdtbrk0gblmirsjsnt@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo