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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>perf tests: Avoid possible truncation with dirent-&gt;d_name + snprintf</title>
<updated>2017-07-15T10:16:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-09T17:48:46+00:00</published>
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commit 2e2bbc039fad9eabad6c4c1a473c8b2554cdd2d4 upstream.

Addressing a few cases spotted by a new warning in gcc 7:

  tests/parse-events.c: In function 'test_pmu_events':
  tests/parse-events.c:1790:39: error: '%s' directive output may be truncated writing up to 255 bytes into a region of size 90 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
     snprintf(name, MAX_NAME, "cpu/event=%s/u", ent-&gt;d_name);
                                       ^~
  In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:939:0,
                   from /git/linux/tools/perf/util/map.h:9,
                   from /git/linux/tools/perf/util/symbol.h:7,
                   from /git/linux/tools/perf/util/evsel.h:10,
                   from tests/parse-events.c:3:
  /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:64:10: note: '__builtin___snprintf_chk' output between 13 and 268 bytes into a destination of size 100
     return __builtin___snprintf_chk (__s, __n, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1,
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
          __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ());
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  tests/parse-events.c:1798:29: error: '%s' directive output may be truncated writing up to 255 bytes into a region of size 100 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
     snprintf(name, MAX_NAME, "%s:u,cpu/event=%s/u", ent-&gt;d_name, ent-&gt;d_name);

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: 945aea220bb8 ("perf tests: Move test objects into 'tests' directory")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ty4q2p8zp1dp3mskvubxskm5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2e2bbc039fad9eabad6c4c1a473c8b2554cdd2d4 upstream.

Addressing a few cases spotted by a new warning in gcc 7:

  tests/parse-events.c: In function 'test_pmu_events':
  tests/parse-events.c:1790:39: error: '%s' directive output may be truncated writing up to 255 bytes into a region of size 90 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
     snprintf(name, MAX_NAME, "cpu/event=%s/u", ent-&gt;d_name);
                                       ^~
  In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:939:0,
                   from /git/linux/tools/perf/util/map.h:9,
                   from /git/linux/tools/perf/util/symbol.h:7,
                   from /git/linux/tools/perf/util/evsel.h:10,
                   from tests/parse-events.c:3:
  /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:64:10: note: '__builtin___snprintf_chk' output between 13 and 268 bytes into a destination of size 100
     return __builtin___snprintf_chk (__s, __n, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1,
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
          __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ());
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  tests/parse-events.c:1798:29: error: '%s' directive output may be truncated writing up to 255 bytes into a region of size 100 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
     snprintf(name, MAX_NAME, "%s:u,cpu/event=%s/u", ent-&gt;d_name, ent-&gt;d_name);

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: 945aea220bb8 ("perf tests: Move test objects into 'tests' directory")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ty4q2p8zp1dp3mskvubxskm5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tests: Add dwarf unwind test for powerpc</title>
<updated>2016-09-29T14:18:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ravi Bangoria</name>
<email>ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-19T06:38:20+00:00</published>
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The user stack dump feature was recently added for powerpc. But there
was no test case available to test it.

This test works same as on other architectures by preparing a stack
frame on the perf test thread and comparing each frame by unwinding it.

  $ ./perf test 50
    50: Test dwarf unwind    : Ok

User stack dump for powerpc: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/28/482

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Anju T Sudhakar &lt;anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474267100-31079-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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The user stack dump feature was recently added for powerpc. But there
was no test case available to test it.

This test works same as on other architectures by preparing a stack
frame on the perf test thread and comparing each frame by unwinding it.

  $ ./perf test 50
    50: Test dwarf unwind    : Ok

User stack dump for powerpc: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/28/482

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Anju T Sudhakar &lt;anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474267100-31079-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf symbols: Remove symbol_filter_t machinery</title>
<updated>2016-09-05T14:14:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-01T22:25:52+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
We're not using it anymore, few users were, but we really could do
without it, simplify lots of functions by removing it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1zng8wdznn00iiz08bb7q3vn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
We're not using it anymore, few users were, but we really could do
without it, simplify lots of functions by removing it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1zng8wdznn00iiz08bb7q3vn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf test vmlinux: Remove dead symbol_filter_t code</title>
<updated>2016-09-05T14:14:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-01T22:22:02+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
We don't need to initialize that area as we're not using it afterwards,
leftover, ditch it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jb2un8buy4rqawz73mcdm1sn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
We don't need to initialize that area as we're not using it afterwards,
leftover, ditch it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jb2un8buy4rqawz73mcdm1sn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf test vmlinux: Tolerate symbol aliases</title>
<updated>2016-09-01T15:42:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-01T13:40:57+00:00</published>
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The algorithms used to prune aliases in symbols__fixup_duplicate() uses
information available on ELF symtabs that are not present on
/proc/kallsyms, so it picks different aliases as "best" for vmlinux and
kallsyms.

We could probably improve a bit this by having a list of aliases for the
"best" symbols picked, instead of throwing this info, but that is left
for when we find a real need.

With this, 'perf test vmlinux' passes:

  # perf test -F 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
  #

When we ask for verbose mode, we can see those warning:

  # perf test -F -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms:
  --- start ---
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /lib/modules/4.8.0-rc4+/build/vmlinux for symbols
  WARN: 0xffffffffb7001000: diff name v: xen_hypercall_set_trap_table k: hypercall_page
  WARN: 0xffffffffb7077970: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec v: 0xffffffffb707a2f2 k: 0xffffffffb7077a02
  WARN: 0xffffffffb707a300: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc v: 0xffffffffb707cc03 k: 0xffffffffb707a392
  WARN: 0xffffffffb707f950: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc_avx_gen2 v: 0xffffffffb7084ef6 k: 0xffffffffb707f9c3
  WARN: 0xffffffffb7084f00: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec_avx_gen2 v: 0xffffffffb708a691 k: 0xffffffffb7084f73
  WARN: 0xffffffffb708aa10: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc_avx_gen4 v: 0xffffffffb708f844 k: 0xffffffffb708aa83
  WARN: 0xffffffffb708f850: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec_avx_gen4 v: 0xffffffffb709486f k: 0xffffffffb708f8c3
  WARN: 0xffffffffb71a6e50: diff name v: perf_pmu_commit_txn.part.98 k: perf_pmu_cancel_txn.part.97
  WARN: 0xffffffffb752e480: diff name v: wakeup_expire_count_show.part.5 k: wakeup_active_count_show.part.7
  WARN: 0xffffffffb76e8d00: diff name v: phys_switch_id_show.part.11 k: phys_port_name_show.part.12
  WARN: Maps only in vmlinux:
   ffffffffb7d7d000-ffffffffb7eeaac8 117d000 [kernel].init.text
   ffffffffb7eeaac8-ffffffffc03ad000 12eaac8 [kernel].exit.text
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
  #

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6v5w1k8rpx4ggczlkw730vt0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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The algorithms used to prune aliases in symbols__fixup_duplicate() uses
information available on ELF symtabs that are not present on
/proc/kallsyms, so it picks different aliases as "best" for vmlinux and
kallsyms.

We could probably improve a bit this by having a list of aliases for the
"best" symbols picked, instead of throwing this info, but that is left
for when we find a real need.

With this, 'perf test vmlinux' passes:

  # perf test -F 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
  #

When we ask for verbose mode, we can see those warning:

  # perf test -F -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms:
  --- start ---
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /lib/modules/4.8.0-rc4+/build/vmlinux for symbols
  WARN: 0xffffffffb7001000: diff name v: xen_hypercall_set_trap_table k: hypercall_page
  WARN: 0xffffffffb7077970: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec v: 0xffffffffb707a2f2 k: 0xffffffffb7077a02
  WARN: 0xffffffffb707a300: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc v: 0xffffffffb707cc03 k: 0xffffffffb707a392
  WARN: 0xffffffffb707f950: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc_avx_gen2 v: 0xffffffffb7084ef6 k: 0xffffffffb707f9c3
  WARN: 0xffffffffb7084f00: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec_avx_gen2 v: 0xffffffffb708a691 k: 0xffffffffb7084f73
  WARN: 0xffffffffb708aa10: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc_avx_gen4 v: 0xffffffffb708f844 k: 0xffffffffb708aa83
  WARN: 0xffffffffb708f850: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec_avx_gen4 v: 0xffffffffb709486f k: 0xffffffffb708f8c3
  WARN: 0xffffffffb71a6e50: diff name v: perf_pmu_commit_txn.part.98 k: perf_pmu_cancel_txn.part.97
  WARN: 0xffffffffb752e480: diff name v: wakeup_expire_count_show.part.5 k: wakeup_active_count_show.part.7
  WARN: 0xffffffffb76e8d00: diff name v: phys_switch_id_show.part.11 k: phys_port_name_show.part.12
  WARN: Maps only in vmlinux:
   ffffffffb7d7d000-ffffffffb7eeaac8 117d000 [kernel].init.text
   ffffffffb7eeaac8-ffffffffc03ad000 12eaac8 [kernel].exit.text
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
  #

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6v5w1k8rpx4ggczlkw730vt0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf test vmlinux: Avoid printing headers for empty lists</title>
<updated>2016-09-01T15:42:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-01T13:40:57+00:00</published>
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Before:

  # perf test -F -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms:
  --- start ---
&lt;SNIP&gt;
  WARN: Maps only in vmlinux:
   ffffffffb7d7d000-ffffffffb7eeaac8 117d000 [kernel].init.text
   ffffffffb7eeaac8-ffffffffc03ad000 12eaac8 [kernel].exit.text
  WARN: Maps in vmlinux with a different name in kallsyms:
  WARN: Maps only in kallsyms:
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
  #

The two last WARN lines are now suppressed, since there are no such
cases detected.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9ww8uvzl682ykaw8ht1tozlr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Before:

  # perf test -F -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms:
  --- start ---
&lt;SNIP&gt;
  WARN: Maps only in vmlinux:
   ffffffffb7d7d000-ffffffffb7eeaac8 117d000 [kernel].init.text
   ffffffffb7eeaac8-ffffffffc03ad000 12eaac8 [kernel].exit.text
  WARN: Maps in vmlinux with a different name in kallsyms:
  WARN: Maps only in kallsyms:
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
  #

The two last WARN lines are now suppressed, since there are no such
cases detected.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9ww8uvzl682ykaw8ht1tozlr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf test vmlinux: Clarify which -v lines are errors or warning</title>
<updated>2016-09-01T15:42:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-01T13:26:49+00:00</published>
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When the 'perf test -v vmlinux' test fails, it is not clear which of the
lines are errors or warnings, clarify that adding ERR/WARN prefixes:

  # perf test -F -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms                          :
  --- start ---
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /lib/modules/4.8.0-rc4+/build/vmlinux for symbols
  ERR : 0xffffffffb7001000: diff name v: xen_hypercall_set_trap_table k: hypercall_page
  WARN: 0xffffffffb7077970: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec v: 0xffffffffb707a2f2 k: 0xffffffffb7077a02
  WARN: 0xffffffffb707a300: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc v: 0xffffffffb707cc03 k: 0xffffffffb707a392
  WARN: 0xffffffffb707f950: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc_avx_gen2 v: 0xffffffffb7084ef6 k: 0xffffffffb707f9c3
  WARN: 0xffffffffb7084f00: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec_avx_gen2 v: 0xffffffffb708a691 k: 0xffffffffb7084f73
  WARN: 0xffffffffb708aa10: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc_avx_gen4 v: 0xffffffffb708f844 k: 0xffffffffb708aa83
  WARN: 0xffffffffb708f850: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec_avx_gen4 v: 0xffffffffb709486f k: 0xffffffffb708f8c3
  ERR : 0xffffffffb71a6e50: diff name v: perf_pmu_commit_txn.part.98 k: perf_pmu_cancel_txn.part.97
  ERR : 0xffffffffb752e480: diff name v: wakeup_expire_count_show.part.5 k: wakeup_active_count_show.part.7
  ERR : 0xffffffffb76e8d00: diff name v: phys_switch_id_show.part.11 k: phys_port_name_show.part.12
  WARN: Maps only in vmlinux:
   ffffffffb7d7d000-ffffffffb7eeaac8 117d000 [kernel].init.text
   ffffffffb7eeaac8-ffffffffc03ad000 12eaac8 [kernel].exit.text
  WARN: Maps in vmlinux with a different name in kallsyms:
  WARN: Maps only in kallsyms:
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: FAILED!
  #

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-n5ml8m7y9x8kzvxt09ipku88@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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When the 'perf test -v vmlinux' test fails, it is not clear which of the
lines are errors or warnings, clarify that adding ERR/WARN prefixes:

  # perf test -F -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms                          :
  --- start ---
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /lib/modules/4.8.0-rc4+/build/vmlinux for symbols
  ERR : 0xffffffffb7001000: diff name v: xen_hypercall_set_trap_table k: hypercall_page
  WARN: 0xffffffffb7077970: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec v: 0xffffffffb707a2f2 k: 0xffffffffb7077a02
  WARN: 0xffffffffb707a300: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc v: 0xffffffffb707cc03 k: 0xffffffffb707a392
  WARN: 0xffffffffb707f950: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc_avx_gen2 v: 0xffffffffb7084ef6 k: 0xffffffffb707f9c3
  WARN: 0xffffffffb7084f00: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec_avx_gen2 v: 0xffffffffb708a691 k: 0xffffffffb7084f73
  WARN: 0xffffffffb708aa10: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc_avx_gen4 v: 0xffffffffb708f844 k: 0xffffffffb708aa83
  WARN: 0xffffffffb708f850: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec_avx_gen4 v: 0xffffffffb709486f k: 0xffffffffb708f8c3
  ERR : 0xffffffffb71a6e50: diff name v: perf_pmu_commit_txn.part.98 k: perf_pmu_cancel_txn.part.97
  ERR : 0xffffffffb752e480: diff name v: wakeup_expire_count_show.part.5 k: wakeup_active_count_show.part.7
  ERR : 0xffffffffb76e8d00: diff name v: phys_switch_id_show.part.11 k: phys_port_name_show.part.12
  WARN: Maps only in vmlinux:
   ffffffffb7d7d000-ffffffffb7eeaac8 117d000 [kernel].init.text
   ffffffffb7eeaac8-ffffffffc03ad000 12eaac8 [kernel].exit.text
  WARN: Maps in vmlinux with a different name in kallsyms:
  WARN: Maps only in kallsyms:
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: FAILED!
  #

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-n5ml8m7y9x8kzvxt09ipku88@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf test bpf: Fix typo: "ehough" -&gt; "enough"</title>
<updated>2016-08-23T20:06:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-21T14:16:03+00:00</published>
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<id>17d4666f0613dfd1e2a3919d9b4c724acba8f8b1</id>
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Trivial typo fix in pr_debug message

Signed-off-by: Colin King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160821141603.7832-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Trivial typo fix in pr_debug message

Signed-off-by: Colin King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160821141603.7832-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Fix typo: "ehough" -&gt; "enough"</title>
<updated>2016-08-23T20:06:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-21T14:12:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=dd6fa4e197f0123bcd751e47c171121b2451f148'/>
<id>dd6fa4e197f0123bcd751e47c171121b2451f148</id>
<content type='text'>
Trivial typo fix in pr_debug message

Signed-off-by: Colin King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160821141256.7530-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Trivial typo fix in pr_debug message

Signed-off-by: Colin King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160821141256.7530-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tests bpf: Use SyS_epoll_wait alias</title>
<updated>2016-08-03T22:40:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-02T19:48:19+00:00</published>
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Something made the sys_epoll_wait() function alias not to be found in
the vmlinux DWARF info, being found only in /proc/kallsyms, which made
the BPF perf tests to fail:

  [root@jouet ~]# perf test BPF
  37: Test BPF filter                                          :
  37.1: Test basic BPF filtering                               : FAILED!
  37.2: Test BPF prologue generation                           : Skip
  37.3: Test BPF relocation checker                            : Skip
  [root@jouet ~]#

Using -v we can see it is failing to find DWARF info for the probed function,
sys_epoll_wait, which we can find in /proc/kallsyms but not in vmlinux with
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO:

  [root@jouet ~]# grep -w sys_epoll_wait /proc/kallsyms
  ffffffffbd295b50 T sys_epoll_wait
  [root@jouet ~]#

  [root@jouet ~]# readelf -wi /lib/modules/4.7.0+/build/vmlinux | grep -w sys_epoll_wait
  [root@jouet ~]#

If we try to use perf probe:

[root@jouet ~]# perf probe sys_epoll_wait
Failed to find debug information for address ffffffffbd295b50
Probe point 'sys_epoll_wait' not found.
  Error: Failed to add events.
[root@jouet ~]#

It all works if we use SyS_epoll_wait, that is just an alias to the probed
function:

  [root@jouet ~]# grep -i sys_epoll_wait /proc/kallsyms
  ffffffffbd295b50 T SyS_epoll_wait
  ffffffffbd295b50 T sys_epoll_wait
  [root@jouet ~]#

So use it:

  [root@jouet ~]# perf test BPF
  37: Test BPF filter                                          :
  37.1: Test basic BPF filtering                               : Ok
  37.2: Test BPF prologue generation                           : Ok
  37.3: Test BPF relocation checker                            : Ok
  [root@jouet ~]#

Further info:

  [root@jouet ~]# gcc --version
  gcc (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3)
  [acme@jouet linux]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
  Fedora release 24 (Twenty Four)

Investigation as to why it fails is still underway, but it was always
going from sys_epoll_wait to SyS_epoll_wait when looking up the DWARF
info in vmlinux, and this is what is breaking now.

Switching to use SyS_epoll_wait allows this test to proceed and test the
BPF code it was designed for, so lets have this in to allow passing this
test while we fix the root cause.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7hekjp0bodwjbb419sl2b55h@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
Something made the sys_epoll_wait() function alias not to be found in
the vmlinux DWARF info, being found only in /proc/kallsyms, which made
the BPF perf tests to fail:

  [root@jouet ~]# perf test BPF
  37: Test BPF filter                                          :
  37.1: Test basic BPF filtering                               : FAILED!
  37.2: Test BPF prologue generation                           : Skip
  37.3: Test BPF relocation checker                            : Skip
  [root@jouet ~]#

Using -v we can see it is failing to find DWARF info for the probed function,
sys_epoll_wait, which we can find in /proc/kallsyms but not in vmlinux with
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO:

  [root@jouet ~]# grep -w sys_epoll_wait /proc/kallsyms
  ffffffffbd295b50 T sys_epoll_wait
  [root@jouet ~]#

  [root@jouet ~]# readelf -wi /lib/modules/4.7.0+/build/vmlinux | grep -w sys_epoll_wait
  [root@jouet ~]#

If we try to use perf probe:

[root@jouet ~]# perf probe sys_epoll_wait
Failed to find debug information for address ffffffffbd295b50
Probe point 'sys_epoll_wait' not found.
  Error: Failed to add events.
[root@jouet ~]#

It all works if we use SyS_epoll_wait, that is just an alias to the probed
function:

  [root@jouet ~]# grep -i sys_epoll_wait /proc/kallsyms
  ffffffffbd295b50 T SyS_epoll_wait
  ffffffffbd295b50 T sys_epoll_wait
  [root@jouet ~]#

So use it:

  [root@jouet ~]# perf test BPF
  37: Test BPF filter                                          :
  37.1: Test basic BPF filtering                               : Ok
  37.2: Test BPF prologue generation                           : Ok
  37.3: Test BPF relocation checker                            : Ok
  [root@jouet ~]#

Further info:

  [root@jouet ~]# gcc --version
  gcc (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3)
  [acme@jouet linux]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
  Fedora release 24 (Twenty Four)

Investigation as to why it fails is still underway, but it was always
going from sys_epoll_wait to SyS_epoll_wait when looking up the DWARF
info in vmlinux, and this is what is breaking now.

Switching to use SyS_epoll_wait allows this test to proceed and test the
BPF code it was designed for, so lets have this in to allow passing this
test while we fix the root cause.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7hekjp0bodwjbb419sl2b55h@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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