linux-stable.git/tools/perf/util/header.c, branch v4.2.3

perf header: Delete an unnecessary check before the calling free_event_desc()

2015-06-25T18:15:49+00:00

The free_event_desc() function tests whether its argument is NULL and
then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring 
Cc: Julia Lawall 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/558C2ABA.3000603@users.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Reference count struct dso

2015-06-08T13:31:40+00:00

This has a different model than the 'thread' and 'map' struct lifetimes:
there is not a definitive "don't use this DSO anymore" event, i.e. we may
get many 'struct map' holding references to the '/usr/lib64/libc-2.20.so'
DSO but then at some point some DSO may have no references but we still
don't want to straight away release its resources, because "soon" we may
get a new 'struct map' that needs it and we want to reuse its symtab or
other resources.

So we need some way to garbage collect it when crossing some memory
usage threshold, which is left for anoter patch, for now it is
sufficient to release it when calling dsos__exit(), i.e. when deleting
the whole list as part of deleting the 'struct machine' containing it,
which will leave only referenced objects being used.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-majzgz07cm90t2tejrjy4clf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Deal with kernel module names in '[]' correctly

2015-06-03T13:02:38+00:00

Before patch ba92732e9808 ('perf kmaps: Check kmaps to make code more
robust'), 'perf report' and 'perf annotate' will segfault if trace data
contains kernel module information like this:

 # perf report -D -i ./perf.data
 ...
 0 0 0x188 [0x50]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP -1/0: [0xffffffbff1018000(0xf068000) @ 0]: x [test_module]
 ...

 # perf report -i ./perf.data --objdump=/path/to/objdump --kallsyms=/path/to/kallsyms

 perf: Segmentation fault
 -------- backtrace --------
 /path/to/perf[0x503478]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x3545f)[0x7fb201f3745f]
 /path/to/perf[0x499b56]
 /path/to/perf(dso__load_kallsyms+0x13c)[0x49b56c]
 /path/to/perf(dso__load+0x72e)[0x49c21e]
 /path/to/perf(map__load+0x6e)[0x4ae9ee]
 /path/to/perf(thread__find_addr_map+0x24c)[0x47deec]
 /path/to/perf(perf_event__preprocess_sample+0x88)[0x47e238]
 /path/to/perf[0x43ad02]
 /path/to/perf[0x4b55bc]
 /path/to/perf(ordered_events__flush+0xca)[0x4b57ea]
 /path/to/perf[0x4b1a01]
 /path/to/perf(perf_session__process_events+0x3be)[0x4b428e]
 /path/to/perf(cmd_report+0xf11)[0x43bfc1]
 /path/to/perf[0x474702]
 /path/to/perf(main+0x5f5)[0x42de95]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x7fb201f23bd4]
 /path/to/perf[0x42dfc4]

This is because __kmod_path__parse treats '[' leading names as kernel
name instead of names of kernel module.

If perf.data contains build information and the buildid of such modules
can be found, the dso->kernel of it will be set to DSO_TYPE_KERNEL by
__event_process_build_id(), not kernel module.

It will then be passed to dso__load() -> dso__load_kernel_sym() ->
dso__load_kcore() if --kallsyms is provided.

The refered patch adds NULL pointer checker to avoid segfault. However,
such kernel modules are still processed incorrectly.

This patch fixes __kmod_path__parse, makes it treat names like
'[test_module]' as kernel modules.

kmod-path.c is also update to reflect the above changes.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433321541-170245-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
[ Fixed the merged with 0443f36b0de0 ("perf machine: Fix the search
  for the kernel DSO on the unified list" ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Introduce machine__findnew_dso() method

2015-05-29T15:43:44+00:00

Similar to machine__findnew_thread(), also prepping for refcounting and
locking, this time for struct dso instances.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fv3tshv5o1413coh147lszjc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: No need to have two DSOs lists

2015-05-29T15:43:43+00:00

We can, given a DSO, figure out if it is a kernel, a kernel module or
a userlevel DSO, so stop having to process two lists in several
functions.

If searching becomes an issue at some point, we can have them in a
rbtree, etc.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-s4yb0onpdywu6dj2xl9lxi4t@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add AUX area tracing index

2015-05-04T22:48:47+00:00

Add an index of AUX area tracing events within a perf.data file.

perf record uses a special user event PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND to
enable sorting of events in chunks instead of having to sort all events
altogether.

AUX area tracing events contain data that can span back to the very
beginning of the recording period. i.e. they do not obey the rules of
PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND.

By adding an index, AUX area tracing events can be found in advance and
the PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND approach works as usual.

The index is recorded with the auxtrace feature in the perf.data file.
A session reads the index but does not process it.  An AUX area decoder
can queue all the AUX area data in advance using
auxtrace_queues__process_index() or otherwise process the index in some
custom manner.

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/1430404667-10593-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf header: Add AUX area tracing feature

2015-04-29T13:37:49+00:00

Add a feature to indicate that a perf.data file contains AUX area data.

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/1428594864-29309-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix cross-endian analysis

2015-04-10T13:13:58+00:00

Trying to analyze a big endian data file on little endian system fails
with the error:

  0xa9b40 [0x70]: failed to process type: 9

The problem is that header parsing is not done correctly because the
file attributes are not swapped. Make it so. With this patch able to
analyze a sparc64 data file on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428610546-178789-1-git-send-email-david.ahern@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Merge all perf_event_attr print functions

2015-04-08T13:06:28+00:00

Currently there's 3 (that I found) different and incomplete
implementations of printing perf_event_attr.

This is quite silly. Merge the lot.

While this patch does not retain the exact form all printing that I
found is debug output and thus it should not be critical.

Also, I cannot find a single print_event_desc() caller.

Pre:

 $ perf record -vv -e cycles -- sleep 1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 perf_event_attr:
  type                0
  size                104
  config              0
  sample_period       4000
  sample_freq         4000
  sample_type         0x107
  read_format         0
  disabled            1    inherit             1
  pinned              0    exclusive           0
  exclude_user        0    exclude_kernel      0
  exclude_hv          0    exclude_idle        0
  mmap                1    comm                1
  mmap2               1    comm_exec           1
  freq                1    inherit_stat        0
  enable_on_exec      1    task                1
  watermark           0    precise_ip          0
  mmap_data           0    sample_id_all       1
  exclude_host        0    exclude_guest       1
  excl.callchain_kern 0    excl.callchain_user 0
  wakeup_events       0
  wakeup_watermark    0
  bp_type             0
  bp_addr             0
  config1             0
  bp_len              0
  config2             0
  branch_sample_type  0
  sample_regs_user    0
  sample_stack_user   0
  sample_regs_intr    0
 ------------------------------------------------------------

 $ perf evlist  -vv
 cycles: sample_freq=4000, size: 104, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD,
 disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, mmap2: 1, comm: 1, comm_exec: 1,
 freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1

 Post:

 $ ./perf record -vv -e cycles -- sleep 1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 perf_event_attr:
  size                             112
  { sample_period, sample_freq }   4000
  sample_type                      IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD
  disabled                         1
  inherit                          1
  mmap                             1
  comm                             1
  freq                             1
  enable_on_exec                   1
  task                             1
  sample_id_all                    1
  exclude_guest                    1
  mmap2                            1
  comm_exec                        1
------------------------------------------------------------

 $ ./perf evlist  -vv
 cycles: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type:
 IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq:
 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1,
 mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150407091150.644238729@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add clockid parameter

2015-04-08T13:04:55+00:00

Teach perf-record about the new perf_event_attr::{use_clockid, clockid}
fields. Add a simple parameter to set the clock (if any) to be used for
the events to be recorded into the data file.

Since we store the entire perf_event_attr in the EVENT_DESC section we
also already store the used clockid in the data file.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: David Ahern 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Yunlong Song 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150407154851.GR23123@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
[ Conditionally define CLOCK_BOOTTIME, at least rhel6 doesn't have it - dsahern
  Ditto for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, sles11sp2 doesn't have it - yunlong.song ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo