linux-stable.git/tools/perf/util/machine.c, branch v4.8.2

perf s390: Fix 'start' address of module's map

2016-07-26T19:46:12+00:00

At present, when creating module's map, perf gets 'start' address by
parsing '/proc/modules', but it's the module base address, it isn't the
start address of the '.text' section.

In most arches, it's OK. But for s390, it places 'GOT' and 'PLT'
relocations before '.text' section. So there exists an offset between
module base address and '.text' section, which will incur wrong symbol
resolution for modules.

Fix this bug by getting 'start' address of module's map from parsing
'/sys/module/[module name]/sections/.text', not from '/proc/modules'.

Signed-off-by: Song Shan Gong 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: David Ahern 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469070651-6447-2-git-send-email-gongss@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Destructors should accept NULL

2016-06-22T13:19:11+00:00

And do nothing, just like free(), to avoid having to test it in callers,
usually in error paths.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-q42gj3b3znhho9z1mrbo4jce@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160607' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

2016-06-08T07:34:15+00:00

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

User visible changes:

- Support cross unwinding, i.e. collecting '--call-graph dwarf' perf.data files
  in one machine and then doing analysis in another machine of a different
  hardware architecture. This enables, for instance, to do:

	perf record -a --call-graph dwarf

  on a x86-32 or aarch64 system and then do 'perf report' on it on a
  x86_64 workstation. (He Kuang)

- Fix crash in build_id_cache__kallsyms_path(), recent regression (Wang Nan)

Infrastructure changes:

- Make tools/lib/bpf use the IS_ERR return facility consistently and also stop
  using the _get_ term for non-reference count methods (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- 'perf config' refactorings (Taeung Song)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf unwind: Move unwind__prepare_access from thread_new into thread__insert_map

2016-06-07T15:08:52+00:00

To determine the libunwind methods to use, we should get the
32bit/64bit information from maps of a thread. When a thread is newly
created, the information is not prepared. This patch moves
unwind__prepare_access() into thread__insert_map() so we can get the
information we need from maps. Meanwhile, let thread__insert_map()
return value and show messages on error.

Signed-off-by: He Kuang 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ekaterina Tumanova 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464924803-22214-5-git-send-email-hekuang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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

2016-05-26T00:05:40+00:00

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Mostly tooling and PMU driver fixes, but also a number of late updates
  such as the reworking of the call-chain size limiting logic to make
  call-graph recording more robust, plus tooling side changes for the
  new 'backwards ring-buffer' extension to the perf ring-buffer"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
  perf record: Read from backward ring buffer
  perf record: Rename variable to make code clear
  perf record: Prevent reading invalid data in record__mmap_read
  perf evlist: Add API to pause/resume
  perf trace: Use the ptr->name beautifier as default for "filename" args
  perf trace: Use the fd->name beautifier as default for "fd" args
  perf report: Add srcline_from/to branch sort keys
  perf evsel: Record fd into perf_mmap
  perf evsel: Add overwrite attribute and check write_backward
  perf tools: Set buildid dir under symfs when --symfs is provided
  perf trace: Only auto set call-graph to "dwarf" when syscalls are being traced
  perf annotate: Sort list of recognised instructions
  perf annotate: Fix identification of ARM blt and bls instructions
  perf tools: Fix usage of max_stack sysctl
  perf callchain: Stop validating callchains by the max_stack sysctl
  perf trace: Fix exit_group() formatting
  perf top: Use machine->kptr_restrict_warned
  perf trace: Warn when trying to resolve kernel addresses with kptr_restrict=1
  perf machine: Do not bail out if not managing to read ref reloc symbol
  perf/x86/intel/p4: Trival indentation fix, remove space
  ...

perf callchain: Stop validating callchains by the max_stack sysctl

2016-05-20T14:43:56+00:00

As thread__resolve_callchain_sample can be used for handling perf.data
files, that could've been recorded with a large max_stack sysctl setting
than what the system used for analysis has set.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2995bt2g5yq2m05vga4kip6m@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Warn when trying to resolve kernel addresses with kptr_restrict=1

2016-05-20T14:43:54+00:00

Hook into the libtraceevent plugin kernel symbol resolver to warn the
user that that can't happen with kptr_restrict=1.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9gc412xx1gl0lvqj1d1xwlyb@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Do not bail out if not managing to read ref reloc symbol

2016-05-20T14:43:54+00:00

This means the user can't access /proc/kallsyms, for instance, because
/proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict is set to 1.

Instead leave the ref_reloc_sym as NULL and code using it will cope.

This allows 'perf trace' to work on such systems for !root, the only
issue would be when trying to resolve kernel symbols, which happens,
for instance, in some libtracevent plugins.  A warning for that case
will be provided in the next patch in this series.

Noticed in Ubuntu 16.04, that comes with kptr_restrict=1.

Reported-by: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-knpu3z4iyp2dxpdfm798fac4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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

2016-05-18T00:05:30+00:00

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (21 commits)
  gitignore: fix wording
  mfd: ab8500-debugfs: fix "between" in printk
  memstick: trivial fix of spelling mistake on management
  cpupowerutils: bench: fix "average"
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  IB/mlx4: printk fix
  pinctrl: sirf/atlas7: fix printk spelling
  serial: mctrl_gpio: Grammar s/lines GPIOs/line GPIOs/, /sets/set/
  w1: comment spelling s/minmum/minimum/
  Blackfin: comment spelling s/divsor/divisor/
  metag: Fix misspellings in comments.
  ia64: Fix misspellings in comments.
  hexagon: Fix misspellings in comments.
  tools/perf: Fix misspellings in comments.
  cris: Fix misspellings in comments.
  c6x: Fix misspellings in comments.
  blackfin: Fix misspelling of 'register' in comment.
  avr32: Fix misspelling of 'definitions' in comment.
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  Doc: treewide : Fix typos in DocBook/filesystem.xml
  ...

perf tools: Separate accounting of contexts and real addresses in a stack trace

2016-05-17T02:11:54+00:00

The perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr value includes all the entries in the
ip_callchain->ip[] array, real addresses and PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc},
while what the user expects is that what is in the kernel.perf_event_max_stack
sysctl or in the upcoming per event perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob be
honoured in terms of IP addresses in the stack trace.

So match the kernel support and validate chain->nr taking into account
both kernel.perf_event_max_stack and kernel.perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mgx0jpzfdq4uq4abfa40byu0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo