linux-stable.git/tools/perf/util/machine.h, branch linux-4.8.y

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 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: Introduce number of threads member

2016-05-06T00:03:55+00:00

To be used, for instance, for pre-allocating an rb_tree array for
sorting by other keys besides the current pid one.

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-ja0ifkwue7ttjhbwijn6g6eu@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Allow loading kallsyms without considering kcore files

2016-04-19T15:38:56+00:00

Before the support for using /proc/kcore was introduced, the kallsyms
routines used /proc/modules and the first 'perf test' entry expected
finding maps for each module in the system, which is not the case with
the kcore code. Provide a way to ignore kcore files so that the test can
have its expectations met.

Improving the test to cover kcore files as well needs to be done.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ek5urnu103dlhfk4l6pcw041@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf callchain: Start moving away from global per thread cursors

2016-04-14T17:48:07+00:00

The recent perf_evsel__fprintf_callchain() move to evsel.c added several
new symbol requirements to the python binding, for instance:

  # perf test -v python
  16: Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems      :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 18030
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "", line 1, in 
  ImportError: /tmp/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol:
  callchain_cursor
  test child finished with -1
  ---- end ----
  Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems: FAILED!
  #

This would require linking against callchain.c to access to the global
callchain_cursor variables.

Since lots of functions already receive as a parameter a
callchain_cursor struct pointer, make that be the case for some more
function so that we can start phasing out usage of yet another global
variable.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-djko3097eyg2rn66v2qcqfvn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove misplaced __maybe_unused

2016-03-23T15:03:04+00:00

All over the tree.

Cc: David Ahern 
cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Ravi Bangoria 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8nzhnokxyp8y4v7gf0j00oyb@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Introduce machine__find_kernel_symbol_by_name()

2016-01-26T14:52:51+00:00

To be used in the 'vmlinux matches kallsyms' 'perf test'  entry.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-m56g1853lz2c6nhnqxibq4jd@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Add method for common kernel_map(FUNCTION) operation

2015-09-30T21:34:29+00:00

And it is also a step in the direction of killing the separation of data
and text maps in map_groups.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rrds86kb3wx5wk8v38v56gw8@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Add pointer to sample's environment

2015-09-14T15:50:29+00:00

The 'struct machine' represents the machine where the samples were/are
being collected, and we also have a 'struct perf_env' with extra details
about such machine, that we were collecting at 'perf.data' creation time
but we also needed when no perf.data file is being used, such as in
'perf top'.

So, get those structs closer together, as they provide a bigger picture
of the sample's environment.

In 'perf session', when the file argument is NULL, we can assume that
the tool is sampling the running machine, so point machine->env to
the global put in place in previous patches, while set it to the
perf_header.env one when reading from a file.

This paves the way for machine->env to be used in
perf_event__preprocess_sample to populate addr_location.socket.

Tested-by: Wang Nan 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2ajotl0khscutm68exictoy9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add new PERF_RECORD_SWITCH event

2015-07-24T01:51:13+00:00

Support processing of PERF_RECORD_SWITCH events and
PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE events. There is a single
tools callback for them both so that the tool must
check the event type before using the extra members
in PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE.

There is still no way to select the events, though.
That is added in a subsequest patch.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Mathieu Poirier 
Cc: Pawel Moll 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437471846-26995-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo