linux-stable.git/tools/perf/util/session.c, branch v3.7

perf evsel: Know if byte swap is needed

2012-09-26T15:48:18+00:00

Instead of passing it around for parsing as an explicit parameter, will
help with reading tracepoint fields when not using a perf session or
pevent structure, i.e. for non perf.data centered workflows.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qa67ikv2sm49cwa7dyjhhp6g@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use __maybe_used for unused variables

2012-09-11T15:19:15+00:00

perf defines both __used and __unused variables to use for marking
unused variables. The variable __used is defined to
__attribute__((__unused__)), which contradicts the kernel definition to
__attribute__((__used__)) for new gcc versions. On Android, __used is
also defined in system headers and this leads to warnings like: warning:
'__used__' attribute ignored

__unused is not defined in the kernel and is not a standard definition.
If __unused is included everywhere instead of __used, this leads to
conflicts with glibc headers, since glibc has a variables with this name
in its headers.

The best approach is to use __maybe_unused, the definition used in the
kernel for __attribute__((unused)). In this way there is only one
definition in perf sources (instead of 2 definitions that point to the
same thing: __used and __unused) and it works on both Linux and Android.
This patch simply replaces all instances of __used and __unused with
__maybe_unused.

Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347315303-29906-7-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@intel.com
[ committer note: fixed up conflict with a116e05 in builtin-sched.c ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Back [vdso] DSO with real data

2012-09-11T15:08:30+00:00

Storing data for VDSO shared object, because we need it for the post
unwind processing.

The VDSO shared object is same for all process on a running system, so
it makes no difference when we store it inside the tracer - perf.

When [vdso] map memory is hit, we retrieve [vdso] DSO image and store it
into temporary file.

During the build-id processing phase, the [vdso] DSO image is stored in
build-id db, and build-id reference is made inside perf.data. The
build-id vdso file object is called '[vdso]'. We don't use temporary
file name which gets removed when record is finished.

During report phase the vdso build-id object is treated as any other
build-id DSO object.

Adding following API for vdso object:

  bool is_vdso_map(const char *filename)
    - returns true if the filename matches vdso map name

  struct dso *vdso__dso_findnew(struct list_head *head)
    - find/create proper vdso DSO object

  vdso__exit(void)
    - removes temporary VDSO image if there's any

This change makes backtrace dwarf post unwind possible from [vdso] maps.

Following output is current report of [vdso] sample dwarf backtrace:

  # Overhead  Command      Shared Object                         Symbol
  # ........  .......  .................  .............................
  #
      99.52%       ex  [vdso]             [.] 0x00007fff3ace89af
                   |
                   --- 0x7fff3ace89af

Following output is new report of [vdso] sample dwarf backtrace:

  # Overhead  Command      Shared Object                         Symbol
  # ........  .......  .................  .............................
  #
      99.52%       ex  [vdso]             [.] 0x00000000000009af
                   |
                   --- 0x7fff3ace89af
                       main
                       __libc_start_main
                       _start

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347295819-23177-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
[ committer note: s/ALIGN/PERF_ALIGN/g to cope with the android build changes ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Do backtrace post unwind only if we regs and stack were captured

2012-09-11T15:01:15+00:00

Bail out without error if we want to do backtrace post unwind, but were
not able to capture user registers or user stack during the record
phase, which is possible and valid case.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347295819-23177-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: fix ALIGN redefinition in system headers

2012-09-11T14:48:30+00:00

On some systems (e.g. Android), ALIGN is defined in system headers as
ALIGN(p).  The definition of ALIGN used in perf takes 2 parameters:
ALIGN(x,a).  This leads to redefinition conflicts.

Redefinition error on Android:
In file included from util/include/linux/list.h:1:0,
from util/callchain.h:5,
from util/hist.h:6,
from util/session.h:4,
from util/build-id.h:4,
from util/annotate.c:11:
util/include/linux/kernel.h:11:0: error: "ALIGN" redefined [-Werror]
bionic/libc/include/sys/param.h:38:0: note: this is the location of
the previous definition

Conflics with system defined ALIGN in Android:
util/event.c: In function 'perf_event__synthesize_comm':
util/event.c:115:32: error: macro "ALIGN" passed 2 arguments, but takes just 1
util/event.c:115:9: error: 'ALIGN' undeclared (first use in this function)
util/event.c:115:9: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for
each function it appears in

In order to avoid this redefinition, ALIGN is renamed to PERF_ALIGN.

Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Irina Tirdea 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347315303-29906-5-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf session: flush_sample_queue needs to handle errors from handlers

2012-09-05T20:17:30+00:00

Allows errors to propogate through event processing code and back to
commands.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346005487-62961-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Support for DWARF CFI unwinding on post processing

2012-08-11T18:06:56+00:00

This brings the support for DWARF cfi unwinding on perf post
processing. Call frame informations are retrieved and then passed
to libunwind that requests memory and register content from the
applications.

Adding unwind object to handle the user stack backtrace based
on the user register values and user stack dump.

The unwind object access the libunwind via remote interface
and provides to it all the necessary data to unwind the stack.

The unwind interface provides following function:
	unwind__get_entries

And callback (specified in above function) to retrieve
the backtrace entries:
	typedef int (*unwind_entry_cb_t)(struct unwind_entry *entry,
					 void *arg);

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" 
Cc: Arun Sharma 
Cc: Benjamin Redelings 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Ulrich Drepper 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-12-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
[ Replaced use of perf_session by usage of perf_evsel ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Support user regs and stack in sample parsing

2012-08-10T19:47:02+00:00

Adding following info to be parsed out of the event sample:
 - user register set
 - user stack dump

Both are global and specific to all events within the session.
This info will be used in the unwind patches coming in shortly.

Adding simple output printout (report -D) for both register and
stack dumps.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" 
Cc: Arun Sharma 
Cc: Benjamin Redelings 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Ulrich Drepper 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-11-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
[ Use evsel->attr.sample_regs_user ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf session: Remove no longer used synthesize_sample method

2012-08-03T00:02:02+00:00

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jd8tqbx8o8bs4t4g50vyhoc2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Introduce perf_evlist__parse_sample

2012-08-02T14:42:57+00:00

That is a more compact form of perf_session__parse_sample and to support
multiple evlists per perf_session is the way to go anyway.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vkxx3j5qktoj11bvcwmfjj13@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo