linux-stable.git/tools/perf/util/util.c, branch linux-4.7.y

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

perf tools: Fix lsdir to set errno correctly

2016-05-11T16:06:05+00:00

Fix lsdir() to set correct positive error number (ENOMEM).  Since
"errno" must have a positive error number instead of negative number,
fix lsdir to set it correctly.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: Hemant Kumar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Fixes: e1ce726e1db2 ("perf tools: Add lsdir() helper to read a directory")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160511135127.23943.40644.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf callchain: Recording 'dwarf' callchains do not need DWARF unwinding support

2016-05-09T16:29:36+00:00

There is no need to check for DWARF unwinding support when using the
'dwarf' callchain record method, as this will only ask the kernel to
collect stack dumps for later DWARF CFI processing, which can be done in
another machine, where the support for DWARF unwinding need to be
present.

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/1462525154-125656-2-git-send-email-hekuang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Set the maximum allowed stack from /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack

2016-04-27T13:29:07+00:00

There is an upper limit to what tooling considers a valid callchain,
and it was tied to the hardcoded value in the kernel,
PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH (127), now that this can be tuned via a sysctl,
make it read it and use that as the upper limit, falling back to
PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH for kernels where this sysctl isn't present.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yjqsd30nnkogvj5oyx9ghir9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add lsdir() helper to read a directory

2016-04-26T16:14:55+00:00

As a utility function, add lsdir() which reads given directory and store
entry name into a strlist.  lsdir accepts a filter function so that user
can filter out unneeded entries.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Hemant Kumar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426090242.11891.79014.stgit@devbox
[ Do not use the 'dirname' it is used in some distros ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Make binary data printer code in trace_event public available

2016-02-24T14:38:01+00:00

Move code printing binray data from trace_event() to utils.c and allows
passing different printer. Further commits will use this logic to print
bpf output event.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Li Zefan 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1456312845-111583-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools lib api fs: Adopt filename__read_str from perf

2016-02-16T20:12:56+00:00

We already moved similar functions in here, also it'll be useful for
sysfs__read_str addition in following patch.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455465826-8426-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move timestamp creation to util

2016-01-29T20:30:06+00:00

Timestamp generation becomes a public available helper. Which will
be used by 'perf record', help it output to split output file based
on time.

For example:

 perf.data.2015122620363710
 perf.data.2015122620364092
 perf.data.2015122620365423
 ...

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Li Zefan 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453715801-7732-27-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: He Kuang 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Do not read symbols/data from device files

2016-01-26T14:52:43+00:00

With mem sampling we could get data source within mapped device file.
Processing such sample would block during report phase on trying to read
the device file.

Chacking for device files and skip the processing if it's detected.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453290995-18485-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fallback to srcdir/Documentation/tips.txt

2016-01-12T15:42:08+00:00

Some people don't install perf, but just use compiled version in the
source.  Fallback to lookup the source directory for those poor guys. :)

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452334589-8782-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Make perf_tip() return NULL for ENOENT, making the fallback to really take place ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo