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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>perf tests kmod-path: Don't fail if compressed modules aren't supported</title>
<updated>2018-03-24T09:58:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kim Phillips</name>
<email>kim.phillips@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T12:14:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 805b151a1afd24414706a7f6ae275fbb9649be74 ]

__kmod_path__parse() uses is_supported_compression() to determine and
parse out compressed module file extensions.  On systems without zlib,
this test fails and __kmod_path__parse() continues to strcmp "ko" with
"gz".  Don't do this on those systems.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 3c8a67f50a1e ("perf tools: Add kmod_path__parse function")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131402.c66e314460026c80cd787b34@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 805b151a1afd24414706a7f6ae275fbb9649be74 ]

__kmod_path__parse() uses is_supported_compression() to determine and
parse out compressed module file extensions.  On systems without zlib,
this test fails and __kmod_path__parse() continues to strcmp "ko" with
"gz".  Don't do this on those systems.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 3c8a67f50a1e ("perf tools: Add kmod_path__parse function")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131402.c66e314460026c80cd787b34@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf session: Don't rely on evlist in pipe mode</title>
<updated>2018-03-22T08:23:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Carrillo-Cisneros</name>
<email>davidcc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-10T20:14:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0973ad97c187e06aece61f685b9c3b2d93290a73 ]

Session sets a number parameters that rely on evlist. These parameters
are not used in pipe-mode and should not be set, since evlist is
unavailable. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros &lt;davidcc@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Simon Que &lt;sque@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410201432.24807-6-davidcc@google.com
[ Check if file != NULL in perf_session__new(), like when used by builtin-top.c ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0973ad97c187e06aece61f685b9c3b2d93290a73 ]

Session sets a number parameters that rely on evlist. These parameters
are not used in pipe-mode and should not be set, since evlist is
unavailable. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros &lt;davidcc@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Simon Que &lt;sque@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410201432.24807-6-davidcc@google.com
[ Check if file != NULL in perf_session__new(), like when used by builtin-top.c ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf inject: Copy events when reordering events in pipe mode</title>
<updated>2018-03-22T08:23:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Carrillo-Cisneros</name>
<email>davidcc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-10T20:14:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1e0d4f0200e4dbdfc38d818f329d8a0955f7c6f5 ]

__perf_session__process_pipe_events reuses the same memory buffer to
process all events in the pipe.

When reordering is needed (e.g. -b option), events are not immediately
flushed, but kept around until reordering is possible, causing
memory corruption.

The problem is usually observed by a "Unknown sample error" output. It
can easily be reproduced by:

  perf record -o - noploop | perf inject -b &gt; output

Committer testing:

Before:

  $ perf record -o - stress -t 2 -c 2 | perf inject -b &gt; /dev/null
  stress: info: [8297] dispatching hogs: 2 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
  stress: info: [8297] successful run completed in 2s
  [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
  Warning:
  Found 1 unknown events!

  Is this an older tool processing a perf.data file generated by a more recent tool?

  If that is not the case, consider reporting to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org.

  $

After:

  $ perf record -o - stress -t 2 -c 2 | perf inject -b &gt; /dev/null
  stress: info: [9027] dispatching hogs: 2 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
  stress: info: [9027] successful run completed in 2s
  [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
  no symbols found in /usr/bin/stress, maybe install a debug package?
  no symbols found in /usr/bin/stress, maybe install a debug package?
  $

Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros &lt;davidcc@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Simon Que &lt;sque@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410201432.24807-3-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1e0d4f0200e4dbdfc38d818f329d8a0955f7c6f5 ]

__perf_session__process_pipe_events reuses the same memory buffer to
process all events in the pipe.

When reordering is needed (e.g. -b option), events are not immediately
flushed, but kept around until reordering is possible, causing
memory corruption.

The problem is usually observed by a "Unknown sample error" output. It
can easily be reproduced by:

  perf record -o - noploop | perf inject -b &gt; output

Committer testing:

Before:

  $ perf record -o - stress -t 2 -c 2 | perf inject -b &gt; /dev/null
  stress: info: [8297] dispatching hogs: 2 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
  stress: info: [8297] successful run completed in 2s
  [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
  Warning:
  Found 1 unknown events!

  Is this an older tool processing a perf.data file generated by a more recent tool?

  If that is not the case, consider reporting to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org.

  $

After:

  $ perf record -o - stress -t 2 -c 2 | perf inject -b &gt; /dev/null
  stress: info: [9027] dispatching hogs: 2 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
  stress: info: [9027] successful run completed in 2s
  [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
  no symbols found in /usr/bin/stress, maybe install a debug package?
  no symbols found in /usr/bin/stress, maybe install a debug package?
  $

Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros &lt;davidcc@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Simon Que &lt;sque@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410201432.24807-3-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf probe: Return errno when not hitting any event</title>
<updated>2018-03-22T08:23:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-17T08:16:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 70946723eeb859466f026274b29c6196e39149c4 ]

On old perf, when using 'perf probe -d' to delete an inexistent event,
it returns errno, eg,

  -bash-4.3# perf probe -d xxx  || echo $?
  Info: Event "*:xxx" does not exist.
    Error: Failed to delete events.
  255

But now perf_del_probe_events() will always set ret = 0, different from
previous del_perf_probe_events(). After this, it returns errno again,
eg,

  -bash-4.3# ./perf probe -d xxx  || echo $?
  "xxx" does not hit any event.
    Error: Failed to delete events.
  254

And it is more appropriate to return -ENOENT instead of -EPERM.

Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: dddc7ee32fa1 ("perf probe: Fix an error when deleting probes successfully")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489738592-61011-1-git-send-email-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 70946723eeb859466f026274b29c6196e39149c4 ]

On old perf, when using 'perf probe -d' to delete an inexistent event,
it returns errno, eg,

  -bash-4.3# perf probe -d xxx  || echo $?
  Info: Event "*:xxx" does not exist.
    Error: Failed to delete events.
  255

But now perf_del_probe_events() will always set ret = 0, different from
previous del_perf_probe_events(). After this, it returns errno again,
eg,

  -bash-4.3# ./perf probe -d xxx  || echo $?
  "xxx" does not hit any event.
    Error: Failed to delete events.
  254

And it is more appropriate to return -ENOENT instead of -EPERM.

Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: dddc7ee32fa1 ("perf probe: Fix an error when deleting probes successfully")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489738592-61011-1-git-send-email-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Make perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events() scale</title>
<updated>2018-03-22T08:23:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-15T17:17:13+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 88b897a30c525c2eee6e7f16e1e8d0f18830845e ]

This patch significantly improves the execution time of
perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events() when running perf record on systems
where processes have lots of threads.

It just happens that cat /proc/pid/maps support uses a O(N^2) algorithm to
generate each map line in the maps file.  If you have 1000 threads, then you
have necessarily 1000 stacks.  For each vma, you need to check if it
corresponds to a thread's stack.  With a large number of threads, this can take
a very long time. I have seen latencies &gt;&gt; 10mn.

As of today, perf does not use the fact that a mapping is a stack, therefore we
can work around the issue by using /proc/pid/tasks/pid/maps.  This entry does
not try to map a vma to stack and is thus much faster with no loss of
functonality.

The proc-map-timeout logic is kept in case users still want some upper limit.

In V2, we fix the file path from /proc/pid/tasks/pid/maps to actual
/proc/pid/task/pid/maps, tasks -&gt; task.  Thanks Arnaldo for catching this.

Committer note:

This problem seems to have been elliminated in the kernel since commit :
b18cb64ead40 ("fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks").

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170315135059.GC2177@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489598233-25586-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 88b897a30c525c2eee6e7f16e1e8d0f18830845e ]

This patch significantly improves the execution time of
perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events() when running perf record on systems
where processes have lots of threads.

It just happens that cat /proc/pid/maps support uses a O(N^2) algorithm to
generate each map line in the maps file.  If you have 1000 threads, then you
have necessarily 1000 stacks.  For each vma, you need to check if it
corresponds to a thread's stack.  With a large number of threads, this can take
a very long time. I have seen latencies &gt;&gt; 10mn.

As of today, perf does not use the fact that a mapping is a stack, therefore we
can work around the issue by using /proc/pid/tasks/pid/maps.  This entry does
not try to map a vma to stack and is thus much faster with no loss of
functonality.

The proc-map-timeout logic is kept in case users still want some upper limit.

In V2, we fix the file path from /proc/pid/tasks/pid/maps to actual
/proc/pid/task/pid/maps, tasks -&gt; task.  Thanks Arnaldo for catching this.

Committer note:

This problem seems to have been elliminated in the kernel since commit :
b18cb64ead40 ("fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks").

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170315135059.GC2177@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489598233-25586-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf sort: Fix segfault with basic block 'cycles' sort dimension</title>
<updated>2018-03-22T08:23:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Changbin Du</name>
<email>changbin.du@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-13T08:31:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4b0b3aa6a2756e6115fdf275c521e4552a7082f3 ]

Skip the sample which doesn't have branch_info to avoid segmentation
fault:

The fault can be reproduced by:

  perf record -a
  perf report -F cycles

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 0e332f033a82 ("perf tools: Add support for cycles, weight branch_info field")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170313083148.23568-1-changbin.du@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4b0b3aa6a2756e6115fdf275c521e4552a7082f3 ]

Skip the sample which doesn't have branch_info to avoid segmentation
fault:

The fault can be reproduced by:

  perf record -a
  perf report -F cycles

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 0e332f033a82 ("perf tools: Add support for cycles, weight branch_info field")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170313083148.23568-1-changbin.du@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf bench numa: Fixup discontiguous/sparse numa nodes</title>
<updated>2018-02-25T10:03:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Satheesh Rajendran</name>
<email>sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-22T16:43:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 321a7c35c90cc834851ceda18a8ee18f1d032b92 ]

Certain systems are designed to have sparse/discontiguous nodes.  On
such systems, 'perf bench numa' hangs, shows wrong number of nodes and
shows values for non-existent nodes. Handle this by only taking nodes
that are exposed by kernel to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Satheesh Rajendran &lt;sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1edbcd353c009e109e93d78f2f46381930c340fe.1511368645.git.sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Balamuruhan S &lt;bala24@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 321a7c35c90cc834851ceda18a8ee18f1d032b92 ]

Certain systems are designed to have sparse/discontiguous nodes.  On
such systems, 'perf bench numa' hangs, shows wrong number of nodes and
shows values for non-existent nodes. Handle this by only taking nodes
that are exposed by kernel to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Satheesh Rajendran &lt;sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1edbcd353c009e109e93d78f2f46381930c340fe.1511368645.git.sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Balamuruhan S &lt;bala24@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf top: Fix window dimensions change handling</title>
<updated>2018-02-25T10:03:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-14T09:23:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 89d0aeab4252adc2a7ea693637dd21c588bfa2d1 ]

The stdio perf top crashes when we change the terminal
window size. The reason is that we assumed we get the
perf_top pointer as a signal handler argument which is
not the case.

Changing the SIGWINCH handler logic to change global
resize variable, which is checked in the main thread
loop.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ysuzwz77oev1ftgvdscn9bpu@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 89d0aeab4252adc2a7ea693637dd21c588bfa2d1 ]

The stdio perf top crashes when we change the terminal
window size. The reason is that we assumed we get the
perf_top pointer as a signal handler argument which is
not the case.

Changing the SIGWINCH handler logic to change global
resize variable, which is checked in the main thread
loop.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ysuzwz77oev1ftgvdscn9bpu@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf symbols: Fix symbols__fixup_end heuristic for corner cases</title>
<updated>2017-12-20T09:04:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-15T21:53:37+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e7ede72a6d40cb3a30c087142d79381ca8a31dab ]

The current symbols__fixup_end() heuristic for the last entry in the rb
tree is suboptimal as it leads to not being able to recognize the symbol
in the call graph in a couple of corner cases, for example:

 i) If the symbol has a start address (f.e. exposed via kallsyms)
    that is at a page boundary, then the roundup(curr-&gt;start, 4096)
    for the last entry will result in curr-&gt;start == curr-&gt;end with
    a symbol length of zero.

ii) If the symbol has a start address that is shortly before a page
    boundary, then also here, curr-&gt;end - curr-&gt;start will just be
    very few bytes, where it's unrealistic that we could perform a
    match against.

Instead, change the heuristic to roundup(curr-&gt;start, 4096) + 4096, so
that we can catch such corner cases and have a better chance to find
that specific symbol. It's still just best effort as the real end of the
symbol is unknown to us (and could even be at a larger offset than the
current range), but better than the current situation.

Alexei reported that he recently run into case i) with a JITed eBPF
program (these are all page aligned) as the last symbol which wasn't
properly shown in the call graph (while other eBPF program symbols in
the rb tree were displayed correctly). Since this is a generic issue,
lets try to improve the heuristic a bit.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Fixes: 2e538c4a1847 ("perf tools: Improve kernel/modules symbol lookup")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bb5c80d27743be6f12afc68405f1956a330e1bc9.1489614365.git.daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e7ede72a6d40cb3a30c087142d79381ca8a31dab ]

The current symbols__fixup_end() heuristic for the last entry in the rb
tree is suboptimal as it leads to not being able to recognize the symbol
in the call graph in a couple of corner cases, for example:

 i) If the symbol has a start address (f.e. exposed via kallsyms)
    that is at a page boundary, then the roundup(curr-&gt;start, 4096)
    for the last entry will result in curr-&gt;start == curr-&gt;end with
    a symbol length of zero.

ii) If the symbol has a start address that is shortly before a page
    boundary, then also here, curr-&gt;end - curr-&gt;start will just be
    very few bytes, where it's unrealistic that we could perform a
    match against.

Instead, change the heuristic to roundup(curr-&gt;start, 4096) + 4096, so
that we can catch such corner cases and have a better chance to find
that specific symbol. It's still just best effort as the real end of the
symbol is unknown to us (and could even be at a larger offset than the
current range), but better than the current situation.

Alexei reported that he recently run into case i) with a JITed eBPF
program (these are all page aligned) as the last symbol which wasn't
properly shown in the call graph (while other eBPF program symbols in
the rb tree were displayed correctly). Since this is a generic issue,
lets try to improve the heuristic a bit.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Fixes: 2e538c4a1847 ("perf tools: Improve kernel/modules symbol lookup")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bb5c80d27743be6f12afc68405f1956a330e1bc9.1489614365.git.daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf test attr: Fix ignored test case result</title>
<updated>2017-12-09T17:42:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Richter</name>
<email>tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-13T08:12:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 22905582f6dd4bbd0c370fe5732c607452010c04 ]

Command perf test -v 16 (Setup struct perf_event_attr test) always
reports success even if the test case fails.  It works correctly if you
also specify -F (for don't fork).

   root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf test -v 16
   15: Setup struct perf_event_attr               :
   --- start ---
   running './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay'
   [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB /tmp/tmp4E1h7R/perf.data
     (1 samples) ]
   expected task=0, got 1
   expected precise_ip=0, got 3
   expected wakeup_events=1, got 0
   FAILED './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay' - match failure
   test child finished with 0
   ---- end ----
   Setup struct perf_event_attr: Ok

The reason for the wrong error reporting is the return value of the
system() library call. It is called in run_dir() file tests/attr.c and
returns the exit status, in above case 0xff00.

This value is given as parameter to the exit() function which can only
handle values 0-0xff.

The child process terminates with exit value of 0 and the parent does
not detect any error.

This patch corrects the error reporting and prints the correct test
result.

Signed-off-by: Thomas-Mich Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
LPU-Reference: 20170913081209.39570-2-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rdube6rfcjsr1nzue72c7lqn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 22905582f6dd4bbd0c370fe5732c607452010c04 ]

Command perf test -v 16 (Setup struct perf_event_attr test) always
reports success even if the test case fails.  It works correctly if you
also specify -F (for don't fork).

   root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf test -v 16
   15: Setup struct perf_event_attr               :
   --- start ---
   running './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay'
   [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB /tmp/tmp4E1h7R/perf.data
     (1 samples) ]
   expected task=0, got 1
   expected precise_ip=0, got 3
   expected wakeup_events=1, got 0
   FAILED './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay' - match failure
   test child finished with 0
   ---- end ----
   Setup struct perf_event_attr: Ok

The reason for the wrong error reporting is the return value of the
system() library call. It is called in run_dir() file tests/attr.c and
returns the exit status, in above case 0xff00.

This value is given as parameter to the exit() function which can only
handle values 0-0xff.

The child process terminates with exit value of 0 and the parent does
not detect any error.

This patch corrects the error reporting and prints the correct test
result.

Signed-off-by: Thomas-Mich Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
LPU-Reference: 20170913081209.39570-2-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rdube6rfcjsr1nzue72c7lqn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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