linux.git/tools/perf/util/evlist.c, branch v3.19

perf evlist: Remove extraneous 'was' on error message

2015-01-21T13:04:15+00:00

  [acme@mica ~]$ trace -p 3330
  Error:  Unable to find debugfs
  Hint:   Was your kernel was compiled with debugfs support?
                          ^^^
                          ^^^
  Hint:   Is the debugfs filesystem mounted?
  Hint:   Try 'sudo mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug'

Fix it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kb9s0xy5z8i51abdu4bgm3rv@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Use roundup_pow_of_two

2014-12-17T14:58:16+00:00

And remove the equivalent next_pow2{_l} functions.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
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-hl9ct3wcbs5deai3v5ljmuws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Make the mmap length autotuning more robust

2014-12-17T14:58:14+00:00

If /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb is not (power of 2 + PAGE_SIZE_in_kb)
and we let the perf tools do mmap length autosizing based on that, then, for
non-CAP_IPC_LOCK users when /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid is > -1, then
we get an -EINVAL that ends up in:

  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ trace usleep 1
  Invalid argument
  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ perf record usleep 1
  failed to mmap with 22 (Invalid argument)

After this fix:

  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ trace usleep 1
  
   0.806 ( 0.006 ms): munmap(addr: 0x7f7e4740a000, len: 66467) = 0
   0.869 ( 0.002 ms): brk(                                   ) = 0x7bb000
   0.873 ( 0.003 ms): brk(brk: 0x7dc000                      ) = 0x7dc000
   0.877 ( 0.001 ms): brk(                                   ) = 0x7dc000
   0.953 ( 0.058 ms): nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7fff26ab9420         ) = 0
   0.959 ( 0.000 ms): exit_group(
  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ perf record usleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.017 MB perf.data (~759 samples) ]
  [acme@ssdandy linux]$

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
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-6p6l5ou6jev6o7ymc4nn1n2a@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools: Move code originally from linux/log2.h to tools/include/linux/

2014-12-17T14:09:41+00:00

From tools/perf/util/include/linux, so that it becomes accessible to
other tools/.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
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-uqohgzilp3ebd3cbybnf3luc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Do not use hard coded value for a mmap_pages default

2014-12-16T16:38:26+00:00

So far what is in there by default is what we were using: 512KB + the
control page, but the admin may change that, and if it does to a smaller
value, all calls to tooling for non root users start failing, requiring
that the user manually set --mmap_pages/-m.

Use instead what is in /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
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-2f6mtm8xu3wo5lhkql6jdblh@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Improve the strerror_mmap method

2014-12-16T16:38:26+00:00

Considering the per user locked pages limit, improve the message when a
user uses multiple simultaneous perf mmap calls:

When the request is more than the current maximum:

  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ trace -m 128 usleep 1
  Error: Operation not permitted.
  Hint:  Check /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb (516 kB) setting.
  Hint:  Tried using 516 kB.
  Hint:  Try 'sudo sh -c "echo 1032 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb"', or
  Hint:  Try using a smaller -m/--mmap-pages value.
  [acme@ssdandy linux]$

And when the limit is less than that:

  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ trace -m 512 usleep 1
  Error: Operation not permitted.
  Hint:  Check /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb (2056 kB) setting.
  Hint:  Tried using 2052 kB.
  Hint:  Try using a smaller -m/--mmap-pages value.
  [acme@ssdandy linux]$

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
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-yqdie3c8qvdgenwleri267d4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Clarify sterror_mmap variable names

2014-12-16T16:38:26+00:00

Prep patch for doing further checks like when the number of pages that
is being attempted is actually below /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb but
the operation fails because the user doesn't have CAP_IPC_LOCK.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
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-wetzlux7mzvofu5cuji5i71i@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Fixup brown paper bag on "hint" for --mmap-pages cmdline arg

2014-12-16T16:38:26+00:00

When failing due to asking for a number of mmap pages that is more than
the max, it was suggesting that an even bigger number of mmap pages
should be specified, doh, au contraire!

Before:

  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ trace -m 128 usleep 1
  Error:	Operation not permitted.
  Hint:	Check /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb (516 kB) setting.
  Hint:	Tried using 516 kB.
  Hint:	Try using a bigger -m/--mmap-pages value.
  [acme@ssdandy linux]$

After:

  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ trace -m 128 usleep 1
  Error:	Operation not permitted.
  Hint:	Check /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb (516 kB) setting.
  Hint:	Tried using 516 kB.
  Hint:	Try using a smaller -m/--mmap-pages value.
  [acme@ssdandy linux]$

And to (really) clarify what happens above, when what the user requests
is <= max and even then it fails, a changeset is being made to tell that
this is a per user limit, not per process (in the above example there
was another 'perf trace' running for this user, which was using all the
pages it could use).

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
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-8qope8lxb898narnq5kmu2gf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Introduce strerror_mmap method

2014-12-11T21:03:01+00:00

To pretty print hints about perf_evlist__mmap errors. Will be used in
'trace' in the next patch.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
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-2g3gczfwyz0xt3we0s15mqqt@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Do not poll events that use the system_wide flag

2014-11-19T15:33:48+00:00

The system_wide flag causes a selected event to be opened always without
a pid.

Consequently it will never get a POLLHUP, but it is used for tracking in
combination with other events, so it should not need to be polled
anyway.

Therefore don't add it for polling.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415715423-15563-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo