linux.git/tools/perf/util/machine.h, branch v4.13

perf tools: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info

2017-03-14T14:38:23+00:00

Introduce a new option to record PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES events emitted
by the kernel when fork, clone, setns or unshare are invoked. And update
perf-record documentation with the new option to record namespace
events.

Committer notes:

Combined it with a later patch to allow printing it via 'perf report -D'
and be able to test the feature introduced in this patch. Had to move
here also perf_ns__name(), that was introduced in another later patch.

Also used PRIu64 and PRIx64 to fix the build in some enfironments wrt:

  util/event.c:1129:39: error: format '%lx' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type 'long long unsigned int' [-Werror=format=]
     ret  += fprintf(fp, "%u/%s: %lu/0x%lx%s", idx
                                         ^
Testing it:

  # perf record --namespaces -a
  ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.083 MB perf.data (423 samples) ]
  #
  # perf report -D
  
  3 2028902078892 0x115140 [0xa0]: PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES 14783/14783 - nr_namespaces: 7
                [0/net: 3/0xf0000081, 1/uts: 3/0xeffffffe, 2/ipc: 3/0xefffffff, 3/pid: 3/0xeffffffc,
                 4/user: 3/0xeffffffd, 5/mnt: 3/0xf0000000, 6/cgroup: 3/0xeffffffb]

  0x1151e0 [0x30]: event: 9
  .
  . ... raw event: size 48 bytes
  .  0000:  09 00 00 00 02 00 30 00 c4 71 82 68 0c 7f 00 00  ......0..q.h....
  .  0010:  a9 39 00 00 a9 39 00 00 94 28 fe 63 d8 01 00 00  .9...9...(.c....
  .  0020:  03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ce c4 02 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  
        NAMESPACES events:          1
  
  #

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Aravinda Prasad 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Eric Biederman 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sargun Dhillon 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891930386.25309.18412039920746995488.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Add a kallsyms loading constructor

2017-01-11T19:48:00+00:00

To reduce the boilerplate for searching for functions in the running
kernel and modules.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-93iqzayafpaxaguoiwjqezgz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Remove symbol_filter_t machinery

2016-09-05T14:14:50+00:00

We're not using it anymore, few users were, but we really could do
without it, simplify lots of functions by removing it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1zng8wdznn00iiz08bb7q3vn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Remove machine->symbol_filter and friends

2016-09-05T14:14:50+00:00

Including machines__set_symbol_filter(), not used anymore.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7o1qgmrpvzuis4a9f0t8mnri@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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