linux.git/tools/perf/util, branch v4.20

perf tools: Restore proper cwd on return from mnt namespace

2018-11-19T20:12:26+00:00

When reporting on 'record' server we try to retrieve/use the mnt
namespace of the profiled tasks. We use following API with cookie to
hold the return namespace, roughly:

  nsinfo__mountns_enter(struct nsinfo *nsi, struct nscookie *nc)
    setns(newns, 0);
  ...
  new ns related open..
  ...
  nsinfo__mountns_exit(struct nscookie *nc)
    setns(nc->oldns)

Once finished we setns to old namespace, which also sets the current
working directory (cwd) to "/", trashing the cwd we had.

This is mostly fine, because we use absolute paths almost everywhere,
but it screws up 'perf diff':

  # perf diff
  failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory  (try 'perf record' first)
  ...

Adding the current working directory to be part of the cookie and
restoring it in the nsinfo__mountns_exit call.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Krister Johansen 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Fixes: 843ff37bb59e ("perf symbols: Find symbols in different mount namespace")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181101170001.30019-1-jolsa@kernel.org
[ No need to check for NULL args for free(), use zfree() for struct members ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools build feature: Check if get_current_dir_name() is available

2018-11-19T20:12:17+00:00

As the namespace support code will use this, which is not available in
some non _GNU_SOURCE libraries such as Android's bionic used in my
container build tests (r12b and r15c at the moment).

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x56ypm940pwclwu45d7jfj47@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix crash on synthesizing the unit

2018-11-12T16:37:49+00:00

Adam reported a record command crash for simple session like:

  $ perf record -e cpu-clock ls

with following backtrace:

  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  3543            ev = event_update_event__new(size + 1, PERF_EVENT_UPDATE__UNIT, evsel->id[0]);
  (gdb) bt
  #0  perf_event__synthesize_event_update_unit
  #1  0x000000000051e469 in perf_event__synthesize_extra_attr
  #2  0x00000000004445cb in record__synthesize
  #3  0x0000000000444bc5 in __cmd_record
  ...

We synthesize an update event that needs to touch the evsel id array,
which is not defined at that time. Fix this by forcing the id allocation
for events with their unit defined.

Reflecting possible read_format ID bit in the attr tests.

Reported-by: Yongxin Liu 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Adam Lee 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201477
Fixes: bfd8f72c2778 ("perf record: Synthesize unit/scale/... in event update")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181112130012.5424-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo-4.20-20181106' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent

2018-11-06T19:03:11+00:00

Pull perf/urgent improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

Intel PT SQL viewer: (Adrian Hunter)

- Fall back to /usr/local/lib/libxed.so
- Add Selected branches report
- Add help window
- Fix table find when table re-ordered

Intel PT debug log (Adrian Hunter)

- Add more event information
- Add MTC and CYC timestamps

perf record: (Andi Kleen)

- Support weak groups, just like with 'perf stat'

perf trace: (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Start augmenting raw_syscalls:{sys_enter,sys_exit}: goal is to have a
  generic, arch independent eBPF kernel component that is programmed with
  syscall table details, what to copy, how many bytes, pid, arg filters from the
  userspace via eBPF maps by the 'perf trace' tool that continues to use all its
  argument beautifiers, just taking advantage of the extra pointer contents.

JVMTI: (Gustavo Romero)

- Fix undefined symbol scnprintf in libperf-jvmti.so

perf top: (Jin Yao)

- Display the LBR stats in callchain entries

perf stat: (Thomas Richter)

- Handle different PMU names with common prefix

arm64: Will (Deacon)

- Fix arm64 tools build failure wrt smp_load_{acquire,release}.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Do not zero sample_id_all for group members

2018-11-06T11:29:56+00:00

Andi reported following malfunction:

  # perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}:S' -a sleep 1
  # perf script
  non matching sample_id_all

That's because we disable sample_id_all bit for non-sampling group
members. We can't do that, because it needs to be the same over the
whole event list. This patch keeps it untouched again.

Reported-by: Andi Kleen 
Tested-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180923150420.27327-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Fixes: e9add8bac6c6 ("perf evsel: Disable write_backward for leader sampling group events")
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Add MTC and CYC timestamps to debug log

2018-11-05T17:53:54+00:00

One cause of decoding errors is un-synchronized side-band data.
Timestamps are needed to debug such cases. TSC packet timestamps are
logged. Log also MTC and CYC timestamps.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105073505.8129-3-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Add more event information to debug log

2018-11-05T17:53:37+00:00

More event information is useful for debugging, especially MMAP events.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105073505.8129-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: Handle different PMU names with common prefix

2018-11-05T17:37:10+00:00

On s390 the CPU Measurement Facility for counters now supports
2 PMUs named cpum_cf (CPU Measurement Facility for counters) and
cpum_cf_diag (CPU Measurement Facility for diagnostic counters)
for one and the same CPU.

Running command

 [root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf stat -e tx_c_tend \
	 -- ~/mytests/cf-tx-events 1

 Measuring transactions
 TX_C_TABORT_NO_SPECIAL: 0 expected:0
 TX_C_TABORT_SPECIAL: 0 expected:0
 TX_C_TEND: 1 expected:1
 TX_NC_TABORT: 11 expected:11
 TX_NC_TEND: 1 expected:1

 Performance counter stats for '/root/mytests/cf-tx-events 1':

  2      tx_c_tend

      0.002120091 seconds time elapsed

      0.000121000 seconds user
      0.002127000 seconds sys

 [root@s35lp76 perf]#

displays output which is unexpected (and wrong):

  2      tx_c_tend

The test program definitely triggers only one transaction, as shown
in line 'TX_C_TEND: 1 expected:1'.

This is caused by the following call sequence:

pmu_lookup() scans and installs a PMU.
+--> pmu_aliases() parses all aliases in directory
		...//events/* which are file names.
     +--> pmu_aliases_parse() Read each file in directory and create
                      an new alias entry. This is done with
          +--> perf_pmu__new_alias() and
	       +--> __perf_pmu__new_alias() which also check for
	                   identical alias names.

After pmu_aliases() returns, a complete list of event names
for this pmu has been created. Now function

pmu_add_cpu_aliases()   is called to add the events listed in the json
|                       files to the alias list of the cpu.
+--> perf_pmu__find_map()  Returns a pointer to the json events.

Now function pmu_add_cpu_aliases() scans through all events listed
in the JSON files for this CPU.
Each json event pmu name is compared with the current PMU being
built up and if they mismatch, the json event is added to the
current PMUs alias list.
To avoid duplicate entries the following comparison is done:

	if (!is_arm_pmu_core(name)) {
	     pname = pe->pmu ? pe->pmu : "cpu";
	     if (strncmp(pname, name, strlen(pname)))
		     continue;
     }

The culprit is the strncmp() function.

Using current s390 PMU naming, the first PMU is 'cpum_cf'
and a long list of events is added, among them 'tx_c_tend'

When the second PMU named 'cpum_cf_diag' is added, only one event
named 'CF_DIAG' is added by the pmu_aliases()  function.

Now function pmu_add_cpu_aliases() is invoked for PMU 'cpum_cf_diag'.
Since the CPUID string is the same for both PMUs, json file events
for PMU named 'cpum_cf' are added to the PMU 'cpm_cf_diag'

This happens because the strncmp() actually compares:

     strncmp("cpum_cf", "cpum_cf_diag", 6);

The first parameter is the pmu name taken from the event in
the json file. The second parameter is the pmu name of the PMU
currently being built.
They are different, but the length of the compare only tests the
common prefix and this returns 0(true) when it should return false.

Now all events for PMU cpum_cf are added to the alias list for pmu
cpum_cf_diag.

Later on in function parse_events_add_pmu() the event 'tx_c_end' is
searched in all available PMUs and found twice, adding it two
times to the evsel_list global variable which is the root
of all events. This results in a counter value of 2 instead
of 1.

Output with this patch:

 [root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf stat -e tx_c_tend \
			-- ~/mytests/cf-tx-events 1
 Measuring transactions
 TX_C_TABORT_NO_SPECIAL: 0 expected:0
 TX_C_TABORT_SPECIAL: 0 expected:0
 TX_C_TEND: 1 expected:1
 TX_NC_TABORT: 11 expected:11
 TX_NC_TEND: 1 expected:1

 Performance counter stats for '/root/mytests/cf-tx-events 1':

                  1      tx_c_tend

      0.001815365 seconds time elapsed

      0.000123000 seconds user
      0.001756000 seconds sys

 [root@s35lp76 perf]#

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter 
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner 
Reviewed-by: Sebastien Boisvert 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 292c34c10249 ("perf pmu: Fix core PMU alias list for X86 platform")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181023151616.78193-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Move perf_evsel__reset_weak_group into evlist

2018-11-05T17:37:09+00:00

- Move the function from builtin-stat to evlist for reuse
- Rename to evlist to match purpose better
- Pass the evlist as first argument.
- No functional changes

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181001195927.14211-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-11-04T01:13:43+00:00

Pull perf updates and fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "These are almost all tooling updates: 'perf top', 'perf trace' and
  'perf script' fixes and updates, an UAPI header sync with the merge
  window versions, license marker updates, much improved Sparc support
  from David Miller, and a number of fixes"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (66 commits)
  perf intel-pt/bts: Calculate cpumode for synthesized samples
  perf intel-pt: Insert callchain context into synthesized callchains
  perf tools: Don't clone maps from parent when synthesizing forks
  perf top: Start display thread earlier
  tools headers uapi: Update linux/if_link.h header copy
  tools headers uapi: Update linux/netlink.h header copy
  tools headers: Sync the various kvm.h header copies
  tools include uapi: Update linux/mmap.h copy
  perf trace beauty: Use the mmap flags table generated from headers
  perf beauty: Wire up the mmap flags table generator to the Makefile
  perf beauty: Add a generator for MAP_ mmap's flag constants
  tools include uapi: Update asound.h copy
  tools arch uapi: Update asm-generic/unistd.h and arm64 unistd.h copies
  tools include uapi: Update linux/fs.h copy
  perf callchain: Honour the ordering of PERF_CONTEXT_{USER,KERNEL,etc}
  perf cs-etm: Correct CPU mode for samples
  perf unwind: Take pgoff into account when reporting elf to libdwfl
  perf top: Do not use overwrite mode by default
  perf top: Allow disabling the overwrite mode
  perf trace: Beautify mount's first pathname arg
  ...