linux.git/tools/perf, branch v3.4-rc4

perf archive: Correct cutting of symbolic link

2012-04-14T16:52:15+00:00

If a '$PERF_BUILDID_DIR'(typically $HOME/.debug) is a symbolic link
directory, cutting of the path will fail.

Here is an example where a buildid directory is a symbolic link.

/ # ls -al /root
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            13 Mar 26  2012 /root -> opt/home/root
/ # cd ~
/opt/home/root # perf record -a -g sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.322 MB perf.data (~14057 samples) ]
/opt/home/root # perf archive
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
Now please run:

$ tar xvf perf.data.tar.bz2 -C ~/.debug

wherever you need to run 'perf report' on.
/opt/home/root # mkdir temp
/opt/home/root # tar xf perf.data.tar.bz2 -C ./temp
/opt/home/root # find ./temp -name "*kernel*"
./temp/opt/home/root/.debug/[kernel.kallsyms]

-> If successfully cut off the path, [kernel.kallsyms] is located
in top of the archived file.

This patch enables to cut correctly even if the buildid directory
is a symbolic link.

Signed-off-by: Chanho Park 
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Kyungmin Park 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333348109-12598-1-git-send-email-chanho61.park@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Ignore auto-generated bison/flex files

2012-04-14T16:50:39+00:00

The commit 65f3e56e0c81 ("perf tools: Remove auto-generated bison/flex
files") removed those files from git, so they'll be listed on untracked
files after building perf. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333948274-20043-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix parsers' rules to dependencies

2012-04-14T16:49:43+00:00

Currently the parsers objects (bison/flex related) are each time perf
is built. No matter the generated files are already in place, the
parser generation is executed every time.

Changing the rules to have proper flex/bison objects generation
dependencies.

The parsers code is not rebuilt until the flex/bison source files
are touched. Also when flex/bison source is changed, only dependent
objects are rebuilt.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334140791-3024-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: fix NO_GTK2 Makefile config error

2012-04-12T18:48:15+00:00

In case the user specified NO_GTK2 on the make cmdline, compilation
would fail with undefined symbol because the Makefile would not set the
correct cpp variable: NO_GTK2 vs. NO_GTK2_SUPPORT.

This patch renames the variable to the correct name.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120410103513.GA9229@quad
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf session: Skip event correctly for unknown id/machine

2012-04-12T15:14:50+00:00

In case the perf_session__process_event function fails, we estimate the
next event offset.

This is not necessary for sample event failing on unknown ID or machine.
In such case we know proper size of the event, so we dont need to guess.
Also failure statistics are updated correctly so we don't miss any
information.

Forcing perf_session__process_event to return 0 in case of unknown ID or
machine.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334233262-5679-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf kvm: Finding struct machine fails for PERF_RECORD_MMAP

2012-04-11T14:45:12+00:00

Running 'perf kvm --host --guest --guestmount /tmp/guestmount record -a -g -- sleep 2'

Was resulting in a segfault. For event type PERF_RECORD_MMAP,
event->ip.pid is being used in perf_session__find_machine_for_cpumode,
which is not correct.

The event->ip.pid field happens to be 0 in this case and results in
returning a NULL machine object. Finally, access to self->pid in
machine__mmap_name, results in a segfault later.

For PERF_RECORD_MMAP type, pass event->mmap.pid.

Signed-off-by: Nikunj A. Dadhania 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Tested-by: David Ahern 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Nikunj A. Dadhania 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120409081835.10576.22018.stgit@abhimanyu.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate: Validate addr in symbol__inc_addr_samples

2012-04-05T22:51:14+00:00

This routine was checking only if the provided address was after
sym->end, not if it was before sym->start.

Fix that by checking for both and return in both cases -ERANGE, so that
tools can communicate this to the user properly, or if they chose so, to
abort.

This problem was reported previously but the fixes involved either doing
what was being done for the > end case, i.e. silently drop the sample,
returning 0, or aborting at this function, which is in a lib (or better,
is slated to be at some point) and shouldn't abort.

The 'report' tool already checks this value and uses pr_debug to warn
the user.

This patch makes the 'top' tool check it too and warn once per map where
such range problem takes place.

Reported-by: David Miller 
Reported-by: Sorin Dumitru 
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lw8gs7p9i9nhldilo82tzpne@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf hists browser: Fix NULL deref in hists browsing code

2012-04-05T21:58:45+00:00

If there's an event with no samples in data file, the perf report
command can segfault after entering the event details menu.

Following steps reproduce the issue:

 # ./perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_kexec_load,syscalls:sys_enter_mmap ls
 # ./perf report
 # enter '0 syscalls:sys_enter_kexec_load' menu
 # pres ENTER twice

Above steps are valid assuming ls wont run kexec.. ;)

The check for sellection to be NULL is missing. The fix makes sure it's
being check. Above steps now endup with menu being displayed allowing
'Exit' as the only option.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333570898-10505-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf hists: Catch and handle out-of-date hist entry maps.

2012-04-05T21:53:47+00:00

When a process exec()'s, all the maps are retired, but we keep the hist
entries around which hold references to those outdated maps.

If the same library gets mapped in for which we have hist entries, a new
map will be created.  But when we take a perf entry hit within that map,
we'll find the existing hist entry with the older map.

This causes symbol translations to be done incorrectly.  For example,
the perf entry processing will lookup the correct uptodate map entry and
use that to calculate the symbol and DSO relative address.  But later
when we update the histogram we'll translate the address using the
outdated map file instead leading to conditions such as out-of-range
offsets in symbol__inc_addr_samples().

Therefore, update the map of the hist_entry dynamically at lookup/
creation time.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120327.031418.1220315351537060808.davem@davemloft.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate: Fix hist decay

2012-04-05T21:49:18+00:00

We were only decaying the entries for the offsets that were associated
with an objdump line.

That way, when we accrued the whole instruction addr range, more than
100% was appearing in some cases in the live annotation TUI.

Fix it by not traversing the source code line at all, just iterate thru
the complete addr range decaying each one.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-hcae5oxa22syjrnalsxz7s6n@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo