linux.git/tools/perf, branch v3.6-rc1

perf annotate: Prevent overflow in size calculation

2012-07-25T16:06:42+00:00

A large enough symbol size causes an overflow in the size parameter to
the histogram allocation, leading to a segfault in
symbol__inc_addr_samples later on when this histogram is accessed.

In the case of being called via perf-report, this returns back and
gracefully ignores the sample, eventually ignoring the chained return
value of perf_session_deliver_event in flush_sample_queue.

Signed-off-by: Cody Schafer 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342753525-4521-1-git-send-email-cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix build error with bison 2.6

2012-07-25T14:49:19+00:00

Bison 2.6 started to generate parse_events_parse() declaration in header. In
this case we have redundant redeclaration:

util/parse-events.c:29:5: error: redundant redeclaration of ‘parse_events_parse’ [-Werror=redundant-decls]
In file included from util/parse-events.c:14:0:
util/parse-events-bison.h:99:5: note: previous declaration of ‘parse_events_parse’ was here
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Let's disable -Wredundant-decls for util/parse-events.c since it includes
header we can't control.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120723210407.GA25186@shutemov.name
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: use XSI-complaint version of strerror_r() instead of GNU-specific

2012-07-25T14:46:04+00:00

Perf uses GNU-specific version of strerror_r(). The GNU-specific strerror_r()
returns a pointer to a string containing the error message.  This may be either
a pointer to a string that the function stores in buf, or a pointer to some
(immutable) static string (in which case buf is unused).

In glibc-2.16 GNU version was marked with attribute warn_unused_result.  It
triggers few warnings in perf:

util/target.c: In function ‘perf_target__strerror’:
util/target.c:114:13: error: ignoring return value of ‘strerror_r’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
ui/browsers/hists.c: In function ‘hist_browser__dump’:
ui/browsers/hists.c:981:13: error: ignoring return value of ‘strerror_r’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]

They are bugs.

Let's fix strerror_r() usage.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ulrich Drepper 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120723210654.GA25248@shutemov.name
[ committer note: s/assert/BUG_ON/g ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Make the breakpoint events sample period default to 1

2012-07-25T14:37:46+00:00

There have one problem about hw_breakpoint perf event, as watched, the
events reported to userspace is not correctly, sometime one trigger
bp_event report several events, sometime bp_event cannot go through to
user.

The root cause is attr->freq is 1 passed to kernel defaultly in bp
events, this make kernel calculate event period not as expect, make
sample period to 1 will change attr->freq to 0, to fix this problem.

This patch is similar with commit f92128 about tracepoint events:
    perf: Make the trace events sample period default to 1

Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACV3sbLF8taiCq_VYW-sgRJyupeMzg58C7ZXfMe3xZUiH_Mx6w@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test: Add dso data caching tests

2012-07-25T14:33:17+00:00

Adding automated test for DSO data reading. Testing raw/cached reads
from different file/cache locations.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Arun Sharma 
Cc: Benjamin Redelings 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Ulrich Drepper 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342959280-5361-18-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Add dso data caching

2012-07-25T14:33:04+00:00

Adding dso data caching so we don't need to open/read/close, each time
we want dso data.

The DSO data caching affects following functions:
  dso__data_read_offset
  dso__data_read_addr

Each DSO read tries to find the data (based on offset) inside the cache.
If it's not present it fills the cache from file, and returns the data.
If it is present, data are returned with no file read.

Each data read is cached by reading cache page sized/aligned amount of
DSO data. The cache page size is hardcoded to 4096.  The cache is using
RB tree with file offset as a sort key.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Arun Sharma 
Cc: Benjamin Redelings 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Ulrich Drepper 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342959280-5361-17-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Add interface to read DSO image data

2012-07-25T14:32:49+00:00

Adding following interface for DSO object to allow
reading of DSO image data:

  dso__data_fd
    - opens DSO and returns file descriptor
      Binary types are used to locate/open DSO in following order:
        DSO_BINARY_TYPE__BUILD_ID_CACHE
        DSO_BINARY_TYPE__SYSTEM_PATH_DSO
      In other word we first try to open DSO build-id path,
      and if that fails we try to open DSO system path.

  dso__data_read_offset
    - reads DSO data from specified offset

  dso__data_read_addr
    - reads DSO data from specified address/map.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Arun Sharma 
Cc: Benjamin Redelings 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Ulrich Drepper 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342959280-5361-11-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Factor DSO symtab types to generic binary types

2012-07-25T14:32:36+00:00

Adding interface to access DSOs so it could be used
from another place.

New DSO binary type is added - making current SYMTAB__*
types more general:
   DSO_BINARY_TYPE__* = SYMTAB__*

Following function is added to return path based on the specified
binary type:
   dso__binary_type_file

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Arun Sharma 
Cc: Benjamin Redelings 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Ulrich Drepper 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342959280-5361-10-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf hists: Print newline between hists callchains

2012-07-25T14:32:26+00:00

Tiny cosmetic fix. The lack of a newline between hists callchains was
looking slightly messy.

Before:

     0.24%      swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irq
                |
                --- _raw_spin_lock_irq
                    run_timer_softirq
                    __do_softirq
                    call_softirq
                    do_softirq
                    irq_exit
                    smp_apic_timer_interrupt
                    apic_timer_interrupt
                    default_idle
                    amd_e400_idle
                    cpu_idle
                    start_secondary
     0.10%         perf  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] lock_is_held
                   |
                   --- lock_is_held
                       __might_sleep
                       mutex_lock_nested
                       perf_event_for_each_child
                       perf_ioctl
                       do_vfs_ioctl
                       sys_ioctl
                       system_call_fastpath
                       ioctl
                       cmd_record
                       run_builtin
                       main
                       __libc_start_main

After:

     0.24%      swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irq
                |
                --- _raw_spin_lock_irq
                    run_timer_softirq
                    __do_softirq
                    call_softirq
                    do_softirq
                    irq_exit
                    smp_apic_timer_interrupt
                    apic_timer_interrupt
                    default_idle
                    amd_e400_idle
                    cpu_idle
                    start_secondary

     0.10%         perf  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] lock_is_held
                   |
                   --- lock_is_held
                       __might_sleep
                       mutex_lock_nested
                       perf_event_for_each_child
                       perf_ioctl
                       do_vfs_ioctl
                       sys_ioctl
                       system_call_fastpath
                       ioctl
                       cmd_record
                       run_builtin
                       main
                       __libc_start_main

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342631456-7233-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix trace events storms due to weight demux

2012-07-25T14:32:06+00:00

Trace events have a period (weight) of 1 by default. This can be
overriden on events definition by using the __perf_count() macro.

For example, the sched_stat_runtime() is weighted with the runtime of
the task that fired the event.

By default, perf handles such weighted event by dividing it into
individual events carrying a weight of 1. For example if
sched_stat_runtime is fired and the task has run 5000000 nsecs, perf
divides it into 5000000 events in the buffer.

This behaviour makes weighted events unusable because they quickly
fullfill the buffers and we lose most events.

The commit 5d81e5cfb37a174e8ddc0413e2e70cdf05807ace ("events: Don't
divide events if it has field period") solves this problem by sending
only one event when PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD flag is set. The weight is
carried in the sample itself such that we don't need to demultiplex it
anymore.

This patch provides the last missing piece to use this feature by
setting PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD from perf tools when we deal with trace
events.

Before:
	$ ./perf record -e sched:* -a sleep 1
	[ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
	[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.619 MB perf.data (~70749 samples) ]
	Warning:
	Processed 16909 events and lost 1 chunks!

	Check IO/CPU overload!

	$ ./perf script
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898327: sched_migrate_task: comm=perf pid=1898 prio=120 orig_cpu=2 dest_cpu=0
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898335: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898336: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898337: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898338: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898339: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898340: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898341: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	[...]

After:
	$ ./perf record -e sched:* -a sleep 1
	[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
	[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.074 MB perf.data (~3228 samples) ]

	$ ./perf script

	perf  1461 [000]   554.286957: sched_migrate_task: comm=perf pid=1465 prio=120 orig_cpu=3 dest_cpu=1
	perf  1461 [000]   554.286964: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1465 delay=133047190 [ns]
	perf  1461 [000]   554.286967: sched_wakeup: comm=perf pid=1465 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=001
	swapper     0 [001]   554.286976: sched_stat_wait: comm=perf pid=1465 delay=0 [ns]
	swapper     0 [001]   554.286983: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/1 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=perf
	[...]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342631456-7233-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo