linux.git/tools/perf, branch v4.3-rc1

perf tools: Fix link time error with sample_reg_masks on non x86

2015-09-01T16:04:41+00:00

This patch makes perf compile on non x86 platforms by defining a weak
symbol for sample_reg_masks[] in util/perf_regs.c.

The patch also moves the REG() and REG_END() macros into the
util/per_regs.h header file. The macros are renamed to
SMPL_REG/SMPL_REG_END to avoid clashes with other header files.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441099814-26783-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf build: Fix Intel PT instruction decoder dependency problem

2015-09-01T16:03:46+00:00

I hit following building error randomly:

    ...
  /bin/sh: /path/to/kernel/buildperf/util/intel-pt-decoder/inat-tables.c: No such file or directory
    ...
    LINK     /path/to/kernel/buildperf/plugin_mac80211.so
    LINK     /path/to/kernel/buildperf/plugin_kmem.so
    LINK     /path/to/kernel/buildperf/plugin_xen.so
    LINK     /path/to/kernel/buildperf/plugin_hrtimer.so
  In file included from util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c:25:0:
  util/intel-pt-decoder/inat.c:24:25: fatal error: inat-tables.c: No such file or directory
   #include "inat-tables.c"
                           ^
  compilation terminated.
  make[4]: *** [/path/to/kernel/buildperf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.o] Error 1
  make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
    LINK     /path/to/kernel/buildperf/plugin_function.so

This is caused by tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/Build that, it tries
to generate $(OUTPUT)util/intel-pt-decoder/inat-tables.c atomatically
but forget to ensure the existance of $(OUTPUT)util/intel-pt-decoder
directory.

This patch fixes it by adding $(call rule_mkdir) like other similar rules.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441087005-107540-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf dwarf: Fix potential array out of bounds access

2015-09-01T14:33:48+00:00

There is a problem in the dwarf-regs.c files for sh, sparc and x86 where
it is possible to make an out-of-bounds array access when searching for
register names.

This patch fixes it by replacing '<=' to '<', so when register (number
== XXX_MAX_REGS), get_arch_regstr() will return NULL.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@huawei.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441078184-105038-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add ability to name registers to record

2015-08-31T21:01:33+00:00

This patch modifies the -I/--int-regs option to enablepassing the name
of the registers to sample on interrupt. Registers can be specified by
their symbolic names. For instance on x86, --intr-regs=ax,si.

The motivation is to reduce the size of the perf.data file and the
overhead of sampling by only collecting the registers useful to a
specific analysis. For instance, for value profiling, sampling only the
registers used to passed arguements to functions.

With no parameter, the --intr-regs still records all possible registers
based on the architecture.

To name registers, it is necessary to use the long form of the option,
i.e., --intr-regs:

  $ perf record --intr-regs=si,di,r8,r9 .....

To record any possible registers:

  $ perf record -I .....
  $ perf report --intr-regs ...

To display the register, one can use perf report -D

To list the available registers:

  $ perf record --intr-regs=\?
  available registers: AX BX CX DX SI DI BP SP IP FLAGS CS SS R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441039273-16260-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf/x86: Add list of register names

2015-08-31T20:56:37+00:00

This patch adds a way to locate a register identifier (PERF_X86_REG_*)
based on its name, e.g., AX.

This will be used by a subsequent patch to improved flexibility of perf
record.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441039273-16260-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Enable printing of interrupted machine state

2015-08-31T20:51:07+00:00

This patch adds the output of the interrupted machine state (iregs) to
perf script. It presents them  as NAME:VALUE so this is easy to parse
during post processing.

To capture the interrupted machine state:
   $ perf record -I ....

to display iregs, use the -F option:

   $ perf script -F ip,iregs
   40afc2   AX:0x6c5770    BX:0x1e    CX:0x5f4d80a    DX:0x101010101010101    SI:0x1

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441039273-16260-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Open event on evsel cpus and threads

2015-08-31T20:28:01+00:00

An evsel may have different cpus and threads than the evlist it is in.

Use it's own cpus and threads, when opening the evsel in 'perf record'.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1440138194-17001-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

bpf tools: New API to get name from a BPF object

2015-08-31T19:53:15+00:00

Before this patch there's no way to connect a loaded bpf object
to its source file. However, during applying perf's '--filter' to BPF
object, without this connection makes things harder, because perf loads
all programs together, but '--filter' setting is for each object.

The API of bpf_object__open_buffer() is changed to allow passing a name.
Fortunately, at this time there's only one user of it (perf test LLVM),
so we change it together.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kaixu Xia 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1440742821-44548-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix build on powerpc broken by pt/bts

2015-08-31T18:47:33+00:00

It is theoretically possible to process perf.data files created on x86
and that contain Intel PT or Intel BTS data, on any other architecture,
which is why it is possible for there to be build errors on powerpc
caused by pt/bts.

The errors were:

	util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c: In function ‘intel_pt_insn_decoder’:
	util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c:138:3: error: switch missing default case [-Werror=switch-default]
	   switch (insn->immediate.nbytes) {
	   ^
	cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

	linux-acme.git/tools/perf/perf-obj/libperf.a(libperf-in.o): In function `intel_pt_synth_branch_sample':
	sources/linux-acme.git/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c:871: undefined reference to `tsc_to_perf_time'
	linux-acme.git/tools/perf/perf-obj/libperf.a(libperf-in.o): In function `intel_pt_sample':
	sources/linux-acme.git/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c:915: undefined reference to `tsc_to_perf_time'
	sources/linux-acme.git/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c:962: undefined reference to `tsc_to_perf_time'
	linux-acme.git/tools/perf/perf-obj/libperf.a(libperf-in.o): In function `intel_pt_process_event':
	sources/linux-acme.git/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c:1454: undefined reference to `perf_time_to_tsc'

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441046384-28663-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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

2015-08-31T08:25:46+00:00

Pull perf/core improvement and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

User visible changes:

  - Add new compaction-times python script. (Tony Jones)

  - Make the --[no-]-demangle/--[no-]-demangle-kernel command line
    options available in 'perf script' too. (Mark Drayton)

  - Allow for negative numbers in libtraceevent's print format,
    fixing up misformatting in some tracepoints. (Steven Rostedt)

Infrastructure changes:

  - perf_env/perf_evlist changes to allow accessing the data
    structure with the environment where some perf data was
    collected in functions not necessarily related to perf.data
    file processing. (Kan Liang)

  - Cleanups for the tracepoint definition location paths routines. (Jiri Olsa)

  - Introduce sysfs/filename__sprintf_build_id, removing code
    duplication. (Masami Hiramatsu)

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