linux.git/tools/perf, branch v4.7-rc2

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

2016-05-26T00:05:40+00:00

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Mostly tooling and PMU driver fixes, but also a number of late updates
  such as the reworking of the call-chain size limiting logic to make
  call-graph recording more robust, plus tooling side changes for the
  new 'backwards ring-buffer' extension to the perf ring-buffer"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
  perf record: Read from backward ring buffer
  perf record: Rename variable to make code clear
  perf record: Prevent reading invalid data in record__mmap_read
  perf evlist: Add API to pause/resume
  perf trace: Use the ptr->name beautifier as default for "filename" args
  perf trace: Use the fd->name beautifier as default for "fd" args
  perf report: Add srcline_from/to branch sort keys
  perf evsel: Record fd into perf_mmap
  perf evsel: Add overwrite attribute and check write_backward
  perf tools: Set buildid dir under symfs when --symfs is provided
  perf trace: Only auto set call-graph to "dwarf" when syscalls are being traced
  perf annotate: Sort list of recognised instructions
  perf annotate: Fix identification of ARM blt and bls instructions
  perf tools: Fix usage of max_stack sysctl
  perf callchain: Stop validating callchains by the max_stack sysctl
  perf trace: Fix exit_group() formatting
  perf top: Use machine->kptr_restrict_warned
  perf trace: Warn when trying to resolve kernel addresses with kptr_restrict=1
  perf machine: Do not bail out if not managing to read ref reloc symbol
  perf/x86/intel/p4: Trival indentation fix, remove space
  ...

perf record: Read from backward ring buffer

2016-05-23T21:22:48+00:00

Introduce rb_find_range() to find start and end position from a backward
ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463987628-163563-5-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: He Kuang 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Rename variable to make code clear

2016-05-23T21:22:47+00:00

record__mmap_read() writes data from ring buffer into perf.data.  'head'
is maintained by the kernel, points to the last written record.
'old' is maintained by perf, points to the record read in previous
round. record__mmap_read() saves data from 'old' to 'head' to
perf.data.

The names of these variables are not very intutive. In addition,
when dealing with backward writing ring buffer, the md->prev pointer
should point to 'head' instead of the last byte it got.

Add 'start' and 'end' pointer to make code clear and set md->prev to
'head' instead of the moved 'old' pointer. This patch doesn't change
behavior since:

    buf = &data[old & md->mask];
    size = head - old;
    old += size;     <--- Here, old == head

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463987628-163563-4-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: He Kuang 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Prevent reading invalid data in record__mmap_read

2016-05-23T21:22:46+00:00

When record__mmap_read() requires data more than the size of ring
buffer, drop those data to avoid accessing invalid memory.

This can happen when reading from overwritable ring buffer, which
should be avoided. However, check this for robustness.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463987628-163563-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: He Kuang 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Add API to pause/resume

2016-05-23T21:22:00+00:00

perf_evlist__toggle_{pause,resume}() are introduced to pause/resume
events in an evlist. Utilize PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT ioctl.

Following commits use them to ensure overwrite ring buffer is paused
before reading.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463987628-163563-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: He Kuang 
[ Return -1, like all other ioctl() usage in evlist.c, rename 'pause'
  arg to avoid breaking the build on ubuntu 12.04 and other old systems ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Use the ptr->name beautifier as default for "filename" args

2016-05-23T19:41:00+00:00

Auto-attach the ptr->name beautifier to syscall args "filename", "path"
and "pathname" if they are of type "const char *".

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-jxii4qmcgoppftv0zdvml9d7@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Use the fd->name beautifier as default for "fd" args

2016-05-23T19:41:00+00:00

Noticed when the 'setsockopt' 'fd' arg wasn't being formatted via
the SCA_FD beautifier, so just remove the setting of "fd" args to
SCA_FD and do it when reading the syscall info, like we do for
args of type "pid_t", i.e. "fd" as the name should be enough as
the decision to use the SFA_FD beautifier. For odd cases we can
just do it explicitely.

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-0qissgetiuqmqyj4b6ancmpn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report: Add srcline_from/to branch sort keys

2016-05-23T14:25:16+00:00

Add "srcline_from" and "srcline_to" branch sort keys that allow to show
the source lines of a branch.

That makes it much easier to track down where particular branches happen
in the program, for example to examine branch mispredictions, or to
associate it with cycle counts:

  % perf record -b -e cycles:p ./tcall
  % perf report --sort srcline_from,srcline_to,mispredict
  ...
    15.10%  tcall.c:18       tcall.c:10       N
    14.83%  tcall.c:11       tcall.c:5        N
    14.12%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:12       N
    14.04%  tcall.c:12       tcall.c:5        N
    12.42%  tcall.c:17       tcall.c:18       N
    12.39%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:13       N
    12.27%  tcall.c:13       tcall.c:17       N
  ...

  % perf report --sort srcline_from,srcline_to,cycles
  ...
    17.12%  tcall.c:18       tcall.c:11       1
    17.01%  tcall.c:12       tcall.c:6        1
    16.98%  tcall.c:11       tcall.c:6        1
    15.91%  tcall.c:17       tcall.c:18       1
     6.38%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:17       7
     4.80%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:12       8
     4.21%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:17       8
     2.67%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:12       7
     2.62%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:12       10
     2.10%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:17       9
     1.58%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:12       6
     1.44%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:12       5
     1.38%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:12       9
     1.06%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:17       13
     1.05%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:12       4
     1.01%  tcall.c:7        tcall.c:17       6

Open issues:

- Some kernel symbols get misresolved.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463775308-32748-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Record fd into perf_mmap

2016-05-20T17:56:58+00:00

Add a fd field into struct perf_mmap so that perf can track the mmap fd.

This feature will be used for toggling overwrite ring buffers.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463762315-155689-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: He Kuang 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Add overwrite attribute and check write_backward

2016-05-20T17:54:23+00:00

Add 'overwrite' attribute to evsel to mark whether this event is
overwritable. The following commits will support syntax like:

  # perf record -e cycles/overwrite/ ...

An overwritable evsel requires kernel support for the
perf_event_attr.write_backward ring buffer feature.

Add it to perf_missing_feature.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463762315-155689-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo