Running commands such as
# ./perf stat -e cs -- true
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
# ./perf stat -e cpu-clock-- true
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
#
dump core. This should not happen as these events are defined
even when no hardware PMU is available.
Debugging this reveals this call chain:
perf_pmus__find_by_type(type=1)
+--> pmu_read_sysfs(core_only=false)
+--> perf_pmu__find2(dirfd=3, name=0x152a113 "software")
+--> perf_pmu__lookup(pmus=0x14f0568 <other_pmus>, dirfd=3,
lookup_name=0x152a113 "software")
+--> perf_pmu__find_events_table (pmu=0x1532130)
Now the pmu is "software" and it tries to find a proper table
generated by the pmu-event generation process for s390:
# cd pmu-events/
# ./jevents.py s390 all /root/linux/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch |\
grep -E '^const struct pmu_table_entry'
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_events__cf_z10[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_events__cf_z13[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_metrics__cf_z13[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_events__cf_z14[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_metrics__cf_z14[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_events__cf_z15[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_metrics__cf_z15[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_events__cf_z16[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_metrics__cf_z16[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_events__cf_z196[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_events__cf_zec12[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_metrics__cf_zec12[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_events__test_soc_cpu[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_metrics__test_soc_cpu[] = {
const struct pmu_table_entry pmu_events__test_soc_sys[] = {
#
However event "software" is not listed, as can be seen in the
generated const struct pmu_events_map pmu_events_map[].
So in function perf_pmu__find_events_table(), the variable
table is initialized to NULL, but never set to a proper
value. The function scans all generated &pmu_events_map[]
tables, but no table matches, because the tables are
s390 CPU Measurement unit specific:
i = 0;
for (;;) {
const struct pmu_events_map *map = &pmu_events_map[i++];
if (!map->arch)
break;
--> the maps are there because the build generated them
if (!strcmp_cpuid_str(map->cpuid, cpuid)) {
table = &map->event_table;
break;
}
--> Since no matching CPU string the table var remains 0x0
}
free(cpuid);
if (!pmu)
return table;
--> The pmu is "software" so it exists and no return
--> and here perf dies because table is 0x0
for (i = 0; i < table->num_pmus; i++) {
...
}
return NULL;
Fix this and do not access the table variable. Instead return 0x0
which is the same return code when the for-loop was not successful.
Output after:
# ./perf stat -e cs -- true
Performance counter stats for 'true':
0 cs
0.000853105 seconds time elapsed
0.000061000 seconds user
0.000827000 seconds sys
# ./perf stat -e cpu-clock -- true
Performance counter stats for 'true':
0.25 msec cpu-clock # 0.341 CPUs utilized
0.000728383 seconds time elapsed
0.000055000 seconds user
0.000706000 seconds sys
# ./perf stat -e cycles -- true
Performance counter stats for 'true':
<not supported> cycles
0.000767298 seconds time elapsed
0.000055000 seconds user
0.000739000 seconds sys
#
Fixes: 7c52f10c0d4d8 ("perf pmu: Cache JSON events table")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: dengler@linux.ibm.com
Cc: gor@linux.ibm.com
Cc: hca@linux.ibm.com
Cc: sumanthk@linux.ibm.com
Cc: svens@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230913125157.2790375-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Fix an error detected by memory sanitizer:
```
==4033==WARNING: MemorySanitizer: use-of-uninitialized-value
#0 0x55fb0fbedfc7 in read_alias_info tools/perf/util/pmu.c:457:6
#1 0x55fb0fbea339 in check_info_data tools/perf/util/pmu.c:1434:2
#2 0x55fb0fbea339 in perf_pmu__check_alias tools/perf/util/pmu.c:1504:9
#3 0x55fb0fbdca85 in parse_events_add_pmu tools/perf/util/parse-events.c:1429:32
#4 0x55fb0f965230 in parse_events_parse tools/perf/util/parse-events.y:299:6
#5 0x55fb0fbdf6b2 in parse_events__scanner tools/perf/util/parse-events.c:1822:8
#6 0x55fb0fbdf8c1 in __parse_events tools/perf/util/parse-events.c:2094:8
#7 0x55fb0fa8ffa9 in parse_events tools/perf/util/parse-events.h:41:9
#8 0x55fb0fa8ffa9 in test_event tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c:2393:8
#9 0x55fb0fa8f458 in test__pmu_events tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c:2551:15
#10 0x55fb0fa6d93f in run_test tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c:242:9
#11 0x55fb0fa6d93f in test_and_print tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c:271:8
#12 0x55fb0fa6d082 in __cmd_test tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c:442:5
#13 0x55fb0fa6d082 in cmd_test tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c:564:9
#14 0x55fb0f942720 in run_builtin tools/perf/perf.c:322:11
#15 0x55fb0f942486 in handle_internal_command tools/perf/perf.c:375:8
#16 0x55fb0f941dab in run_argv tools/perf/perf.c:419:2
#17 0x55fb0f941dab in main tools/perf/perf.c:535:3
```
Fixes: 7b723dbb96e8 ("perf pmu: Be lazy about loading event info files from sysfs")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914022425.1489035-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The parser wraps all strings as Events, so the input is an
Event. Using a string would be bad as functions like Simplify are
called on the arguments, which wouldn't be present on a string.
Fixes: 9d5da30e4ae9 ("perf jevents: Add a new expression builtin strcmp_cpuid_str()")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914022204.1488383-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Make part of an existing TODO conditional to avoid the following build
error:
```
tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/augmented_raw_syscalls.bpf.c:26:14: error: cannot combine with previous 'char' declaration specifier
26 | typedef char bool;
| ^
include/stdbool.h:20:14: note: expanded from macro 'bool'
20 | #define bool _Bool
| ^
tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/augmented_raw_syscalls.bpf.c:26:1: error: typedef requires a name [-Werror,-Wmissing-declarations]
26 | typedef char bool;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2 errors generated.
```
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230913184957.230076-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Commit 3d6dfae88917 ("perf parse-events: Remove BPF event support")
removed building bpf-prologue.c but failed to remove the actual file.
Fixes: 3d6dfae88917 ("perf parse-events: Remove BPF event support")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230913184534.227961-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To keep perf building in systems where types and defines used in this
new benchmark are not available, such as:
12 13.46 centos:stream : FAIL gcc version 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-20) (GCC)
bench/sched-seccomp-notify.c: In function 'user_notif_syscall':
bench/sched-seccomp-notify.c:55:27: error: 'SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO'?
BPF_STMT(BPF_RET|BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF),
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/git/perf-6.6.0-rc1/tools/include/uapi/linux/filter.h:49:59: note: in definition of macro 'BPF_STMT'
#define BPF_STMT(code, k) { (unsigned short)(code), 0, 0, k }
^
bench/sched-seccomp-notify.c:55:27: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
BPF_STMT(BPF_RET|BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF),
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/git/perf-6.6.0-rc1/tools/include/uapi/linux/filter.h:49:59: note: in definition of macro 'BPF_STMT'
#define BPF_STMT(code, k) { (unsigned short)(code), 0, 0, k }
^
bench/sched-seccomp-notify.c:55:3: error: missing initializer for field 'k' of 'struct sock_filter' [-Werror=missing-field-initializers]
BPF_STMT(BPF_RET|BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF),
^~~~~~~~
In file included from bench/sched-seccomp-notify.c:5:
/git/perf-6.6.0-rc1/tools/include/uapi/linux/filter.h:28:8: note: 'k' declared here
__u32 k; /* Generic multiuse field */
^
bench/sched-seccomp-notify.c: In function 'user_notification_sync_loop':
bench/sched-seccomp-notify.c:70:28: error: storage size of 'resp' isn't known
struct seccomp_notif_resp resp;
^~~~
bench/sched-seccomp-notify.c:71:23: error: storage size of 'req' isn't known
struct seccomp_notif req;
^~~
bench/sched-seccomp-notify.c:76:23: error: 'SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT'?
if (ioctl(listener, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV, &req))
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT
bench/sched-seccomp-notify.c:86:23: error: 'SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'SECCOMP_RET_ACTION'?
if (ioctl(listener, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND, &resp))
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SECCOMP_RET_ACTION
bench/sched-seccomp-notify.c:71:23: error: unused variable 'req' [-Werror=unused-variable]
struct seccomp_notif req;
^~~
bench/sched-seccomp-notify.c:70:28: error: unused variable 'resp' [-Werror=unused-variable]
struct seccomp_notif_resp resp;
^~~~
14 11.31 debian:10 : FAIL gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6)
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Kook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZQGhjaojgOGtSNk6@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The new 'perf bench' for sched-seccomp-notify uses defines and types not
available in older systems where we want to have perf available, so grab
a copy of this UAPI from the kernel sources to allow that.
This will be checked in the future for drift from the original when we
build the perf tool, that will warn when that happens like:
make: Entering directory '/var/home/acme/git/perf-tools/tools/perf'
BUILD: Doing 'make -j32' parallel build
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Kook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZQGhMXtwX7RvV3ya@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To pick the changes in these csets:
c35559f94ebc3e3b ("x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall")
78252deb023cf087 ("arch: Register fchmodat2, usually as syscall 452")
That add support for this new syscall in tools such as 'perf trace'.
For instance, this is now possible:
# perf trace -v -e fchmodat*,map_shadow_stack --max-events=4
Using CPUID AuthenticAMD-25-21-0
Reusing "openat" BPF sys_enter augmenter for "fchmodat"
event qualifier tracepoint filter: (common_pid != 3499340 && common_pid != 11259) && (id == 268 || id == 452 || id == 453)
^C#
And it'll work as with other syscalls, for instance openat:
# perf trace -e openat* --max-events=4
0.000 ( 0.015 ms): systemd-oomd/1150 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/proc/meminfo", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 11
0.068 ( 0.019 ms): systemd-oomd/1150 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1001.slice/user@1001.service/memory.pressure", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 11
0.119 ( 0.008 ms): systemd-oomd/1150 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1001.slice/user@1001.service/memory.current", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 11
0.138 ( 0.006 ms): systemd-oomd/1150 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1001.slice/user@1001.service/memory.min", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 11
#
That is the filter expression attached to the raw_syscalls:sys_{enter,exit}
tracepoints.
$ find tools/perf/arch/ -name "syscall*tbl" | xargs grep -E fchmodat\|sys_map_shadow_stack
tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl:258 n64 fchmodat sys_fchmodat
tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl:452 n64 fchmodat2 sys_fchmodat2
tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl:297 common fchmodat sys_fchmodat
tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl:452 common fchmodat2 sys_fchmodat2
tools/perf/arch/s390/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl:299 common fchmodat sys_fchmodat sys_fchmodat
tools/perf/arch/s390/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl:452 common fchmodat2 sys_fchmodat2 sys_fchmodat2
tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl:268 common fchmodat sys_fchmodat
tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl:452 common fchmodat2 sys_fchmodat2
tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl:453 64 map_shadow_stack sys_map_shadow_stack
$
$ grep -Ew map_shadow_stack\|fchmodat2 /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.c
[452] = "fchmodat2",
[453] = "map_shadow_stack",
$
This addresses these perf build warnings:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
diff -u tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
diff -u tools/perf/arch/s390/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
diff -u tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZP8bE7aXDBu%2Fdrak@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To pick the changes in:
a3e7e6b17946f48b ("libbpf: Remove HASHMAP_INIT static initialization helper")
That don't entail any changes in tools/perf.
This addresses this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/perf/util/hashmap.h tools/lib/bpf/hashmap.h
Not a kernel ABI, its just that this uses the mechanism in place for
checking kernel ABI files drift.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"perf tools maintainership:
- Add git information for perf-tools and perf-tools-next trees and
branches to the MAINTAINERS file. That is where development now
takes place and myself and Namhyung Kim have write access, more
people to come as we emulate other maintainer groups.
perf record:
- Record kernel data maps when 'perf record --data' is used, so that
global variables can be resolved and used in tools that do data
profiling.
perf trace:
- Remove the old, experimental support for BPF events in which a .c
file was passed as an event: "perf trace -e hello.c" to then get
compiled and loaded.
The only known usage for that, that shipped with the kernel as an
example for such events, augmented the raw_syscalls tracepoints and
was converted to a libbpf skeleton, reusing all the user space
components and the BPF code connected to the syscalls.
In the end just the way to glue the BPF part and the user space
type beautifiers changed, now being performed by libbpf skeletons.
The next step is to use BTF to do pretty printing of all syscall
types, as discussed with Alan Maguire and others.
Now, on a perf built with BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 we get most if not all
path/filenames/strings, some of the networking data structures,
perf_event_attr, etc, i.e. systemwide tracing of nanosleep calls
and perf_event_open syscalls while 'perf stat' runs 'sleep' for 5
seconds:
# perf trace -a -e *nanosleep,perf* perf stat -e cycles,instructions sleep 5
0.000 ( 9.034 ms): perf/327641 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: { type: 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE), size: 136, config: 0 (PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES), sample_type: IDENTIFIER, read_format: TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, exclude_guest: 1 }, pid: 327642 (perf), cpu: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 3
9.039 ( 0.006 ms): perf/327641 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: { type: 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE), size: 136, config: 0x1 (PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS), sample_type: IDENTIFIER, read_format: TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, exclude_guest: 1 }, pid: 327642 (perf-exec), cpu: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
? ( ): gpm/991 ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep()) = 0
10.133 ( ): sleep/327642 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 5, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffd36f83ed0) ...
? ( ): pool-gsd-smart/3051 ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep()) = 0
30.276 ( ): gpm/991 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 2, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffcc6f73710) ...
223.215 (1000.430 ms): pool-gsd-smart/3051 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 1, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7f6e7fffec90) = 0
30.276 (2000.394 ms): gpm/991 ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep()) = 0
1230.814 ( ): pool-gsd-smart/3051 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 1, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7f6e7fffec90) ...
1230.814 (1000.404 ms): pool-gsd-smart/3051 ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep()) = 0
2030.886 ( ): gpm/991 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 2, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffcc6f73710) ...
2237.709 (1000.153 ms): pool-gsd-smart/3051 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 1, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7f6e7fffec90) = 0
? ( ): crond/1172 ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep()) = 0
3242.699 ( ): pool-gsd-smart/3051 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 1, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7f6e7fffec90) ...
2030.886 (2000.385 ms): gpm/991 ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep()) = 0
3728.078 ( ): crond/1172 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 60, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffe0971dcf0) ...
3242.699 (1000.158 ms): pool-gsd-smart/3051 ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep()) = 0
4031.409 ( ): gpm/991 clock_nanosleep(rqtp: { .tv_sec: 2, .tv_nsec: 0 }, rmtp: 0x7ffcc6f73710) ...
10.133 (5000.375 ms): sleep/327642 ... [continued]: clock_nanosleep()) = 0
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 5':
2,617,347 cycles
1,855,997 instructions # 0.71 insn per cycle
5.002282128 seconds time elapsed
0.000855000 seconds user
0.000852000 seconds sys
perf annotate:
- Building with binutils' libopcode now is opt-in (BUILD_NONDISTRO=1)
for licensing reasons, and we missed a build test on
tools/perf/tests makefile.
Since we now default to NDEBUG=1, we ended up segfaulting when
building with BUILD_NONDISTRO=1 because a needed initialization
routine was being "error checked" via an assert.
Fix it by explicitly checking the result and aborting instead if it
fails.
We better back propagate the error, but at least 'perf annotate' on
samples collected for a BPF program is back working when perf is
built with BUILD_NONDISTRO=1.
perf report/top:
- Add back TUI hierarchy mode header, that is seen when using 'perf
report/top --hierarchy'.
- Fix the number of entries for 'e' key in the TUI that was
preventing navigation of lines when expanding an entry.
perf report/script:
- Support cross platform register handling, allowing a perf.data file
collected on one architecture to have registers sampled correctly
displayed when analysis tools such as 'perf report' and 'perf
script' are used on a different architecture.
- Fix handling of event attributes in pipe mode, i.e. when one uses:
perf record -o - | perf report -i -
When no perf.data files are used.
- Handle files generated via pipe mode with a version of perf and
then read also via pipe mode with a different version of perf,
where the event attr record may have changed, use the record size
field to properly support this version mismatch.
perf probe:
- Accessing global variables from uprobes isn't supported, make the
error message state that instead of stating that some minimal
kernel version is needed to have that feature. This seems just a
tool limitation, the kernel probably has all that is needed.
perf tests:
- Fix a reference count related leak in the dlfilter v0 API where the
result of a thread__find_symbol_fb() is not matched with an
addr_location__exit() to drop the reference counts of the resolved
components (machine, thread, map, symbol, etc). Add a dlfilter test
to make sure that doesn't regresses.
- Lots of fixes for the 'perf test' written in shell script related
to problems found with the shellcheck utility.
- Fixes for 'perf test' shell scripts testing features enabled when
perf is built with BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1, such as 'perf stat' bpf
counters.
- Add perf record sample filtering test, things like the following
example, that gets implemented as a BPF filter attached to the
event:
# perf record -e task-clock -c 10000 --filter 'ip < 0xffffffff00000000'
- Improve the way the task_analyzer test checks if libtraceevent is
linked, using 'perf version --build-options' instead of the more
expensinve 'perf record -e "sched:sched_switch"'.
- Add support for riscv in the mmap-basic test. (This went as well
via the RiscV tree, same contents).
libperf:
- Implement riscv mmap support (This went as well via the RiscV tree,
same contents).
perf script:
- New tool that converts perf.data files to the firefox profiler
format so that one can use the visualizer at
https://profiler.firefox.com/. Done by Anup Sharma as part of this
year's Google Summer of Code.
One can generate the output and upload it to the web interface but
Anup also automated everything:
perf script gecko -F 99 -a sleep 60
- Support syscall name parsing on arm64.
- Print "cgroup" field on the same line as "comm".
perf bench:
- Add new 'uprobe' benchmark to measure the overhead of uprobes
with/without BPF programs attached to it.
- breakpoints are not available on power9, skip that test.
perf stat:
- Add #num_cpus_online literal to be used in 'perf stat' metrics, and
add this extra 'perf test' check that exemplifies its purpose:
TEST_ASSERT_VAL("#num_cpus_online",
expr__parse(&num_cpus_online, ctx, "#num_cpus_online") == 0);
TEST_ASSERT_VAL("#num_cpus", expr__parse(&num_cpus, ctx, "#num_cpus") == 0);
TEST_ASSERT_VAL("#num_cpus >= #num_cpus_online", num_cpus >= num_cpus_online);
Miscellaneous:
- Improve tool startup time by lazily reading PMU, JSON, sysfs data.
- Improve error reporting in the parsing of events, passing YYLTYPE
to error routines, so that the output can show were the parsing
error was found.
- Add 'perf test' entries to check the parsing of events
improvements.
- Fix various leak for things detected by -fsanitize=address, mostly
things that would be freed at tool exit, including:
- Free evsel->filter on the destructor.
- Allow tools to register a thread->priv destructor and use it in
'perf trace'.
- Free evsel->priv in 'perf trace'.
- Free string returned by synthesize_perf_probe_point() when the
caller fails to do all it needs.
- Adjust various compiler options to not consider errors some
warnings when building with broken headers found in things like
python, flex, bison, as we otherwise build with -Werror. Some for
gcc, some for clang, some for some specific version of those, some
for some specific version of flex or bison, or some specific
combination of these components, bah.
- Allow customization of clang options for BPF target, this helps
building on gentoo where there are other oddities where BPF targets
gets passed some compiler options intended for the native build, so
building with WERROR=0 helps while these oddities are fixed.
- Dont pass ERR_PTR() values to perf_session__delete() in 'perf top'
and 'perf lock', fixing some segfaults when handling some odd
failures.
- Add LTO build option.
- Fix format of unordered lists in the perf docs
(tools/perf/Documentation)
- Overhaul the bison files, using constructs such as YYNOMEM.
- Remove unused tokens from the bison .y files.
- Add more comments to various structs.
- A few LoongArch enablement patches.
Vendor events (JSON):
- Add JSON metrics for Yitian 710 DDR (aarch64). Things like:
EventName, BriefDescription
visible_window_limit_reached_rd, "At least one entry in read queue reaches the visible window limit.",
visible_window_limit_reached_wr, "At least one entry in write queue reaches the visible window limit.",
op_is_dqsosc_mpc , "A DQS Oscillator MPC command to DRAM.",
op_is_dqsosc_mrr , "A DQS Oscillator MRR command to DRAM.",
op_is_tcr_mrr , "A Temperature Compensated Refresh(TCR) MRR command to DRAM.",
- Add AmpereOne metrics (aarch64).
- Update N2 and V2 metrics (aarch64) and events using Arm telemetry
repo.
- Update scale units and descriptions of common topdown metrics on
aarch64. Things like:
- "MetricExpr": "stall_slot_frontend / (#slots * cpu_cycles)",
- "BriefDescription": "Frontend bound L1 topdown metric",
+ "MetricExpr": "100 * (stall_slot_frontend / (#slots * cpu_cycles))",
+ "BriefDescription": "This metric is the percentage of total slots that were stalled due to resource constraints in the frontend of the processor.",
- Update events for intel: meteorlake to 1.04, sapphirerapids to
1.15, Icelake+ metric constraints.
- Update files for the power10 platform"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.6-1-2023-09-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (217 commits)
perf parse-events: Fix driver config term
perf parse-events: Fixes relating to no_value terms
perf parse-events: Fix propagation of term's no_value when cloning
perf parse-events: Name the two term enums
perf list: Don't print Unit for "default_core"
perf vendor events intel: Fix modifier in tma_info_system_mem_parallel_reads for skylake
perf dlfilter: Avoid leak in v0 API test use of resolve_address()
perf metric: Add #num_cpus_online literal
perf pmu: Remove str from perf_pmu_alias
perf parse-events: Make common term list to strbuf helper
perf parse-events: Minor help message improvements
perf pmu: Avoid uninitialized use of alias->str
perf jevents: Use "default_core" for events with no Unit
perf test stat_bpf_counters_cgrp: Enhance perf stat cgroup BPF counter test
perf test shell stat_bpf_counters: Fix test on Intel
perf test shell record_bpf_filter: Skip 6.2 kernel
libperf: Get rid of attr.id field
perf tools: Convert to perf_record_header_attr_id()
libperf: Add perf_record_header_attr_id()
perf tools: Handle old data in PERF_RECORD_ATTR
...