linux.git/tools, branch v3.19-rc4

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

2015-01-11T19:47:45+00:00

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Mostly tooling fixes, but also some kernel side fixes: uncore PMU
  driver fix, user regs sampling fix and an instruction decoder fix that
  unbreaks PEBS precise sampling"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86/uncore/hsw-ep: Handle systems with only two SBOXes
  perf/x86_64: Improve user regs sampling
  perf: Move task_pt_regs sampling into arch code
  x86: Fix off-by-one in instruction decoder
  perf hists browser: Fix segfault when showing callchain
  perf callchain: Free callchains when hist entries are deleted
  perf hists: Fix children sort key behavior
  perf diff: Fix to sort by baseline field by default
  perf list: Fix --raw-dump option
  perf probe: Fix crash in dwarf_getcfi_elf
  perf probe: Fix to fall back to find probe point in symbols
  perf callchain: Append callchains only when requested
  perf ui/tui: Print backtrace symbols when segfault occurs
  perf report: Show progress bar for output resorting

Merge branch 'core/urgent' into locking/urgent, to collect all pending locking fixes

2015-01-11T08:18:05+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf hists browser: Fix segfault when showing callchain

2015-01-08T14:59:16+00:00

When perf report on TUI shows callchain it checks first node has
siblings to determine whether it needs to print percentage value.

But it missed a case that first node is NULL.  So sometimes it segfaults
like below:

  $ perf top -g
  perf: Segmentation fault
  -------- backtrace --------
  perf[0x4fcefb]
  /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x33b20)[0x7f2a35839b20]
  perf(rb_next+0x8)[0x47d3d8]
  perf[0x4f6058]
  perf[0x4f833b]
  perf[0x4f8610]
  perf[0x4f209e]
  perf(ui_browser__run+0x3a)[0x4f2e6a]
  perf[0x4f94ee]
  perf(perf_evlist__tui_browse_hists+0x94)[0x4fbbf4]
  perf[0x444d10]
  /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0(+0x7314)[0x7f2a37070314]
  /usr/lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x7f2a358ee5bd]

  $ addr2line -e `which perf` 0x4f6058
  /home/namhyung/project/linux/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c:553

I don't know why the backtrace didn't print some symbols..

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Fixes: 4087d11cd945 ("perf hists browser: Print overhead percent value for first-level callchain")
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1419401076-21700-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf callchain: Free callchains when hist entries are deleted

2015-01-08T14:56:35+00:00

Markus reported that "perf top -g" can leak ~300MB per second on his
machine.  This is partly because it missed to free callchains when hist
entries are deleted.  Fix it.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141230053813.GD6081@sejong
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf hists: Fix children sort key behavior

2015-01-08T14:26:56+00:00

When perf report --children resorts output fields, it tries to put
caller above the callee.  But this was only meaningful for a same thread
and doing this requires callchain enabled.  So fix its check before
comparing the callchain depth.

This also changes the hist accumulation tests: In test 3, xmalloc in
bash thread should be above than other perf threads due to alphabetical
order of comm string.  Also it's under page_fault in bash thread since
alphabetical order of dso name.  The sys_perf_event_open in perf thread
is put on the last line since it's self overhead is 0.

In test 4, the sys_perf_event_open is put above other perf entries that
have same children overhead since its callchain depth is smaller.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1419309381-2593-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf diff: Fix to sort by baseline field by default

2015-01-03T02:27:18+00:00

The currently perf diff didn't add the baseline and delta (or other
compute) fields to the sort list so output will be sorted by other
fields like alphabetical order of DSO or symbol as below example.

Fix it by adding hpp formats for the fields and provides default compare
functions.

Before:

  $ perf diff
  # Event 'cycles'
  #
  # Baseline    Delta  Shared Object       Symbol
  # ........  .......  ..................  ...............................
  #
                       [bridge]            [k] ip_sabotage_in
                       [btrfs]             [k] __etree_search.constprop.47
       0.01%           [btrfs]             [k] btrfs_file_mmap
       0.01%   -0.01%  [btrfs]             [k] btrfs_getattr
                       [e1000e]            [k] e1000_watchdog
       0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] PageHuge
       0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] __acct_update_integrals
       0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] __activate_page
                       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] __alloc_fd
       0.02%   +0.02%  [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
       ...

After:

  # Baseline    Delta  Shared Object       Symbol
  # ........  .......  ..................  ................................
  #
      24.73%   -4.62%  perf                [.] append_chain_children
       7.96%   -1.29%  perf                [.] dso__find_symbol
       6.97%   -2.07%  libc-2.20.so        [.] vfprintf
       4.61%   +0.88%  libc-2.20.so        [.] __fprintf_chk
       4.41%   +2.43%  perf                [.] sort__comm_cmp
       4.10%   -0.16%  perf                [.] comm__str
       4.03%   -0.93%  perf                [.] machine__findnew_thread_time
       3.82%   +3.09%  perf                [.] __hists__add_entry
       2.95%   -0.18%  perf                [.] sort__dso_cmp
       ...

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1419656793-32756-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf list: Fix --raw-dump option

2015-01-03T02:26:58+00:00

Currently, 'perf list --raw-dump' requires extra arguments
(e.g., hw) to invoke, which breaks bash/zsh completion
(perf-completion.sh).

  $ perf list --raw-dump
    Error: unknown option `raw-dump'

     usage: perf list [hw|sw|cache|tracepoint|pmu|event_glob]

After,

  $ perf list --raw-dump
  cpu-cycles instructions cache-references cache-misses ...

Signed-off-by: Taesoo Kim 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Taesoo kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1419997015-11071-1-git-send-email-tsgatesv@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Fix crash in dwarf_getcfi_elf

2015-01-02T15:44:01+00:00

David reported that perf can segfault when adding an uprobe event like
this:

  $ perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so -a 'malloc  size=%di'

  (gdb) bt
  #0  parse_eh_frame_hdr (hdr=0x0, hdr_size=2596, hdr_vaddr=71788,
      ehdr=0x7fffffffd390, eh_frame_vaddr=
      0x7fffffffd378, table_entries=0x8808d8, table_encoding=0x8808e0 "") at
      dwarf_getcfi_elf.c:79
  #1  0x000000385f81615a in getcfi_scn_eh_frame (hdr_vaddr=71788,
      hdr_scn=0x8839b0, shdr=0x7fffffffd2f0, scn=,
      ehdr=0x7fffffffd390, elf=0x882b30) at dwarf_getcfi_elf.c:231
  #2  getcfi_shdr (ehdr=0x7fffffffd390, elf=0x882b30) at dwarf_getcfi_elf.c:283
  #3  dwarf_getcfi_elf (elf=0x882b30) at dwarf_getcfi_elf.c:309
  #4  0x00000000004d5bac in debuginfo__find_probes (pf=0x7fffffffd4f0,
      dbg=Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0xfa) at util/probe-finder.c:993
  #5  0x00000000004d634a in debuginfo__find_trace_events (dbg=0x880840,
      pev=, tevs=0x880f88, max_tevs=) at
      util/probe-finder.c:1200
  #6  0x00000000004aed6b in try_to_find_probe_trace_events (target=0x881b20
      "/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so",
      max_tevs=128, tevs=0x880f88, pev=0x859b30) at util/probe-event.c:482
  #7  convert_to_probe_trace_events (target=0x881b20
      "/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so", max_tevs=128, tevs=0x880f88,
      pev=0x859b30) at util/probe-event.c:2356
  #8  add_perf_probe_events (pevs=, npevs=1, max_tevs=128,
      target=0x881b20 "/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so", force_add=false) at
      util/probe-event.c:2391
  #9  0x000000000044014f in __cmd_probe (argc=,
      argv=0x7fffffffe2f0, prefix=Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0xfa) at
      at builtin-probe.c:488
  #10 0x0000000000440313 in cmd_probe (argc=5, argv=0x7fffffffe2f0,
      prefix=) at builtin-probe.c:506
  #11 0x000000000041d133 in run_builtin (p=0x805680, argc=5,
      argv=0x7fffffffe2f0) at perf.c:341
  #12 0x000000000041c8b2 in handle_internal_command (argv=,
      argc=) at perf.c:400
  #13 run_argv (argv=, argcp=) at perf.c:444
  #14 main (argc=5, argv=0x7fffffffe2f0) at perf.c:559

And I found a related commit (5704c8c4fa71 "getcfi_scn_eh_frame: Don't
crash and burn when .eh_frame bits aren't there.") in elfutils that can
lead to a unexpected crash like this.  To safely use the function, it
needs to check the .eh_frame section is a PROGBITS type.

Reported-by: David Ahern 
Tested-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Mark Wielaard 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141230090533.GH6081@sejong
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Fix to fall back to find probe point in symbols

2015-01-02T15:42:17+00:00

Fix to fall back to find a probe point in symbols if perf fails to find
it in debuginfo.

This can happen when the target function is an alias of another
function. Such alias doesn't have an entry in debuginfo but in symbols.

David Ahern reported this problem in https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/29/355

I ensured the problem and deeper investigation discovers it.
 -----
 eu-readelf --debug-dump=info /usr/lib/debug/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so | grep \"malloc\" -A6
             name                 (strp) "malloc"
             decl_file            (data1) 25
             decl_line            (data2) 466
             prototyped           (flag_present)
             type                 (ref4) [  81b5]
             declaration          (flag_present)
 [  8f58]      formal_parameter
 --
             name                 (strp) "malloc"
             decl_file            (data1) 23
             decl_line            (data2) 466
             prototyped           (flag_present)
             type                 (ref4) [  9f4a]
             declaration          (flag_present)
             sibling              (ref4) [  bb29]
 ...
 -----
All these entires have no instances (all of them are declarations)
This is why the perf probe failed to find it in debuginfo.

However, there are some malloc instances in symbols.
 -----
 eu-readelf --symbols /usr/lib/debug/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so | grep malloc$
  1181: 0000000000080700   5332 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT       12 _int_malloc
  4537: 00000000000831d0    339 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT       12 __GI___libc_malloc
  5545: 00000000000831d0    339 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT       12 __malloc
  6063: 00000000000831d0    339 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT       12 malloc
  7302: 00000000000831d0    339 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT       12 __libc_malloc
 -----
As you an see, malloc and __libc_malloc have same address, and actually
__libc_malloc has an entry in debuginfo. So you can set up a probe on
__libc_malloc.

To fix this problem shortly, perf probe simply falls back to find probe
point(malloc) in symbols if it is not found in debuginfo.

Reported-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141231062747.2087.80961.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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

2015-01-01T21:24:36+00:00

Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

  User visible fixes:

  - Show progress bar in more places while doing histogram processing
    in the hists browser (Namhyung Kim)

  - Print backtrace symbols when segfault occurs in 'report' (Namhyung Kim)

  Infrastructure fixes:

  - Append callchains only when requested (Namhyung Kim)

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