linux.git/tools, branch v3.7-rc2

perf python: Properly link with libtraceevent

2012-10-20T00:43:08+00:00

Namhyung Kim reported that the build fails with:

  GEN python/perf.so
  gcc: error: python_ext_build/tmp//../../libtraceevent.a: No such file or directory
  error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
  cp: cannot stat `python_ext_build/lib/perf.so': No such file or directory
  make: *** [python/perf.so] Error 1

We need to propagate the TE_PATH variable to the setup.py file.

Reported-by: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8umiPbm4sxpknKivbjgykhut@git.kernel.org
[ Fixed superfluous variable build error. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2012-10-20T00:40:26+00:00

Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

* The python binding needs to link with libtraceevent and to initialize
  the 'page_size' variable so that mmaping works again.

* The callchain folding character that appears on the TUI just before
  the overhead had disappeared due to recent changes, add it back.

* Intel PEBS in VT-x context uses the DS address as a guest linear address,
  even though its programmed by the host as a host linear address. This either
  results in guest memory corruption and or the hardware faulting and 'crashing'
  the virtual machine.  Therefore we have to disable PEBS on VT-x enter and
  re-enable on VT-x exit, enforcing a strict exclude_guest.

  Kernel side enforcement fix by Peter Zijlstra, tooling side fix by David Ahern.

* Fix build on sparc due to UAPI, fix from David Miller.

* Fixes for the srclike sort key for unresolved symbols and when processing
  samples in JITted code, where we don't have an ELF file, just an special
  symbol table, fixes from Namhyung Kim.

* Fix some leaks in libtraceevent, from Steven Rostedt.

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

perf hists browser: Add back callchain folding symbol

2012-10-17T16:54:08+00:00

The commit 5395a04841fc ("perf hists: Separate overhead and baseline
columns") makes the "Overhead" column no more the first one, this
caused the test that checks if it is time to show if a histogram
entry has callchains never hits.

Fix it by checking if the 'i' variable is equal to PERF_HPP__OVERHEAD
instead of 0.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-w3lcbx0fx1fnh3l2cbq40q2e@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix build on sparc.

2012-10-17T14:45:58+00:00

More UAPI stuff.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121017.010656.383828471689899431.davem@davemloft.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf python: Link with libtraceevent

2012-10-17T14:45:46+00:00

The evsel methods to read tracepoint fields uses libtraceevent
functions, becoming needed by the python binding as well.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j3o4v7jyvp9ke9n230l96a1m@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf python: Initialize 'page_size' variable

2012-10-17T14:45:38+00:00

The commit 0c1fe6b:

 'perf tools: Have the page size value available for all tools'

Broke the python binding because the global variable 'page_size' is
initialized on the main() routine, that is not called when using
just the python binding, causing evlist.mmap() to fail because it
expects that variable to be initialized to the system's page size.

Fix it by initializing it on the binding init routine.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vrvp3azmbfzexnpmkhmvtzzc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools lib traceevent: Fix missed freeing of subargs in free_arg() in filter

2012-10-16T16:07:05+00:00

Some of args were missed in free_args(), as well as subargs.

That is args like FILTER_ARG_NUM have left and right pointers to other
args that also need to be freed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349137408.22822.135.camel@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

lib tools traceevent: Add back pevent assignment in __pevent_parse_format()

2012-10-16T16:06:36+00:00

Even though with the change of commit commit 2b29175 "tools lib
traceevent: Carve out events format parsing routine", allowed
__pevent_parse_format() to parse an event without the need of a pevent
handler, the event still needs to assign the pevent handed to it.

There's no problem with assigning it if the pevent is NULL, as the
event->pevent would be NULL without the assignment. But function parsing
handlers may be assigned to the pevent handler to help in parsing the
event. If there's no pevent then there would not be any function
handlers, but if the pevent isn't assigned first before parsing the
event, it wont honor the function handlers that were assigned.

Worse yet, the current code crashes if an event has a function that it
tries to parse. For example:

 # perf record -e scsi:scsi_dispatch_cmd_timeout
 Segmentation fault (core dumped)

This happens because the scsi_dispatch_cmd_timeout event format has the following:

  scsi_trace_parse_cdb(p, __get_dynamic_array(cmnd), REC->cmd_len)

which hasn't been defined by the pevent code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349136831.22822.133.camel@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf hists browser: Fix off-by-two bug on the first column

2012-10-16T16:06:05+00:00

The commit 5395a04841fc ("perf hists: Separate overhead and baseline
columns") makes the "Overhead" column no more the first one.  So it
resulted in the mis-aligned column in the normal (non-diff) output.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/None
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove warnings on JIT samples for srcline sort key

2012-10-16T16:05:38+00:00

When using the srcline sort key with perf report, I see many lines of
warning related to JIT samples like below:

  addr2line: '/tmp/perf-1397.map': No such file

Since it's not a ELF binary and doesn't provide such information, just
use the raw ip address.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Irina Tirdea 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350272383-7016-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo