arch/x86/tests/regs_load.S is missing the linker note about the stack
requirements, therefore making the linker fall back to an executable
stack. As this object gets linked against the final perf binary, it'll
needlessly end up with an executable stack. Fix this by adding the
appropriate linker note.
Also add a global linker flag to prevent future regressions, as
suggested by Jiri. This way perf won't get an executable stack even if
we fail to add the .GNU-stack linker note to future assembler files.
Though, doing so might create regressions the other way around, when
(statically) linking against libraries needing an executable stack.
But, apparently, regressing in that direction is wanted as it is an
indicator of poor code quality -- or just missing linker notes.
Fixes: 3c8b06f981 ("perf tests x86: Introduce perf_regs_load function")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398617466-22749-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Modules installed outside of the kernel's build system should go into
"%s/lib/modules/%s/extra", but at present, perf will only look at them
when they are in "%s/lib/modules/%s/kernel". Lets encourage good
citizenship by relaxing this requirement to "%s/lib/modules/%s". This
way open source modules that are out-of-tree have no incentive to start
populating a directory reserved for in-kernel modules and I can stop
hex-editing my system's perf binary when profiling OSS out-of-tree
modules.
Feedback from Namhyung Kim correctly revealed that the hex-edits that I
had been doing meant that perf was also traversing the build and source
symlinks in %s/lib/modules/%s. That is undesireable, so we explicitly
exclude them from traversal with a minor tweak to the traversal routine.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398532675-13684-1-git-send-email-ryao@gentoo.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
In the current version, when using perf record, if something goes
wrong in tools/perf/builtin-record.c:375
session = perf_session__new(file, false, NULL);
The error message:
"Not enough memory for reading per file header"
is issued. This error message seems to be outdated and is not very
helpful. This patch proposes to replace this error message by
"Perf session creation failed"
I believe this issue has been brought to lkml:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/24/458
although this patch only tackles a (small) part of the issue.
Additionnaly, this patch improves error reporting in
tools/perf/util/data.c open_file_write.
Currently, if the call to open fails, the user is unaware of it.
This patch logs the error, before returning the error code to
the caller.
Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrien BAK <adrien.bak@metascale.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397786443.3093.4.camel@beast
[ Reorganize the changelog into paragraphs ]
[ Added empty line after fd declaration in open_file_write ]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
pert-report doesn't resolve function names in VDSO:
$ perf report --stdio -g flat,0.0,15,callee --sort pid
...
8.76%
0x7fff6b1fe861
__gettimeofday
ACE_OS::gettimeofday()
...
In this case symbol values should be adjusted the same way as for executables,
relocatable objects and prelinked libraries.
After fix:
$ perf report --stdio -g flat,0.0,15,callee --sort pid
...
8.76%
__vdso_gettimeofday
__gettimeofday
ACE_OS::gettimeofday()
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Nikulichev <nvs@tbricks.com>
Tested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/969812.163009436-sendEmail@nvs
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Every event in the perf-kvm has a 'stats' structure, which contains
max/min/average/etc times of handling this event.
The problem is that the 'perf-kvm stat report' command always shows
that 'min time' is 0us for every event. Example:
# perf kvm stat report
Analyze events for all VCPUs:
VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Min Time Max Time Avg time
[..]
0xB2 MSCH 12 0.07% 0.00% 0us 8us 7.31us ( +- 2.11% )
0xB2 CHSC 12 0.07% 0.00% 0us 18us 9.39us ( +- 9.49% )
0xB2 STPX 8 0.05% 0.00% 0us 2us 1.88us ( +- 7.18% )
0xB2 STSI 7 0.04% 0.00% 0us 44us 16.49us ( +- 38.20% )
[..]
This happens because the 'stats' structure is not initialized and
stats->min equals to 0. Lets initialize the structure for every
event after its allocation using init_stats() function. This initializes
stats->min to -1 and makes 'Min time' statistics counting work:
# perf kvm stat report
Analyze events for all VCPUs:
VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Min Time Max Time Avg time
[..]
0xB2 MSCH 12 0.07% 0.00% 6us 8us 7.31us ( +- 2.11% )
0xB2 CHSC 12 0.07% 0.00% 7us 18us 9.39us ( +- 9.49% )
0xB2 STPX 8 0.05% 0.00% 1us 2us 1.88us ( +- 7.18% )
0xB2 STSI 7 0.04% 0.00% 1us 44us 16.49us ( +- 38.20% )
[..]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397053319-2130-3-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
[ Fixing the perf examples changelog output ]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
perf stat did initialize the stats structure used to compute
stddev etc. incorrectly. It merely zeroes it. But one member
(min) needs to be set to a non zero value. This causes min
to be not computed at all. Call init_stats() correctly.
It doesn't matter for stat currently because it doesn't use
min, but it's still better to do it correctly.
The other users of statistics are already correct.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395768699-16060-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
As Namhyung reported(https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/1/89),
current perf-probe -L option doesn't handle errors in line-range
searching correctly. It causes a SEGV if an error occured in the
line-range searching.
----
$ perf probe -x ./perf -v -L map__load
Open Debuginfo file: /home/namhyung/project/linux/tools/perf/perf
fname: util/map.c, lineno:153
New line range: 153 to 2147483647
path: (null)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
----
This is because line_range_inline_cb() ignores errors
from find_line_range_by_line() which means that lr->path is
already freed on the error path in find_line_range_by_line().
As a result, get_real_path() accesses the lr->path and it
causes a NULL pointer exception.
This fixes line_range_inline_cb() to handle the error correctly,
and report it to the caller.
Anyway, this just fixes a possible SEGV bug, Namhyung's patch
is also required.
Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140402054831.19080.27006.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
I.e. do the same as when NO_LIBELF is explicitely passed in the 'make'
command line, fixing this:
Auto-detecting system features:
... dwarf: [ OFF ]
... glibc: [ on ]
... gtk2: [ OFF ]
... libaudit: [ OFF ]
... libbfd: [ OFF ]
... libelf: [ OFF ]
... libunwind: [ OFF ]
... libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ OFF ]
... DWARF post unwind library: libdw
<SNIP>
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/symbol-minimal.o
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/unwind-libdw.o
arch/x86/util/unwind-libdw.c:1:30: fatal error: elfutils/libdwfl.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
CC /tmp/build/perf/tests/keep-tracking.o
util/unwind-libdw.c:2:28: fatal error: elfutils/libdw.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e39j1yxanltjx4t0msse63ax@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Pull arch/tile updates from Chris Metcalf:
"These fix a few stray build issues seen in linux-next, and also add
the minimal required support for perf to tilegx"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
arch/tile: remove unused variable 'devcap'
tile: Fix vDSO compilation issue with allyesconfig
perf tools: Allow building for tile
tile/perf: Support perf_events on tilegx and tilepro
tile: Enable NMIs on return from handle_nmi() without errors
tile: Add support for handling PMC hardware
tile: don't use __get_cpu_var() with structure-typed arguments
tile: avoid overflow in ns2cycles
Jiri Olsa
Mathias Krause
Richard Yao
Jiri Olsa
Masanari Iida
Adrien BAK
Vladimir Nikulichev
Alexander Yarygin
Cody P Schafer
Adrian Hunter
Ingo Molnar
Andi Kleen
Ramkumar Ramachandra
Namhyung Kim
Masami Hiramatsu
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Linus Torvalds