Pull perf update from Ingo Molnar:
"Lots of changes in this cycle as well, with hundreds of commits from
over 30 contributors. Most of the activity was on the tooling side.
Higher level changes:
- New 'perf kvm' analysis tool, from Xiao Guangrong.
- New 'perf trace' system-wide tracing tool
- uprobes fixes + cleanups from Oleg Nesterov.
- Lots of patches to make perf build on Android out of box, from
Irina Tirdea
- Extend ftrace function tracing utility to be more dynamic for its
users. It allows for data passing to the callback functions, as
well as reading regs as if a breakpoint were to trigger at function
entry.
The main goal of this patch series was to allow kprobes to use
ftrace as an optimized probe point when a probe is placed on an
ftrace nop. With lots of help from Masami Hiramatsu, and going
through lots of iterations, we finally came up with a good
solution.
- Add cpumask for uncore pmu, use it in 'stat', from Yan, Zheng.
- Various tracing updates from Steve Rostedt
- Clean up and improve 'perf sched' performance by elliminating lots
of needless calls to libtraceevent.
- Event group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa
- UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim
- Add support for non-tracepoint events in perf script python, from
Feng Tang
- Add --symbols to 'script', similar to the one in 'report', from
Feng Tang.
Infrastructure enhancements and fixes:
- Convert the trace builtins to use the growing evsel/evlist
tracepoint infrastructure, removing several open coded constructs
like switch like series of strcmp to dispatch events, etc.
Basically what had already been showcased in 'perf sched'.
- Add evsel constructor for tracepoints, that uses libtraceevent just
to parse the /format events file, use it in a new 'perf test' to
make sure the libtraceevent format parsing regressions can be more
readily caught.
- Some strange errors were happening in some builds, but not on the
next, reported by several people, problem was some parser related
files, generated during the build, didn't had proper make deps, fix
from Eric Sandeen.
- Introduce struct and cache information about the environment where
a perf.data file was captured, from Namhyung Kim.
- Fix handling of unresolved samples when --symbols is used in
'report', from Feng Tang.
- Add union member access support to 'probe', from Hyeoncheol Lee.
- Fixups to die() removal, from Namhyung Kim.
- Render fixes for the TUI, from Namhyung Kim.
- Don't enable annotation in non symbolic view, from Namhyung Kim.
- Fix pipe mode in 'report', from Namhyung Kim.
- Move related stats code from stat to util/, will be used by the
'stat' kvm tool, from Xiao Guangrong.
- Remove die()/exit() calls from several tools.
- Resolve vdso callchains, from Jiri Olsa
- Don't pass const char pointers to basename, so that we can
unconditionally use libgen.h and thus avoid ifdef BIONIC lines,
from David Ahern
- Refactor hist formatting so that it can be reused with the GTK
browser, From Namhyung Kim
- Fix build for another rbtree.c change, from Adrian Hunter.
- Make 'perf diff' command work with evsel hists, from Jiri Olsa.
- Use the only field_sep var that is set up: symbol_conf.field_sep,
fix from Jiri Olsa.
- .gitignore compiled python binaries, from Namhyung Kim.
- Get rid of die() in more libtraceevent places, from Namhyung Kim.
- Rename libtraceevent 'private' struct member to 'priv' so that it
works in C++, from Steven Rostedt
- Remove lots of exit()/die() calls from tools so that the main perf
exit routine can take place, from David Ahern
- Fix x86 build on x86-64, from David Ahern.
- {int,str,rb}list fixes from Suzuki K Poulose
- perf.data header fixes from Namhyung Kim
- Allow user to indicate objdump path, needed in cross environments,
from Maciek Borzecki
- Fix hardware cache event name generation, fix from Jiri Olsa
- Add round trip test for sw, hw and cache event names, catching the
problem Jiri fixed, after Jiri's patch, the test passes
successfully.
- Clean target should do clean for lib/traceevent too, fix from David
Ahern
- Check the right variable for allocation failure, fix from Namhyung
Kim
- Set up evsel->tp_format regardless of evsel->name being set
already, fix from Namhyung Kim
- Oprofile fixes from Robert Richter.
- Remove perf_event_attr needless version inflation, from Jiri Olsa
- Introduce libtraceevent strerror like error reporting facility,
from Namhyung Kim
- Add pmu mappings to perf.data header and use event names from cmd
line, from Robert Richter
- Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben
Hutchings
- Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern
- Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter
- Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt
- perf script python fixes, from Feng Tang.
- Initial bash completion support, from Frederic Weisbecker
- Allow building without libelf, from Namhyung Kim.
- Support DWARF CFI based unwind to have callchains when %bp based
unwinding is not possible, from Jiri Olsa.
- Symbol resolution fixes, while fixing support PPC64 files with an
.opt ELF section was the end goal, several fixes for code that
handles all architectures and cleanups are included, from Cody
Schafer.
- Assorted fixes for Documentation and build in 32 bit, from Robert
Richter
- Cache the libtraceevent event_format associated to each evsel
early, so that we avoid relookups, i.e. calling pevent_find_event
repeatedly when processing tracepoint events.
[ This is to reduce the surface contact with libtraceevents and
make clear what is that the perf tools needs from that lib: so
far parsing the common and per event fields. ]
- Don't stop the build if the audit libraries are not installed, fix
from Namhyung Kim.
- Fix bfd.h/libbfd detection with recent binutils, from Markus
Trippelsdorf.
- Improve warning message when libunwind devel packages not present,
from Jiri Olsa"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (282 commits)
perf trace: Add aliases for some syscalls
perf probe: Print an enum type variable in "enum variable-name" format when showing accessible variables
perf tools: Check libaudit availability for perf-trace builtin
perf hists: Add missing period_* fields when collapsing a hist entry
perf trace: New tool
perf evsel: Export the event_format constructor
perf evsel: Introduce rawptr() method
perf tools: Use perf_evsel__newtp in the event parser
perf evsel: The tracepoint constructor should store sys:name
perf evlist: Introduce set_filter() method
perf evlist: Renane set_filters method to apply_filters
perf test: Add test to check we correctly parse and match syscall open parms
perf evsel: Handle endianity in intval method
perf evsel: Know if byte swap is needed
perf tools: Allow handling a NULL cpu_map as meaning "all cpus"
perf evsel: Improve tracepoint constructor setup
tools lib traceevent: Fix error path on pevent_parse_event
perf test: Fix build failure
trace: Move trace event enable from fs_initcall to core_initcall
tracing: Add an option for disabling markers
...
Steve Rostedt asked for the merge of a single commit, into both
the RCU and the perf/tracing tree:
| Josh made a change to the tracing code that affects both the
| work Paul McKenney and I are currently doing. At the last
| Kernel Summit back in August, Linus said when such a case
| exists, it is best to make a separate branch based off of his
| tree and place the change there. This way, the repositories
| that need to share the change can both pull them in and the
| SHA1 will match for both. Whichever branch is pulled in first
| by Linus will also pull in the necessary change for the other
| branch as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thanks to Andi Kleen, gcc 4.6.0 now supports -mfentry for x86
(and hopefully soon for other archs). What this does is to have
the function profiler start at the beginning of the function
instead of after the stack is set up. As plain -pg (mcount) is
called after the stack is set up, and in some cases can have issues
with the function graph tracer. It also requires frame pointers to
be enabled.
The -mfentry now calls __fentry__ at the beginning of the function.
This allows for compiling without frame pointers and even has the
ability to access parameters if needed.
If the architecture and the compiler both support -mfentry then
use that instead.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120807194059.392617243@goodmis.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull kbuild fix from Michal Marek:
"The main kbuild branch ended up with a single commit this time, a fix
to send errors to stderr"
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild: Print errors to stderr
... at least in the top-level Makefile and scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.
There are some more instances of the 'echo <error>; exit 1' pattern in
some arch Makefiles and kconfig.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
When the READABLE_ASM cc-option tests were added they were done so prior
to the arch Makefile include, resulting in cc-option being run on the
host cc instead of the factoring in the cross prefix set up by the
architecture.
This bumps the include back up so that cc-option actually runs on the
compiler that we're building with.
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek.
Fixed up nontrivial merge conflict in Makefile as per Stephen Rothwell
and linux-next (and trivial arch/sparc/Makefile changes due to removed
sparc32 logic).
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
mips: Fix KBUILD_CPPFLAGS definition
kbuild: fix ia64 link
kbuild: document KBUILD_LDS, KBUILD_VMLINUX_{INIT,MAIN} and LDFLAGS_vmlinux
kbuild: link of vmlinux moved to a script
kbuild: refactor final link of sparc32
kbuild: drop unused KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS from top-level Makefile
kbuild: Makefile: remove unnecessary check for m68knommu ARCH
Pull exception table generation updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change here is to allow the build-time sorting of the
exception table, to speed up booting. This is achieved by the
architecture enabling BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT. This option is enabled
for x86 and MIPS currently.
On x86 a number of fixes and changes were needed to allow build-time
sorting of the exception table, in particular a relocation invariant
exception table format was needed. This required the abstracting out
of exception table protocol and the removal of 20 years of accumulated
assumptions about the x86 exception table format.
While at it, this tree also cleans up various other aspects of
exception handling, such as early(er) exception handling for
rdmsr_safe() et al.
All in one, as the result of these changes the x86 exception code is
now pretty nice and modern. As an added bonus any regressions in this
code will be early and violent crashes, so if you see any of those,
you'll know whom to blame!"
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/{mips,x86}/Kconfig files due to nearby
modifications of other core architecture options.
* 'x86-extable-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (35 commits)
Revert "x86, extable: Disable presorted exception table for now"
scripts/sortextable: Handle relative entries, and other cleanups
x86, extable: Switch to relative exception table entries
x86, extable: Disable presorted exception table for now
x86, extable: Add _ASM_EXTABLE_EX() macro
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
x86, extable: Remove the now-unused __ASM_EX_SEC macros
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/um/checksum_32.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/putuser.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/getuser.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/csum-copy_64.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/copy_user_nocache_64.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/kernel/test_rodata.c
x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
...
Linus Torvalds
Ingo Molnar
Steven Rostedt
Michal Marek
Paul Mundt