Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
. Allow skipping problematic entries in 'perf test'.
. Fix some namespace problems in the event parsing routines.
. Add 'perf test' entry to make sure the python binding doesn't have
linking problems.
. Adjust 'perf test' attr tests verbosity levels.
. Make tools/perf build with GNU make v3.80, fix from Al Cooper.
. Do missing feature fallbacks in just one place, removing duplicated
code in multiple tools.
. Fix some memory leaks, from David Ahern.
. Fix segfault when drawing out-of-bounds jumps, from Frederik Deweerdt.
. Allow of casting an array of char to string in 'perf probe', from
Hyeoncheol Lee.
. Add support for wildcard in tracepoint system name, from Jiri Olsa.
. Update FSF postal address to be URL's, from Jon Stanley.
. Add anonymous huge page recognition, from Joshua Zhu.
. Remove some needless feature test checks, from Namhyung Kim.
. Multiple improvements to the sort routines, from Namhyung Kim.
. Fix warning on '>=' operator in libtraceevent, from Namhyung Kim.
. Use ARRAY_SIZE instead of reinventing it in 'perf script' and 'perf kmem',
from Sasha Levin.
. Remove some redundant checks, from Sasha Levin.
. Test correct variable after allocation in libtraceevent, fix from Sasha Levin.
. Mark branch_info maps as referenced, fix from Stephane Eranian.
. Fix PMU format parsing test failure, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
. Fix possible (unlikely) buffer overflow, from Thomas Jarosch.
. Multiple 'perf script' fixes, from Tom Zanussi.
. Add missing field in PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE documentation, from Vince Weaver.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sometimes a test is problematic for some reason and one wants to skip it,
for instance:
[root@sandy ~]# perf test
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms : Ok
2: detect open syscall event : Ok
3: detect open syscall event on all cpus : Ok
4: read samples using the mmap interface : Ok
5: parse events tests : Warning: bad op token {
Warning: bad op token {
Warning: bad op token {
Warning: bad op token {
Warning: bad op token {
Warning: function is_writable_pte not defined
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
So now we can use -s/--skip while the problematic tests are being fixed,
allowing us to test all the other entries:
[root@sandy ~]# perf test -s 5
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms : Ok
2: detect open syscall event : Ok
3: detect open syscall event on all cpus : Ok
4: read samples using the mmap interface : Ok
5: parse events tests : Skip (user override)
6: x86 rdpmc test : Ok
7: Validate PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : Ok
8: Test perf pmu format parsing : Ok
9: Test dso data interface : Ok
10: roundtrip evsel->name check : Ok
11: Check parsing of sched tracepoints fields : Ok
12: Generate and check syscalls:sys_enter_open event fields: Ok
13: struct perf_event_attr setup : Ok
14: Test matching and linking mutliple hists : Ok
15: Try 'use perf' in python, checking link problems : Ok
[root@sandy ~]#
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
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-klzd8p57jzdryafqkmlppcb1@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Running the check-perf-trace scripts causes segfaults in both the Perl
and Python cases:
# perf script record check-perf-trace
# perf script -s libexec/perf-core/scripts/python/check-perf-trace.py
trace_begin
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
The reason is that the 'pevent' field was added to
perf_scripting_context but it wasn't hooked up with an actual pevent in
either case, so when one of the 'common' fields is accessed (in
util/trace-event-parse.c:get_common_fields()), pevent->events tries to
dereference a NULL pointer.
This sets the pevent field when the scripting context is set up.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d2b1b8166a6ca0a36e1f5255b88a8289058ba236.1358527965.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
For some reason the libtraceevent tracepoint-parsing code is missing
the FIELD_IS_SIGNED flag-setting code, which causes problems for the
Perl trace event binding at least, since it ends up unable to
recognize negative numbers.
Things like checking for negative return values therefore fail, causing
scripts like rwtop to instead interpret the negative return value as a
large positive value, which in turn get added to e.g. read totals with
insanely invalid results.
So set the FIELD_IS_SIGNED flag for tracepoint events that specify
"signed:1".
Before:
# perf script record rw-by-pid
# perf script report rw-by-pid
read counts by pid:
pid comm # reads bytes_requested bytes_read
------ -------------------- ----------- ---------- ----------
753 Xorg 88 512000 7.74763251095801e+20
1619 firefox 42 462 2.58254417031934e+20
1232 gnome-shell 11 176 1.10680464442257e+20
1471 gnome-terminal 3 16366 18446744073709551615
1408 libsocialweb-co 2 32 18446744073709551613
After:
# perf script report rw-by-pid
read counts by pid:
pid comm # reads bytes_requested bytes_read
------ -------------------- ----------- ---------- ----------
753 Xorg 88 512000 2764
1619 firefox 42 462 126
1232 gnome-shell 11 176 40
1471 gnome-terminal 3 16366 10
1408 libsocialweb-co 2 32 8
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471b5968821a455cf5168bb4567964e74ecf530.1358527965.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When make runs it tries to update the Makefile rules by reading all of
included Makefiles. During the perf build it checks PERF-VERSION-FILE
to get the current version number. But it triggers Makefile update so
that make runs again with the update Makefile and, in turn, users will
see duplicate CHK message on the second path.
Running make with -d option for debugging tells me this:
GNU Make 3.82
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Reading makefile `Makefile'...
Reading makefile `../scripts/Makefile.include' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/utilities.mak' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `PERF-VERSION-FILE' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/feature-tests.mak' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
CHK -fstack-protector-all
CHK -Wstack-protector
CHK -Wvolatile-register-var
...
Updating makefiles....
Considering target file `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
Must remake target `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
Invoking recipe from Makefile:52 to update target `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
Putting child 0x14037a0 (PERF-VERSION-FILE) PID 31925 on the chain.
Live child 0x14037a0 (PERF-VERSION-FILE) PID 31925
PERF_VERSION = 3.8.rc3.gf751db6
Reaping winning child 0x14037a0 PID 31925
Removing child 0x14037a0 PID 31925 from chain.
Successfully remade target file `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
...
Re-executing[1]: make -d <------------ here
GNU Make 3.82
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Reading makefile `Makefile'...
Reading makefile `../scripts/Makefile.include' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/utilities.mak' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `PERF-VERSION-FILE' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/feature-tests.mak' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
CHK -fstack-protector-all
CHK -Wstack-protector
CHK -Wvolatile-register-var
...
Actually PERF-VERSION-FILE is used only for perf.c to #define
PERF_VERSION macro. So make it like a C header file and include it
during compiling the perf.c file will remove the need of being
included into Makefile. Hench no need to update the Makefile and no
CHK lines anymore.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358337594-10916-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
These lines are came from GIT Makefile and never used for perf.
I found it from make -d output during working on previous patch.
Updating makefiles....
Considering target file `arch/x86/Makefile'.
No need to remake target `arch/x86/Makefile'.
Considering target file `config.mak'.
File `config.mak' does not exist.
Must remake target `config.mak'.
Failed to remake target file `config.mak'.
Considering target file `config.mak.autogen'.
File `config.mak.autogen' does not exist.
Must remake target `config.mak.autogen'.
Failed to remake target file `config.mak.autogen'.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358337594-10916-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Jiri Olsa
Ingo Molnar
Tom Zanussi
Namhyung Kim
Sukadev Bhattiprolu