There's a bug in LLVM that it can generate unneeded relocation
information. See [1] and [2]. Libbpf should check the target section of
a relocation symbol.
This patch adds a testcase which references a global variable (BPF
doesn't support global variables). Before fixing libbpf, the new test
case can be loaded into kernel, the global variable acts like the first
map. It is incorrect.
Result:
# ~/perf test BPF
37: Test BPF filter :
37.1: Test basic BPF filtering : Ok
37.2: Test BPF prologue generation : Ok
37.3: Test BPF relocation checker : FAILED!
# ~/perf test -v BPF
...
libbpf: loading object '[bpf_relocation_test]' from buffer
libbpf: section .strtab, size 126, link 0, flags 0, type=3
libbpf: section .text, size 0, link 0, flags 6, type=1
libbpf: section .data, size 0, link 0, flags 3, type=1
libbpf: section .bss, size 0, link 0, flags 3, type=8
libbpf: section func=sys_write, size 104, link 0, flags 6, type=1
libbpf: found program func=sys_write
libbpf: section .relfunc=sys_write, size 16, link 10, flags 0, type=9
libbpf: section maps, size 16, link 0, flags 3, type=1
libbpf: maps in [bpf_relocation_test]: 16 bytes
libbpf: section license, size 4, link 0, flags 3, type=1
libbpf: license of [bpf_relocation_test] is GPL
libbpf: section version, size 4, link 0, flags 3, type=1
libbpf: kernel version of [bpf_relocation_test] is 40400
libbpf: section .symtab, size 144, link 1, flags 0, type=2
libbpf: map 0 is "my_table"
libbpf: collecting relocating info for: 'func=sys_write'
libbpf: relocation: insn_idx=7
Success unexpectedly: libbpf error when dealing with relocation
test child finished with -1
---- end ----
Test BPF filter subtest 2: FAILED!
[1] https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=26243
[2] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/571385/
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453715801-7732-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Introducing FEATURES_DUMP make variable to provide features
detection dump file and bypass the feature detection.
The intention is to use this during build tests to skip
repeated features detection, like:
Get feature dump static build into /tmp/fd file:
$ make feature-dump FEATURE_DUMP_COPY=/tmp/fd LDFLAGS=-static
BUILD: Doing 'make -j4' parallel build
Auto-detecting system features:
... dwarf: [ OFF ]
SNIP
FEATURE-DUMP file copied into /tmp/fd
Use /tmp/fd to build perf:
$ make FEATURES_DUMP=/tmp/fd LDFLAGS=-static
$ file perf
perf: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, for ...
Suggested-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452830421-77757-7-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To provide FEATURE-DUMP into $(FEATURE_DUMP_COPY) if defined, with no
further action.
Get feature dump of the current build:
$ make feature-dump
BUILD: Doing 'make -j4' parallel build
Auto-detecting system features:
... dwarf: [ on ]
FEATURE-DUMP file available in FEATURE-DUMP
Get feature dump static build into /tmp/fd file:
$ make feature-dump FEATURE_DUMP_COPY=/tmp/fd LDFLAGS=-static
BUILD: Doing 'make -j4' parallel build
Auto-detecting system features:
... dwarf: [ OFF ]
SNIP
FEATURE-DUMP file copied into /tmp/fd
Suggested-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452830421-77757-6-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently perf report only shows a help message "For a higher level
overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso" unconditionally (even if
the sort keys were used). Add more help tips and show randomly.
Load tips from ${prefix}/share/doc/perf-tip/tips.txt file.
$ perf report | tail
0.10% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] irq_exit
0.09% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] flush_smp_call_function_queue
0.08% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe
0.03% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] group_sched_in
0.01% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe
#
# (Tip: Search options using a keyword: perf report -h <keyword>)
#
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452166913-27046-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Renamed it to perf_tip() and the parameter dirname to dirpath to fix the build on older distros ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Ingo reported following build failure:
$ make clean install
...
CC plugin_kmem.o
fixdep: error opening depfile: ./.plugin_hrtimer.o.d: No such file or directory
/home/mingo/tip/tools/build/Makefile.build:77: recipe for target
'plugin_hrtimer.o' failed
make[3]: *** [plugin_hrtimer.o] Error 2
Makefile:189: recipe for target 'plugin_hrtimer-in.o' failed
make[2]: *** [plugin_hrtimer-in.o] Error 2
Makefile.perf:414: recipe for target 'libtraceevent_plugins' failed
make[1]: *** [libtraceevent_plugins] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Currently we have the install-traceevent-plugins target being dependent
on $(LIBTRACEEVENT), which will actualy not build any plugin. So the
install-traceevent-plugins target itself will try to build plugins,
but..
Plugins built is also triggered by perf build itself via
libtraceevent_plugins target.
This might cause a race having one make thread removing temp files from
another and result in above error. Fixing this by having proper plugins
build dependency before installing plugins.
Reported-and-Tested-by:: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448546044-28973-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
While doing 'make -C tools/perf build-test':
LD fixdep-in.o
LINK fixdep
/bin/sh: /home/acme/git/linux/tools/build/fixdep: Permission denied
make[6]: *** [bpf.o] Error 1
make[5]: *** [libbpf-in.o] Error 2
make[4]: *** [/home/acme/git/linux/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.a] Error 2
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
The fixdep tool needs to be built as the first binary. Libraries are
built in paralel, so each of them needs to depend on fixdep target.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151028204450.GA25553@krava.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
By adding libbpf into perf's Makefile, this patch enables perf to build
libbpf if libelf is found and neither NO_LIBELF nor NO_LIBBPF is set.
The newly introduced code is similar to how libapi and libtraceevent
are wired into Makefile.perf.
MANIFEST is also updated for 'make perf-*-src-pkg'.
Append make_no_libbpf to tools/perf/tests/make.
The 'bpf' feature check is appended into default FEATURE_TESTS and
FEATURE_DISPLAY, so perf will check the API version of bpf in
/path/to/kernel/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h. Which should not fail except
when we are trying to port this code to an old kernel.
Error messages are also updated to notify users about the lack of BPF
support in 'perf record' if libelf is missing or the BPF API check
failed.
tools/lib/bpf is added to TAG_FOLDERS to allow us to navigate libbpf
files when working on perf using tools/perf/tags.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444826502-49291-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
[ Document NO_LIBBPF in Makefile.perf, noted by Jiri Olsa ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add support for decoding instructions for Intel Processor Trace. The
kernel x86 instruction decoder is copied for this.
This essentially provides intel_pt_get_insn() which takes a binary
buffer, uses the kernel's x86 instruction decoder to get details of the
instruction and then categorizes it for consumption by an Intel PT
decoder.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439450095-30122-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
New features:
- Allow filtering out of perf's PID via 'perf record --exclude-perf'. (Wang Nan)
- 'perf trace' now supports syscall groups, like strace, i.e:
$ trace -e file touch file
Will expand 'file' into multiple, file related, syscalls. More work needed to
add extra groups for other syscall groups, and also to complement what was
added for the 'file' group, included as a proof of concept. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Add lock_pi stresser to 'perf bench futex', to test the kernel code
related to FUTEX_(UN)LOCK_PI. (Davidlohr Bueso)
User visible fixes:
- Apply --filter to all events in a glob matching, not just the last one. (Wang Nan)
Documentation changes:
- Document setting '-e pmu/period=N/' in the 'perf record' man page. (Kan Liang)
Infrastructure changes:
- 'perf probe' code simplifications and movements to separate files. (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Fix makefile generation under 'dash'. (Sergei Trofimovich)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit 5ef7bbb09f ("perf tools: Allow to specify custom linker
command") was meant to enable usage non $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld linker during
perf building.
But implementation didn't take into account the fact that LD is a
pre-defined variable in GNU Make. I.e. it is always defined.
Which means there's no point to check "LD ?= ..." because it will never
succeed.
And so LD will be either that explicitly passed to make like this:
------->8-------
make LD=path_to_my_ld ...
------->8-------
or default value, which is host's "ld".
Latter leads to failure of cross-linkage because instead of cross linker
"$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld" host's "ld" is used.
Fortunately there's a way to do correct substitution of $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld
with user defined LD on command-line.
As a reference was used implementation in "tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile".
Build tested for x86_64 and ARC.
Thanks Jiri for this hint.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Fixes: 5ef7bbb09f ("perf tools: Allow to specify custom linker command")
Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436864720-26316-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
'make build-test' finds an error that make_python_perf_so fails due to
missing of libtraceevent-dynamic-list:
'.../python2' util/setup.py \
--quiet build_ext; \
mkdir -p python && \
cp python_ext_build/lib/perf.so python/
/path/to/ld: cannot open linker script file /path/to/kernel/tools/lib/traceevent/libtraceevent-dynamic-list: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gcc' failed with exit status 1
cp: cannot stat 'python_ext_build/lib/perf.so': No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [python/perf.so] Error 1
make[2]: *** [python/perf.so] Error 2
test: test -f ./python/perf.so
make[1]: *** [make_python_perf_so] Error 1
make: *** [build-test] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/path/to/kernel/tools/perf'
This is caused by commit e3d09ec812
("tools lib traceevent: Export dynamic symbols used by traceevent
plugins") that, it adds the list file to LDFLAGS but forgot to add it to
dependency list of python/perf.so.
This patch fixes this problem.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434079031-123162-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wang Nan
Jiri Olsa
Namhyung Kim
Josh Poimboeuf
Jiri Olsa
Adrian Hunter
Ingo Molnar
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Alexey Brodkin
Aaro Koskinen