Alexander noticed that we use RCU iteration on rb->event_list but do
not use list_{add,del}_rcu() to add,remove entries to that list, nor
do we observe proper grace periods when re-using the entries.
Merge ring_buffer_detach() into ring_buffer_attach() such that
attaching to the NULL buffer is detaching.
Furthermore, ensure that between any 'detach' and 'attach' of the same
event we observe the required grace period, but only when strictly
required. In effect this means that only ioctl(.request =
PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT) will wait for a grace period, while the
normal initial attach and final detach will not be delayed.
This patch should, I think, do the right thing under all
circumstances, the 'normal' cases all should never see the extra grace
period, but the two cases:
1) PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT on an event which already has a
ring_buffer set, will now observe the required grace period between
removing itself from the old and attaching itself to the new buffer.
This case is 'simple' in that both buffers are present in
perf_event_set_output() one could think an unconditional
synchronize_rcu() would be sufficient; however...
2) an event that has a buffer attached, the buffer is destroyed
(munmap) and then the event is attached to a new/different buffer
using PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT.
This case is more complex because the buffer destruction does:
ring_buffer_attach(.rb = NULL)
followed by the ioctl() doing:
ring_buffer_attach(.rb = foo);
and we still need to observe the grace period between these two
calls due to us reusing the event->rb_entry list_head.
In order to make 2 happen we use Paul's latest cond_synchronize_rcu()
call.
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140507123526.GD13658@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The perf cpu offline callback takes down all cpu context
events and releases swhash->swevent_hlist.
This could race with task context software event being just
scheduled on this cpu via perf_swevent_add while cpu hotplug
code already cleaned up event's data.
The race happens in the gap between the cpu notifier code
and the cpu being actually taken down. Note that only cpu
ctx events are terminated in the perf cpu hotplug code.
It's easily reproduced with:
$ perf record -e faults perf bench sched pipe
while putting one of the cpus offline:
# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
Console emits following warning:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2845 at kernel/events/core.c:5672 perf_swevent_add+0x18d/0x1a0()
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 2845 Comm: sched-pipe Tainted: G W 3.14.0+ #256
Hardware name: Intel Corporation Montevina platform/To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS AMVACRB1.86C.0066.B00.0805070703 05/07/2008
0000000000000009 ffff880077233ab8 ffffffff81665a23 0000000000200005
0000000000000000 ffff880077233af8 ffffffff8104732c 0000000000000046
ffff88007467c800 0000000000000002 ffff88007a9cf2a0 0000000000000001
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81665a23>] dump_stack+0x4f/0x7c
[<ffffffff8104732c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
[<ffffffff8104737a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff8110fb3d>] perf_swevent_add+0x18d/0x1a0
[<ffffffff811162ae>] event_sched_in.isra.75+0x9e/0x1f0
[<ffffffff8111646a>] group_sched_in+0x6a/0x1f0
[<ffffffff81083dd5>] ? sched_clock_local+0x25/0xa0
[<ffffffff811167e6>] ctx_sched_in+0x1f6/0x450
[<ffffffff8111757b>] perf_event_sched_in+0x6b/0xa0
[<ffffffff81117a4b>] perf_event_context_sched_in+0x7b/0xc0
[<ffffffff81117ece>] __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x43e/0x460
[<ffffffff81096f1e>] ? put_lock_stats.isra.18+0xe/0x30
[<ffffffff8107b3c8>] finish_task_switch+0xb8/0x100
[<ffffffff8166a7de>] __schedule+0x30e/0xad0
[<ffffffff81172dd2>] ? pipe_read+0x3e2/0x560
[<ffffffff8166b45e>] ? preempt_schedule_irq+0x3e/0x70
[<ffffffff8166b45e>] ? preempt_schedule_irq+0x3e/0x70
[<ffffffff8166b464>] preempt_schedule_irq+0x44/0x70
[<ffffffff816707f0>] retint_kernel+0x20/0x30
[<ffffffff8109e60a>] ? lockdep_sys_exit+0x1a/0x90
[<ffffffff812a4234>] lockdep_sys_exit_thunk+0x35/0x67
[<ffffffff81679321>] ? sysret_check+0x5/0x56
Fixing this by tracking the cpu hotplug state and displaying
the WARN only if current cpu is initialized properly.
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1396861448-10097-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When removing a (sibling) event we do:
raw_spin_lock_irq(&ctx->lock);
perf_group_detach(event);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
<hole>
perf_remove_from_context(event);
raw_spin_lock_irq(&ctx->lock);
...
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
Now, assuming the event is a sibling, it will be 'unreachable' for
things like ctx_sched_out() because that iterates the
groups->siblings, and we just unhooked the sibling.
So, if during <hole> we get ctx_sched_out(), it will miss the event
and not call event_sched_out() on it, leaving it programmed on the
PMU.
The subsequent perf_remove_from_context() call will find the ctx is
inactive and only call list_del_event() to remove the event from all
other lists.
Hereafter we can proceed to free the event; while still programmed!
Close this hole by moving perf_group_detach() inside the same
ctx->lock region(s) perf_remove_from_context() has.
The condition on inherited events only in __perf_event_exit_task() is
likely complete crap because non-inherited events are part of groups
too and we're tearing down just the same. But leave that for another
patch.
Most-likely-Fixes: e03a9a55b4 ("perf: Change close() semantics for group events")
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Much-staring-at-traces-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Much-staring-at-traces-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140505093124.GN17778@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"A lot updates for cgroup:
- The biggest one is cgroup's conversion to kernfs. cgroup took
after the long abandoned vfs-entangled sysfs implementation and
made it even more convoluted over time. cgroup's internal objects
were fused with vfs objects which also brought in vfs locking and
object lifetime rules. Naturally, there are places where vfs rules
don't fit and nasty hacks, such as credential switching or lock
dance interleaving inode mutex and cgroup_mutex with object serial
number comparison thrown in to decide whether the operation is
actually necessary, needed to be employed.
After conversion to kernfs, internal object lifetime and locking
rules are mostly isolated from vfs interactions allowing shedding
of several nasty hacks and overall simplification. This will also
allow implmentation of operations which may affect multiple cgroups
which weren't possible before as it would have required nesting
i_mutexes.
- Various simplifications including dropping of module support,
easier cgroup name/path handling, simplified cgroup file type
handling and task_cg_lists optimization.
- Prepatory changes for the planned unified hierarchy, which is still
a patchset away from being actually operational. The dummy
hierarchy is updated to serve as the default unified hierarchy.
Controllers which aren't claimed by other hierarchies are
associated with it, which BTW was what the dummy hierarchy was for
anyway.
- Various fixes from Li and others. This pull request includes some
patches to add missing slab.h to various subsystems. This was
triggered xattr.h include removal from cgroup.h. cgroup.h
indirectly got included a lot of files which brought in xattr.h
which brought in slab.h.
There are several merge commits - one to pull in kernfs updates
necessary for converting cgroup (already in upstream through
driver-core), others for interfering changes in the fixes branch"
* 'for-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (74 commits)
cgroup: remove useless argument from cgroup_exit()
cgroup: fix spurious lockdep warning in cgroup_exit()
cgroup: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in cgroup.c
cgroup: break kernfs active_ref protection in cgroup directory operations
cgroup: fix cgroup_taskset walking order
cgroup: implement CFTYPE_ONLY_ON_DFL
cgroup: make cgrp_dfl_root mountable
cgroup: drop const from @buffer of cftype->write_string()
cgroup: rename cgroup_dummy_root and related names
cgroup: move ->subsys_mask from cgroupfs_root to cgroup
cgroup: treat cgroup_dummy_root as an equivalent hierarchy during rebinding
cgroup: remove NULL checks from [pr_cont_]cgroup_{name|path}()
cgroup: use cgroup_setup_root() to initialize cgroup_dummy_root
cgroup: reorganize cgroup bootstrapping
cgroup: relocate setting of CGRP_DEAD
cpuset: use rcu_read_lock() to protect task_cs()
cgroup_freezer: document freezer_fork() subtleties
cgroup: update cgroup_transfer_tasks() to either succeed or fail
cgroup: drop task_lock() protection around task->cgroups
cgroup: update how a newly forked task gets associated with css_set
...
Use the ctx pmu instead of the event pmu.
When a group leader is a software event but the group contains
hardware events, the entire group is on the hardware PMU.
Using the hardware PMU for the transaction makes most sense since
that's the most expensive one to programm (and software PMUs generally
don't have TXN support anyway).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-sctoo9t2f3nn2c9g568928q3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Currently perf_branch_stack_sched_in iterates over the set of pmus,
checks that each pmu has a flush_branch_stack callback, then overwrites
the pmu before calling the callback. This is either redundant or broken.
In systems with a single hw pmu, pmu == cpuctx->ctx.pmu, and thus the
assignment is redundant.
In systems with multiple hw pmus (i.e. multiple pmus with task_ctx_nr ==
perf_hw_context) the pmus share the same perf_cpu_context. Thus the
assignment can cause one of the pmus to flush its branch stack
repeatedly rather than causing each of the pmus to flush their branch
stacks. Worse still, if only some pmus have the callback the assignment
can result in a branch to NULL.
This patch removes the redundant assignment.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392054264-23570-3-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Drew Richardson reported that he could make the kernel go *boom* when hotplugging
while having perf events active.
It turned out that when you have a group event, the code in
__perf_event_exit_context() fails to remove the group siblings from
the context.
We then proceed with destroying and freeing the event, and when you
re-plug the CPU and try and add another event to that CPU, things go
*boom* because you've still got dead entries there.
Reported-by: Drew Richardson <drew.richardson@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-k6v5wundvusvcseqj1si0oz0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:45:16AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> The reason I coded this up was that NMIs were firing off so fast that
> nothing else was getting a chance to run. With this patch, at least the
> printk() would come out and I'd have some idea what was going on.
It will start spewing to early_printk() (which is a lot nicer to use
from NMI context too) when it fails to queue the IRQ-work because its
already enqueued.
It does have the false-positive for when two CPUs trigger the warn
concurrently, but that should be rare and some extra clutter on the
early printk shouldn't be a problem.
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org
Fixes: 6a02ad66b2 ("perf/x86: Push the duration-logging printk() to IRQ context")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140211150116.GO27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
If !NULL, @skip_css makes cgroup_taskset_for_each() skip the matching
css. The intention of the interface is to make it easy to skip css's
(cgroup_subsys_states) which already match the migration target;
however, this is entirely unnecessary as migration taskset doesn't
include tasks which are already in the target cgroup. Drop @skip_css
from cgroup_taskset_for_each().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
css_from_dir() returns the matching css (cgroup_subsys_state) given a
dentry and subsystem. The function doesn't pin the css before
returning and requires the caller to be holding RCU read lock or
cgroup_mutex and handling pinning on the caller side.
Given that users of the function are likely to want to pin the
returned css (both existing users do) and that getting and putting
css's are very cheap, there's no reason for the interface to be tricky
like this.
Rename css_from_dir() to css_tryget_from_dir() and make it try to pin
the found css and return it only if pinning succeeded. The callers
are updated so that they no longer do RCU locking and pinning around
the function and just use the returned css.
This will also ease converting cgroup to kernfs.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
cgroup_subsys is a bit messier than it needs to be.
* The name of a subsys can be different from its internal identifier
defined in cgroup_subsys.h. Most subsystems use the matching name
but three - cpu, memory and perf_event - use different ones.
* cgroup_subsys_id enums are postfixed with _subsys_id and each
cgroup_subsys is postfixed with _subsys. cgroup.h is widely
included throughout various subsystems, it doesn't and shouldn't
have claim on such generic names which don't have any qualifier
indicating that they belong to cgroup.
* cgroup_subsys->subsys_id should always equal the matching
cgroup_subsys_id enum; however, we require each controller to
initialize it and then BUG if they don't match, which is a bit
silly.
This patch cleans up cgroup_subsys names and initialization by doing
the followings.
* cgroup_subsys_id enums are now postfixed with _cgrp_id, and each
cgroup_subsys with _cgrp_subsys.
* With the above, renaming subsys identifiers to match the userland
visible names doesn't cause any naming conflicts. All non-matching
identifiers are renamed to match the official names.
cpu_cgroup -> cpu
mem_cgroup -> memory
perf -> perf_event
* controllers no longer need to initialize ->subsys_id and ->name.
They're generated in cgroup core and set automatically during boot.
* Redundant cgroup_subsys declarations removed.
* While updating BUG_ON()s in cgroup_init_early(), convert them to
WARN()s. BUGging that early during boot is stupid - the kernel
can't print anything, even through serial console and the trap
handler doesn't even link stack frame properly for back-tracing.
This patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes.
v2: Rebased on top of fe1217c4f3 ("net: net_cls: move cgroupfs
classid handling into core").
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
This patch fixes a problem with the initialization of the
struct perf_event active_entry field. It is defined inside
an anonymous union and was initialized in perf_event_alloc()
using INIT_LIST_HEAD(). However at that time, we do not know
whether the event is going to use active_entry or hlist_entry (SW).
Or at last, we don't want to make that determination there.
The problem is that hlist and list_head are not initialized
the same way. One is okay with NULL (from kzmalloc), the other
needs to pointers to point to self.
This patch resolves this problem by dropping the union.
This will avoid problems later on, if someone starts using
active_entry or hlist_entry without verifying that they
actually overlap. This also solves the initialization
problem.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: vincent.weaver@maine.edu
Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389176153-3128-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Vince Weaver reports that, on all architectures apart from ARM,
PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD doesn't actually update the period until the next
event fires. This is counter-intuitive behaviour and is better dealt
with in the core code.
This patch ensures that the period is forcefully reset when dealing with
such a request in the core code. A subsequent patch removes the
equivalent hack from the ARM back-end.
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1385560479-11014-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add two trivial helpers list_next_entry() and list_prev_entry(), they
can have a lot of users including list.h itself. In fact the 1st one is
already defined in events/core.c and bnx2x_sp.c, so the patch simply
moves the definition to list.h.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"As a first remark I'd like to note that the way to build perf tooling
has been simplified and sped up, in the future it should be enough for
you to build perf via:
cd tools/perf/
make install
(ie without the -j option.) The build system will figure out the
number of CPUs and will do a parallel build+install.
The various build system inefficiencies and breakages Linus reported
against the v3.12 pull request should now be resolved - please
(re-)report any remaining annoyances or bugs.
Main changes on the perf kernel side:
* Performance optimizations:
. perf ring-buffer code optimizations, by Peter Zijlstra
. perf ring-buffer code optimizations, by Oleg Nesterov
. x86 NMI call-stack processing optimizations, by Peter Zijlstra
. perf context-switch optimizations, by Peter Zijlstra
. perf sampling speedups, by Peter Zijlstra
. x86 Intel PEBS processing speedups, by Peter Zijlstra
* Enhanced hardware support:
. for Intel Ivy Bridge-EP uncore PMUs, by Zheng Yan
. for Haswell transactions, by Andi Kleen, Peter Zijlstra
* Core perf events code enhancements and fixes by Oleg Nesterov:
. for uprobes, if fork() is called with pending ret-probes
. for uprobes platform support code
* New ABI details by Andi Kleen:
. Report x86 Haswell TSX transaction abort cost as weight
Main changes on the perf tooling side (some of these tooling changes
utilize the above kernel side changes):
* 'perf report/top' enhancements:
. Convert callchain children list to rbtree, greatly reducing the
time taken for callchain processing, from Namhyung Kim.
. Add new COMM infrastructure, further improving histogram
processing, from Frédéric Weisbecker, one fix from Namhyung Kim.
. Add /proc/kcore based live-annotation improvements, including
build-id cache support, multi map 'call' instruction navigation
fixes, kcore address validation, objdump workarounds. From
Adrian Hunter.
. Show progress on histogram collapsing, that can take a long
time, from Namhyung Kim.
. Add --max-stack option to limit callchain stack scan in 'top'
and 'report', improving callchain processing when reducing the
stack depth is an option, from Waiman Long.
. Add new option --ignore-vmlinux for perf top, from Willy
Tarreau.
* 'perf trace' enhancements:
. 'perf trace' now can can use a 'perf probe' dynamic tracepoints
to hook into the userspace -> kernel pathname copy so that it
can map fds to pathnames without reading /proc/pid/fd/ symlinks.
From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
. Show VFS path associated with fd in live sessions, using a
'vfs_getname' 'perf probe' created dynamic tracepoint or by
looking at /proc/pid/fd, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
. Add 'trace' beautifiers for lots of syscall arguments, from
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
. Implement more compact 'trace' output by suppressing zeroed
args, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
. Show thread COMM by default in 'trace', from Arnaldo Carvalho de
Melo.
. Add option to show full timestamp in 'trace', from David Ahern.
. Add 'record' command in 'trace', to record raw_syscalls:*, from
David Ahern.
. Add summary option to dump syscall statistics in 'trace', from
David Ahern.
. Improve error messages in 'trace', providing hints about system
configuration steps needed for using it, from Ramkumar
Ramachandra.
. 'perf trace' now emits hints as to why tracing is not possible,
helping the user to setup the system to allow tracing in the
desired permission granularity, telling if the problem is due to
debugfs not being mounted or with not enough permission for
!root, /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoit value, etc. From
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
* 'perf record' enhancements:
. Check maximum frequency rate for record/top, emitting better
error messages, from Jiri Olsa.
. 'perf record' code cleanups, from David Ahern.
. Improve write_output error message in 'perf record', from Adrian
Hunter.
. Allow specifying B/K/M/G unit to the --mmap-pages arguments,
from Jiri Olsa.
. Fix command line callchain attribute tests to handle the new
-g/--call-chain semantics, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
* 'perf kvm' enhancements:
. Disable live kvm command if timerfd is not supported, from David
Ahern.
. Fix detection of non-core features, from David Ahern.
* 'perf list' enhancements:
. Add usage to 'perf list', from David Ahern.
. Show error in 'perf list' if tracepoints not available, from
Pekka Enberg.
* 'perf probe' enhancements:
. Support "$vars" meta argument syntax for local variables,
allowing asking for all possible variables at a given probe
point to be collected when it hits, from Masami Hiramatsu.
* 'perf sched' enhancements:
. Address the root cause of that 'perf sched' stack initialization
build slowdown, by programmatically setting a big array after
moving the global variable back to the stack. Fix from Adrian
Hunter.
* 'perf script' enhancements:
. Set up output options for in-stream attributes, from Adrian
Hunter.
. Print addr by default for BTS in 'perf script', from Adrian
Juntmer
* 'perf stat' enhancements:
. Improved messages when doing profiling in all or a subset of
CPUs using a workload as the session delimitator, as in:
'perf stat --cpu 0,2 sleep 10s'
from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
. Add units to nanosec-based counters in 'perf stat', from David
Ahern.
. Remove bogus info when using 'perf stat' -e cycles/instructions,
from Ramkumar Ramachandra.
* 'perf lock' enhancements:
. 'perf lock' fixes and cleanups, from Davidlohr Bueso.
* 'perf test' enhancements:
. Fixup PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION handling in sample synthesizing
and 'perf test', from Adrian Hunter.
. Clarify the "sample parsing" test entry, from Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo.
. Consider PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION in the "sample parsing" test,
from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
. Memory leak fixes in 'perf test', from Felipe Pena.
* 'perf bench' enhancements:
. Change the procps visible command-name of invididual benchmark
tests plus cleanups, from Ingo Molnar.
* Generic perf tooling infrastructure/plumbing changes:
. Separating data file properties from session, code
reorganization from Jiri Olsa.
. Fix version when building out of tree, as when using one of
these:
$ make help | grep perf
perf-tar-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar source tarball
perf-targz-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.gz source tarball
perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.bz2 source tarball
perf-tarxz-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.xz source tarball
$
from David Ahern.
. Enhance option parse error message, showing just the help lines
of the options affected, from Namhyung Kim.
. libtraceevent updates from upstream trace-cmd repo, from Steven
Rostedt.
. Always use perf_evsel__set_sample_bit to set sample_type, from
Adrian Hunter.
. Memory and mmap leak fixes from Chenggang Qin.
. Assorted build fixes for from David Ahern and Jiri Olsa.
. Speed up and prettify the build system, from Ingo Molnar.
. Implement addr2line directly using libbfd, from Roberto Vitillo.
. Separate the GTK support in a separate libperf-gtk.so DSO, that
is only loaded when --gtk is specified, from Namhyung Kim.
. perf bash completion fixes and improvements from Ramkumar
Ramachandra.
. Support for Openembedded/Yocto -dbg packages, from Ricardo
Ribalda Delgado.
And lots and lots of other fixes and code reorganizations that did not
make it into the list, see the shortlog, diffstat and the Git log for
details!"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (300 commits)
uprobes: Fix the memory out of bound overwrite in copy_insn()
uprobes: Fix the wrong usage of current->utask in uprobe_copy_process()
perf tools: Remove unneeded include
perf record: Remove post_processing_offset variable
perf record: Remove advance_output function
perf record: Refactor feature handling into a separate function
perf trace: Don't relookup fields by name in each sample
perf tools: Fix version when building out of tree
perf evsel: Ditch evsel->handler.data field
uprobes: Export write_opcode() as uprobe_write_opcode()
uprobes: Introduce arch_uprobe->ixol
uprobes: Kill module_init() and module_exit()
uprobes: Move function declarations out of arch
perf/x86/intel: Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore IRP box support
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add filter support for IvyBridge-EP QPI boxes
perf: Factor out strncpy() in perf_event_mmap_event()
tools/perf: Add required memory barriers
perf: Fix arch_perf_out_copy_user default
perf: Update a stale comment
perf: Optimize perf_output_begin() -- address calculation
...
Peter Zijlstra
Jiri Olsa
Linus Torvalds
Mark Rutland
Ingo Molnar
Tejun Heo
Yann Droneaud
Stephane Eranian
Alexander Shishkin
Oleg Nesterov