When HAVE_ELF_GETPHDRNUM_SUPPORT is false we trip on this problem:
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/symbol-elf.o
util/symbol-elf.c:41:12: error: static declaration of ‘elf_getphdrnum’ follows non-static declaration
static int elf_getphdrnum(Elf *elf, size_t *dst)
^
In file included from util/symbol.h:19:0,
from util/symbol-elf.c:8:
/usr/include/libelf.h:206:12: note: previous declaration of ‘elf_getphdrnum’ was here
extern int elf_getphdrnum (Elf *__elf, size_t *__dst);
^
MKDIR /tmp/build/perf/bench/
/home/git/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:68: recipe for target '/tmp/build/perf/util/symbol-elf.o' failed
make[3]: *** [/tmp/build/perf/util/symbol-elf.o] Error 1
Fix it.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qcmekyfedmov4sxr0wahcikr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The python binding still doesn't provide symbol resolving facilities,
but the recent addition of the trace_event__register_resolver() function
made it add as a dependency the machine__resolve_kernel_addr() method,
that in turn drags all the symbol resolving code.
The problem:
[root@zoo ~]# perf test -v python
17: Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 6853
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /tmp/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: machine__resolve_kernel_addr
test child finished with -1
---- end ----
Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems: FAILED!
[root@zoo ~]#
Fix it by requiring this function to receive the resolver as a
parameter, just like pevent_register_function_resolver(), i.e. do
not explicitely refer to an object file not included in
tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources.
[root@zoo ~]# perf test python
17: Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems : Ok
[root@zoo ~]#
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Fixes: c3168b0db9 ("perf symbols: Provide libtraceevent callback to resolve kernel symbols")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vxlhh95v2em9zdbgj3jm7xi5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
New features:
- Introduce PERF_RECORD_SWITCH(_CPU_WIDE) and use it in 'record' to
ask for context switches, allowing non priviledged tasks to know
when they are switched in and out, which wasn't possible with
the other context switch tracepoint and software events, see the
patch description for a comprehensive justification (Adrian Hunter)
- Stop collecting /proc/kallsyms in perf.data files, saving about
4.5MB on a typical x86-64 system, use the the symbol resolution
routines used in all the other tools (report, top, etc) now that
we can ask libtraceevent to use perf's symbol resolution code.
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
User visible fixes:
- Expose perf's symbol resolver to libtraceevent, so that its plugins can
resolve tracepoint fields to kernel functions, like the 'function' field
in the "timer:hrtimer_start tracepoint" (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Infrastructure changes:
- Map propagation of thread and cpu maps improvements, prep work for
'perf stat' new features (Jiri Olsa)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
There are already two events for context switches, namely the tracepoint
sched:sched_switch and the software event context_switches.
Unfortunately neither are suitable for use by non-privileged users for
the purpose of synchronizing hardware trace data (e.g. Intel PT) to the
context switch.
Tracepoints are no good at all for non-privileged users because they
need either CAP_SYS_ADMIN or /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid <= -1.
On the other hand, kernel software events need either CAP_SYS_ADMIN or
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid <= 1.
Now many distributions do default perf_event_paranoid to 1 making
context_switches a contender, except it has another problem (which is
also shared with sched:sched_switch) which is that it happens before
perf schedules events out instead of after perf schedules events in.
Whereas a privileged user can see all the events anyway, a
non-privileged user only sees events for their own processes, in other
words they see when their process was scheduled out not when it was
scheduled in. That presents two problems to use the event:
1. the information comes too late, so tools have to look ahead in the
event stream to find out what the current state is
2. if they are unlucky tracing might have stopped before the
context-switches event is recorded.
This new PERF_RECORD_SWITCH event does not have those problems
and it also has a couple of other small advantages.
It is easier to use because it is an auxiliary event (like mmap, comm
and task events) which can be enabled by setting a single bit. It is
smaller than sched:sched_switch and easier to parse.
To make the event useful for privileged users also, if the
context is cpu-wide then the event record will be
PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE which is the same as
PERF_RECORD_SWITCH except it also provides the next or
previous pid/tid.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437471846-26995-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We were storing a copy of kallsyms inside perf.data file so that we
could resolve kernel addresses to function (start, name, mod) tuples,
but that can be achieved using the symbol resolving routines we have
in symbols.c, and that are used elsewhere in tools/perf.
So, do just like 'perf trace' did and ask libtraceevent to use perf's
symbol resolution routines.
The next step is to just skip whatever kallsyms data is embedded in
older perf.data files and finally to stop storing kallsyms in the perf
data file, as the 20-bytes build-id stored in perf.data's header is
enough to find out the right symtab (be it ELF, kcore, kallsyms, etc) to
use.
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-d0rtb8tk9j72pz0ehw5fnp24@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So that beautifiers wanting to resolve kernel function addresses to
names can do its work, now, for instance, the 'timer' tracepoints
beautifiers works with 'perf trace', see the "function=tick..." part:
# perf trace --event timer:hrtimer_start
<SNIP>
0.000 timer:hrtimer_start:hrtimer=0xffff88026f3101c0 function=tick_sched_timer/0x0 expires=52098339000000 softexpires=52098339000000)
0.003 timer:hrtimer_start:hrtimer=0xffff88026f3101c0 function=tick_sched_timer/0x0 expires=52098339000000 softexpires=52098339000000)
<SNIP>
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-n4i0hxpbl1tnleiqkok47fw2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The perf tools have a symbol resolver that includes solving kernel
symbols using either kallsyms or ELF symtabs, and it also is using
libtraceevent to format the trace events fields, including via
subsystem specific plugins, like the "timer" one.
To solve fields like "timer:hrtimer_start"'s "function", libtraceevent
needs a way to map from its value to a function name and addr.
This patch provides a way for tools that already have symbol resolving
facilities to ask libtraceevent to use it when needing to resolve
kernel symbols.
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fdx1fazols17w5py26ia3bwh@git.kernel.org
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>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Ingo Molnar
Adrian Hunter
Jiri Olsa