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>
In addition to using refcounts for the struct thread lifetime
management, we need to protect access to machine->threads from
concurrent access.
That happens in 'perf top', where a thread processes events, inserting
and deleting entries from that rb_tree while another thread decays
hist_entries, that end up dropping references and ultimately deleting
threads from the rb_tree and releasing its resources when no further
hist_entry (or other data structures, like in 'perf sched') references
it.
So the rule is the same for refcounts + protected trees in the kernel,
get the tree lock, find object, bump the refcount, drop the tree lock,
return, use object, drop the refcount if no more use of it is needed,
keep it if storing it in some other data structure, drop when releasing
that data structure.
I.e. pair "t = machine__find(new)_thread()" with a "thread__put(t)", and
"perf_event__preprocess_sample(&al)" with "addr_location__put(&al)".
The addr_location__put() one is because as we return references to
several data structures, we may end up adding more reference counting
for the other data structures and then we'll drop it at
addr_location__put() time.
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.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-bs9rt4n0jw3hi9f3zxyy3xln@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Instruction tracing will typically have access to information about the
instruction being executed for a particular ip sample. Some of that
information will be available in the 'flags' member of struct
perf_sample.
With the addition of transactions events synthesis to Instruction
Tracing options, there is a need to be able easily to see the flags
because they show whether the ip is at the start, commit or abort of a
tranasaction.
Consequently add an option to display the flags.
The flags are "bcrosyiABEx" which stand for branch, call, return,
conditional, system, asynchronous, interrupt, transaction abort, trace
begin, trace end, and in transaction, respectively.
Example using Intel PT:
perf script -fip,time,event,sym,addr,flags
...
1288.721584105: branches:u: bo 401146 main => 401152 main
1288.721584105: transactions: x 0 401164 main
1288.721584105: branches:u: bx 40117c main => 40119b main
1288.721584105: branches:u: box 4011a4 main => 40117e main
1288.721584105: branches:u: bcx 401187 main => 401094 g
...
1288.721591645: branches:u: bx 4010c4 g => 4010cb g
1288.721591645: branches:u: brx 4010cc g => 401189 main
1288.721591645: transactions: 0 4011a6 main
1288.721593199: branches:u: b 4011a9 main => 4011af main
1288.721593199: branches:u: bo 4011bc main => 40113e main
1288.721593199: branches:u: b 401150 main => 40115a main
1288.721593199: transactions: x 0 401164 main
1288.721593199: branches:u: bx 40117c main => 40119b main
1288.721593199: branches:u: box 4011a4 main => 40117e main
1288.721593199: branches:u: bcx 401187 main => 40105e f
...
1288.722284747: branches:u: brx 401093 f => 401189 main
1288.722284747: branches:u: box 4011a4 main => 40117e main
1288.722284747: branches:u: bcx 401187 main => 40105e f
1288.722285883: transactions: bA 0 401071 f
1288.722285883: branches:u: bA 401071 f => 40116a main
1288.722285883: branches:u: bE 40116a main => 0 [unknown]
1288.722297174: branches:u: bB 0 [unknown] => 40116a main
...
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428594864-29309-26-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Enable perf script to use perf.data when it is not owned by current user
or root. Change the short option name of --fields to -F to avoid confusion
with --force.
Example:
# perf record ls
# chown Yunlong.Song:Yunlong.Song perf.data
# ls -al perf.data
-rw------- 1 Yunlong.Song Yunlong.Song 28360 Apr 2 14:53 perf.data
# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),64(pkcs11)
Before this patch:
# perf script
File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
# perf script -f
Error: switch `f' requires a value
usage: perf script [<options>]
or: perf script [<options>] record <script> [<record-options>] <command>
or: perf script [<options>] report <script> [script-args]
or: perf script [<options>] <script> [<record-options>] <command>
or: perf script [<options>] <top-script> [script-args]
-f, --fields <str> comma separated output fields prepend with
'type:'. Valid types: hw,sw,trace,raw. Fields:
comm,tid,pid,time,cpu,event,trace,ip,sym,dso,addr,symoff,period
As shown above, the -f option does not work at all. And -f is already
taken up by --fields, which makes --force confused, so change the short
option name of --fields to -F like what other perf commands do (e.g.
perf report -F) and use -f as the short option name of --force.
After this patch:
# perf script
File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
# perf script -f
:41298 41298 2590086.564226: 1 cycles: ffffffff8103efc6
native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms])
:41298 41298 2590086.564244: 1 cycles: ffffffff8103efc6
native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms])
:41298 41298 2590086.564249: 7 cycles: ffffffff8103efc6
native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms])
:41298 41298 2590086.564255: 176 cycles: ffffffff8103efc6
native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms])
ls 41298 2590086.567346: 4059 cycles: ffffffff8105a592
raise_softirq ([kernel.kallsyms])
ls 41298 2590086.567353: 3717 cycles: ffffffff8105a592
raise_softirq ([kernel.kallsyms])
ls 41298 2590086.567358: 63058 cycles: ffffffff8105a592
raise_softirq ([kernel.kallsyms])
ls 41298 2590086.567448: 1706255 cycles: 406ae0
[unknown] (/usr/bin/ls)
As shown above, the -f option really works now.
Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427982439-27388-8-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently vmlinux_path__init() only tries to find vmlinux file from
current directory, /boot and some canonical directories with version
number of the running kernel. This can be a problem when reporting old
data recorded on a kernel version not running currently.
We can use --symfs option for this but it's annoying for user to do it
always. As we already have the info in the perf.data file, it can be
changed to use it for the search automatically.
Before:
$ perf report
...
# Samples: 4K of event 'cpu-clock'
# Event count (approx.): 1067250000
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ .......... ................. ..............................
71.87% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] recover_probed_instruction
After:
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ .......... ................. ....................
71.87% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_safe_halt
This requires to change signature of symbol__init() to receive struct
perf_session_env *.
Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407825645-24586-14-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
