commit eb9c583638 upstream.
The out functions should only handle actual available data instead of the complete buffer.
Otherwise for example the ep0_consume function will report ghost events since it tries to decode
the complete buffer - which may contain partly invalid data.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fend <matthias.fend@wolfvision.net>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[Patch not needed upstream as this is a backport build bugfix - gregkh
gcc correctly complains:
util/hist.c: In function ‘__hists__add_entry’:
util/hist.c:240:27: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct hist_entry’)
util/hist.c:241:23: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct hist_entry’)
for this new code:
+ if (he->ms.map != entry->ms.map) {
+ he->ms.map = entry->ms.map;
+ if (he->ms.map)
+ he->ms.map->referenced = true;
+ }
because "entry" is a "struct hist_entry", not a pointer to a struct.
In mainline, "entry" is a pointer to struct passed as argument to the function.
So this is broken during backporting. But obviously not compile tested.
Signed-off-by: Zeev Tarantov <zeev.tarantov@gmail.com>
Cc: Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 63fa471dd4 upstream.
When a process exec()'s, all the maps are retired, but we keep the hist
entries around which hold references to those outdated maps.
If the same library gets mapped in for which we have hist entries, a new
map will be created. But when we take a perf entry hit within that map,
we'll find the existing hist entry with the older map.
This causes symbol translations to be done incorrectly. For example,
the perf entry processing will lookup the correct uptodate map entry and
use that to calculate the symbol and DSO relative address. But later
when we update the histogram we'll translate the address using the
outdated map file instead leading to conditions such as out-of-range
offsets in symbol__inc_addr_samples().
Therefore, update the map of the hist_entry dynamically at lookup/
creation time.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120327.031418.1220315351537060808.davem@davemloft.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit b832796caa upstream.
I have a workload where perf top scribbles over the stack and we SEGV.
What makes it interesting is that an snprintf is causing this.
The workload is a c++ gem that has method names over 3000 characters
long, but snprintf is designed to avoid overrunning buffers. So what
went wrong?
The problem is we assume snprintf returns the number of characters
written:
ret += repsep_snprintf(bf + ret, size - ret, "[%c] ", self->level);
...
ret += repsep_snprintf(bf + ret, size - ret, "%s", self->ms.sym->name);
Unfortunately this is not how snprintf works. snprintf returns the
number of characters that would have been written if there was enough
space. In the above case, if the first snprintf returns a value larger
than size, we pass a negative size into the second snprintf and happily
scribble over the stack. If you have 3000 character c++ methods thats a
lot of stack to trample.
This patch fixes repsep_snprintf by clamping the value at size - 1 which
is the maximum snprintf can write before adding the NULL terminator.
I get the sinking feeling that there are a lot of other uses of snprintf
that have this same bug, we should audit them all.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120307114249.44275ca3@kryten
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit a4a03fc7ef upstream.
This patch fixes an issue where perf report shows nan% for certain
perf.data files. The below is from a report for a do_fork probe:
-nan% sshd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
-nan% packagekitd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
-nan% dbus-daemon [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
-nan% bash [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
A git bisect shows commit f3bda2c as the cause. However, looking back
through the git history, I saw commit 640c03c which seems to have
removed the required initialization for perf_sample->period. The problem
only started showing after commit f3bda2c. The below patch re-introduces
the initialization and it fixes the problem for me.
With the below patch, for the same perf.data:
73.08% bash [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
8.97% 11-dhclient [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
6.41% sshd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
3.85% 20-chrony [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
2.56% sendmail [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork
This patch applies over current linux-tip commit 9949284.
Problem introduced in:
$ git describe 640c03c
v2.6.37-rc3-83-g640c03c
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120203170113.5190.25558.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 49908a1b25 upstream.
A update is made to the sched:sched_switch event that adds some
logic to the first parameter of the __print_flags() that shows the
state of tasks. This change cause perf to fail parsing the flags.
A simple fix is needed to have the parser be able to process ops
within the argument.
Reported-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit d06c27b22a upstream.
A update is made to the sched:sched_switch event that adds some
logic to the first parameter of the __print_flags() that shows the
state of tasks. This change cause perf to fail parsing the flags.
A simple fix is needed to have the parser be able to process ops
within the argument.
Reported-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit aba8d05607 upstream.
In addition to /etc/perfconfig and $HOME/.perfconfig, perf looks for
configuration in the file ./config, imitating git which looks at
$GIT_DIR/config. If ./config is not a perf configuration file, it
fails, or worse, treats it as a configuration file and changes behavior
in some unexpected way.
"config" is not an unusual name for a file to be lying around and perf
does not have a private directory dedicated for its own use, so let's
just stop looking for configuration in the cwd. Callers needing
context-sensitive configuration can use the PERF_CONFIG environment
variable.
Requested-by: Christian Ohm <chr.ohm@gmx.net>
Cc: 632923@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Ohm <chr.ohm@gmx.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110805165838.GA7237@elie.gateway.2wire.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit eda3913bb7 upstream.
The perf_event_attr struct has two __u32's at the top and
they need to be swapped individually.
With this change I was able to analyze a perf.data collected in a
32-bit PPC VM on an x86 system. I tested both 32-bit and 64-bit
binaries for the Intel analysis side; both read the PPC perf.data
file correctly.
-v2:
- changed the existing perf_event__attr_swap() to swap only elements
of perf_event_attr and exported it for use in swapping the
attributes in the file header
- updated swap_ops used for processing events
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310754849-12474-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit 08a4a43fc4 upstream.
Builds for 32-bit perf binaries on a 64-bit host currently fail
with this error:
[...]
bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S: Assembler messages:
bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:29: Error: bad register name `%rdi'
bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:34: Error: invalid instruction suffix for `movs'
bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:50: Error: bad register name `%rdi'
bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:61: Error: bad register name `%rdi'
...
The problem is the detection of the host arch without considering passed in
flags. This change fixes 32-bit builds via:
make EXTRA_CFLAGS=-m32
and 64-bit builds still reference the memcpy_64.S.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310420304-21452-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tools/perf: Fix static build of perf tool
tracing: Fix regression in printk_formats file
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling interrupts
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
clocksource: Make watchdog robust vs. interruption
timerfd: Fix wakeup of processes when timer is cancelled on clock change
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, MAINTAINERS: Add x86 MCE people
x86, efi: Do not reserve boot services regions within reserved areas
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: Move RCU_BOOST #ifdefs to header file
rcu: use softirq instead of kthreads except when RCU_BOOST=y
rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression
rcu: Simplify curing of load woes
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
kbuild: Call depmod.sh via shell
perf: clear out make flags when calling kernel make kernelver
To build a statically linked version of the perf tool all needed
libraries must be added in the correct order to get the symbols
resolved. Currently this is broken when, e.g. python or newt
support is enabled -- libpython needs libpthread which is an
unconditional link dependency of the perf tool; libslang needs
libm, another unconditional dependency. To solve the problem in
the long run without the need to keep track of transitive
library dependencies, simply make the linker look at the EXTLIBS
multiple times until it has all symbols resolved.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308171818-20370-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When generating the perf version from the kernel version using 'make
kernelver' it is necessary to clear out any MAKEFLAGS otherwise they may
trigger additional output which pollute the contents.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread)
introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded
performance by about 40%.
The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed
high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has
64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second
which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of
the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks,
but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods.
This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite
a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related
processing to be done.
Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock
contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points
out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which
means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes,
perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not
going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around
this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.)
This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only
for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context,
so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the
common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to
skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
perf: Use make kernelversion instead of parsing the Makefile
kbuild: Hack for depmod not handling X.Y versions
kbuild: Move depmod call to a separate script
kbuild: Fix <linux/version.h> for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL
kbuild: Fix KERNELVERSION for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL
kbuild: silence Nothing to be done for 'all' message
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Fix comments in include/linux/perf_event.h
perf: Comment /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to be part of user ABI
perf python: Fix argument name list of read_on_cpu()
perf evlist: Don't die if sample_{id_all|type} is invalid
perf python: Use exception to propagate errors
perf evlist: Remove dependency on debug routines
perf, cgroups: Fix up for new API
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest:
ktest: Ignore unset values of the minconfig in config_bisect
ktest: Fix result of rebooting the kernel
ktest: Fix off-by-one in config bisect result
Fixes two more cases where the python binding would not load:
. Not finding die(), which it shouldn't anyway, not good to just stop the
world because some particular perf.data file is invalid, just propagate
the error to the caller.
. Not finding perf_sample_size: fix it by moving it from event.c to evsel,
where it belongs, as most cases are moving to operate on an evsel object.o
One of the fixed problems:
[root@emilia ~]# python
>>> import perf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: perf_sample_size
>>>
[root@emilia ~]#
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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-1hkj7b2cvgbfnoizsekjb6c9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
