"perf list" listing of hardware events doesn't work on older ARM devices.
The change enabling event detection:
commit b41f1cec91
Author: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Date: Tue Aug 27 11:41:53 2013 +0900
perf list: Skip unsupported events
uses the following code in tools/perf/util/parse-events.c:
struct perf_event_attr attr = {
.type = type,
.config = config,
.disabled = 1,
.exclude_kernel = 1,
};
On ARM machines pre-dating the Cortex-A15 this doesn't work, as these
machines don't support .exclude_kernel. So starting with 3.12 "perf
list" does not report any hardware events at all on older machines (seen
on Rasp-Pi, Pandaboard, Beagleboard, etc).
This version of the patch makes changes suggested by Namhyung Kim to
check for EACCESS and retry (instead of just dropping the
exclude_kernel) so we can properly handle machines where
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid is set to 2.
Reported-by: Chad Paradis <chad.paradis@umit.maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Chad Paradis <chad.paradis@umit.maine.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1312301536150.28814@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix perf-probe not to add offset value twice to uprobe probe address
when post processing.
The tevs[i].point.address struct member is the address of symbol+offset,
but current perf-probe adjusts the point.address by adding the offset.
As a result, the probe address becomes symbol+offset+offset. This may
cause unexpected code corruption. Urgent fix is needed.
Without this fix:
---
# ./perf probe -x ./perf dso__load_vmlinux+4
# ./perf probe -l
probe_perf:dso__load_vmlinux (on 0x000000000006d2b8)
# nm ./perf.orig | grep dso__load_vmlinux\$
000000000046d0a0 T dso__load_vmlinux
---
You can see the given offset is 3 but the actual probed address is
dso__load_vmlinux+8.
With this fix:
---
# ./perf probe -x ./perf dso__load_vmlinux+4
# ./perf probe -l
probe_perf:dso__load_vmlinux (on 0x000000000006d2b4)
---
Now the problem is fixed.
Note: This bug is introduced by
commit fb7345bbf7
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: "David A. Long" <dave.long@linaro.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140205051858.6519.27314.stgit@kbuild-fedora.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Commit 71ae8aac ("lib: introduce arch optimized hash library") added an
include to <linux/hash.h> for setting up an architecture specific fast
hash.
Since perf includes directly the non-uapi kernel header, it cannot find
<asm/hash.h> on non-x86 and thus prevents perf to be compiled on every
architecture other than x86.
The problem is the inclusion of <asm/hash.h> in hash.h that results in
the following error originating from util/evlist.c:
fatal error: asm/hash.h: No such file or directory
This commit simply adds an empty <asm/hash.h> stub/file to fix the
compile issue on non-x86 architectures.
As perf does not use any of these new functions, it fixes the
compilation and therefore seems to be the most appropriate solution to
go with.
Signed-off-by: Francesco Fusco <ffusco@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2cf8143aad65a6aa6fe30325ef8a65847141afa2.1390829373.git.ffusco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The plugindir_SQ definition contains $(prefix) which is not needed as
the $(libdir) definition already contains prefix in it. This leads to
the path including an extra prefix in it, e.g. /usr/usr/lib64.
The -DPLUGIN_DIR defintion includes DESTDIR. This is incorrect, as it
sets the plugin search path to include the value of DESTDIR. DESTDIR is
a mechanism to install in a non-standard location such as a chroot or an
RPM build root. In the RPM case, this leads to the search path being
incorrect after the resulting RPM is installed (or in some cases an RPM
build failure).
Remove both of these unnecessary inclusions.
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140122150147.GK16455@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a memory corruption problem with the xyarray when the
evsel fds get closed at the end of the run_perf_stat() call.
It could be triggered with:
# perf stat -a -e power/energy-cores/ ls
When cpumask are used by events (.e.g, RAPL or uncores) then the evsel
fds are allocated based on the actual number of CPUs monitored. That
number can be smaller than the total number of CPUs on the system.
The problem arises at the end by perf stat closes the fds twice. When
fds are closed, their entry in the xyarray are set to -1.
The first close() on the evsel is made from __run_perf_stat() and it
uses the actual number of CPUS for the event which is how the xyarray
was allocated for.
The second is from perf_evlist_close() but that one is on the total
number of CPUs in the system, so it assume the xyarray was allocated to
cover it. However it was not, and some writes corrupt memory.
The fix is in perf_evlist_close() is to first try with the evsel->cpus
if present, if not use the evlist->cpus. That fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389972846-6566-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
