"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>
Pull perf tooling fixes and updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
* Fix JIT symbol resolution on heap (Namhyung Kim)
* Fix wrong SVG height in 'timechart' (Stanislav Fomichev)
* Free temp cpu_map in perf_session__cpu_bitmap (Stanislav Fomichev)
* Fix NULL pointer reference bug with event unit in 'stat' (Stephane Eranian)
* Fix memory corruption of xyarray when cpumask is used (Stephane Eranian)
* Ensure sscanf does not overrun the "mem" field (Alan Cox)
* Add support for the xtensa architecture (Baruch Siach)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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>
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes:
- Add Intel RAPL energy counter support (Stephane Eranian)
- Clean up uprobes (Oleg Nesterov)
- Optimize ring-buffer writes (Peter Zijlstra)
Tooling side changes, user visible:
- 'perf diff':
- Add column colouring improvements (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
- 'perf kvm':
- Add guest related improvements, including allowing to specify a
directory with guest specific /proc information (Dongsheng Yang)
- Add shell completion support (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
- Add '-v' option (Dongsheng Yang)
- Support --guestmount (Dongsheng Yang)
- 'perf probe':
- Support showing source code, asking for variables to be collected
at probe time and other 'perf probe' operations that use DWARF
information.
This supports only binaries with debugging information at this
time, detached debuginfo (aka debuginfo packages) support should
come in later patches (Masami Hiramatsu)
- 'perf record':
- Rename --no-delay option to --no-buffering, better reflecting its
purpose and freeing up '--delay' to take the place of
'--initial-delay', so that 'record' and 'stat' are consistent
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Default the -t/--thread option to no inheritance (Adrian Hunter)
- Make per-cpu mmaps the default (Adrian Hunter)
- 'perf report':
- Improve callchain processing performance (Frederic Weisbecker)
- Retain bfd reference to lookup source line numbers, greatly
optimizing, among other use cases, 'perf report -s srcline'
(Adrian Hunter)
- Improve callchain processing performance even more (Namhyung Kim)
- Add a perf.data file header window in the 'perf report' TUI,
associated with the 'i' hotkey, providing a counterpart to the
--header option in the stdio UI (Namhyung Kim)
- 'perf script':
- Add an option in 'perf script' to print the source line number
(Adrian Hunter)
- Add --header/--header-only options to 'script' and 'report', the
default is not tho show the header info, but as this has been the
default for some time, leave a single line explaining how to
obtain that information (Jiri Olsa)
- Add options to show comm, fork, exit and mmap PERF_RECORD_ events
(Namhyung Kim)
- Print callchains and symbols if they exist (David Ahern)
- 'perf timechart'
- Add backtrace support to CPU info
- Print pid along the name
- Add support for CPU topology
- Add new option --highlight'ing threads, be it by name or, if a
numeric value is provided, that run more than given duration
(Stanislav Fomichev)
- 'perf top':
- Make 'perf top -g' refer to callchains, for consistency with
other tools (David Ahern)
- 'perf trace':
- Handle old kernels where the "raw_syscalls" tracepoints were
called plain "syscalls" (David Ahern)
- Remove thread summary coloring, by Pekka Enberg.
- Honour -m option in 'trace', the tool was offering the option to
set the mmap size, but wasn't using it when doing the actual mmap
on the events file descriptors (Jiri Olsa)
- generic:
- Backport libtraceevent plugin support (trace-cmd repository, with
plugins for jbd2, hrtimer, kmem, kvm, mac80211, sched_switch,
function, xen, scsi, cfg80211 (Jiri Olsa)
- Print session information only if --stdio is given (Namhyung Kim)
Tooling side changes, developer visible (plumbing):
- Improve 'perf probe' exit path, release resources (Masami
Hiramatsu)
- Improve libtraceevent plugins exit path, allowing the registering
of an unregister handler to be called at exit time (Namhyung Kim)
- Add an alias to the build test makefile (make -C tools/perf
build-test) (Namhyung Kim)
- Get rid of die() and friends (good riddance!) in libtraceevent
(Namhyung Kim)
- Fix cross build problems related to pkgconfig and CROSS_COMPILE not
being propagated to the feature tests, leading to features being
tested in the host and then being enabled on the target (Mark
Rutland)
- Improve forked workload error reporting by sending the errno in the
signal data queueing integer field, using sigqueue and by doing the
signal setup in the evlist methods, removing open coded equivalents
in various tools (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Do more auto exit cleanup chores in the 'evlist' destructor, so
that the tools don't have to all do that sequence (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
- Pack 'struct perf_session_env' and 'struct trace' (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
- Add test for building detached source tarballs (Arnaldo Carvalho de
Melo)
- Move some header files (tools/perf/ to tools/include/ to make them
available to other tools/ dwelling codebases (Namhyung Kim)
- Move logic to warn about kptr_restrict'ed kernels to separate
function in 'report' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Move hist browser selection code to separate function (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo)
- Move histogram entries collapsing to separate function (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo)
- Introduce evlist__for_each() & friends (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Automate setup of FEATURE_CHECK_(C|LD)FLAGS-all variables (Jiri
Olsa)
- Move arch setup into seprate Makefile (Jiri Olsa)
- Make libtraceevent install target quieter (Jiri Olsa)
- Make tests/make output more compact (Jiri Olsa)
- Ignore generated files in feature-checks (Chunwei Chen)
- Introduce pevent_filter_strerror() in libtraceevent, similar in
purpose to libc's strerror() function (Namhyung Kim)
- Use perf_data_file methods to write output file in 'record' and
'inject' (Jiri Olsa)
- Use pr_*() functions where applicable in 'report' (Namhyumg Kim)
- Add 'machine' 'addr_location' struct to have full picture (machine,
thread, map, symbol, addr) for a (partially) resolved address,
reducing function signatures (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Reduce code duplication in the histogram entry creation/insertion
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Auto allocate annotation histogram data structures (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo)
- No need to test against NULL before calling free, also set freed
memory in struct pointers to NULL, to help fixing use after free
bugs (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Rename some struct DSO binary_type related members and methods, to
clarify its purpose and need for differentiation (symtab_type, ie
one is about the files .text, CFI, etc, i.e. its binary contents,
and the other is about where the symbol table came from (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo)
- Convert to new topic libraries, starting with an API one (sysfs,
debugfs, etc), renaming liblk in the process (Borislav Petkov)
- Get rid of some more panic() like error handling in libtraceevent.
(Namhyung Kim)
- Get rid of panic() like calls in libtraceevent (Namyung Kim)
- Start carving out symbol parsing routines (perf, just moving
routines to topic files in tools/lib/symbol/, tools that want to
use it need to integrate it directly, ie no
tools/lib/symbol/Makefile is provided (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Assorted refactoring patches, moving code around and adding utility
evlist methods that will be used in the IPT patchset (Adrian
Hunter)
- Assorted mmap_pages handling fixes (Adrian Hunter)
- Several man pages typo fixes (Dongsheng Yang)
- Get rid of several die() calls in libtraceevent (Namhyung Kim)
- Use basename() in a more robust way, to avoid problems related to
different system library implementations for that function
(Stephane Eranian)
- Remove open coded management of short_name_allocated member (Adrian
Hunter)
- Several cleanups in the "dso" methods, constifying some parameters
and renaming some fields to clarify its purpose (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
- Add per-feature check flags, fixing libunwind related build
problems on some architectures (Jean Pihet)
- Do not disable source line lookup just because of one failure.
(Adrian Hunter)
- Several 'perf kvm' man page corrections (Dongsheng Yang)
- Correct the message in feature-libnuma checking, swowing the right
devel package names for various distros (Dongsheng Yang)
- Polish 'readn()' function and introduce its counterpart,
'writen()' (Jiri Olsa)
- Start moving timechart state from global variables to a 'perf_tool'
derived 'timechart' struct (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
... and lots of fixes and improvements I forgot to list"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (282 commits)
perf tools: Remove unnecessary callchain cursor state restore on unmatch
perf callchain: Spare double comparison of callchain first entry
perf tools: Do proper comm override error handling
perf symbols: Export elf_section_by_name and reuse
perf probe: Release all dynamically allocated parameters
perf probe: Release allocated probe_trace_event if failed
perf tools: Add 'build-test' make target
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when xen plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when scsi plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when jbd2 plugin is is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when cfg80211 plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when mac80211 plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when sched_switch plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when kvm plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when kmem plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when hrtimer plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when function plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Add pevent_unregister_print_function()
tools lib traceevent: Add pevent_unregister_event_handler()
tools lib traceevent: fix pointer-integer size mismatch
...
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
- add RCU torture scripts/tooling
- static analysis improvements
- update RCU documentation
- miscellaneous fixes
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in kernel/rcu/rcu.h
rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in include/linux/*rcu*.h
rcu/torture: Dynamically allocate SRCU output buffer to avoid overflow
rcu: Don't activate RCU core on NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
rcu: Warn on allegedly impossible rcu_read_unlock_special() from irq
rcu: Add an RCU_INITIALIZER for global RCU-protected pointers
rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer's assignment volatile and type-safe
bonding: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() for better overhead and for sparse
rcu: Add comment on evaluate-once properties of rcu_assign_pointer().
rcu: Provide better diagnostics for blocking in RCU callback functions
rcu: Improve SRCU's grace-period comments
rcu: Fix CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT for odd fanout/leaf values
rcu: Fix coccinelle warnings
rcutorture: Stop tracking FSF's postal address
rcutorture: Move checkarg to functions.sh
rcutorture: Flag errors and warnings with color coding
rcutorture: Record results from repeated runs of the same test scenario
rcutorture: Test summary at end of run with less chattiness
rcutorture: Update comment in kvm.sh listing typical RCU trace events
rcutorture: Add tracing-enabled version of TREE08
...
Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
- futex performance increases: larger hashes, smarter wakeups
- mutex debugging improvements
- lots of SMP ordering documentation updates
- introduce the smp_load_acquire(), smp_store_release() primitives.
(There are WIP patches that make use of them - not yet merged)
- lockdep micro-optimizations
- lockdep improvement: better cover IRQ contexts
- liblockdep at last. We'll continue to monitor how useful this is
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
futexes: Fix futex_hashsize initialization
arch: Re-sort some Kbuild files to hopefully help avoid some conflicts
futexes: Avoid taking the hb->lock if there's nothing to wake up
futexes: Document multiprocessor ordering guarantees
futexes: Increase hash table size for better performance
futexes: Clean up various details
arch: Introduce smp_load_acquire(), smp_store_release()
arch: Clean up asm/barrier.h implementations using asm-generic/barrier.h
arch: Move smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic_{inc,dec}.h into asm/atomic.h
locking/doc: Rename LOCK/UNLOCK to ACQUIRE/RELEASE
mutexes: Give more informative mutex warning in the !lock->owner case
powerpc: Full barrier for smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()
rcu: Apply smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() to preserve grace periods
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Downgrade UNLOCK+BLOCK
locking: Add an smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() for UNLOCK+BLOCK barrier
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Document ACCESS_ONCE()
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Prohibit speculative writes
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Add long atomic examples to memory-barriers.txt
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Add needed ACCESS_ONCE() calls to memory-barriers.txt
Revert "smp/cpumask: Make CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y usable without debug dependency"
...
Pull ktest updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Here's some basic updates to ktest.pl. They include:
- add config to modify the signal to terminate console
- update to documentation (missing some config options)
- add KERNEL_VERSION variable to use for other configs
- add '=~' to let configs eval other configs
- add BISECT_TRIES to run multiple tests per git bisect good"
* tag 'ktest-v3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-ktest:
ktest: Add BISECT_TRIES to bisect test
ktest: Add eval '=~' command to modify variables in config file
ktest: Add special variable ${KERNEL_VERSION}
ktest: Add documentation of CLOSE_CONSOLE_SIGNAL
ktest: Make the signal to terminate the console configurable
For those cases that it takes several tries to hit a bug, it would be
useful for ktest.pl to try a test multiple times before it considers
the test as a pass. To accomplish this, BISECT_TRIES ktest config
option has been added. It is default to one, as most of the time a
bisect only needs to try a test once. But the user can now up this
to make ktest run a given test multiple times. The first failure
that is detected will set a bisect bad. It only repeats on success.
Note, as with all race bugs, there's no guarantee that if it succeeds,
it is really a good bisect. But it helps in case the bug is somewhat
reliable.
You can set BISECT_TRIES to zero, and all tests will be considered
good, unless you also set BISECT_MANUAL.
Suggested-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When a new callchain child branch matches an existing one in the rbtree,
the comparison of its first entry is performed twice:
1) From append_chain_children() on branch lookup
2) If 1) reports a match, append_chain() then compares all entries of
the new branch against the matching node in the rbtree, and this
comparison includes the first entry of the new branch again.
Lets shortcut this by performing the whole comparison only from
append_chain() which then returns the result of the comparison between
the first entry of the new branch and the iterating node in the rbtree.
If the first entry matches, the lookup on the current level of siblings
stops and propagates to the children of the matching nodes.
This results in less comparisons performed by the CPU.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-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: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389713836-13375-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
