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  1. Jan 13, 2010
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      tracing/kprobe: Drop function argument access syntax · 14640106
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      
Drop function argument access syntax, because the function
arguments depend on not only architecture but also
compile-options and function API. And now, we have perf-probe
for finding register/memory assigned to each argument.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
LKML-Reference: <20100105224648.19431.52309.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      14640106
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      tracing/kprobe: Update example output in documentation · ec3a9039
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      
Update example output in documentation according to current
implementation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100105224641.19431.34967.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      ec3a9039
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf tools: Handle relocatable kernels · 56b03f3c
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      
DSOs don't have this problem because the kernel emits a
PERF_MMAP for each new executable mapping it performs on
monitored threads.

To fix the kernel case we simulate the same behaviour, by having
'perf record' to synthesize a PERF_MMAP for the kernel, encoded
like this:

[root@doppio ~]# perf record -a -f sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.344 MB perf.data (~15038 samples) ]
[root@doppio ~]# perf report -D | head -10

0xd0 [0x40]: event: 1
.
. ... raw event: size 64 bytes
.  0000:  01 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ......@........
.  0010:  00 00 00 81 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...............
.  0020:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5b 6b 65 72 6e 65 6c 2e ........  [kernel
.  0030:  6b 61 6c 6c 73 79 6d 73 2e 5f 74 65 78 74 5d 00  kallsyms._text]
.  0xd0
[0x40]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 0/0: [0xffffffff81000000((nil)) @ (nil)]: [kernel.kallsyms._text]

I.e. we identify such event as having:

 .pid      = 0
 .filename = [kernel.kallsyms.REFNAME]
 .start    = REFNAME addr in /proc/kallsyms at 'perf record' time

and use now a hardcoded value of '.text' for REFNAME.

Then, later, in 'perf report', if there are any kernel hits and
thus we need to resolve kernel symbols, we search for REFNAME
and if its address changed, relocation happened and we thus must
change the kernel mapping routines to one that uses .pgoff as
the relocation to apply.

This way we use the same mechanism used for the other DSOs and
don't have to do a two pass in all the kernel symbols.

Reported-by: default avatarXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1262717431-1246-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      56b03f3c
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf report: Fix --no-call-chain option handling · b9a63b9b
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      
To avoid the funny:

 [root@doppio ~]# perf record -a -f sleep 2s
 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.334 MB perf.data (~14572 samples) ]
 [root@doppio ~]# perf report --no-call-graph
 selected -g but no callchain data. Did you call perf record without -g?

And fix the bug reported by peterz when we do indeed record with
callchains and then ask for a report without:

[root@doppio ~]# perf record -a -g -f sleep 2s
[root@doppio ~]# perf report --no-call-graph
Segmentation fault
[root@doppio ~]#

Reported-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262699685-27820-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      b9a63b9b
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf session: Keep pointers to the vmlinux maps · de176489
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      
So that tools such as 'perf probe' don't have to lookup
'[kernel.kallsyms]' but instead access them directly after
perf_session__create_kernel_maps or
map_groups__create_kernel_maps.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262629169-22797-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      de176489
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf tools: Create write_padded routine out of __dsos__write_buildid_table · f92cb24c
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      
Will be used by other options where padding is needed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262629169-22797-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f92cb24c
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf symbols: Export symbol_type__is_a · 36a3e646
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      
Will be needed by the new HEADER_DSO_INFO feature that will be a
HEADER_BUILD_ID superset, replacing it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262629169-22797-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      36a3e646
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf symbols: Generalise the kallsyms parsing routine · 682b335a
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      
Will be used to find an specific symbol by name on 'perf record'
to support relocation reference symbols to support relocatable
kernels.

Still have to conver the perf trace tools to use it instead of
their current reimplementation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262629169-22797-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      682b335a
    • Liming Wang's avatar
      perf tools: Fix --pid option for stat · 60666c63
      Liming Wang authored 
      
current pid option doesn't work for perf stat. Change it to what
perf record --pid acts as.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLiming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262246750-2191-1-git-send-email-liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      60666c63
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      perf: Drop useless check for ignored frame · 0fb8ee48
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      
The check that ignores the debug and nmi stack frames is useless
now that we have a frame pointer that makes us start at the
right place. We don't anymore have to deal with these.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262235183-5320-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0fb8ee48
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core · 61405fea
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      
Merge reason: queue up dependent patch, update to -rc4

Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      61405fea
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf tools: Check if /dev/null can be used as the -o gcc argument · 1703f2c3
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      At least on Debian PARISC64, using:

acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: hppa-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian
4.3.4-6' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/README.Bugs


--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
--enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.3 --program-suffix=-4.3 --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-mpfr --disable-libssp --enable-checking=release --build=hppa-linux-gnu --host=hppa-linux-gnu --target=hppa-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-6)

there are issues about using 'gcc -o /dev/null':

/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: File truncated
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

So we test that and use /dev/null in environments where it
works, while using an .INTERMEDIATE file on those where it can't
be used, so that the .perf.dev.null file can be used instead and
then deleted when make exits.

Researched-with: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Researched-with: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1263293910-8484-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1703f2c3
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf tools: Move QUIET_STDERR def to before first use · 83039518
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      
QUIET_STDERR is used when detecting if -fstack-protector-all can
be used.

Noticed while building the perf tools on a Debian PARISC64
machine.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1263293910-8484-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      83039518
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      perf: Stop stack frame walking off kernel addresses boundaries · c2c5d45d
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      
While processing kernel perf callchains, an bad entry can be
considered as a valid stack pointer but not as a kernel address.

In this case, we hang in an endless loop. This can happen in an
x86-32 kernel after processing the last entry in a kernel
stacktrace.

Just stop the stack frame walking after we encounter an invalid
kernel address.

This fixes a hard lockup in x86-32.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262227945-27014-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      c2c5d45d
  3. Jan 12, 2010