kernel/tools/perf/perf.h, branch linux-4.17.y

perf tools: Add 'perf -vv' as an alias to 'perf version --build-options'

2018-04-02T16:50:35Z

We keep having bug reports that when users build perf on their own, but they don't install some needed libraries such as libelf, libbfd/libibery. The perf can build, but it is missing important functionality. This patch provides a new option '-vv' for perf which will print the compiled-in status of libraries. The 'perf -vv' is mapped to 'perf version --build-options'. For example: $ ./perf -vv perf version 4.13.rc5.g6727c5 dwarf: [ on ] # HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT dwarf_getlocations: [ on ] # HAVE_DWARF_GETLOCATIONS_SUPPORT glibc: [ on ] # HAVE_GLIBC_SUPPORT gtk2: [ on ] # HAVE_GTK2_SUPPORT libaudit: [ OFF ] # HAVE_LIBAUDIT_SUPPORT libbfd: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT libelf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT libnuma: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT libperl: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBPERL_SUPPORT libpython: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBPYTHON_SUPPORT libslang: [ on ] # HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT libcrypto: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBCRYPTO_SUPPORT libunwind: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on ] # HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT zlib: [ on ] # HAVE_ZLIB_SUPPORT lzma: [ on ] # HAVE_LZMA_SUPPORT get_cpuid: [ on ] # HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT bpf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT v3: One bug is found in v2. It didn't process the option like '-vabc' correctly. Fix this bug. v2: Use a global variable version_verbose to record the number of 'v'. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jin Yao Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522402036-22915-6-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Fix crash in pipe mode

2018-03-05T12:58:45Z

Currently we can crash perf record when running in pipe mode, like: $ perf record ls | perf report # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # perf: Segmentation fault Error: The - file has no samples! The callstack of the crash is: 0x0000000000515242 in perf_event__synthesize_event_update_name 3513 ev = event_update_event__new(len + 1, PERF_EVENT_UPDATE__NAME, evsel->id[0]); (gdb) bt #0 0x0000000000515242 in perf_event__synthesize_event_update_name #1 0x00000000005158a4 in perf_event__synthesize_extra_attr #2 0x0000000000443347 in record__synthesize #3 0x00000000004438e3 in __cmd_record #4 0x000000000044514e in cmd_record #5 0x00000000004cbc95 in run_builtin #6 0x00000000004cbf02 in handle_internal_command #7 0x00000000004cc054 in run_argv #8 0x00000000004cc422 in main The reason of the crash is that the evsel does not have ids array allocated and the pipe's synthesize code tries to access it. We don't force evsel ids allocation when we have single event, because it's not needed. However we need it when we are in pipe mode even for single event as a key for evsel update event. Fixing this by forcing evsel ids allocation event for single event, when we are in pipe mode. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180302161354.30192-1-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Throttle user defined frequencies to the maximum allowed

2018-03-05T12:58:44Z

# perf record -F 200000 sleep 1 warning: Maximum frequency rate (15,000 Hz) exceeded, throttling from 200,000 Hz to 15,000 Hz. The limit can be raised via /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate. The kernel will lower it when perf's interrupts take too long. Use --strict-freq to disable this throttling, refusing to record. [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (15 samples) ] # perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 15000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 For those wanting that it fails if the desired frequency can't be used: # perf record --strict-freq -F 200000 sleep 1 error: Maximum frequency rate (15,000 Hz) exceeded. Please use -F freq option with a lower value or consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate. # Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-oyebruc44nlja499nqkr1nzn@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Allow asking for the maximum allowed sample rate

2018-03-05T12:58:43Z

Add the handy '-F max' shortcut to reading and using the kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate value as the user supplied sampling frequency: # perf record -F max sleep 1 info: Using a maximum frequency rate of 15,000 Hz [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (14 samples) ] # sysctl kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate = 15000 # perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 15000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 # perf record -F 10 sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (4 samples) ] # perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 10, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 # Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4y0tiuws62c64gp4cf0hme0m@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Fix period option handling

2018-02-05T15:18:28Z

Stephan reported we don't unset PERIOD sample type when --no-period is specified. Adding the unset check and reset PERIOD if --no-period is specified. Committer notes: Check the sample_type, it shouldn't have PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD there when --no-period is used. Before: # perf record --no-period sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.018 MB perf.data (7 samples) ] # perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 # After: [root@jouet ~]# perf record --no-period sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (17 samples) ] [root@jouet ~]# perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 [root@jouet ~]# Reported-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Tested-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180201083812.11359-3-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts

2017-11-07T09:30:18Z

Conflicts: tools/perf/arch/arm/annotate/instructions.c tools/perf/arch/arm64/annotate/instructions.c tools/perf/arch/powerpc/annotate/instructions.c tools/perf/arch/s390/annotate/instructions.c tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/intel-cqm.c tools/perf/ui/tui/progress.c tools/perf/util/zlib.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf record: Support direct --user-regs arguments

2017-09-13T12:49:14Z

USER_REGS can currently only collected implicitely with call graph recording. Sometimes it is useful to see them separately, and filter them. Add a new --user-regs option to record that is similar to --intr-regs, but acts on user regs. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170905170029.19722-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Support new sample type for physical address

2017-09-01T17:46:00Z

Support new sample type PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR for physical address. Add new option --phys-data to record sample physical address. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang Tested-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504026672-7304-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com [ Added missing printing in evsel.c patch sent by Jiri Olsa ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tests attr: Add test_attr__ready function

2017-07-19T02:14:15Z

We create many test events before the real ones just to test specific features. But there's no way for attr tests to separate those test events from those it needs to check. Adding 'ready' call from the events open interface to trigger/start events collection for attr test. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Richter Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170703145030.12903-4-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo