kernel/tools/perf/util/evlist.c, branch linux-3.11.y

perf evlist: Enhance perf_evlist__start_workload()

2013-07-08T20:38:30Z

When perf tries to start a workload, it relies on a pipe which the workload was blocked for reading. After closing the pipe on the parent, the workload (child) can start the actual work via exec(). However, if another process was forked after creating a workload, this mechanism cannot work since the other process (child) also inherits the pipe, so that closing the pipe in parent cannot unblock the workload. Fix it by using explicit write call can then closing it. For similar reason, the pipe fd on parent should be marked as CLOEXEC so that it can be closed after another child exec'ed. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372230862-15861-13-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Reset SIGTERM handler in workload child process

2013-05-30T11:34:56Z

Jiri reported hanging perf tests on latest acme's perf/core and bisected it to 87f303a9f: [jolsa@krava2 perf]$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid 1 [jolsa@krava2 perf]$ ./perf record -C 0 kill Error: You may not have permission to collect %sstats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid: -1 - Not paranoid at all 0 - Disallow raw tracepoint access for unpriv 1 - Disallow cpu events for unpriv 2 - Disallow kernel profiling for unpriv Need to let default handling kickin for workload process. Reported-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: David Ahern Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Tested-by: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369525839-1261-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

2013-03-21T10:06:12Z

Conflicts: tools/Makefile Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: . Honor parallel jobs, fix from Borislav Petkov . Introduce tools/lib/lk library, initially just removing duplication among tools/perf and tools/vm. from Borislav Petkov . Fix build on non-glibc systems due to libio.h absence, from Cody P Schafer. . Remove some perf_session and tracing dead code, from David Ahern. . Introduce perf stat --repeat forever, from Frederik Deweerdt. . Add perf test entries for checking --cpu in record and stat, from Jiri Olsa. . Add perf test entries for checking breakpoint overflow signal handler issues, from Jiri Olsa. . Add perf test entry for for checking number of EXIT events, from Namhyung Kim. . Simplify some perf_evlist methods and to allow 'stat' to share code with 'record' and 'trace'. . Remove dead code in related to libtraceevent integration, from Namhyung Kim. . Event group view for 'annotate' in --stdio, --tui and --gtk, from Namhyung Kim. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [ resolved the trivial merge conflict with upstream ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf evlist: Introduce perf_evlist__close()

2013-03-15T16:06:10Z

It's a pair of perf_evlist__open(). Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363326533-3310-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Add want_signal parameter to perf_evlist__prepare_workload()

2013-03-15T16:06:03Z

In case a caller doesn't want to receive SIGUSR1 when the child failed to exec(). Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362987798-24969-6-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Do not pass struct record_opts to perf_evlist__prepare_workload()

2013-03-15T16:06:02Z

Since it's only used for checking ->pipe_output, we can pass the result directly. Now the perf_evlist__prepare_workload() don't have a dependency of struct perf_record_opts, it can be called from other places like perf stat. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362987798-24969-5-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Pass struct perf_target to perf_evlist__prepare_workload()

2013-03-15T16:06:02Z

It's a preparation step of removing @opts arg from the function so that it can be used more widely. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362987798-24969-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Add thread_map__nr() helper

2013-03-15T16:06:02Z

Introduce and use the thread_map__nr() function to protect a possible NULL pointer dereference and cleanup the code a bit. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362987798-24969-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Use cpu_map__nr() helper

2013-03-15T16:06:02Z

Use the cpu_map__nr() helper to protect a possible NULL cpu map dereference. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362987798-24969-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Remove cpus and threads arguments from perf_evlist__new()

2013-03-15T16:06:01Z

It's almost always used with NULL for both arguments. Get rid of the arguments from the signature and use perf_evlist__set_maps() if needed. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362987798-24969-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ committer note: replaced spaces with tabs in some of the affected lines ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo