kernel/tools/perf/util/record.c, branch linux-4.17.y

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

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 tools: Include errno.h where needed

2017-04-19T16:01:51Z

Removing it from util.h, part of an effort to disentangle the includes hell, that makes changes to util.h or something included by it to cause a complete rebuild of the tools. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ztrjy52q1rqcchuy3rubfgt2@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Rename for_each() macros to for_each_entry()

2016-06-23T14:26:15Z

To match the semantics for list.h in the kernel, that are used to implement those macros. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Milian Wolff Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Taeung Song Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qbcjlgj0ffxquxscahbpddi3@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Do not use globals in config()

2016-04-12T01:18:20Z

Instead receive a callchain_param pointer to configure callchain aspects, not doing so if NULL is passed. This will allow fine grained control over which evsels in an evlist gets callchains enabled. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Milian Wolff Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2mupip6khc92mh5x4nw9to82@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add a helper function to probe whether cpu-wide tracing is possible

2015-08-17T14:08:37Z

Add a helper function to probe whether cpu-wide tracing is possible. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439458857-30636-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add option --switch-events to select PERF_RECORD_SWITCH events

2015-07-24T01:51:13Z

Add an option to select PERF_RECORD_SWITCH events. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Tested-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Mathieu Poirier Cc: Pawel Moll Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437471846-26995-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add reference counting for cpu_map object

2015-06-25T18:15:50Z

Adding refference counting for cpu_map object, so it could be easily shared among other objects. Using cpu_map__put instead cpu_map__delete and making cpu_map__delete static. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435012588-9007-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo