Re: [PATCH 01/16] perf: add doc for how to build perf with Asan and UBSan

From: Changbin Du
Date: Wed Mar 20 2019 - 08:00:16 EST


On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 05:08:14PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 11:07:58AM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 04:05:41PM +0800, Changbin Du wrote:
> > > AddressSanitizer (or ASan) and UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (or UBSan) are
> > > very useful tools to detect program bugs.
> > > o AddressSanitizer (or ASan) is a GCC feature that detects memory
> > > corruption bugs such as buffer overflows or memory leaks.
> > > o UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (or UBSan) is a fast undefined behavior
> > > detector supprted by GCC. UBSan detect undefined behavior of programs
> > > at runtime.
> > >
> > > This patch adds doc for how to use them on perf. Later patches will fix
> > > some of the issues disclosed by them.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt
> > > index f6fc6507ba55..cae6e1d9b901 100644
> > > --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt
> > > +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt
> > > @@ -47,3 +47,23 @@ Those objects are then used in final linking:
> > >
> > > NOTE this description is omitting other libraries involved, only
> > > focusing on build framework outcomes
> >
> > thanks for adding doc, one nit:
> >
> > > +
> > > +3) buld and install perf
> >
> > there's already:
> > 2) perf build
> > =============
> >
> > please use something like
> >
> > 3) perf build for ASan/UBSan
> > ============================
> >
> > > + $ cd tools/perf
> > > + $ make DESTDIR=/usr
> > > + $ make DESTDIR=/usr install
> > > +
> > > +4) build with ASan or UBSan
> >
> > no need for this label
>
> Did this and appart from the evsel->counts one that I fixed up, all
> applied as-is, I added all the Fixes: tags, please consider doing it
> next time.
>
> Please take a look after I push it to my perf/core branch.
>
ok, no problem.

> Thanks,
>
> - Arnaldo

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Cheers,
Changbin Du