Re: [PATCH V3] perf tools: Fix bug for perf kvm report without guestmount.

From: David Ahern
Date: Fri Dec 20 2013 - 00:46:17 EST


Arnaldo:

This should go into all stable releases from v3.3 up.


On 12/20/13, 11:41 AM, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
Currently, if we use perf kvm --guestkallsyms --guestmodules report,
we can not get the perf information from perf data file. The all sample
are shown as unknown.

Reproducing steps:
# perf kvm --guestkallsyms /tmp/kallsyms --guestmodules /tmp/modules record -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.624 MB perf.data.guest (~27260 samples) ]
# perf kvm --guestkallsyms /tmp/kallsyms --guestmodules /tmp/modules report |grep %
100.00% [guest/6471] [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff8164f330

This bug was introduced by 207b57926 (perf kvm: Fix regression with guest machine creation).
In original code, it uses perf_session__find_machine(), it means we deliver symbol to machine
which has the same pid, if no machine found, deliver it to *default* guest. But if we use
perf_session__findnew_machine() here, if no machine was found, new machine with pid will be built
and added. Then the default guest which with pid == 0 will never get a symbol.

And because the new machine initialized here has no kernel map created, the symbol delivered to
it will be marked as "unknown".

This patch here is to revert commit 207b57926 and fix the SEGFAULT bug in another way.

Verification steps:
# ./perf kvm --guestkallsyms /home/kallsyms --guestmodules /home/modules record -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.651 MB perf.data.guest (~28437 samples) ]
# ./perf kvm --guestkallsyms /home/kallsyms --guestmodules /home/modules report |grep %
22.64% :6471 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] update_rq_clock.part.70
19.99% :6471 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] d_free
18.46% :6471 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] bio_phys_segments
16.25% :6471 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] dequeue_task
12.78% :6471 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] __switch_to
7.91% :6471 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] scheduler_tick
1.75% :6471 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] native_apic_mem_write
0.21% :6471 [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] apic_timer_interrupt

Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/session.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 989b2e3..a12dfdd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -830,6 +830,7 @@ static struct machine *
struct perf_sample *sample)
{
const u8 cpumode = event->header.misc & PERF_RECORD_MISC_CPUMODE_MASK;
+ struct machine *machine;

if (perf_guest &&
((cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL) ||
@@ -842,7 +843,11 @@ static struct machine *
else
pid = sample->pid;

- return perf_session__findnew_machine(session, pid);
+ machine = perf_session__find_machine(session, pid);
+ if (!machine)
+ machine = perf_session__findnew_machine(session,
+ DEFAULT_GUEST_KERNEL_ID);
+ return machine;
}

return &session->machines.host;


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