Re: [GIT PULL 00/13] perf/core improvements and fixes

From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Tue Sep 09 2014 - 03:16:17 EST


On 09/09/2014 07:59 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ingo,
>>
>> Please consider pulling,
>>
>> - Arnaldo
>>
>> The following changes since commit 39b5a56ec0be5effe9b7d0f18cb27724bf2e5d47:
>>
>> Merge branch 'rfc/perf' into perf/core, because it's ready for inclusion (2014-08-24 22:35:42 +0200)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to fa3480cb0a96c8af9ded1a8c836c91bd5704bda1:
>>
>> perf tools: Add perf_pmu__scan_file() (2014-09-08 17:16:06 -0300)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> perf/core improvements and fixes:
>>
>> User visible:
>>
>> o Add +field argument support for --sort option (Jiri Olsa)
>>
>> Infrastructure:
>>
>> o More intel PT prep work, from Adrian Hunter, including:
>>
>> - Let a user specify a PMU event without any config terms
>> - Add perf-with-kcore script
>> - Build programs to copy 32-bit compatibility VDSOs
>> - Add support for 32-bit compatibility VDSOs
>> - Let default config be defined for a PMU
>> - Add perf_pmu__scan_file()
>>
>> o Add feature checks to .gitignore (Alexander Shishkin)
>>
>> o "perf kvm stat report" improvements by Alexander Yarygin:
>> o Save pid string in opts.target.pid
>> o Enable the target.system_wide flag
>> o Unify the title bar output
>>
>> o Fix build issue on powerpc when DWARF support is disabled (Anton Blanchard)
>>
>> o Allow to specify lib compile variable for spec usage (Jiri Olsa)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Adrian Hunter (6):
>> perf tools: Let a user specify a PMU event without any config terms
>> perf tools: Add perf-with-kcore script
>> perf tools: Build programs to copy 32-bit compatibility VDSOs
>> perf tools: Add support for 32-bit compatibility VDSOs
>> perf tools: Let default config be defined for a PMU
>> perf tools: Add perf_pmu__scan_file()
>>
>> Alexander Shishkin (1):
>> perf tools: Add feature checks to .gitignore
>>
>> Alexander Yarygin (3):
>> perf kvm stat report: Save pid string in opts.target.pid
>> perf kvm stat report: Enable the target.system_wide flag
>> perf kvm stat report: Unify the title bar output
>>
>> Anton Blanchard (1):
>> perf tools powerpc: Fix build issue when DWARF support is disabled
>>
>> Jiri Olsa (2):
>> perf tools: Add +field argument support for --sort option
>> perf tools: Allow to specify lib compile variable for spec usage
>>
>> tools/perf/.gitignore | 2 +
>> tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 42 ++++++-
>> tools/perf/arch/powerpc/Makefile | 2 +-
>> tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c | 23 ++--
>> tools/perf/config/Makefile | 33 ++++-
>> tools/perf/config/Makefile.arch | 8 ++
>> tools/perf/perf-read-vdso.c | 59 +++++++++
>> tools/perf/perf-with-kcore.sh | 259 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> tools/perf/tests/pmu.c | 2 +-
>> tools/perf/util/kvm-stat.h | 1 -
>> tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 13 +-
>> tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 10 ++
>> tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 79 +++++++++---
>> tools/perf/util/pmu.h | 12 +-
>> tools/perf/util/sort.c | 37 +++++-
>> tools/perf/util/vdso.c | 170 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>> tools/perf/util/vdso.h | 4 +-
>> 17 files changed, 712 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 tools/perf/perf-read-vdso.c
>> create mode 100644 tools/perf/perf-with-kcore.sh
>
> Hm, so I'm getting this error, when trying to profile a 32-bit
> ELF binary on a 64-bit kernel, on a testbox:
>
> $ perf record ~/hackbench 10
> Time: 0.115
> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.373 MB perf.data (~16279 samples) ]
> sh: perf-read-vdso32: command not found

Presumably perf-read-vdso32 is not in the PATH. Did you 'make install'?

>
> comet:~/tip> file ~/hackbench
> /home/mingo/hackbench: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, not stripped
>
> 64-bit executables work fine:
>
> $ perf record perf bench sched pipe
> # Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark:
> # Executed 1000000 pipe operations between two processes
>
> Total time: 13.374 [sec]
>
> 13.374352 usecs/op
> 74769 ops/sec
> [ perf record: Woken up 14 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 3.602 MB perf.data (~157354 samples) ]
>
> The kernel is an older one:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux comet 3.14.17-100.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 14 17:17:26
> UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
>
>

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