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

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Jan 11 2017 - 15:24:13 EST

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Hi Ingo,

Please consider pulling,

- Arnaldo

Test results at the end of this message, as usual.

* The following description will move to the end in the next pull requests *

The first ones are container (docker) based builds of tools/perf with and
without libelf support, objtool where it is supported and samples/bpf/, ditto.

Several are cross builds, the ones with -x-ARCH, and the android one, and those
may not have all the features built, due to lack of multi-arch devel packages,
available and being used so far on just a few, like
debian:experimental-x-{arm64,mipsel}.

The 'perf test' one will perform a variety of tests exercising
tools/perf/util/, tools/lib/{bpf,traceevent,etc}, as well as run perf commands
with a variety of command line event specifications to then intercept the
sys_perf_event syscall to check that the perf_event_attr fields are set up as
expected, among a variety of other unit tests.

Then there is the 'make -C tools/perf build-test' ones, that build tools/perf/
with a variety of feature sets, exercising the build with an incomplete set of
features as well as with a complete one. It is planned to have it run on each
of the containers mentioned above, using some container orchestration
infrastructure. Get in contact if interested in helping having this in place.

The following changes since commit ad5013d5699d30ded0cdbbc68b93b2aa28222c6e:

perf/x86/intel: Use ULL constant to prevent undefined shift behaviour (2017-01-11 16:43:30 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-4.11-20170111

for you to fetch changes up to 675f52b23743f396c585fc9d135435be37f320d8:

tools: Sync x86's vmx.h with the kernel (2017-01-11 16:48:02 -0300)

----------------------------------------------------------------
perf/core improvements and fixes:

New features:

- Add more triggers to switch the output file (perf.data.TIMESTAMP).

Now, in addition to switching to a different output file when
receiving a SIGUSR2, one can also specify file size and time based
triggers:

perf record -a --switch-output=signal

is equivalent to what we had before:

perf record -a --switch-output

While we can also ask for the file to be "sliced" by size, taking
into account that that will happen only when we get woken up by
the kernel, i.e. one has to take into account the --mmap-pages (the
size of the perf mmap ring buffer):

perf record -a --switch-output=2G

will break the perf.data output into multiple files limited to 2GB
of samples, right when generating the output.

For time based samples, alert() will be used, so to have 1 minute
limited perf.data output files:

perf record -a --switch-output=1m

(Jiri Olsa)

- Remove the need to use -e only for syscalls and --event only for
tracepoints/HW/SW/etc events, i.e. now one can use:

perf trace -e nanosleep,futex,sched:sched_switch ./workload

or:

perf trace --event nanosleep,futex,sched:sched_switch ./workload

And have it tracing raw_syscalls:sys_{enter,exit} for the nanosleep
and futex syscalls, formatting those as strace does while also
tracing sched:sched_switch, ordering it all into one strace like
output.

Using '!' as the first character in the -e/--event argument remains
a way to negate the list of syscalls, i.e. all syscalls except for
the ones specified, doesn't affect the other kinds of events.

E.g:

[root@jouet ~] # perf trace -e sched:sched_switch,nanosleep usleep 1
0.000 ( 0.028 ms): usleep/28150 nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffe4201b9f0) ...
0.028 ( ): sched:sched_switch:usleep:28150 [120] S ==> swapper/0:0 [120])
0.000 ( 0.065 ms): usleep/28150 ... [continued]: nanosleep()) = 0
[root@jouet ~]#

(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- 'perf kallsyms' toy tool to look for extended symbol information on
the running kernel and demonstrate the machine/thread/symbol APIs for
use in other tools, such as 'perf probe' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Infrastructure:

- Add missing linux/kernel.h include to subcmd.h (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
tools: Sync x86's vmx.h with the kernel

- Create libdir directory before installing libperf-jvmti.so (Laura Abbott)

- Fix typo in perf_evlist__start_workload() (Soramichi Akiyama)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

----------------------------------------------------------------
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (5):
tools lib subcmd: Add missing linux/kernel.h include to subcmd.h
perf machine: Add a kallsyms loading constructor
perf kallsyms: Introduce tool to look for extended symbol information on the running kernel
perf trace: Allow specifying list of syscalls and events in -e/--expr/--event
tools: Sync x86's vmx.h with the kernel

Jiri Olsa (6):
perf tools: Add unit_number__scnprintf function
perf record: Add struct switch_output
perf record: Change switch-output option to take optional argument
perf record: Add switch-output size option argument
perf record: Add switch-output size warning
perf record: Add switch-output time option argument

Laura Abbott (1):
perf jvmti: Create libdir directory before installing libperf-jvmti.so

Soramichi Akiyama (1):
perf evlist: Fix typo in perf_evlist__start_workload()

tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h | 5 +
tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.h | 1 +
tools/perf/Build | 1 +
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kallsyms.txt | 24 +++++
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 14 ++-
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | 8 +-
tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 1 +
tools/perf/builtin-help.c | 2 +-
tools/perf/builtin-kallsyms.c | 67 +++++++++++++
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 154 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 120 ++++++++++++++++------
tools/perf/builtin.h | 1 +
tools/perf/command-list.txt | 1 +
tools/perf/perf.c | 1 +
tools/perf/tests/Build | 1 +
tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c | 4 +
tools/perf/tests/tests.h | 1 +
tools/perf/tests/unit_number__scnprintf.c | 37 +++++++
tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 12 ++-
tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 2 +
tools/perf/util/machine.c | 19 ++++
tools/perf/util/machine.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/util.c | 13 +++
tools/perf/util/util.h | 1 +
24 files changed, 439 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kallsyms.txt
create mode 100644 tools/perf/builtin-kallsyms.c
create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/unit_number__scnprintf.c

# uname -a
Linux jouet 4.9.0+ #2 SMP Wed Dec 21 11:54:44 BRT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# perf test
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms : Ok
2: Detect openat syscall event : Ok
3: Detect openat syscall event on all cpus : Ok
4: Read samples using the mmap interface : Ok
5: Parse event definition strings : Ok
6: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : Ok
7: Parse perf pmu format : Ok
8: DSO data read : Ok
9: DSO data cache : Ok
10: DSO data reopen : Ok
11: Roundtrip evsel->name : Ok
12: Parse sched tracepoints fields : Ok
13: syscalls:sys_enter_openat event fields : Ok
14: Setup struct perf_event_attr : Ok
15: Match and link multiple hists : Ok
16: 'import perf' in python : Ok
17: Breakpoint overflow signal handler : Ok
18: Breakpoint overflow sampling : Ok
19: Number of exit events of a simple workload : Ok
20: Software clock events period values : Ok
21: Object code reading : Ok
22: Sample parsing : Ok
23: Use a dummy software event to keep tracking: Ok
24: Parse with no sample_id_all bit set : Ok
25: Filter hist entries : Ok
26: Lookup mmap thread : Ok
27: Share thread mg : Ok
28: Sort output of hist entries : Ok
29: Cumulate child hist entries : Ok
30: Track with sched_switch : Ok
31: Filter fds with revents mask in a fdarray : Ok
32: Add fd to a fdarray, making it autogrow : Ok
33: kmod_path__parse : Ok
34: Thread map : Ok
35: LLVM search and compile :
35.1: Basic BPF llvm compile : Ok
35.2: kbuild searching : Ok
35.3: Compile source for BPF prologue generation: Ok
35.4: Compile source for BPF relocation : Ok
36: Session topology : Ok
37: BPF filter :
37.1: Basic BPF filtering : Ok
37.2: BPF prologue generation : Ok
37.3: BPF relocation checker : Ok
38: Synthesize thread map : Ok
39: Remove thread map : Ok
40: Synthesize cpu map : Ok
41: Synthesize stat config : Ok
42: Synthesize stat : Ok
43: Synthesize stat round : Ok
44: Synthesize attr update : Ok
45: Event times : Ok
46: Read backward ring buffer : Ok
47: Print cpu map : Ok
48: Probe SDT events : Ok
49: is_printable_array : Ok
50: Print bitmap : Ok
51: perf hooks : Ok
52: builtin clang support : Skip (not compiled in)
53: unit_number__scnprintf : Ok
54: x86 rdpmc : Ok
55: Convert perf time to TSC : Ok
56: DWARF unwind : Ok
57: x86 instruction decoder - new instructions : Ok
58: Intel cqm nmi context read : Skip
#

[root@jouet ~]# dm
1 alpine:3.4: Ok
2 android-ndk:r12b-arm: Ok
3 archlinux:latest: Ok
4 centos:5: Ok
5 centos:6: Ok
6 centos:7: Ok
7 debian:7: Ok
8 debian:8: Ok
9 debian:experimental: Ok
10 debian:experimental-x-arm64: Ok
11 debian:experimental-x-mips64: Ok
12 debian:experimental-x-mipsel: Ok
13 fedora:20: Ok
14 fedora:21: Ok
15 fedora:22: Ok
16 fedora:23: Ok
17 fedora:24: Ok
18 fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc: Ok
19 fedora:25: Ok
20 fedora:rawhide: Ok
21 mageia:5: Ok
22 opensuse:13.2: Ok
23 opensuse:42.1: Ok
24 opensuse:tumbleweed: Ok
25 ubuntu:12.04.5: Ok
26 ubuntu:14.04.4-x-linaro-arm64: Ok
27 ubuntu:15.10: Ok
28 ubuntu:16.04: Ok
29 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm: Ok
30 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm64: Ok
31 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc: Ok
32 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64: Ok
33 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64el: Ok
34 ubuntu:16.04-x-s390: Ok
35 ubuntu:16.10: Ok
#

$ make -C tools/perf build-test
make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf'
- tarpkg: ./tests/perf-targz-src-pkg .
make_no_libaudit_O: make NO_LIBAUDIT=1
make_static_O: make LDFLAGS=-static
make_util_pmu_bison_o_O: make util/pmu-bison.o
make_with_babeltrace_O: make LIBBABELTRACE=1
make_install_prefix_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava
make_debug_O: make DEBUG=1
make_no_scripts_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_LIBPERL=1
make_no_libunwind_O: make NO_LIBUNWIND=1
make_help_O: make help
make_doc_O: make doc
make_no_newt_O: make NO_NEWT=1
make_no_demangle_O: make NO_DEMANGLE=1
make_install_bin_O: make install-bin
make_no_libbpf_O: make NO_LIBBPF=1
make_no_auxtrace_O: make NO_AUXTRACE=1
make_perf_o_O: make perf.o
make_pure_O: make
make_clean_all_O: make clean all
make_no_libbionic_O: make NO_LIBBIONIC=1
make_install_O: make install
make_install_prefix_slash_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava/
make_util_map_o_O: make util/map.o
make_no_libnuma_O: make NO_LIBNUMA=1
make_no_ui_O: make NO_NEWT=1 NO_SLANG=1 NO_GTK2=1
make_with_clangllvm_O: make LIBCLANGLLVM=1
make_minimal_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1 NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_NEWT=1 NO_GTK2=1 NO_DEMANGLE=1 NO_LIBELF=1 NO_LIBUNWIND=1 NO_BACKTRACE=1 NO_LIBNUMA=1 NO_LIBAUDIT=1 NO_LIBBIONIC=1 NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1 NO_AUXTRACE=1 NO_LIBBPF=1 NO_LIBCRYPTO=1 NO_SDT=1 NO_JVMTI=1
make_no_gtk2_O: make NO_GTK2=1
make_no_libpython_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1
make_no_backtrace_O: make NO_BACKTRACE=1
make_no_libperl_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1
make_no_slang_O: make NO_SLANG=1
make_tags_O: make tags
make_no_libelf_O: make NO_LIBELF=1
make_no_libdw_dwarf_unwind_O: make NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1
OK
make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf'
$

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