[GIT PULL 00/22] perf/core improvements and fixes

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Nov 30 2018 - 13:27:10 EST


Hi Ingo,

Please consider pulling, more to come,

Regards,

- Arnaldo

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

The following changes since commit b1a9d7b0190119dad5b9b7841751b5a7586bbc8b:

Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo-4.20-20181121' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent (2018-11-21 15:57:21 +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-4.21-20181130

for you to fetch changes up to 09d3f015d1e1b4fee7e9bbdcf54201d239393391:

uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs. unregister() + register() race once more (2018-11-23 08:31:19 +0100)

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perf/core improvements and fixes:

- Introduce 'perf record --aio' to use asynchronous IO trace writing in
'perf record' disabled by default, i.e. one needs to explicitly use
'perf record --aio' to use it, in which case the number of AIO aiocb
structs will be one, specify 'perf record --aio=N' to ask for more,
according to your needs, related to the number of processors in your
machine. Reports about the effectiveness of this option are welcome
so that we can decide on making it the default mode of operation. Read
the respective patches commit logs for further information (Alexey Budankov)

- Add fallback routines to be used in places where we don't have the cpu mode
(kernel/user space/hypervisor) and thus must first fallback lookups looking
at all map trees when trying to resolve symbols (Adrian Hunter)

- Introduce 'perf top --kallsyms file' to match 'perf report --kallsyms', useful
when dealing with BPF, where symbol resolution happens via kallsyms, not via
the default vmlinux ELF symtabs (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fix CSV mode column output for non-cgroup events in 'perf stat' (Stephane Eranian)

- Fix 'perf stat' shadow stats for clock events. (Ravi Bangoria)

- Fix error with config term "pt=0", where we should just force "pt=1" and
warn the user about the former being non-sensical (Adrian Hunter)

- Fix 'perf test' entry where we expect 'sleep' to come in a PERF_RECORD_COMM
but instead we get 'coreutils' when sleep is provided by some versions of
the 'coreutils' package (Adrian Hunter)

- Remove needless rb_tree extra indirection from map__find() (Eric Saint-Etienne)

- Add sanity check to libtraceevent's is_timestamp_in_us() (Tzvetomir Stoyanov)

- Use ERR_CAST instead of ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR()) (Wen Yang)

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

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Andrea Parri (1):
uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs. unregister() + register() race once more

Jiri Olsa (3):
perf/x86/intel: Move branch tracing setup to the Intel-specific source file
perf/x86/intel: Add generic branch tracing check to intel_pmu_has_bts()
perf/x86/intel: Disallow precise_ip on BTS events

arch/x86/events/core.c | 20 ----------------
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 13 ++++++----
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 12 ++++++++--
4 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

Test results:

XXX: Investigation on the watchpoint and breakpoint 'perf test' failures is
underway, doesn't look like related to patches in this batch.

The first ones are container (docker) based builds of tools/perf with
and without libelf support. Where clang is available, it is also used
to build perf with/without libelf, and building with LIBCLANGLLVM=1
(built-in clang) with gcc and clang when clang and its devel libraries
are installed.

The objtool and samples/bpf/ builds are disabled now that I'm switching from
using the sources in a local volume to fetching them from a http server to
build it inside the container, to make it easier to build in a container cluster.
Those will come back later.

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.

# dm
1 alpine:3.4 : Ok gcc (Alpine 5.3.0) 5.3.0
2 alpine:3.5 : Ok gcc (Alpine 6.2.1) 6.2.1 20160822
3 alpine:3.6 : Ok gcc (Alpine 6.3.0) 6.3.0
4 alpine:3.7 : Ok gcc (Alpine 6.4.0) 6.4.0
5 alpine:3.8 : Ok gcc (Alpine 6.4.0) 6.4.0
6 alpine:edge : Ok gcc (Alpine 6.4.0) 6.4.0
7 amazonlinux:1 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28)
8 amazonlinux:2 : Ok gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5)
9 android-ndk:r12b-arm : Ok arm-linux-androideabi-gcc (GCC) 4.9.x 20150123 (prerelease)
10 android-ndk:r15c-arm : Ok arm-linux-androideabi-gcc (GCC) 4.9.x 20150123 (prerelease)
11 centos:5 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-55)
12 centos:6 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23)
13 centos:7 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28)
14 clearlinux:latest : Ok gcc (Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture) 8.2.1 20180502
15 debian:7 : Ok gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2
16 debian:8 : Ok gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10+deb8u1) 4.9.2
17 debian:9 : Ok gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516
18 debian:experimental : Ok gcc (Debian 8.2.0-10) 8.2.0
19 debian:experimental-x-arm64 : Ok aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 8.2.0-10) 8.2.0
20 debian:experimental-x-mips : Ok mips-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 8.2.0-7) 8.2.0
21 debian:experimental-x-mips64 : Ok mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc (Debian 8.2.0-10) 8.2.0
22 debian:experimental-x-mipsel : Ok mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 8.2.0-7) 8.2.0
23 fedora:20 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-7)
24 fedora:21 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.9.2 20150212 (Red Hat 4.9.2-6)
25 fedora:22 : Ok gcc (GCC) 5.3.1 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6)
26 fedora:23 : Ok gcc (GCC) 5.3.1 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6)
27 fedora:24 : Ok gcc (GCC) 6.3.1 20161221 (Red Hat 6.3.1-1)
28 fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc : Ok arc-linux-gcc (ARCompact ISA Linux uClibc toolchain 2017.09-rc2) 7.1.1 20170710
29 fedora:25 : Ok gcc (GCC) 6.4.1 20170727 (Red Hat 6.4.1-1)
30 fedora:26 : Ok gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180130 (Red Hat 7.3.1-2)
31 fedora:27 : Ok gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-6)
32 fedora:28 : Ok gcc (GCC) 8.2.1 20181105 (Red Hat 8.2.1-5)
33 fedora:29 : Ok gcc (GCC) 8.2.1 20181011 (Red Hat 8.2.1-4)
34 fedora:rawhide : Ok gcc (GCC) 8.2.1 20181011 (Red Hat 8.2.1-4)
35 gentoo-stage3-amd64:latest : Ok gcc (Gentoo 7.3.0-r3 p1.4) 7.3.0
36 mageia:5 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.9.2
37 mageia:6 : Ok gcc (Mageia 5.5.0-1.mga6) 5.5.0
38 opensuse:13.2 : Ok gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.3 20140627 [gcc-4_8-branch revision 212064]
39 opensuse:42.1 : Ok gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
40 opensuse:42.2 : Ok gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
41 opensuse:42.3 : Ok gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
42 opensuse:tumbleweed : Ok gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.3.1 20180323 [gcc-7-branch revision 258812]
43 oraclelinux:6 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23.0.1)
44 oraclelinux:7 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36.0.1)
45 ubuntu:12.04.5 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
46 ubuntu:14.04.4 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4
47 ubuntu:14.04.4-x-linaro-arm64 : Ok aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Linaro GCC 5.5-2017.10) 5.5.0
48 ubuntu:16.04 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) 5.4.0 20160609
49 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm : Ok arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
50 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm64 : Ok aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
51 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc : Ok powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
52 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64 : Ok powerpc64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
53 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64el : Ok powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
54 ubuntu:16.04-x-s390 : Ok s390x-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
55 ubuntu:16.10 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 6.2.0-5ubuntu12) 6.2.0 20161005
56 ubuntu:17.10 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3.2) 7.2.0
57 ubuntu:18.04 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0
58 ubuntu:18.04-x-arm : Ok arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0
59 ubuntu:18.04-x-arm64 : Ok aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0
60 ubuntu:18.04-x-m68k : Ok m68k-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0
61 ubuntu:18.04-x-powerpc : Ok powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0
62 ubuntu:18.04-x-powerpc64 : Ok powerpc64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0
63 ubuntu:18.04-x-powerpc64el : Ok powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0
64 ubuntu:18.04-x-riscv64 : Ok riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0
65 ubuntu:18.04-x-s390 : Ok s390x-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0
66 ubuntu:18.04-x-sh4 : Ok sh4-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0
67 ubuntu:18.04-x-sparc64 : Ok sparc64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0
68 ubuntu:18.10 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 8.2.0-7ubuntu1) 8.2.0
#

# uname -a
Linux seventh 4.18.19-100.fc27.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 14 22:04:34 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# git log --oneline -1
ceed7c10bbb4 tools lib traceevent: Add sanity check to is_timestamp_in_us()
# perf version --build-options
perf version 4.20.rc3.gceed7c
dwarf: [ on ] # HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT
dwarf_getlocations: [ on ] # HAVE_DWARF_GETLOCATIONS_SUPPORT
glibc: [ on ] # HAVE_GLIBC_SUPPORT
gtk2: [ on ] # HAVE_GTK2_SUPPORT
syscall_table: [ on ] # HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE_SUPPORT
libbfd: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT
libelf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
libnuma: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
libperl: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBPERL_SUPPORT
libpython: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBPYTHON_SUPPORT
libslang: [ on ] # HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT
libcrypto: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBCRYPTO_SUPPORT
libunwind: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT
libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on ] # HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT
zlib: [ on ] # HAVE_ZLIB_SUPPORT
lzma: [ on ] # HAVE_LZMA_SUPPORT
get_cpuid: [ on ] # HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT
bpf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT
# 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: Test data source output : Ok
6: Parse event definition strings : Ok
7: Simple expression parser : Ok
8: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : Ok
9: Parse perf pmu format : Ok
10: DSO data read : Ok
11: DSO data cache : Ok
12: DSO data reopen : Ok
13: Roundtrip evsel->name : Ok
14: Parse sched tracepoints fields : Ok
15: syscalls:sys_enter_openat event fields : Ok
16: Setup struct perf_event_attr : Ok
17: Match and link multiple hists : Ok
18: 'import perf' in python : Ok
19: Breakpoint overflow signal handler : Ok
20: Breakpoint overflow sampling : Ok
21: Breakpoint accounting : Ok
22: Watchpoint :
22.1: Read Only Watchpoint : Skip
22.2: Write Only Watchpoint : Ok
22.3: Read / Write Watchpoint : Ok
22.4: Modify Watchpoint : FAILED!
23: Number of exit events of a simple workload : Ok
24: Software clock events period values : Ok
25: Object code reading : Ok
26: Sample parsing : Ok
27: Use a dummy software event to keep tracking : Ok
28: Parse with no sample_id_all bit set : Ok
29: Filter hist entries : Ok
30: Lookup mmap thread : Ok
31: Share thread mg : Ok
32: Sort output of hist entries : Ok
33: Cumulate child hist entries : Ok
34: Track with sched_switch : Ok
35: Filter fds with revents mask in a fdarray : Ok
36: Add fd to a fdarray, making it autogrow : Ok
37: kmod_path__parse : Ok
38: Thread map : Ok
39: LLVM search and compile :
39.1: Basic BPF llvm compile : Ok
39.2: kbuild searching : Ok
39.3: Compile source for BPF prologue generation : Ok
39.4: Compile source for BPF relocation : Ok
40: Session topology : Ok
41: BPF filter :
41.1: Basic BPF filtering : Ok
41.2: BPF pinning : Ok
41.3: BPF prologue generation : Ok
41.4: BPF relocation checker : Ok
42: Synthesize thread map : Ok
43: Remove thread map : Ok
44: Synthesize cpu map : Ok
45: Synthesize stat config : Ok
46: Synthesize stat : Ok
47: Synthesize stat round : Ok
48: Synthesize attr update : Ok
49: Event times : Ok
50: Read backward ring buffer : Ok
51: Print cpu map : Ok
52: Probe SDT events : Ok
53: is_printable_array : Ok
54: Print bitmap : Ok
55: perf hooks : Ok
56: builtin clang support : Skip (not compiled in)
57: unit_number__scnprintf : Ok
58: mem2node : Ok
59: x86 rdpmc : Ok
60: Convert perf time to TSC : Ok
61: DWARF unwind : Ok
62: x86 instruction decoder - new instructions : Ok
63: x86 bp modify : FAILED!
64: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping : Ok
65: Check open filename arg using perf trace + vfs_getname: Ok
66: Use vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames : Ok
67: Add vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames : Ok

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