Re: perf seg fault

[Jiri Olsa]

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 06:45:24PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 12/05/20 6:10 pm, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 05:58:29PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> >> Forgot to cc mailing list
> >>
> >> On 12/05/20 5:50 pm, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> I am getting a seg fault from your perf/core branch, as follows:
> >>>
> >>> # perf record uname
> >>> Linux
> >>> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> >>> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.005 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
> >>> perf: Segmentation fault
> >>> Obtained 6 stack frames.
> >>> [0x4e75b4]
> >>> [0x5d1ad0]
> >>> [0x5c9860]
> >>> [0x4a6e5c]
> >>> [0x5cb39b]
> >>> [0x76c89f]
> >>> Segmentation fault
> >>>
> >>> It goes away with --no-bpf-event:
> >>>
> >>> # perf record --no-bpf-event uname
> >>> Linux
> >>> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> >>> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.005 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
> >>> #
> >>>
> >>> kernel is from the same branch
> >>>
> >>> # uname -a
> >>> Linux buildroot 5.7.0-rc2-00028-g0fdddf5a583a #165 SMP Tue May 12 16:27:53
> >>> EEST 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >>>
> >>> # perf version --build-options
> >>> perf version 5.6.g0fdddf5a583a
> >>>                  dwarf: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT
> >>>     dwarf_getlocations: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_DWARF_GETLOCATIONS_SUPPORT
> >>>                  glibc: [ on  ]  # HAVE_GLIBC_SUPPORT
> >>>                   gtk2: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_GTK2_SUPPORT
> >>>          syscall_table: [ on  ]  # HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE_SUPPORT
> >>>                 libbfd: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT
> >>>                 libelf: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
> >>>                libnuma: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
> >>> numa_num_possible_cpus: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
> >>>                libperl: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_LIBPERL_SUPPORT
> >>>              libpython: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_LIBPYTHON_SUPPORT
> >>>               libslang: [ on  ]  # HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT
> >>>              libcrypto: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBCRYPTO_SUPPORT
> >>>              libunwind: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT
> >>>     libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT
> >>>                   zlib: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_ZLIB_SUPPORT
> >>>                   lzma: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_LZMA_SUPPORT
> >>>              get_cpuid: [ on  ]  # HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT
> >>>                    bpf: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT
> >>>                    aio: [ on  ]  # HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT
> >>>                   zstd: [ OFF ]  # HAVE_ZSTD_SUPPORT
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Any thoughts?
> > 
> > hum, I don't see that, do you reproduce with DEBUG=1?
> > to get more verbose backtrace
> 
> It will require a kernel with support for bpf events otherwise the
> --no-bpf-event option would have no effect.

ok, reproduced..  I think we need to think about better way,
but this fixes the issue for me now

jirka


---
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 4d4502b7fea0..173012a25df3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -2564,6 +2564,10 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
 	if (quiet)
 		perf_quiet_option();
 
+#ifndef HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT
+	rec->opts.no_bpf_event = true;
+#endif
+
 	/* Make system wide (-a) the default target. */
 	if (!argc && target__none(&rec->opts.target))
 		rec->opts.target.system_wide = true;