linux/tools/perf, branch v3.14

perf bench: Fix NULL pointer dereference in "perf bench all"

2014-03-14T16:45:54Z

The for_each_bench() macro must check that the "benchmarks" field of a collection is not NULL before dereferencing it because the "all" collection in particular has a NULL "benchmarks" field (signifying that it has no benchmarks to iterate over). This fixes this NULL pointer dereference when running "perf bench all": [root@ssdandy ~]# perf bench all # Running mem/memset benchmark... # Copying 1MB Bytes ... 2.453675 GB/Sec 12.056327 GB/Sec (with prefault) Segmentation fault (core dumped) [root@ssdandy ~]# Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394664051-6037-1-git-send-email-patrick@parcs.ath.cx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench numa: Make no args mean 'run all tests'

2014-03-14T13:04:10Z

If we call just: perf bench numa mem it will present the same output as: perf bench numa mem -h i.e. ask for instructions about what to run. While that is kinda ok, using 'run all tests' as the default, i.e. making 'no parms' be equivalent to: perf bench numa mem -a Will allow: perf bench numa all to actually do what is asked: i.e. run all the 'bench' tests, instead of responding to that by asking what to do. That, in turn, allows: perf bench all to actually complete, for the same reasons. And after that, the tests that come after that, and that at some point hit a NULL deref, will run, allowing me to reproduce a recently reported problem. That when you have the needed numa libraries, which wasn't the case for the reporter, making me a bit confused after trying to reproduce his report. So make no parms mean -a. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Patrick Palka Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x7h0ghx4pef4n0brywg21krk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Use map as success in ip__resolve_ams

2014-03-10T14:19:36Z

When trying to map a bunch of instruction addresses to their respective threads, I kept getting a lot of bogus entries [I forget the exact reason as I patched my code months ago]. Looking through ip__resolve_ams, I noticed the check for if (al.sym) and realized, most times I have an al.map definition but sometimes an al.sym is undefined. In the cases where al.sym is undefined, the loop keeps going even though a valid al.map exists. Modify this check to use the more reliable al.map. This fixed my bogus entries. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393386227-149412-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Fix crash in elf_section_by_name

2014-03-10T14:17:14Z

Fixing crash in elf_section_by_name function caused by missing section name in elf binary. Reported-by: Albert Strasheim Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Albert Strasheim Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393767127-599-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Decode architecture-specific signal numbers

2014-03-10T14:10:45Z

SIGSTKFLT is not defined on alpha, mips or sparc. SIGEMT and SIGSWI are defined on some architectures and should be decoded here if so. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Fixes: 8bad5b0abfdb ('perf trace: Beautify signal number arg in several syscalls') Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391648441.3003.101.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix strict alias issue for find_first_bit

2014-02-28T13:39:40Z

When compiling perf tool code with gcc 4.4.7 I'm getting following error: CC util/session.o cc1: warnings being treated as errors util/session.c: In function ‘perf_session_deliver_event’: tools/perf/util/include/linux/bitops.h:109: error: dereferencing pointer ‘p’ does break strict-aliasing rules tools/perf/util/include/linux/bitops.h:101: error: dereferencing pointer ‘p’ does break strict-aliasing rules util/session.c:697: note: initialized from here tools/perf/util/include/linux/bitops.h:101: note: initialized from here make[1]: *** [util/session.o] Error 1 make: *** [util/session.o] Error 2 The aliased types here are u64 and unsigned long pointers, which is safe for the find_first_bit processing. This error shows up for me only for gcc 4.4 on 32bit x86, even for -Wstrict-aliasing=3, while newer gcc are quiet and scream here for -Wstrict-aliasing={2,1}. Looks like newer gcc changed the rules for strict alias warnings. The gcc documentation offers workaround for valid aliasing by using __may_alias__ attribute: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.4.0/gcc/Type-Attributes.html Using this workaround for the find_first_bit function. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393434867-20271-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: fix BFD detection on opensuse

2014-02-27T21:29:08Z

opensuse libbfd requires -lz -liberty to build. Add those to the BFD feature detection. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: David Ahern Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389469379-13340-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Destroy unused symsrcs

2014-02-24T14:13:08Z

Stephane reported that perf report and annotate failed to process data using lots of (> 500) shared libraries. It was because of the limit on number of open files (ulimit -n). Currently when perf loads a DSO, it'll look for normal and dynamic symbol tables. And if it fails to find out both tables, it'll iterate all of possible symtab types. But many of them are useless since they have no additional information and the problem is that it's not closing those files even though they're not used. Fix it. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Cody P Schafer Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392859976-32760-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate: Check availability of annotate when processing samples

2014-02-24T14:12:55Z

The TUI of perf report and top support annotation, but stdio and GTK don't. So it should be checked before calling hist_entry__inc_addr_ samples() to avoid wasting resources that will never be used. perf annotate need it regardless of UI and sort keys, so the check of whether to allocate resources should be on the tools that have annotate as an option in the TUI, 'report' and 'top', not on the function called by all of them. It caused perf annotate on ppc64 to produce zero output, since the buckets were not being allocated. Reported-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Anton Blanchard Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392859976-32760-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ Renamed (report,top)__needs_annotate() to ui__has_annotation() ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Fix ioctl 'request' beautifier build problems on !(i386 || x86_64) arches

2014-02-13T20:28:31Z

Supporting decoding the ioctl 'request' parameter needs more work to properly support more architectures, the current approach doesn't work on at least powerpc and sparc, as reported by Ben Hutchings in http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391593985.3003.48.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk . Work around that by making it to be ifdefed for the architectures known to work with the current, limited approach, i386 and x86_64 till better code is written. Reported-by: Ben Hutchings Acked-by: Ben Hutchings Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: # 3.13 Fixes: 78645cf3ed32 ("perf trace: Initial beautifier for ioctl's 'cmd' arg") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ss04k11insqlu329xh5g02q0@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo