kernel.git/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c, branch linux-3.16.y

perf probe: Show error code and description in verbose mode

2014-06-09T17:34:09Z

Show error code and description only in verbose mode if 'perf probe' command failed. Current 'perf probe' shows error code with final error message, and that is meaningless for many users. This changes error messages to show the error code and its description only in verbose mode (-v option). Without this patch: ----- # perf probe -a do_execve@hoge Probe point 'do_execve@hoge' not found. Error: Failed to add events. (-2) ----- With this patch, normally the message doesn't show the misterious error number: ----- # perf probe -a do_execve@hoge Probe point 'do_execve@hoge' not found. Error: Failed to add events. ----- And in verbose mode, it also shows additional error messages as below: ----- # perf probe -va do_execve@hoge probe-definition(0): do_execve@hoge symbol:do_execve file:hoge line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) 0 arguments Looking at the vmlinux_path (6 entries long) Using /lib/modules/3.15.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux for symbols Open Debuginfo file: /lib/modules/3.15.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux Try to find probe point from debuginfo. Probe point 'do_execve@hoge' not found. Error: Failed to add events. Reason: No such file or directory (Code: -2) ----- Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140606071352.6788.76943.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocal Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Replace line_list with intlist

2014-02-18T12:34:50Z

Replace line_list (struct line_node) with intlist for reducing similar codes. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: "David A. Long" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140206053209.29635.81043.stgit@kbuild-fedora.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Release all dynamically allocated parameters

2014-01-16T19:29:02Z

To fix a memory leak, release all dynamically allocated options/parameters in params data structure. This also introduces/exports some init/clear routines. Reported-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: "David A. Long" Cc: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140116093947.24403.80118.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocal Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Support basic dwarf-based operations on uprobe events

2013-12-26T14:22:01Z

Support basic dwarf(debuginfo) based operations for uprobe events. With this change, perf probe can analyze debuginfo of user application binary to set up new uprobe event. This allows perf-probe --add(with local variables, line numbers) and --line works with -x option. (Actually, --vars has already accepted -x option) For example, the following command shows the probe-able lines of a given user space function. Something that so far was only available in the 'perf probe' tool for kernel space functions: # ./perf probe -x perf --line map__load 0 int map__load(struct map *map, symbol_filter_t filter) 1 { 2 const char *name = map->dso->long_name; int nr; 5 if (dso__loaded(map->dso, map->type)) 6 return 0; 8 nr = dso__load(map->dso, map, filter); 9 if (nr < 0) { 10 if (map->dso->has_build_id) { And this shows the available variables at the given line of the function. # ./perf probe -x perf --vars map__load:8 Available variables at map__load:8 @ char* name struct map* map symbol_filter_t filter @ char* name symbol_filter_t filter @ char* name symbol_filter_t filter @ char* name struct map* map symbol_filter_t filter And lastly, we can now define probe(s) with all available variables on the given line: # ./perf probe -x perf --add 'map__load:8 $vars' Added new events: probe_perf:map__load (on map__load:8 with $vars) probe_perf:map__load_1 (on map__load:8 with $vars) probe_perf:map__load_2 (on map__load:8 with $vars) probe_perf:map__load_3 (on map__load:8 with $vars) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe_perf:map__load_3 -aR sleep 1 Changes from previous version: - Add examples in the patch description. - Use .text section start address and dwarf symbol address for calculating the offset of given symbol, instead of searching the symbol in symtab again. With this change, we can safely handle multiple local function instances (e.g. scnprintf in perf). Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: David Ahern Cc: David A. Long Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131226054152.22364.47021.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocal Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Expand given path to absolute path

2013-12-26T14:21:19Z

Expand given path to absolute path in the option parser, except for a module name. Since realpath at later stage in processing several probe point, can be called several times (even if currently doesn't, it can happen when we expands the feature), it is waste of the performance. Processing it once at the early stage can avoid that. Changes from previous one: - Fix not to print null string. - Allocate memory for given path/module name everytime. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: "David A. Long" Cc: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131226054150.22364.12187.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocal [ Clarified the pr_warning message as per David Ahern's suggestion ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools/: Convert to new topic libraries

2013-12-16T19:03:27Z

Move debugfs.* to api/fs/. We have a common tools/lib/api/ place where the Makefile lives and then we place the headers in subdirs. For example, all the fs-related stuff goes to tools/lib/api/fs/ from which we get libapikfs.a (acme got almost the naming he wanted :-)) and we link it into the tools which need it - in this case perf and tools/vm/page-types. acme: "Looking at the implementation, I think some tools can even link directly to the .o files, avoiding the .a file altogether. But that is just an optimization/finer granularity tools/lib/ cherrypicking that toolers can make use of." Fixup documentation cleaning target while at it. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stanislav Fomichev Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386605664-24041-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Add '--demangle'/'--no-demangle'

2013-11-14T19:06:28Z

You can't pass demangled name into "perf probe", because of special chars: ./perf probe -f -x /tmp/a.out 'foo(int)' Semantic error :There is non-digit char in line number. And you can't even pass without demangling (because it search symbol in DSO with demangle=true): ./perf probe -f -x /tmp/a.out _Z3fooi no symbols found in /tmp/a.out, maybe install a debug package? However: nm /tmp/a.out | grep foo 000000000040056d T _Z3fooi After this patch, using the next command: ./perf probe -f --no-demangle -x /tmp/a.out _Z3fooi probe will be successfully added. Signed-off-by: Azat Khuzhin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382947464-31266-1-git-send-email-a3at.mail@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools/perf: Standardize feature support define names to: HAVE_{FEATURE}_SUPPORT

2013-10-09T06:48:28Z

Standardize all the feature flags based on the HAVE_{FEATURE}_SUPPORT naming convention: HAVE_ARCH_X86_64_SUPPORT HAVE_BACKTRACE_SUPPORT HAVE_CPLUS_DEMANGLE_SUPPORT HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT HAVE_ELF_GETPHDRNUM_SUPPORT HAVE_GTK2_SUPPORT HAVE_GTK_INFO_BAR_SUPPORT HAVE_LIBAUDIT_SUPPORT HAVE_LIBELF_MMAP_SUPPORT HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT HAVE_ON_EXIT_SUPPORT HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT HAVE_STRLCPY_SUPPORT Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-u3zvqejddfZhtrbYbfhi3spa@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Introduce tools/lib/lk library

2013-03-15T16:06:00Z

This introduces the tools/lib/lk library, that will gradually have the routines that now are used in tools/perf/ and other tools and that can be shared. Start by carving out debugfs routines for general use. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361374353-30385-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de [ committer note: Add tools/lib/lk/ to perf's MANIFEST so that its tarballs continue to build ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Don't use globals where not needed to

2012-10-02T21:36:37Z

Some variables were global but used in just one function, so move it to where it belongs. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-adql1rjwxlmahx9unvfi3wqo@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo