kernel.git/tools/perf/util/dso.h, branch linux-4.1.y

perf symbols: Save DSO loading errno to better report errors

2015-03-24T15:08:43Z

Before, when some problem happened while trying to load the kernel symtab, 'perf top' would show: ┌─Warning:───────────────────────────┐ │The vmlinux file can't be used. │ │Kernel samples will not be resolved.│ │ │ │ │ │Press any key... │ └────────────────────────────────────┘ Now, it reports: # perf top --vmlinux /dev/null ┌─Warning:───────────────────────────────────────────┐ │The /tmp/passwd file can't be used: Invalid ELF file│ │Kernel samples will not be resolved. │ │ │ │ │ │Press any key... │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This is possible because we now register the reason for not being able to load the symtab in the dso->load_errno member, and provide a dso__strerror_load() routine to format this error into a strerror like string with a short reason for the error while loading. That can be just forwarding the dso__strerror_load() call to strerror_r(), or, for a separate errno range providing a custom message. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: David Ahern Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-u5rb5uq63xqhkfb8uv2lxd5u@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove is_kmodule_extension function

2015-03-23T15:40:15Z

Because it's no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bb84vlg76t78q8y8fdeed2qn@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove compressed argument from is_kernel_module

2015-03-23T15:39:30Z

We no longer need the 'compressed' argument, because all current users use 'NULL' for it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-d72q2s7ggbmy2yzhumux4zzw@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add dsos__addnew function

2015-03-21T17:53:42Z

Separate the creation of new dso object and its addition to the dsos list. It will be used in following patch. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8j43jod97fdt5dwdsushwwae@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add kmod_path__parse function

2015-03-21T17:53:41Z

Provides united way of parsing kernel module path into several components. The new kmod_path__parse function and few defines: int __kmod_path__parse(struct kmod_path *m, const char *path, bool alloc_name, bool alloc_ext); #define kmod_path__parse(__m, __p) __kmod_path__parse(__m, __p, false, false) #define kmod_path__parse_name(__m, __p) __kmod_path__parse(__m, __p, true , false) #define kmod_path__parse_ext(__m, __p) __kmod_path__parse(__m, __p, false, true) parse kernel module @path and updates @m argument like: @comp - true if @path contains supported compression suffix, false otherwise @kmod - true if @path contains '.ko' suffix in right position, false otherwise @name - if (@alloc_name && @kmod) is true, it contains strdup-ed base name of the kernel module without suffixes, otherwise strudup-ed base name of @path @ext - if (@alloc_ext && @comp) is true, it contains strdup-ed string the compression suffix It returns 0 if there's no strdup error, -ENOMEM otherwise. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9t6eqg8j610r94l743hkntiv@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf callchain: Separate eh/debug frame offset cache.

2015-03-19T16:53:27Z

Commit f1f13af99a90 ("perf callchain: Cache eh/debug frame offset for dwarf unwind") introduces a cache for .debug_frame and .eh_frame_hdr. Unfortunately, it makes them share a same cache (dso->frame_offset). Which causes unwind failure on ARM: $ perf test unwind Test dwarf unwind: FAILED! The reason is that, if a dso has '.debug_frame' but doesn't have '.eh_frame_hdr' (like ARM), dso->frame_offset will be filled by offset of '.debug_frame' during the first time calling of find_proc_info() -> read_unwind_spec_debug_frame(), and be regarded to '.eh_frame_hdr' when the second time calling of find_proc_info() -> read_unwind_spec_eh_frame(), since '.eh_frame_hdr' is checked prior to '.debug_frame'. This patch solves the problem by creating two cache fields for '.eh_frame_hdr' and '.debug_frame'. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Li Zefan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55028BA0.1030701@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf callchain: Cache eh/debug frame offset for dwarf unwind

2015-01-29T19:20:42Z

When libunwind tries to resolve callchains it needs to know the offset of .eh_frame_hdr or .debug_frame to access the dso. Since it will always return the same result for a given DSO, just cache the result as an optimization. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422518843-25818-41-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Preparation for compressed kernel module support

2014-11-04T13:15:53Z

This patch adds basic support to handle compressed kernel module as some distro (such as Archlinux) carries on it now. The actual work using compression library will be added later. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415063674-17206-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add facility to export data in database-friendly way

2014-10-29T12:32:49Z

This patch introduces an abstraction for exporting sample data in a database-friendly way. The abstraction does not implement the actual output. A subsequent patch takes this facility into use for extending the script interface. The abstraction is needed because static data like symbols, dsos, comms etc need to be exported only once. That means allocating them a unique identifier and recording it on each structure. The member 'db_id' is used for that. 'db_id' is just a 64-bit sequence number. Exporting centres around the db_export__sample() function which exports the associated data structures if they have not yet been allocated a db_id. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1414061124-26830-6-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com [ committer note: Stash db_id using symbol_conf.priv_size + symbol__priv() and foo->priv areas ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools powerpc: Cache the DWARF debug info

2014-10-29T12:32:46Z

Cache the DWARF debug info for DSO so we don't have to rebuild it for each address in the DSO. Note that dso__new() uses calloc() so don't need to set dso->dwfl to NULL. $ /tmp/perf.orig --version perf version 3.18.rc1.gc2661b8 $ /tmp/perf.new --version perf version 3.18.rc1.g402d62 $ perf stat -e cycles,instructions /tmp/perf.orig report -g > orig Performance counter stats for '/tmp/perf.orig report -g': 6,428,177,183 cycles # 0.000 GHz 4,176,288,391 instructions # 0.65 insns per cycle 1.840666132 seconds time elapsed $ perf stat -e cycles,instructions /tmp/perf.new report -g > new Performance counter stats for '/tmp/perf.new report -g': 305,773,142 cycles # 0.000 GHz 276,048,272 instructions # 0.90 insns per cycle 0.087693543 seconds time elapsed $ diff orig new $ Changelog[v2]: [Arnaldo Carvalho] Cache in existing global objects rather than create new static/globals in functions. Reported-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Anton Blanchard Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141022000958.GB2228@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo