kernel.git/tools/perf/util/event.c, branch linux-3.13.y

perf tools: Synthesize anon MMAP records again

2013-11-14T19:00:01Z

When introducing the PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 in: 5c5e854bc760 perf tools: Add attr->mmap2 support A check for the number of entries parsed by sscanf was introduced that assumed all of the 8 fields needed to be correctly parsed so that particular /proc/pid/maps line would be considered synthesizable. That broke anon records synthesizing, as it doesn't have the 'execname' field. Fix it by keeping the sscanf return check, changing it to not require that the 'execname' variable be parsed, so that the preexisting logic can kick in and set it to '//anon'. This should get things like JIT profiling working again. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Cc: Bill Gray Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Joe Mario Cc: Richard Fowles Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bo4akalno7579shpz29u867j@git.kernel.org [ commit log message is mine, dzickus reported the problem with a patch ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Synthesize non-exec MMAP records when --data used

2013-11-11T18:56:39Z

When perf_event_attr.mmap_data is set the kernel will generate PERF_RECORD_MMAP events when non-exec (data, SysV mem) mmaps are created, so we need to synthesize from /proc/pid/maps for existing threads, as we do for exec mmaps. Right now just 'perf record' does it, but any other tool that uses perf_event__synthesize_thread(s|map) can request it. Reported-by: Don Zickus Tested-by: Don Zickus Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Bill Gray Cc: David Ahern Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Joe Mario Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Richard Fowles Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ihwzraikx23ian9txinogvv2@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Finish the removal of 'self' arguments

2013-11-05T18:32:36Z

They convey no information, perhaps I was bitten by some snake at some point, complete the detox by naming the last of those arguments more sensibly. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-u1r0dnjoro08dgztiy2g3t2q@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add time argument on COMM setting

2013-11-04T14:57:06Z

This way we can later delimit a lifecycle for the COMM and map a hist to a precise COMM:timeslice couple. PERF_RECORD_COMM and PERF_RECORD_FORK events that don't have PERF_SAMPLE_TIME samples can only send 0 value as a timestamp and thus should overwrite any previous COMM on a given thread because there is no sensible way to keep track of all the comms lifecycles in a thread without time informations. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Tested-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6tyow99vgmmtt9qwr2u2lqd7@git.kernel.org [ Made it cope with PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use an accessor to read thread comm

2013-11-04T14:50:28Z

As the thread comm is going to be implemented by way of a more complicated data structure than just a pointer to a string from the thread struct, convert the readers of comm to use an accessor instead of accessing it directly. The accessor will be later overriden to support an enhanced comm implementation. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Tested-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wr683zwy94hmj4ibogmnv9ce@git.kernel.org [ Rename thread__comm_curr() to thread__comm_str() ] Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim [ Fixed up some minor const pointer issues ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix up /proc/PID/maps parsing

2013-10-28T12:38:12Z

When introducing support for MMAP2 we considered more parts of each map representation in /proc/PID/maps, and when disabling it we forgot to reduce the number of expected parsed/assigned entries in the sscanf call, fix it to expect the right number of desired fields, 5. Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf Based-on-a-patch-by: Markus Trippelsdorf Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vrbo1wik997ahjzl1chm3bdm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: Disable PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 support

2013-10-17T19:27:14Z

For now, we disable the extended MMAP record support (MMAP2). We have identified cases where it would not report the correct mapping information, clone(VM_CLONE) but with separate pids. We will revisit the support once we find a solution for this case. The patch changes the kernel to return EINVAL if attr->mmap2 is set. The patch also modifies the perf tool to use regular PERF_RECORD_MMAP for synthetic events and it also prevents the tool from requesting attr->mmap2 mode because the kernel would reject it. The support will be revisited once the kenrel interface is updated. In V2, we reduce the patch to the strict minimum. In V3, we avoid calling perf_event_open() with mmap2 set because we know it will fail and require fallback retry. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131017173215.GA8820@quad Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add attr->mmap2 support

2013-09-11T13:09:32Z

This patch adds support for the new PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 record type exposed by the kernel. This is an extended PERF_RECORD_MMAP record. It adds for each file-backed mapping the device major, minor number and the inode number and generation. This triplet uniquely identifies the source of a file-backed mapping. It can be used to detect identical virtual mappings between processes, for instance. The patch will prefer MMAP2 over MMAP. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377079825-19057-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com [ Cope with 314add6 "Change machine__findnew_thread() to set thread pid", fix 'perf test' regression test entry affected, use perf_missing_features.mmap2 to fallback to not using .mmap2 in older kernels, so that new tools can work with kernels where this feature is not present ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove references to struct ip_event

2013-08-29T18:29:28Z

The ip_event struct assumes fixed positions for ip, pid and tid. That is no longer true with the addition of PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER. The information is anyway in struct sample, so use that instead. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377591794-30553-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: change machine__findnew_thread() to set thread pid

2013-08-29T14:51:31Z

Add a new parameter for 'pid' to machine__findnew_thread(). Change callers to pass 'pid' when it is known. Note that callers sometimes want to find the main thread which has the memory maps. The main thread has tid == pid so the usage in that case is: machine__findnew_thread(machine, pid, pid) whereas the usage to find the specific thread is: machine__findnew_thread(machine, pid, tid) Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: David Ahern Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377591794-30553-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo