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<title>kernel.git/tools/perf/util/event.c, branch linux-5.10.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
</subtitle>
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<updated>2021-03-04T10:38:03Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Fix DSO filtering when not finding a map for a sampled address</title>
<updated>2021-03-04T10:38:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
</author>
<published>2021-01-28T12:52:47Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit c69bf11ad3d30b6bf01cfa538ddff1a59467c734 ]

When we lookup an address and don't find a map we should filter that
sample if the user specified a list of --dso entries to filter on, fix
it.

Before:

  $ perf script
             sleep 274800  2843.556162:          1 cycles:u:  ffffffffbb26bff4 [unknown] ([unknown])
             sleep 274800  2843.556168:          1 cycles:u:  ffffffffbb2b047d [unknown] ([unknown])
             sleep 274800  2843.556171:          1 cycles:u:  ffffffffbb2706b2 [unknown] ([unknown])
             sleep 274800  2843.556174:          6 cycles:u:  ffffffffbb2b0267 [unknown] ([unknown])
             sleep 274800  2843.556176:         59 cycles:u:  ffffffffbb2b03b1 [unknown] ([unknown])
             sleep 274800  2843.556180:        691 cycles:u:  ffffffffbb26bff4 [unknown] ([unknown])
             sleep 274800  2843.556189:       9160 cycles:u:      7fa9550eeaa3 __GI___tunables_init+0xf3 (/usr/lib64/ld-2.32.so)
             sleep 274800  2843.556312:      86937 cycles:u:      7fa9550e157b _dl_lookup_symbol_x+0x4b (/usr/lib64/ld-2.32.so)
  $

So we have some samples we somehow didn't find in a map for, if we now
do:

  $ perf report --stdio --dso /usr/lib64/ld-2.32.so
  # dso: /usr/lib64/ld-2.32.so
  #
  # Total Lost Samples: 0
  #
  # Samples: 8  of event 'cycles:u'
  # Event count (approx.): 96856
  #
  # Overhead  Command  Symbol
  # ........  .......  ........................
  #
      89.76%  sleep    [.] _dl_lookup_symbol_x
       9.46%  sleep    [.] __GI___tunables_init
       0.71%  sleep    [k] 0xffffffffbb26bff4
       0.06%  sleep    [k] 0xffffffffbb2b03b1
       0.01%  sleep    [k] 0xffffffffbb2b0267
       0.00%  sleep    [k] 0xffffffffbb2706b2
       0.00%  sleep    [k] 0xffffffffbb2b047d
  $

After this patch we get the right output with just entries for the DSOs
specified in --dso:

  $ perf report --stdio --dso /usr/lib64/ld-2.32.so
  # dso: /usr/lib64/ld-2.32.so
  #
  # Total Lost Samples: 0
  #
  # Samples: 8  of event 'cycles:u'
  # Event count (approx.): 96856
  #
  # Overhead  Command  Symbol
  # ........  .......  ........................
  #
      89.76%  sleep    [.] _dl_lookup_symbol_x
       9.46%  sleep    [.] __GI___tunables_init
  $
  #

Fixes: 96415e4d3f5fdf9c ("perf symbols: Avoid unnecessary symbol loading when dso list is specified")
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jin Yao &lt;yao.jin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210128131209.GD775562@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf script: Display negative tid in non-sample events</title>
<updated>2020-09-17T19:06:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Hunter</name>
</author>
<published>2020-09-09T08:49:22Z</published>
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The kernel can release tasks while they are still running. This can
result in a task having no tid, in which case perf records a tid of -1.
Improve the perf script output in that case.

Example:

Before:

  # cat ./autoreap.c

  #include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
  #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
  #include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
  #include &lt;signal.h&gt;

  struct sigaction act = {
          .sa_handler = SIG_IGN,
  };

  int main()
  {
          pid_t child;
          int status = 0;

          sigaction(SIGCHLD, &amp;act, NULL);
          child = fork();
          if (child == 0)
                  return 123;
          wait(&amp;status);
          return 0;
  }

  # gcc -o autoreap autoreap.c
  # ./perf record -a -e dummy --switch-events ./autoreap
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.948 MB perf.data ]
  # ./perf script --show-task-events --show-switch-events | grep -C2 'autoreap\|4294967295\|-1'
           swapper     0 [004] 18462.673613: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt  next pid/tid: 25189/25189
              perf 25189 [004] 18462.673614: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid:     0/0
          autoreap 25189 [004] 18462.673800: PERF_RECORD_COMM exec: autoreap:25189/25189
          autoreap 25189 [004] 18462.674042: PERF_RECORD_FORK(25191:25191):(25189:25189)
          autoreap 25189 [004] 18462.674050: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT          next pid/tid:     0/0
           swapper     0 [004] 18462.674051: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid: 25189/25189
           swapper     0 [005] 18462.674083: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt  next pid/tid: 25191/25191
          autoreap 25191 [005] 18462.674084: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid:     0/0
           swapper     0 [003] 18462.674121: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt  next pid/tid:    11/11
       rcu_preempt    11 [003] 18462.674121: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid:     0/0
       rcu_preempt    11 [003] 18462.674124: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT          next pid/tid:     0/0
           swapper     0 [003] 18462.674124: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid:    11/11
          autoreap 25191 [005] 18462.674138: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(25191:25191):(25189:25189)
  PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT          next pid/tid:     0/0
           swapper     0 [005] 18462.674149: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid: 4294967295/4294967295
           swapper     0 [004] 18462.674182: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt  next pid/tid: 25189/25189
          autoreap 25189 [004] 18462.674183: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid:     0/0
          autoreap 25189 [004] 18462.674218: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(25189:25189):(25188:25188)
          autoreap 25189 [004] 18462.674225: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT          next pid/tid:     0/0
           swapper     0 [004] 18462.674226: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid: 25189/25189
           swapper     0 [007] 18462.674257: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt  next pid/tid: 25188/25188

After:

  # ./perf script --show-task-events --show-switch-events | grep -C2 'autoreap\|4294967295\|-1'
           swapper     0 [004] 18462.673613: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt  next pid/tid: 25189/25189
              perf 25189 [004] 18462.673614: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid:     0/0
          autoreap 25189 [004] 18462.673800: PERF_RECORD_COMM exec: autoreap:25189/25189
          autoreap 25189 [004] 18462.674042: PERF_RECORD_FORK(25191:25191):(25189:25189)
          autoreap 25189 [004] 18462.674050: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT          next pid/tid:     0/0
           swapper     0 [004] 18462.674051: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid: 25189/25189
           swapper     0 [005] 18462.674083: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt  next pid/tid: 25191/25191
          autoreap 25191 [005] 18462.674084: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid:     0/0
           swapper     0 [003] 18462.674121: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt  next pid/tid:    11/11
       rcu_preempt    11 [003] 18462.674121: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid:     0/0
       rcu_preempt    11 [003] 18462.674124: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT          next pid/tid:     0/0
           swapper     0 [003] 18462.674124: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid:    11/11
          autoreap 25191 [005] 18462.674138: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(25191:25191):(25189:25189)
               :-1    -1 [005] 18462.674149: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT          next pid/tid:     0/0
           swapper     0 [005] 18462.674149: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid:    -1/-1
           swapper     0 [004] 18462.674182: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt  next pid/tid: 25189/25189
          autoreap 25189 [004] 18462.674183: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid:     0/0
          autoreap 25189 [004] 18462.674218: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(25189:25189):(25188:25188)
          autoreap 25189 [004] 18462.674225: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT          next pid/tid:     0/0
           swapper     0 [004] 18462.674226: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN           prev pid/tid: 25189/25189
           swapper     0 [007] 18462.674257: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt  next pid/tid: 25188/25188

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu &lt;yu-cheng.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200909084923.9096-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>perf script: Show text poke address symbol</title>
<updated>2020-07-10T11:39:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Hunter</name>
</author>
<published>2020-05-12T12:19:22Z</published>
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It is generally more useful to show the symbol with an address. In this
case, the print function requires the 'machine' which means changing
callers to provide it as a parameter. It is optional because most events
do not need it and the callers that matter can provide it.

Committer notes:

Made 'union perf_event' continue to be the first parameter to the
perf_event__fprintf() and perf_event__fprintf_text_poke() events.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200512121922.8997-16-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE</title>
<updated>2020-07-10T11:20:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Hunter</name>
</author>
<published>2020-05-12T12:19:18Z</published>
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Add processing for PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE events. When a text poke event
is processed, then the kernel dso data cache is updated with the poked
bytes.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200512121922.8997-12-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf script: Avoid NULL dereference on symbol</title>
<updated>2020-04-22T13:59:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
</author>
<published>2020-04-21T00:43:29Z</published>
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al-&gt;sym may be NULL given current if conditions and may cause a segv.

Fixes: d2bedb7863e9 ("perf script: Allow --symbol to accept hexadecimal addresses")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200421004329.43109-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf script: Allow --symbol to accept hexadecimal addresses</title>
<updated>2020-04-03T12:37:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
</author>
<published>2020-03-25T22:08:02Z</published>
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This patch extends the perf script --symbols option to filter on
hexadecimal addresses in addition to symbol names. This makes it easier
to handle cases where symbols are aliased.

With this patch, it is possible to mix and match symbols and hexadecimal
addresses using the --symbols option.

  $ perf script --symbols=noploop,0x4007a0

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200325220802.15039-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Basic support for CGROUP event</title>
<updated>2020-04-03T12:37:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
</author>
<published>2020-03-25T12:45:30Z</published>
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Implement basic functionality to support cgroup tracking.  Each cgroup
can be identified by inode number which can be read from userspace too.
The actual cgroup processing will come in the later patch.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
[ fix perf test failure on sampling parsing ]
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200325124536.2800725-4-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf maps: Rename 'mg' variables to 'maps'</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T14:07:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T01:21:28Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Continuing the merge of 'struct maps' with 'struct map_groups'.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z8d14wrw393a0fbvmnk1bqd9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf addr_location: Rename al-&gt;mg to al-&gt;maps</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T14:07:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T01:11:20Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
One more step on the merge of 'struct maps' with 'struct map_groups'.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-foo95pyyp3bhocbt7yd8qrvq@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf thread: Rename thread-&gt;mg to thread-&gt;maps</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T14:07:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T01:07:43Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
One more step on the merge of 'struct maps' with 'struct map_groups'.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-69vcr8pubpym90skxhmbwhiw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
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