kernel.git/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c, branch linux-3.3.y

perf record: Fix buffer overrun bug in tracepoint_id_to_path()

2012-03-13T16:01:28Z

This patch fixes a buffer overrun bug in tracepoint_id_to_path(). The bug manisfested itself as a memory error reported by perf record. I ran into it with perf sched: $ perf sched rec noploop 2 noploop for 2 seconds [ perf record: Woken up 14 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 42.701 MB perf.data (~1865622 samples) ] Fatal: No memory to alloc tracepoints list It turned out that tracepoint_id_to_path() was reading the tracepoint id using read() but the buffer was not large enough to include the \n terminator for id with 4 digits or more. The patch fixes the problem by extending the buffer to a more reasonable size covering all possible id length include \n terminator. Note that atoll() stops at the first non digit character, thus it is not necessary to clear the buffer between each read. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120313155102.GA6465@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Add support for guest/host-only profiling

2012-01-06T17:49:49Z

To restrict a counter to either host or guest mode this patch introduces two new event modifiers: G and H. With G the counter is configured in guest-only mode and with H in host-only mode. Cc: Gleb Natapov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-or5aj3rghy9ngyg882z6kln9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf kvm: Do guest-only counting by default

2012-01-06T17:47:37Z

Make use of exclude_guest and exlude_host in perf-kvm to do only guest-only counting by default. Cc: Gleb Natapov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel [ committer note: Moved perf_{guest,host} & event_attr_init to util.c ] [ so as not to drag more stuff to the python binding] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: Add support for PERF_HW_COUNT_REF_CPU_CYCLES

2011-12-21T09:26:41Z

Add new generic hw event: ref-cycles, which maps to PERF_HW_COUNT_REF_CPUCYCLES: $ perf stat -e ref-cycles ls Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323559734-3488-5-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Simplify debugfs mountpoint handling code

2011-11-28T12:11:28Z

We don't need to have two PATH_MAX char sized arrays holding it, just one in util/debugfs.c will do. Also rename debugfs_path to tracing_events_path, as it is not the path to debugfs, that is debugfs_mountpoint. Both are now accessible. This will allow accessing this code in the perf python binding without having to drag in perf.c and util/parse-events.c. The defaults for these variables are the canonical "/sys/kernel/debug" and "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/", removing the need for simple tools to call debugfs_mount(NULL). Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ug9jvtjrsqbluuhqqxpvg30f@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix error handling of unknown events

2011-08-18T10:21:13Z

There was a problem with the parse_events() code not printing the correct event name when an event was unknown and starting with an 'r'. The source of the problem was the way raw notation was parsed. Without the patch: $ perf stat -e retired_foo invalid event modifier: 'tired_foo' With the patch: $ perf stat -e retired_foo invalid or unsupported event: 'retired_foo' This also covers the case where the name of the event was not printed at all when perf was linked with libpfm4. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110723021043.GA20178@quad Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf list: Fix exit value

2011-08-18T10:19:15Z

This patch fixes an issue with the exit value of perf list: $ perf list; echo $? 129 perf list returns an error exit code even though there is no error. There was a stray exit(129) in print_events(). This patch removes this exit(). $ perf list; echo $? 0 $ perf list hw sw cpu-cycles OR cycles [Hardware event] stalled-cycles-frontend OR idle-cycles-frontend [Hardware event] stalled-cycles-backend OR idle-cycles-backend [Hardware event] instructions [Hardware event] cache-references [Hardware event] cache-misses [Hardware event] branch-instructions OR branches [Hardware event] branch-misses [Hardware event] bus-cycles [Hardware event] cpu-clock [Software event] task-clock [Software event] page-faults OR faults [Software event] minor-faults [Software event] major-faults [Software event] context-switches OR cs [Software event] cpu-migrations OR migrations [Software event] alignment-faults [Software event] emulation-faults [Software event] $ echo $? 0 Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110523123917.GA31060@quad Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: De-opt the parse_events function

2011-07-21T08:41:11Z

Moving out the option parameter from parse_events function, and adding new parse_events_option function instead. The option parameter is used only to carry "struct perf_evlist" pointer for chaining new events. Putting it away, enable us to call parse_events from other places without using the option parameter. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: paulus@samba.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310635534-4013-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Add missing 'node' alias to the hw_cache[] array

2011-07-21T07:54:51Z

Add "node" as a simple alias for NODE cache events. The addition of NODE cache events broke the parse_alias function, so any mismatched event caused the segfault, like: # ./perf stat -e krava ls The hw_cache/hw_cache_op/hw_cache_result arrays needs to follow PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_*MAX enums. Adding those MAXs to be size of those arrays, so possible ommision in future wil not lead to segfault. Adding read/write/prefetch as allowed operations for node cache event. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: acme@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110713205818.GB7827@jolsa.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix multi-event parsing bug

2011-05-17T18:45:36Z

This patch fixes an issue with event parsing. The following commit appears to have broken the ability to specify a comma separated list of events: commit ceb53fbf6dbb1df26d38379a262c6981fe73dd36 Author: Ingo Molnar Date: Wed Apr 27 04:06:33 2011 +0200 perf stat: Fail more clearly when an invalid modifier is specified This patch fixes this while preserving the desired effect: $ perf stat -e instructions:u,instructions:k ls /dev/null /dev/null Performance counter stats for 'ls /dev/null': 365956 instructions:u # 0.00 insns per cycle 731806 instructions:k # 0.00 insns per cycle 0.001108862 seconds time elapsed $ perf stat -e task-clock-msecs true invalid event modifier: '-msecs' Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110517133619.GA6999@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar