Subject: [GIT PULL 00/27] perf/core improvements and fixes

From: [email-masked] (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:02:15 -0300

Hi Ingo,

	Please consider pulling, this is on top of
perf-core-for-mingo-4.20-20180919, that is not yet in tip.

- Arnaldo

Test results at the end of this message, as usual.

The following changes since commit 24ef0fd0a1f389b156e6ef0edd71072728831bd9:

  perf python: Use -Wno-redundant-decls to build with PYTHON=python3 (2018-09-19 10:25:13 -0300)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-4.20-20180919

for you to fetch changes up to 24ef0fd0a1f389b156e6ef0edd71072728831bd9:

  perf python: Use -Wno-redundant-decls to build with PYTHON=python3 (2018-09-19 10:25:13 -0300)

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perf/core improvements and fixes:

perf test:

- Add watchpoint entry (Ravi Bangoria)

Build fixes:

- Initialize perf_data_file fd field to fix building the CTF (trace format)
  converter with with gcc 4.8.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 (J?r?mie Galarneau)

- Use -Wno-redundant-decls to build with PYTHON=python3 to
  build the python binding, fixing the build in systems such
  as Clear Linux (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Hardware tracing:

- Suppress AUX/OVERWRITE records (Alexander Shishkin)

Infrastructure:

- Adopt PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO from the kernel and use it in
  the bpf-loader instead of open coded equivalent (Ding Xiang)

- Improve the event ordering code to make it clear and fix
  a bug related to freeing of events when using pipe mode
  from 'record' to 'inject' (Jiri Olsa)

- Some prep work to facilitate per-cpu threads to write
  record data to per-cpu files (Jiri Olsa)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>

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Test results:

The first ones are container (docker) based builds of tools/perf with
and without libelf support.  Where clang is available, it is also used
to build perf with/without libelf, and building with LIBCLANGLLVM=1
(built-in clang) with gcc and clang when clang and its devel libraries
are installed.

The objtool and samples/bpf/ builds are disabled now that I'm switching from
using the sources in a local volume to fetching them from a http server to
build it inside the container, to make it easier to build in a container cluster.
Those will come back later.

Several are cross builds, the ones with -x-ARCH and the android one, and those
may not have all the features built, due to lack of multi-arch devel packages,
available and being used so far on just a few, like
debian:experimental-x-{arm64,mipsel}.

The 'perf test' one will perform a variety of tests exercising
tools/perf/util/, tools/lib/{bpf,traceevent,etc}, as well as run perf commands
with a variety of command line event specifications to then intercept the
sys_perf_event syscall to check that the perf_event_attr fields are set up as
expected, among a variety of other unit tests.

Then there is the 'make -C tools/perf build-test' ones, that build tools/perf/
with a variety of feature sets, exercising the build with an incomplete set of
features as well as with a complete one. It is planned to have it run on each
of the containers mentioned above, using some container orchestration
infrastructure. Get in contact if interested in helping having this in place.

The Clear Linux container is building with NO_CLANG=1, the problem preventing
its use when building for python3 has been identified and the next builds will
build in ClearLinux with both gcc and clang. This time around only gcc was
used.

  # dm
   1 alpine:3.4                    : Ok   gcc (Alpine 5.3.0) 5.3.0
   2 alpine:3.5                    : Ok   gcc (Alpine 6.2.1) 6.2.1 20160822
   3 alpine:3.6                    : Ok   gcc (Alpine 6.3.0) 6.3.0
   4 alpine:3.7                    : Ok   gcc (Alpine 6.4.0) 6.4.0
   5 alpine:3.8                    : Ok   gcc (Alpine 6.4.0) 6.4.0
   6 alpine:edge                   : Ok   gcc (Alpine 6.4.0) 6.4.0
   7 amazonlinux:1                 : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28)
   8 amazonlinux:2                 : Ok   gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5)
   9 android-ndk:r12b-arm          : Ok   arm-linux-androideabi-gcc (GCC) 4.9.x 20150123 (prerelease)
  10 android-ndk:r15c-arm          : Ok   arm-linux-androideabi-gcc (GCC) 4.9.x 20150123 (prerelease)
  11 centos:5                      : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-55)
  12 centos:6                      : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23)
  13 centos:7                      : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28)
  14 clearlinux:latest             : Ok   gcc (Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture) 8.2.1 20180502
  15 debian:7                      : Ok   gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2
  16 debian:8                      : Ok   gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10+deb8u1) 4.9.2
  17 debian:9                      : Ok   gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516
  18 debian:experimental           : Ok   gcc (Debian 8.2.0-4) 8.2.0
  19 debian:experimental-x-arm64   : Ok   aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 8.2.0-4) 8.2.0
  20 debian:experimental-x-mips    : Ok   mips-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 8.2.0-4) 8.2.0
  21 debian:experimental-x-mips64  : Ok   mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc (Debian 8.1.0-12) 8.1.0
  22 debian:experimental-x-mipsel  : Ok   mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 8.2.0-4) 8.2.0
  23 fedora:20                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-7)
  24 fedora:21                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.9.2 20150212 (Red Hat 4.9.2-6)
  25 fedora:22                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 5.3.1 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6)
  26 fedora:23                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 5.3.1 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6)
  27 fedora:24                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 6.3.1 20161221 (Red Hat 6.3.1-1)
  28 fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc        : Ok   arc-linux-gcc (ARCompact ISA Linux uClibc toolchain 2017.09-rc2) 7.1.1 20170710
  29 fedora:25                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 6.4.1 20170727 (Red Hat 6.4.1-1)
  30 fedora:26                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180130 (Red Hat 7.3.1-2)
  31 fedora:27                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-6)
  32 fedora:28                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 8.1.1 20180712 (Red Hat 8.1.1-5)
  33 fedora:rawhide                : Ok   gcc (GCC) 8.2.1 20180905 (Red Hat 8.2.1-3)
  34 gentoo-stage3-amd64:latest    : Ok   gcc (Gentoo 7.3.0-r3 p1.4) 7.3.0
  35 mageia:5                      : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.9.2
  36 mageia:6                      : Ok   gcc (Mageia 5.5.0-1.mga6) 5.5.0
  37 opensuse:13.2                 : Ok   gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.3 20140627 [gcc-4_8-branch revision 212064]
  38 opensuse:42.1                 : Ok   gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
  39 opensuse:42.2                 : Ok   gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
  40 opensuse:42.3                 : Ok   gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
  41 opensuse:tumbleweed           : Ok   gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.3.1 20180323 [gcc-7-branch revision 258812]
  42 oraclelinux:6                 : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23.0.1)
  43 oraclelinux:7                 : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28.0.1)
  44 ubuntu:12.04.5                : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
  45 ubuntu:14.04.4                : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4
  46 ubuntu:14.04.4-x-linaro-arm64 : Ok   aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Linaro GCC 5.5-2017.10) 5.5.0
  47 ubuntu:16.04                  : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) 5.4.0 20160609
  48 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm            : Ok   arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  49 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm64          : Ok   aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  50 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc        : Ok   powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  51 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64      : Ok   powerpc64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  52 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64el    : Ok   powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  53 ubuntu:16.04-x-s390           : Ok   s390x-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  54 ubuntu:16.10                  : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 6.2.0-5ubuntu12) 6.2.0 20161005
  55 ubuntu:17.10                  : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3.2) 7.2.0
  56 ubuntu:18.04                  : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
  57 ubuntu:18.04-x-arm            : Ok   arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
  58 ubuntu:18.04-x-arm64          : Ok   aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
  59 ubuntu:18.04-x-m68k           : Ok   m68k-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
  60 ubuntu:18.04-x-powerpc        : Ok   powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
  61 ubuntu:18.04-x-powerpc64      : Ok   powerpc64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
  62 ubuntu:18.04-x-powerpc64el    : Ok   powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
  63 ubuntu:18.04-x-riscv64        : Ok   riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
  64 ubuntu:18.04-x-s390           : Ok   s390x-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
  65 ubuntu:18.04-x-sh4            : Ok   sh4-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
  66 ubuntu:18.04-x-sparc64        : Ok   sparc64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
  67 ubuntu:18.10                  : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 8.2.0-4ubuntu1) 8.2.0

  # uname -a
  Linux jouet 4.19.0-rc4-00022-gad3273d5f1b9 #1 SMP Mon Sep 17 17:18:22 -03 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  # git log --oneline -1
  d35c595bf005 perf vendor events arm64: Revise core JSON events for eMAG
  # perf version --build-options
  perf version 4.19.rc2.gd35c595
                   dwarf: [ on  ]  # HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT
      dwarf_getlocations: [ on  ]  # HAVE_DWARF_GETLOCATIONS_SUPPORT
                   glibc: [ on  ]  # HAVE_GLIBC_SUPPORT
                    gtk2: [ on  ]  # HAVE_GTK2_SUPPORT
           syscall_table: [ on  ]  # HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE_SUPPORT
                  libbfd: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT
                  libelf: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
                 libnuma: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
  numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
                 libperl: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBPERL_SUPPORT
               libpython: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBPYTHON_SUPPORT
                libslang: [ on  ]  # HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT
               libcrypto: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBCRYPTO_SUPPORT
               libunwind: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT
      libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on  ]  # HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT
                    zlib: [ on  ]  # HAVE_ZLIB_SUPPORT
                    lzma: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LZMA_SUPPORT
               get_cpuid: [ on  ]  # HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT
                     bpf: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT
  # perf test
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms                       : Ok
   2: Detect openat syscall event                           : Ok
   3: Detect openat syscall event on all cpus               : Ok
   4: Read samples using the mmap interface                 : Ok
   5: Test data source output                               : Ok
   6: Parse event definition strings                        : Ok
   7: Simple expression parser                              : Ok
   8: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields             : Ok
   9: Parse perf pmu format                                 : Ok
  10: DSO data read                                         : Ok
  11: DSO data cache                                        : Ok
  12: DSO data reopen                                       : Ok
  13: Roundtrip evsel->name                                 : Ok
  14: Parse sched tracepoints fields                        : Ok
  15: syscalls:sys_enter_openat event fields                : Ok
  16: Setup struct perf_event_attr                          : Ok
  17: Match and link multiple hists                         : Ok
  18: 'import perf' in python                               : Ok
  19: Breakpoint overflow signal handler                    : Ok
  20: Breakpoint overflow sampling                          : Ok
  21: Breakpoint accounting                                 : Ok
  22: Watchpoint                                            :
  22.1: Read Only Watchpoint                                : Skip
  22.2: Write Only Watchpoint                               : Ok
  22.3: Read / Write Watchpoint                             : Ok
  22.4: Modify Watchpoint                                   : Ok
  23: Number of exit events of a simple workload            : Ok
  24: Software clock events period values                   : Ok
  25: Object code reading                                   : Ok
  26: Sample parsing                                        : Ok
  27: Use a dummy software event to keep tracking           : Ok
  28: Parse with no sample_id_all bit set                   : Ok
  29: Filter hist entries                                   : Ok
  30: Lookup mmap thread                                    : Ok
  31: Share thread mg                                       : Ok
  32: Sort output of hist entries                           : Ok
  33: Cumulate child hist entries                           : Ok
  34: Track with sched_switch                               : Ok
  35: Filter fds with revents mask in a fdarray             : Ok
  36: Add fd to a fdarray, making it autogrow               : Ok
  37: kmod_path__parse                                      : Ok
  38: Thread map                                            : Ok
  39: LLVM search and compile                               :
  39.1: Basic BPF llvm compile                              : Ok
  39.2: kbuild searching                                    : Ok
  39.3: Compile source for BPF prologue generation          : Ok
  39.4: Compile source for BPF relocation                   : Ok
  40: Session topology                                      : Ok
  41: BPF filter                                            :
  41.1: Basic BPF filtering                                 : Ok
  41.2: BPF pinning                                         : Ok
  41.3: BPF prologue generation                             : Ok
  41.4: BPF relocation checker                              : Ok
  42: Synthesize thread map                                 : Ok
  43: Remove thread map                                     : Ok
  44: Synthesize cpu map                                    : Ok
  45: Synthesize stat config                                : Ok
  46: Synthesize stat                                       : Ok
  47: Synthesize stat round                                 : Ok
  48: Synthesize attr update                                : Ok
  49: Event times                                           : Ok
  50: Read backward ring buffer                             : Ok
  51: Print cpu map                                         : Ok
  52: Probe SDT events                                      : Ok
  53: is_printable_array                                    : Ok
  54: Print bitmap                                          : Ok
  55: perf hooks                                            : Ok
  56: builtin clang support                                 : Skip (not compiled in)
  57: unit_number__scnprintf                                : Ok
  58: mem2node                                              : Ok
  59: x86 rdpmc                                             : Ok
  60: Convert perf time to TSC                              : Ok
  61: DWARF unwind                                          : Ok
  62: x86 instruction decoder - new instructions            : Ok
  63: x86 bp modify                                         : Ok
  64: Use vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames   : Ok
  65: Check open filename arg using perf trace + vfs_getname: Ok
  66: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping       : Ok
  67: Add vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames   : Ok
  
  $ make -C tools/perf build-test
  make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf'
  - tarpkg: ./tests/perf-targz-src-pkg .
            make_install_bin_O: make install-bin
             make_no_scripts_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_LIBPERL=1
                  make_no_ui_O: make NO_NEWT=1 NO_SLANG=1 NO_GTK2=1
                make_no_gtk2_O: make NO_GTK2=1
                make_minimal_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1 NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_NEWT=1 NO_GTK2=1 NO_DEMANGLE=1 NO_LIBELF=1 NO_LIBUNWIND=1 NO_BACKTRACE=1 NO_LIBNUMA=1 NO_LIBAUDIT=1 NO_LIBBIONIC=1 NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1 NO_AUXTRACE=1 NO_LIBBPF=1 NO_LIBCRYPTO=1 NO_SDT=1 NO_JVMTI=1
                   make_pure_O: make
             make_no_libnuma_O: make NO_LIBNUMA=1
                make_install_O: make install
           make_no_libunwind_O: make NO_LIBUNWIND=1
             make_no_libperl_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1
              make_no_libbpf_O: make NO_LIBBPF=1
  make_no_libdw_dwarf_unwind_O: make NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1
                   make_help_O: make help
            make_no_auxtrace_O: make NO_AUXTRACE=1
         make_with_clangllvm_O: make LIBCLANGLLVM=1
               make_no_slang_O: make NO_SLANG=1
        make_with_babeltrace_O: make LIBBABELTRACE=1
              make_clean_all_O: make clean all
       make_util_pmu_bison_o_O: make util/pmu-bison.o
   make_install_prefix_slash_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava/
            make_no_libaudit_O: make NO_LIBAUDIT=1
             make_util_map_o_O: make util/map.o
                  make_debug_O: make DEBUG=1
           make_no_libpython_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1
           make_no_backtrace_O: make NO_BACKTRACE=1
           make_no_libbionic_O: make NO_LIBBIONIC=1
            make_no_demangle_O: make NO_DEMANGLE=1
                   make_tags_O: make tags
                 make_static_O: make LDFLAGS=-static
                 make_perf_o_O: make perf.o
              make_no_libelf_O: make NO_LIBELF=1
                    make_doc_O: make doc
                make_no_newt_O: make NO_NEWT=1
         make_install_prefix_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava
  OK
  make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf'
  $