Subject: [GIT PULL 00/19] perf/core improvements and fixes

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:50:04 -0300

Hi Ingo,

	Please consider pulling,

- Arnaldo

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

The following changes since commit 84e5b549214f2160c12318aac549de85f600c79a:

  Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.11-20170306' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2017-03-07 08:14:14 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-4.12-20170314

for you to fetch changes up to 5f6bee34707973ea7879a7857fd63ddccc92fff3:

  kprobes: Convert kprobe_exceptions_notify to use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL (2017-03-14 15:17:40 -0300)

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perf/core improvements and fixes:

New features:

- Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES so that the kernel can record information
  required to associate samples to namespaces, helping in container
  problem characterization.

  Now the 'perf record has a --namespace' option to ask for such info,
  and when present, it can be used, initially, via a new sort order,
  'cgroup_id', allowing histogram entry bucketization by a (device, inode)
  based cgroup identifier (Hari Bathini)

- Add --next option to 'perf sched timehist', showing what is the next
  thread to run (Brendan Gregg)

Fixes:

- Fix segfault with basic block 'cycles' sort dimension (Changbin Du)

- Add c2c to command-list.txt, making it appear in the 'perf help'
  output (Changbin Du)

- Fix zeroing of 'abs_path' variable in the perf hists browser switch
  file code (Changbin Du)

- Hide tips messages when -q/--quiet is given to 'perf report' (Namhyung Kim)

Infrastructure:

- Use ref_reloc_sym + offset to setup kretprobes (Naveen Rao)

- Ignore generated files pmu-events/{jevents,pmu-events.c} for git (Changbin Du)

Documentation:

- Document +field style argument support for --field option (Changbin Du)

- Clarify 'perf c2c --stats' help message (Namhyung Kim)

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

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Brendan Gregg (1):
      perf sched timehist: Add --next option

Changbin Du (5):
      perf tools: Missing c2c command in command-list
      perf tools: Ignore generated files pmu-events/{jevents,pmu-events.c} for git
      perf sort: Fix segfault with basic block 'cycles' sort dimension
      perf report: Document +field style argument support for --field option
      perf hists browser: Fix typo in function switch_data_file

Hari Bathini (5):
      perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info
      perf tools: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info
      perf record: Synthesize namespace events for current processes
      perf script: Add script print support for namespace events
      perf tools: Add 'cgroup_id' sort order keyword

Namhyung Kim (3):
      perf report: Hide tip message when -q option is given
      perf c2c: Clarify help message of --stats option
      perf c2c: Fix display bug when using pipe

Naveen N. Rao (5):
      perf probe: Factor out the ftrace README scanning
      perf kretprobes: Offset from reloc_sym if kernel supports it
      perf powerpc: Choose local entry point with kretprobes
      doc: trace/kprobes: add information about NOKPROBE_SYMBOL
      kprobes: Convert kprobe_exceptions_notify to use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL

 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt         |   5 +-
 include/linux/perf_event.h                  |   2 +
 include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h             |  32 +++++-
 kernel/events/core.c                        | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/fork.c                               |   2 +
 kernel/kprobes.c                            |   5 +-
 kernel/nsproxy.c                            |   3 +
 tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h       |  32 +++++-
 tools/perf/.gitignore                       |   2 +
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt    |   3 +
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt    |   7 +-
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt     |   4 +
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt    |   3 +
 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c |  14 ++-
 tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c               |   1 +
 tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c                    |   4 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-diff.c                   |   1 +
 tools/perf/builtin-inject.c                 |  13 +++
 tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c                   |   1 +
 tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c                    |   2 +
 tools/perf/builtin-lock.c                   |   1 +
 tools/perf/builtin-mem.c                    |   1 +
 tools/perf/builtin-record.c                 |  35 ++++++-
 tools/perf/builtin-report.c                 |   4 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-sched.c                  |  26 ++++-
 tools/perf/builtin-script.c                 |  41 ++++++++
 tools/perf/builtin-trace.c                  |   3 +-
 tools/perf/command-list.txt                 |   1 +
 tools/perf/perf.h                           |   1 +
 tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c              |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/Build                       |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c           |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/event.c                     | 150 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 tools/perf/util/event.h                     |  19 ++++
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c                     |   3 +
 tools/perf/util/hist.c                      |   7 ++
 tools/perf/util/hist.h                      |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/machine.c                   |  34 +++++++
 tools/perf/util/machine.h                   |   3 +
 tools/perf/util/namespaces.c                |  36 +++++++
 tools/perf/util/namespaces.h                |  26 +++++
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.c               |  12 +--
 tools/perf/util/probe-file.c                |  77 ++++++++------
 tools/perf/util/probe-file.h                |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/session.c                   |   7 ++
 tools/perf/util/sort.c                      |  46 +++++++++
 tools/perf/util/sort.h                      |   7 ++
 tools/perf/util/thread.c                    |  44 +++++++-
 tools/perf/util/thread.h                    |   6 ++
 tools/perf/util/tool.h                      |   2 +
 50 files changed, 799 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/namespaces.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/namespaces.h

Test results:

The first ones are container (docker) based builds of tools/perf with and
without libelf support, objtool where it is supported and samples/bpf/, ditto.
Where clang is available, it is also used to build perf with/without libelf.

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.

  # dm
   1 alpine:3.4: Ok
   2 alpine:3.5: Ok
   3 alpine:edge: Ok
   4 android-ndk:r12b-arm: Ok
   5 archlinux:latest: Ok
   6 centos:5: Ok
   7 centos:6: Ok
   8 centos:7: Ok
   9 debian:7: Ok
  10 debian:8: Ok
  11 debian:experimental: Ok
  12 debian:experimental-x-arm64: Ok
  13 debian:experimental-x-mips: Ok
  14 debian:experimental-x-mips64: Ok
  15 debian:experimental-x-mipsel: Ok
  16 fedora:20: Ok
  17 fedora:21: Ok
  18 fedora:22: Ok
  19 fedora:23: Ok
  20 fedora:24: Ok
  21 fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc: Ok
  22 fedora:25: Ok
  23 fedora:rawhide: Ok
  24 mageia:5: Ok
  25 opensuse:13.2: Ok
  26 opensuse:42.1: Ok
  27 opensuse:tumbleweed: Ok
  28 ubuntu:12.04.5: Ok
  29 ubuntu:14.04.4: Ok
  30 ubuntu:14.04.4-x-linaro-arm64: Ok
  31 ubuntu:15.10: Ok
  32 ubuntu:16.04: Ok
  33 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm: Ok
  34 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm64: Ok
  35 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc: Ok
  36 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64: Ok
  37 ubuntu:16.04-x-s390: Ok
  38 ubuntu:16.10: Ok
  39 ubuntu:17.04: Ok
  #

  # uname -a
  Linux zoo 4.9.13-100.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 27 16:57:22 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  # 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: Parse event definition strings             : Ok
   6: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields  : Ok
   7: Parse perf pmu format                      : Ok
   8: DSO data read                              : Ok
   9: DSO data cache                             : Ok
  10: DSO data reopen                            : Ok
  11: Roundtrip evsel->name                      : Ok
  12: Parse sched tracepoints fields             : Ok
  13: syscalls:sys_enter_openat event fields     : Ok
  14: Setup struct perf_event_attr               : Ok
  15: Match and link multiple hists              : Ok
  16: 'import perf' in python                    : Ok
  17: Breakpoint overflow signal handler         : Ok
  18: Breakpoint overflow sampling               : Ok
  19: Number of exit events of a simple workload : Ok
  20: Software clock events period values        : Ok
  21: Object code reading                        : Ok
  22: Sample parsing                             : Ok
  23: Use a dummy software event to keep tracking: Ok
  24: Parse with no sample_id_all bit set        : Ok
  25: Filter hist entries                        : Ok
  26: Lookup mmap thread                         : Ok
  27: Share thread mg                            : Ok
  28: Sort output of hist entries                : Ok
  29: Cumulate child hist entries                : Ok
  30: Track with sched_switch                    : Ok
  31: Filter fds with revents mask in a fdarray  : Ok
  32: Add fd to a fdarray, making it autogrow    : Ok
  33: kmod_path__parse                           : Ok
  34: Thread map                                 : Ok
  35: LLVM search and compile                    :
  35.1: Basic BPF llvm compile                    : Ok
  35.2: kbuild searching                          : Ok
  35.3: Compile source for BPF prologue generation: Ok
  35.4: Compile source for BPF relocation         : Ok
  36: Session topology                           : Ok
  37: BPF filter                                 :
  37.1: Basic BPF filtering                      : Ok
  37.2: BPF pinning                              : Ok
  37.3: BPF prologue generation                  : Ok
  37.4: BPF relocation checker                   : Ok
  38: Synthesize thread map                      : Ok
  39: Remove thread map                          : Ok
  40: Synthesize cpu map                         : Ok
  41: Synthesize stat config                     : Ok
  42: Synthesize stat                            : Ok
  43: Synthesize stat round                      : Ok
  44: Synthesize attr update                     : Ok
  45: Event times                                : Ok
  46: Read backward ring buffer                  : Ok
  47: Print cpu map                              : Ok
  48: Probe SDT events                           : Ok
  49: is_printable_array                         : Ok
  50: Print bitmap                               : Ok
  51: perf hooks                                 : Ok
  52: builtin clang support                      : Skip (not compiled in)
  53: unit_number__scnprintf                     : Ok
  54: x86 rdpmc                                  : Ok
  55: Convert perf time to TSC                   : Ok
  56: DWARF unwind                               : Ok
  57: x86 instruction decoder - new instructions : Ok
  58: Intel cqm nmi context read                 : Skip
  # 

  $ make -C tools/perf build-test
  make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf'
  - tarpkg: ./tests/perf-targz-src-pkg .
                  make_no_ui_O: make NO_NEWT=1 NO_SLANG=1 NO_GTK2=1
                  make_debug_O: make DEBUG=1
              make_no_libelf_O: make NO_LIBELF=1
           make_no_libbionic_O: make NO_LIBBIONIC=1
            make_no_libaudit_O: make NO_LIBAUDIT=1
                   make_pure_O: make
              make_no_libbpf_O: make NO_LIBBPF=1
                   make_tags_O: make tags
        make_with_babeltrace_O: make LIBBABELTRACE=1
         make_with_clangllvm_O: make LIBCLANGLLVM=1
            make_no_auxtrace_O: make NO_AUXTRACE=1
                 make_perf_o_O: make perf.o
            make_no_demangle_O: make NO_DEMANGLE=1
              make_clean_all_O: make clean all
               make_no_slang_O: make NO_SLANG=1
                    make_doc_O: make doc
                make_no_newt_O: make NO_NEWT=1
           make_no_libpython_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1
       make_util_pmu_bison_o_O: make util/pmu-bison.o
            make_install_bin_O: make install-bin
                make_no_gtk2_O: make NO_GTK2=1
           make_no_backtrace_O: make NO_BACKTRACE=1
             make_no_libnuma_O: make NO_LIBNUMA=1
  make_no_libdw_dwarf_unwind_O: make NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1
             make_util_map_o_O: make util/map.o
             make_no_libperl_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1
                 make_static_O: make LDFLAGS=-static
           make_no_libunwind_O: make NO_LIBUNWIND=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_help_O: make help
             make_no_scripts_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_LIBPERL=1
  OK
  $