Subject: [GIT PULL 00/11] perf/core improvements and fixes

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 11:48:57 -0300

Hi Ingo,

	Please consider pulling, more to come as I go thru Adrian's x86
PTI series and the C++ support improvements to 'perf probe', from
Holger,

Best Regards,

- Arnaldo

Test results at the end of this message, as usual.
  
The following changes since commit 291c161f6c65530092903fbea58eb07a62b220ba:

  Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core (2018-05-15 10:30:17 -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-4.18-20180516

for you to fetch changes up to 7a36a287de9fbb1ba906e70573d3f2315f7fd609:

  perf bpf: Fix NULL return handling in bpf__prepare_load() (2018-05-16 10:01:55 -0300)

----------------------------------------------------------------
perf/core improvements and fixes:

- Add '-e intel_pt//u' test to the 'parse-events' 'perf test' entry,
  to help avoiding regressions in the events parser such as one
  that caused a revert in v4.17-rc (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fix NULL return handling in bpf__prepare_load() (YueHaibing)

- Warn about 'perf buildid-cache --purge-all' failures (Ravi Bangoria)

- Add infrastructure to help in writing eBPF C programs to be used
  with '-e name.c' type events in tools such as 'record' and 'trace',
  with headers for common constructs and an examples directory that
  will get populated as we add more such helpers and the 'perf bpf'
  branch that Jiri Olsa has been working on (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Handle uncore event aliases in small groups properly (Kan Liang)

- Use the "_stest" symbol to identify the kernel map when loading kcore (Adrian Hunter)

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

----------------------------------------------------------------
Adrian Hunter (1):
      perf tools: Use the "_stest" symbol to identify the kernel map when loading kcore

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (7):
      perf tests parse-events: Add intel_pt parse test
      perf llvm-utils: Add bpf include path to clang command line
      perf bpf: Add 'examples' directories
      perf bpf: Add bpf.h to be used in eBPF proggies
      perf bpf: Add kprobe example to catch 5s naps
      perf bpf: Add license(NAME) helper
      perf bpf: Add probe() helper to reduce kprobes boilerplate

Kan Liang (1):
      perf parse-events: Handle uncore event aliases in small groups properly

Ravi Bangoria (1):
      perf buildid-cache: Warn --purge-all failures

YueHaibing (1):
      perf bpf: Fix NULL return handling in bpf__prepare_load()

 tools/perf/Makefile.config         |  14 ++++
 tools/perf/Makefile.perf           |   8 +++
 tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c |   8 ++-
 tools/perf/examples/bpf/5sec.c     |  49 ++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/examples/bpf/empty.c    |   3 +
 tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h       |  13 ++++
 tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c    |  13 ++++
 tools/perf/util/Build              |   2 +
 tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c       |   6 +-
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h            |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/llvm-utils.c       |  19 ++++--
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c     | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.h     |   7 +-
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.y     |   8 +--
 tools/perf/util/symbol.c           |  16 ++---
 15 files changed, 270 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/examples/bpf/5sec.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/examples/bpf/empty.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h

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.

  # 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:edge                   : Ok   gcc (Alpine 6.4.0) 6.4.0
   6 amazonlinux:1                 : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28)
   7 amazonlinux:2                 : Ok   gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5)
   8 android-ndk:r12b-arm          : Ok   arm-linux-androideabi-gcc (GCC) 4.9.x 20150123 (prerelease)
   9 android-ndk:r15c-arm          : Ok   arm-linux-androideabi-gcc (GCC) 4.9.x 20150123 (prerelease)
  10 centos:5                      : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-55)
  11 centos:6                      : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)
  12 centos:7                      : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16)
  13 debian:7                      : Ok   gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2
  14 debian:8                      : Ok   gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10+deb8u1) 4.9.2
  15 debian:9                      : Ok   gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516
  16 debian:experimental           : Ok   gcc (Debian 7.3.0-18) 7.3.0
  17 debian:experimental-x-arm64   : Ok   aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 7.3.0-18) 7.3.0
  18 debian:experimental-x-mips    : Ok   mips-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 7.3.0-18) 7.3.0
  19 debian:experimental-x-mips64  : Ok   mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc (Debian 7.3.0-18) 7.3.0
  20 debian:experimental-x-mipsel  : Ok   mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 7.3.0-18) 7.3.0
  21 fedora:20                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-7)
  22 fedora:21                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.9.2 20150212 (Red Hat 4.9.2-6)
  23 fedora:22                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 5.3.1 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6)
  24 fedora:23                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 5.3.1 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6)
  25 fedora:24                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 6.3.1 20161221 (Red Hat 6.3.1-1)
  26 fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc        : Ok   arc-linux-gcc (ARCompact ISA Linux uClibc toolchain 2017.09-rc2) 7.1.1 20170710
  27 fedora:25                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 6.4.1 20170727 (Red Hat 6.4.1-1)
  28 fedora:26                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180130 (Red Hat 7.3.1-2)
  29 fedora:27                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5)
  30 fedora:28                     : Ok   gcc (GCC) 8.1.1 20180502 (Red Hat 8.1.1-1)
  31 fedora:rawhide                : Ok   gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180324 (Red Hat 8.0.1-0.20)
  32 gentoo-stage3-amd64:latest    : Ok   gcc (Gentoo 6.4.0-r1 p1.3) 6.4.0
  33 mageia:5                      : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.9.2
  34 mageia:6                      : Ok   gcc (Mageia 5.5.0-1.mga6) 5.5.0
  35 opensuse:42.1                 : Ok   gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
  36 opensuse:42.2                 : Ok   gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
  37 opensuse:42.3                 : Ok   gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
  38 opensuse:tumbleweed           : Ok   gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.3.1 20180323 [gcc-7-branch revision 258812]
  39 oraclelinux:6                 : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18.0.7)
  40 oraclelinux:7                 : Ok   gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28.0.1)
  41 ubuntu:12.04.5                : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
  42 ubuntu:14.04.4                : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4
  43 ubuntu:14.04.4-x-linaro-arm64 : Ok   aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Linaro GCC 5.5-2017.10) 5.5.0
  44 ubuntu:16.04                  : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  45 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm            : Ok   arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  46 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm64          : Ok   aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  47 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc        : Ok   powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  48 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64      : Ok   powerpc64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  49 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64el    : Ok   powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  50 ubuntu:16.04-x-s390           : Ok   s390x-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
  51 ubuntu:16.10                  : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 6.2.0-5ubuntu12) 6.2.0 20161005
  52 ubuntu:17.04                  : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 6.3.0-12ubuntu2) 6.3.0 20170406
  53 ubuntu:17.10                  : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3.2) 7.2.0
  54 ubuntu:18.04                  : Ok   gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
  #

  # uname -a
  Linux jouet 4.17.0-rc5 #21 SMP Mon May 14 15:35:35 -03 2018 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: 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: Number of exit events of a simple workload            : Ok
  23: Software clock events period values                   : Ok
  24: Object code reading                                   : Ok
  25: Sample parsing                                        : Ok
  26: Use a dummy software event to keep tracking           : Ok
  27: Parse with no sample_id_all bit set                   : Ok
  28: Filter hist entries                                   : Ok
  29: Lookup mmap thread                                    : Ok
  30: Share thread mg                                       : Ok
  31: Sort output of hist entries                           : Ok
  32: Cumulate child hist entries                           : Ok
  33: Track with sched_switch                               : Ok
  34: Filter fds with revents mask in a fdarray             : Ok
  35: Add fd to a fdarray, making it autogrow               : Ok
  36: kmod_path__parse                                      : Ok
  37: Thread map                                            : Ok
  38: LLVM search and compile                               :
  38.1: Basic BPF llvm compile                              : Ok
  38.2: kbuild searching                                    : Ok
  38.3: Compile source for BPF prologue generation          : Ok
  38.4: Compile source for BPF relocation                   : Ok
  39: Session topology                                      : Ok
  40: BPF filter                                            :
  40.1: Basic BPF filtering                                 : Ok
  40.2: BPF pinning                                         : Ok
  40.3: BPF prologue generation                             : Ok
  40.4: BPF relocation checker                              : Ok
  41: Synthesize thread map                                 : Ok
  42: Remove thread map                                     : Ok
  43: Synthesize cpu map                                    : Ok
  44: Synthesize stat config                                : Ok
  45: Synthesize stat                                       : Ok
  46: Synthesize stat round                                 : Ok
  47: Synthesize attr update                                : Ok
  48: Event times                                           : Ok
  49: Read backward ring buffer                             : Ok
  50: Print cpu map                                         : Ok
  51: Probe SDT events                                      : Ok
  52: is_printable_array                                    : Ok
  53: Print bitmap                                          : Ok
  54: perf hooks                                            : Ok
  55: builtin clang support                                 : Skip (not compiled in)
  56: unit_number__scnprintf                                : Ok
  57: mem2node                                              : Ok
  58: x86 rdpmc                                             : Ok
  59: Convert perf time to TSC                              : Ok
  60: DWARF unwind                                          : Ok
  61: x86 instruction decoder - new instructions            : Ok
  62: Use vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames   : Ok
  63: Check open filename arg using perf trace + vfs_getname: Ok
  64: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping       : Ok
  65: 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_with_babeltrace_O: make LIBBABELTRACE=1
                 make_static_O: make LDFLAGS=-static
                   make_tags_O: make tags
                make_install_O: make install
                    make_doc_O: make doc
              make_no_libelf_O: make NO_LIBELF=1
              make_no_libbpf_O: make NO_LIBBPF=1
            make_no_demangle_O: make NO_DEMANGLE=1
              make_clean_all_O: make clean all
               make_no_slang_O: make NO_SLANG=1
             make_no_scripts_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_LIBPERL=1
         make_with_clangllvm_O: make LIBCLANGLLVM=1
                make_no_newt_O: make NO_NEWT=1
             make_no_libnuma_O: make NO_LIBNUMA=1
  make_no_libdw_dwarf_unwind_O: make NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1
           make_no_libbionic_O: make NO_LIBBIONIC=1
             make_no_libperl_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1
           make_no_libpython_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1
           make_no_libunwind_O: make NO_LIBUNWIND=1
           make_no_backtrace_O: make NO_BACKTRACE=1
   make_install_prefix_slash_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava/
                  make_debug_O: make DEBUG=1
             make_util_map_o_O: make util/map.o
                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_install_prefix_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava
                   make_pure_O: make
                 make_perf_o_O: make perf.o
                   make_help_O: make help
                make_no_gtk2_O: make NO_GTK2=1
            make_no_libaudit_O: make NO_LIBAUDIT=1
       make_util_pmu_bison_o_O: make util/pmu-bison.o
                  make_no_ui_O: make NO_NEWT=1 NO_SLANG=1 NO_GTK2=1
            make_install_bin_O: make install-bin
            make_no_auxtrace_O: make NO_AUXTRACE=1
  OK
  make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf'
  $