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  1. Jun 01, 2012
    • Cyrill Gorcunov's avatar
      syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall · d97b46a6
      Cyrill Gorcunov authored 
      

While doing the checkpoint-restore in the user space one need to determine
whether various kernel objects (like mm_struct-s of file_struct-s) are
shared between tasks and restore this state.

The 2nd step can be solved by using appropriate CLONE_ flags and the
unshare syscall, while there's currently no ways for solving the 1st one.

One of the ways for checking whether two tasks share e.g.  mm_struct is to
provide some mm_struct ID of a task to its proc file, but showing such
info considered to be not that good for security reasons.

Thus after some debates we end up in conclusion that using that named
'comparison' syscall might be the best candidate.  So here is it --
__NR_kcmp.

It takes up to 5 arguments - the pids of the two tasks (which
characteristics should be compared), the comparison type and (in case of
comparison of files) two file descriptors.

Lookups for pids are done in the caller's PID namespace only.

At moment only x86 is supported and tested.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up selftests, warnings]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include errno.h]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text]
Signed-off-by: default avatarCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d97b46a6
    • Doug Ledford's avatar
      tools/selftests: add mq_perf_tests · 7820b071
      Doug Ledford authored 
      

Add the mq_perf_tests tool I used when creating my mq performance patch.
Also add a local .gitignore to keep the binaries from showing up in git
status output.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7820b071
    • Doug Ledford's avatar
      selftests: add mq_open_tests · 50069a58
      Doug Ledford authored 
      

Add a directory to house POSIX message queue subsystem specific tests.
Add first test which checks the operation of mq_open() under various
corner conditions.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      50069a58
  3. May 31, 2012
  5. May 30, 2012
    • Avik Sil's avatar
      perf tools: Fix pager on minimal-install embedded systems · ea1b3eba
      Avik Sil authored 
      

Some Distributions may lack "less" package being included by default,
e.g., Linaro nano rootfs. In those cases use the portable "pager"
command instead of "less".

Signed-off-by: default avatarAvik Sil <avik.sil@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338287725-26382-1-git-send-email-avik.sil@linaro.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      ea1b3eba
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf tools: Fix make tarballs · f1439c31
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      The patch series that introduced the top level tools/ makefile and the
libtraceevent broke this feature where files needed to build in a
detached tarball were not included in the MANIFEST file and thus not
included in the tarball.

Fix it by adding the relevant files to the MANIFEST.

Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z3mjj74927xvqwhlmu18kj80@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      f1439c31
    • David Ahern's avatar
      perf script: Fix regression in callchain dso name · 52deff71
      David Ahern authored 
      

$ perf script -i /tmp/perf.data
...
gcc 13623 544315.062858: context-switches:
    ffffffff815f65c9 __schedule ([kernel.kallsyms])
    ffffffff81087cea __cond_resched ([kernel.kallsyms])
    ffffffff815f6b92 _cond_resched ([kernel.kallsyms])
    ffffffff815fb87a do_page_fault ([kernel.kallsyms])
    ffffffff815f8465 page_fault ([kernel.kallsyms])
        2b7a71ea0303 _dl_lookup_symbol_x ([kernel.kallsyms])
        2b7a71ea1eb5 _dl_relocate_object ([kernel.kallsyms])
        2b7a71e99b2e dl_main ([kernel.kallsyms])
        2b7a71eab7f4 _dl_sysdep_start ([kernel.kallsyms])

All DSO's in a callchain are printed as [kernel.kallsyms].

git bisect chased it to:

547a92e0 is the first bad commit
commit 547a92e0
Author: Akihiro Nagai <akihiro.nagai.hw@hitachi.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 30 13:42:57 2012 +0900

    perf script: Unify the expressions indicating "unknown"

    The perf script command uses various expressions to indicate "unknown".

    It is unfriendly for user scripts to parse it. So, this patch unifies
    the expressions to "[unknown]".

Looks like a copy-paste in that the other references use al.map but this one
should be node->map.

With this patch you get:

$ perf script -i /tmp/perf.data
...
gcc 13623 544315.062858: context-switches:
    ffffffff815f65c9 __schedule ([kernel.kallsyms])
    ffffffff81087cea __cond_resched ([kernel.kallsyms])
    ffffffff815f6b92 _cond_resched ([kernel.kallsyms])
    ffffffff815fb87a do_page_fault ([kernel.kallsyms])
    ffffffff815f8465 page_fault ([kernel.kallsyms])
        2b7a71ea0303 _dl_lookup_symbol_x (/lib64/ld-2.14.90.so)
        2b7a71ea1eb5 _dl_relocate_object (/lib64/ld-2.14.90.so)
        2b7a71e99b2e dl_main (/lib64/ld-2.14.90.so)
        2b7a71eab7f4 _dl_sysdep_start (/lib64/ld-2.14.90.so)

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Akihiro Nagai <akihiro.nagai.hw@hitachi.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338353906-60706-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      52deff71
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf stat: Initialize default events wrt exclude_{guest,host} · 79695e1b
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      

When no event is specified the tools use perf_evlist__add_default(), that will
call event_attr_init to initialize the KVM exclusion bits.

When the change was made to the tools so that by default guest samples would be
excluded, the changes were made just to the parsing routines and to
perf_evlist__add_default(), not to perf_evlist__add_attrs, that is used so far
just by perf stat to add multiple events, according to the level of detail
specified.

Recently the tools were changed to reconstruct the event name from all the
details in perf_event_attr, not just from .type and .config, but taking into
account all the feature bits (.exclude_{guest,host,user,kernel,etc},
.precise_ip, etc).

That is when we noticed that the default for perf stat wasn't the one for the
rest of the tools, i.e. the .exclude_guest bit wasn't being set.

I.e. the default, that doesn't call event_attr_init was showing the :HG
modifier:

  $ perf stat usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

            0.942119 task-clock                #    0.454 CPUs utilized
                   1 context-switches          #    0.001 M/sec
                   0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                 126 page-faults               #    0.134 M/sec
             693,193 cycles:HG                 #    0.736 GHz                     [40.11%]
             407,461 stalled-cycles-frontend:HG #   58.78% frontend cycles idle    [72.29%]
             365,403 stalled-cycles-backend:HG #   52.71% backend  cycles idle
             465,982 instructions:HG           #    0.67  insns per cycle
                                               #    0.87  stalled cycles per insn
              89,760 branches:HG               #   95.275 M/sec
               6,178 branch-misses:HG          #    6.88% of all branches

         0.002077228 seconds time elapsed

While if one explicitely specifies the same events, which will make the parsing code
to be called and thus event_attr_init is called:

  $ perf stat -e task-clock,context-switches,migrations,page-faults,cycles,stalled-cycles-frontend,stalled-cycles-backend,instructions,branches,branch-misses usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

            1.040349 task-clock                #    0.500 CPUs utilized
                   2 context-switches          #    0.002 M/sec
                   0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                 127 page-faults               #    0.122 M/sec
             587,966 cycles                    #    0.565 GHz                     [13.18%]
             459,167 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   78.09% frontend cycles idle
             390,249 stalled-cycles-backend    #   66.37% backend  cycles idle
             504,006 instructions              #    0.86  insns per cycle
                                               #    0.91  stalled cycles per insn
              96,455 branches                  #   92.714 M/sec
               6,522 branch-misses             #    6.76% of all branches         [96.12%]

         0.002078681 seconds time elapsed

Fix it by introducing a perf_evlist__add_default_attrs method that will call
evlist_attr_init in all the perf_event_attr entries before adding the events.

Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4eysr236r0pgiyum9epwxw7s@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      79695e1b
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf annotate browser: Fix help window entry for navigating to hottest line · 107baeca
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      

Its 'H', not 'h'. The later is for getting to the help window.

Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7zvwphhm815y2zczoxgstzuf@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      107baeca
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf report: Use the right symbol for annotation · 91557e84
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      

In non symbolic views, i.e. --sort without "symbol", as in:

 perf report --sort comm

We're segfaulting in the --tui because we're testing the symbol resolved
and then trying to use the symbol on the histogram entry where we're
coalescing all hits for a COMM, and the first hist_entry for a comm may
have a NULL symbol, i.e. the RIP didn't resolve to any symbol.

In this case we're segfaulting, fix it by testing against the symbol in
the histogram entry.

Reported-by: default avatarWilliam Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8ylwubbcmu27ucc9ffrku3yv@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      91557e84
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf ui browser: Stop using 'self' · 05e8b080
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      

Stop using this python/OOP convention, doesn't really helps. Will do
more from time to time till we get it cleaned up in all of /perf.

Suggested-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5dyxyb8o0gf4yndk27kafbd1@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      05e8b080
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf annotate browser: Read perf config file for settings · c323cf04
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      The defaults are:

[annotate]

	hide_src_code = false
	use_offset = true
	jump_arrows = true
	show_nr_jumps = false

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-q4egci70rjgxh7bogbbfpcyf@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      c323cf04
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf config: Allow '_' in config file variable names · 8dc7c651
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      For annotate I want to be able to have variables that are the same as
the ones representing feature toggles.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7rhhf6m0a72p2wja4tgv1itg@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      8dc7c651
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf annotate browser: Make feature toggles global · e9823b21
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      So that when navigating to another function from a call site or when
going to another annotation browser thru the main report/top browser the
options (hide source code, jump arrows, jumpy lines, etc) remains the
last ones selected.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0h0tah1zj59p01581snjufne@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      e9823b21
  7. May 29, 2012
  9. May 28, 2012
  11. May 26, 2012
  13. May 25, 2012
    • Stephane Eranian's avatar
      perf record: Fix branch_stack type in perf_record_opts · a00dc319
      Stephane Eranian authored 
      

The attr.branch_sample_type field is defined as u64 by the API.  As
such, we need to ensure the variable holding the value of the branch
stack filters is also u64 otherwise we may lose bits in the future.

Note also that the bogus definition of the field in perf_record_opts
caused problems on big-endian PPC systems.  Thanks to Anshuman Khandual
for tracking the problem on PPC.

Reported-by: default avatarAnshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525211344.GA7729@quad


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      a00dc319
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf tools: Reconstruct event with modifiers from perf_event_attr · c410431c
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      The modifiers:

  k		kernel space
  u		user space
  h		hypervisor
  G		guest
  H		host
  p, pp, ppp    precision level (PEBS)

that can be suffixed to an event were lost when tools used event_name()
to reconstruct them from the perf_event_attr entries in a perf.data
file.

Fix it by following the defaults used for these modifiers in the current
codebase, so:

 $ perf record -e instructions:u usleep 1 2> /dev/null
 $ perf evlist
 instructions:u
 $ perf record -e cycles:k usleep 1 2> /dev/null
 $ perf evlist
 cycles:k
 $ perf record -e cycles:kh usleep 1 2> /dev/null
 $ perf evlist
 cycles:kh
 $ perf record -e cache-misses:G usleep 1 2> /dev/null
 $ perf evlist
 cache-misses:G
 $ perf record -e cycles:ppk usleep 1 2> /dev/null
 $ perf evlist
 cycles:kpp
 $

Also works with 'top', 'report', etc.

More work needed to cover tracepoints and software events while not
dragging lots of baggage to the python binding, this is a minimal fix
for v3.5.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4hl5glle0hxlklw4usva1mkt@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      c410431c
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf top: Fix counter name fixup when fallbacking to cpu-clock · 895d9766
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      In 40491eaa "perf top: Update event name when falling back to cpu-clock"
we freed counter->name but didn't reset it to NULL, then when setting it
to the result of event_name(), event_name() would use the cached value,
which by now was overwritten and thus we got garbage or a zero lenght
string.

Fix it by just freeing and setting counter->name to NULL, this way
event_name() when called afterwards, will find the right counter name
and cache it again.

Found while trying 'cycles:pp' on a machine were :pp couldn't be
honoured. Probably the best fallback here is to tell the user that that
level of precision is not available on the PMU and then go removing 'p',
levels of precision till we get to play 'cycles' and if even that fails,
_then_ get to 'cpu-clock'.

But that is the matter for another patch, this one just needs to fix the
caching issue, which in the end will show 'cpu-clock' when tools ask for
the event name being used, which clarifies things for the user, that
will see that 'cycles:pp' or whatever not support event is not being
used, some sort of fallback happened.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-w1neie2dqli89we1bzwkf4id@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      895d9766
    • Franck Bui-Huu's avatar
      perf tools: fix thread_map__new_by_pid_str() memory leak in error path · e8cdd947
      Franck Bui-Huu authored 
      

The namelist array (including its content) was not freed if we fail to
realloc a new 'threads' structure.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFranck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337952109-31995-1-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      e8cdd947
  15. May 24, 2012