1. 16 3月, 2010 1 次提交
  2. 15 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      perf top: Properly notify the user that vmlinux is missing · b0a9ab62
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Before this patch this message would very briefly appear on the
      screen and then the screen would get updates only on the top,
      for number of interrupts received, etc, but no annotation would
      be performed:
      
       [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s n_tty_write > /tmp/bla
       objdump: '[kernel.kallsyms]': No such file
      
      Now this is what the user gets:
      
       [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s n_tty_write
       Can't annotate n_tty_write: No vmlinux file was found in the
       path: [0] vmlinux
       [1] /boot/vmlinux
       [2] /boot/vmlinux-2.6.33-rc5
       [3] /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc5/build/vmlinux
       [4] /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.33-rc5/vmlinux
       [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
      
      This bug was introduced when we added automatic search for
      vmlinux, before that time the user had to specify a vmlinux
      file.
      Reported-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1268664418-28328-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      b0a9ab62
  3. 12 3月, 2010 1 次提交
  4. 26 2月, 2010 1 次提交
  5. 25 2月, 2010 2 次提交
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      perf symbols: Improve debugging information about symtab origins · 3846df2e
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Be more clear about DSO long names and tell from which file
      kernel symbols were obtained, all in --verbose mode:
      
          [root@mica ~]# perf report -v > /dev/null
          Looking at the vmlinux_path (5 entries long)
          Using /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-tip-00777-g0918527-dirty/build/vmlinux for symbols
          [root@mica ~]# mv /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-tip-00777-g0918527-dirty/build/vmlinux /tmp/dd
          [root@mica ~]# perf report -v > /dev/null
          Looking at the vmlinux_path (5 entries long)
          Using /proc/kallsyms for symbols
          [root@mica ~]#
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1266866139-6361-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      3846df2e
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      perf symbols: Check the right return variable · 37fe5fcb
      Zhang, Yanmin 提交于
      In function dso__split_kallsyms(), curr_map saves the return value
      of map__new2. So check it instead of var map after the call returns.
      Signed-off-by: NZhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # for .33.x
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1267066851.1726.9.camel@localhost>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      37fe5fcb
  6. 22 2月, 2010 1 次提交
  7. 04 2月, 2010 6 次提交
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      perf tools: Fix session init on non-modular kernels · 2161db96
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      perf top and perf record refuses to initialize on non-modular kernels:
      refuse to initialize:
      
       $ perf top -v
        map_groups__set_modules_path_dir: cannot open /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc6-tip-00586-g398dde3-dirty/
      
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      2161db96
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      perf tools: Adjust some verbosity levels · 29a9f66d
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Not to pollute too much 'perf annotate' debugging sessions.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-7-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      29a9f66d
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      perf record: Stop intercepting events, use postprocessing to get build-ids · 6122e4e4
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      We want to stream events as fast as possible to perf.data, and
      also in the future we want to have splice working, when no
      interception will be possible.
      
      Using build_id__mark_dso_hit_ops to create the list of DSOs that
      back MMAPs we also optimize disk usage in the build-id cache by
      only caching DSOs that had hits.
      Suggested-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6122e4e4
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      perf symbols: Ditch vdso global variable · 8d92c02a
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      We can check using strcmp, most DSOs don't start with '[' so the
      test is cheap enough and we had to test it there anyway since
      when reading perf.data files we weren't calling the routine that
      created this global variable and thus weren't setting it as
      "loaded", which was causing a bogus:
      
        Failed to open [vdso], continuing without symbols
      
      Message as the first line of 'perf report'.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8d92c02a
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      perf symbols: Fixup vsyscall maps · 6275ce2d
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      While debugging a problem reported by Pekka Enberg by printing
      the IP and all the maps for a thread when we don't find a map
      for an IP I noticed that dso__load_sym needs to fixup these
      extra maps it creates to hold symbols in different ELF sections
      than the main kernel one.
      
      Now we're back showing things like:
      
      [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report | grep vsyscall
           0.02%             mutt  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
           0.01%            named  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
           0.01%   NetworkManager  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
           0.01%         gconfd-2  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_0   [.] vgettimeofday
           0.01%  hald-addon-rfki  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
           0.00%      dbus-daemon  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
      [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6275ce2d
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      perf symbols: Remove perf_session usage in symbols layer · 9de89fe7
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      I noticed while writing the first test in 'perf regtest' that to
      just test the symbol handling routines one needs to create a
      perf session, that is a layer centered on a perf.data file,
      events, etc, so I untied these layers.
      
      This reduces the complexity for the users as the number of
      parameters to most of the symbols and session APIs now was
      reduced while not adding more state to all the map instances by
      only having data that is needed to split the kernel (kallsyms
      and ELF symtab sections) maps and do vmlinux relocation on the
      main kernel map.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      9de89fe7
  8. 29 1月, 2010 2 次提交
  9. 27 1月, 2010 2 次提交
  10. 21 1月, 2010 1 次提交
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      perf buildid-cache: Add new command to manage build-id cache · ef12a141
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      For now it just has operations to examine a given file, find its
      build-id and add or remove it to/from the cache.
      
      Useful, for instance, when adding binaries sent together with a
      perf.data file, so that we can add them to the cache and have
      the tools find it when resolving symbols.
      
      It'll also manage the size of the cache like 'ccache' does.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1264008525-29025-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      ef12a141
  11. 20 1月, 2010 1 次提交
  12. 16 1月, 2010 4 次提交
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      perf buildid-list: Introduce --with-hits option · 88d3d9b7
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Using this option 'perf buildid-list' will process all samples,
      marking the DSOs that had some hits to list just them.
      
      This in turn will be used by a new porcelain, 'perf archive',
      that will be just a shell script to create a tarball from the
      'perf buildid-list --with-hits' output and the files cached by
      'perf record' in ~/.debug.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1263519930-22803-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      88d3d9b7
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      perf symbols: Use dso->long_name in dsos__find() · cf4e5b08
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      If not we end up duplicating the module DSOs because first we
      insert them using the short name found in /proc/modules, then,
      when processing synthesized MMAP events we add them again.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1263519930-22803-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cf4e5b08
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      perf symbols: Cache /proc/kallsyms files by build-id · 9e201442
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      So that when we don't have a vmlinux handy we can store the
      kallsyms for later use by 'perf report'.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1263501006-14185-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      9e201442
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      perf symbols: Don't try to load kallsyms if doesn't match the record build-id · 8d0591f6
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Now a perf.data file collected on a x86_64 fedora 12 machine
      gets properly parsed on a Debian testing PARISC64 machine with
      32-bit userland:
      
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report 2> /dev/null | head -15
        # Samples: 293085637
        #
        # Overhead          Command                      Shared Object  Symbol
        # ........  ...............  .................................  ......
        #
            35.11%             find  [kernel.kallsyms]                  [k] 0xffffffff81002b5a
            18.25%             perf  [kernel.kallsyms]                  [k] 0xffffffff8102235f
             9.07%             find  find                               [.] 0x0000000000fb0e
             5.80%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]                  [k] 0xffffffff8102235f
             3.29%             perf  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] __GI_strcmp
             2.70%             find  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] __GI_memmove
             2.33%             init  [kernel.kallsyms]                  [k] 0xffffffff810091b9
             2.03%             find  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] _int_malloc
             1.67%             find  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
             1.65%             sshd  libcrypto.so.0.9.8k                [.] 0x00000000105440
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1263501006-14185-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8d0591f6
  13. 14 1月, 2010 1 次提交
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      perf tools: Encode kernel module mappings in perf.data · b7cece76
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      We were always looking at the running machine /proc/modules,
      even when processing a perf.data file, which only makes sense
      when we're doing 'perf record' and 'perf report' on the same
      machine, and in close sucession, or if we don't use modules at
      all, right Peter? ;-)
      
      Now, at 'perf record' time we read /proc/modules, find the long
      path for modules, and put them as PERF_MMAP events, just like we
      did to encode the reloc reference symbol for vmlinux. Talking
      about that now it is encoded in .pgoff, so that we can use
      .{start,len} to store the address boundaries for the kernel so
      that when we reconstruct the kmaps tree we can do lookups right
      away, without having to fixup the end of the kernel maps like we
      did in the past (and now only in perf record).
      
      One more step in the 'perf archive' direction when we'll finally
      be able to collect data in one machine and analyse in another.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1263396139-4798-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      b7cece76
  14. 13 1月, 2010 5 次提交
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      perf symbols: Record the domain of DSOs in HEADER_BUILD_ID header table · a89e5abe
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      So that we can restore them to the right DSO list (either
      dsos__kernel or dsos__user).
      
      We do that just like the kernel does for the other events,
      encoding PERF_RECORD_MISC_{KERNEL,USER} in perf_event_header.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1262901583-8074-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a89e5abe
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      perf tools: Handle relocatable kernels · 56b03f3c
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      DSOs don't have this problem because the kernel emits a
      PERF_MMAP for each new executable mapping it performs on
      monitored threads.
      
      To fix the kernel case we simulate the same behaviour, by having
      'perf record' to synthesize a PERF_MMAP for the kernel, encoded
      like this:
      
      [root@doppio ~]# perf record -a -f sleep 1
      [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
      [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.344 MB perf.data (~15038 samples) ]
      [root@doppio ~]# perf report -D | head -10
      
      0xd0 [0x40]: event: 1
      .
      . ... raw event: size 64 bytes
      .  0000:  01 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ......@........
      .  0010:  00 00 00 81 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...............
      .  0020:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5b 6b 65 72 6e 65 6c 2e ........  [kernel
      .  0030:  6b 61 6c 6c 73 79 6d 73 2e 5f 74 65 78 74 5d 00  kallsyms._text]
      .  0xd0
      [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 0/0: [0xffffffff81000000((nil)) @ (nil)]: [kernel.kallsyms._text]
      
      I.e. we identify such event as having:
      
       .pid      = 0
       .filename = [kernel.kallsyms.REFNAME]
       .start    = REFNAME addr in /proc/kallsyms at 'perf record' time
      
      and use now a hardcoded value of '.text' for REFNAME.
      
      Then, later, in 'perf report', if there are any kernel hits and
      thus we need to resolve kernel symbols, we search for REFNAME
      and if its address changed, relocation happened and we thus must
      change the kernel mapping routines to one that uses .pgoff as
      the relocation to apply.
      
      This way we use the same mechanism used for the other DSOs and
      don't have to do a two pass in all the kernel symbols.
      Reported-by: NXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1262717431-1246-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      56b03f3c
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      perf session: Keep pointers to the vmlinux maps · de176489
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      So that tools such as 'perf probe' don't have to lookup
      '[kernel.kallsyms]' but instead access them directly after
      perf_session__create_kernel_maps or
      map_groups__create_kernel_maps.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1262629169-22797-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      de176489
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      perf symbols: Export symbol_type__is_a · 36a3e646
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Will be needed by the new HEADER_DSO_INFO feature that will be a
      HEADER_BUILD_ID superset, replacing it.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1262629169-22797-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      36a3e646
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      perf symbols: Generalise the kallsyms parsing routine · 682b335a
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Will be used to find an specific symbol by name on 'perf record'
      to support relocation reference symbols to support relocatable
      kernels.
      
      Still have to conver the perf trace tools to use it instead of
      their current reimplementation.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1262629169-22797-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      682b335a
  15. 28 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      perf record: Introduce a symtab cache · 4cf40131
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Now a cache will be created in a ~/.debug debuginfo like
      hierarchy, so that at the end of a 'perf record' session all the
      binaries (with build-ids) involved get collected and indexed by
      their build-ids, so that perf report can find them.
      
      This is interesting when developing software where you want to
      do a 'perf diff' with the previous build and opens avenues for
      lots more interesting tools, like a 'perf diff --graph' that
      takes more than two binaries into account.
      
      Tunables for collecting just the symtabs can be added if one
      doesn't want to have the full binary, but having the full binary
      allows things like 'perf rerecord' or other tools that can
      re-run the tests by having access to the exact binary in some
      perf.data file, so it may well be interesting to keep the full
      binary there.
      
      Space consumption is minimised by trying to use hard links, a
      'perf cache' tool to manage the space used, a la ccache is
      required to purge older entries.
      
      With this in place it will be possible also to introduce new
      commands, 'perf archive' and 'perf restore' (or some more
      suitable and future proof names) to create a cpio/tar file with
      the perf data and the files in the cache that _had_ perf hits of
      interest.
      
      There are more aspects to polish, like finding the right vmlinux
      file to cache, etc, but this is enough for a first step.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1261957026-15580-10-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      4cf40131
  16. 16 12月, 2009 4 次提交
  17. 14 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      perf session: Move kmaps to perf_session · 4aa65636
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      There is still some more work to do to disentangle map creation
      from DSO loading, but this happens only for the kernel, and for
      the early adopters of perf diff, where this disentanglement
      matters most, we'll be testing different kernels, so no problem
      here.
      
      Further clarification: right now we create the kernel maps for
      the various modules and discontiguous kernel text maps when
      loading the DSO, we should do it as a two step process, first
      creating the maps, for multiple mappings with the same DSO
      store, then doing the dso load just once, for the first hit on
      one of the maps sharing this DSO backing store.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1260741029-4430-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      4aa65636
  18. 12 12月, 2009 5 次提交
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      perf symbols: Ditch dso->find_symbol · ea08d8cb
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      It is always wired to dso__find_symbol.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1260564999-13371-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      ea08d8cb
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      perf symbols: Allow lookups by symbol name too · 79406cd7
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Configurable via symbol_conf.sort_by_name, so that the cost of an
      extra rb_node on all 'struct symbol' instances is not paid by tools
      that only want to decode addresses.
      
      How to use it:
      
      	symbol_conf.sort_by_name = true;
      	symbol_init(&symbol_conf);
      
      	struct map *map = map_groups__find_by_name(kmaps, MAP__VARIABLE, "[kernel.kallsyms]");
      
      	if (map == NULL) {
      		pr_err("couldn't find map!\n");
      		kernel_maps__fprintf(stdout);
      	} else {
      		struct symbol *sym = map__find_symbol_by_name(map, sym_filter, NULL);
      		if (sym == NULL)
      			pr_err("couldn't find symbol %s!\n", sym_filter);
      		else
      			pr_info("symbol %s: %#Lx-%#Lx \n", sym_filter, sym->start, sym->end);
      	}
      
      Looking over the vmlinux/kallsyms is common enough that I'll add a
      variable to the upcoming struct perf_session to avoid the need to
      use map_groups__find_by_name to get the main vmlinux/kallsyms map.
      
      The above example looks on the 'variable' symtab, but it is just
      like that for the functions one.
      
      Also the sort operation is done when we first use
      map__find_symbol_by_name, in a lazy way.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1260564622-12392-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      79406cd7
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      perf symbols: Add support for 'variable' symtabs · f1dfa0b1
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Example:
      
      {
      	u64 addr = strtoull(sym_filter, NULL, 16);
      	struct map *map = map_groups__find(kmaps, MAP__VARIABLE, addr);
      
      	if (map == NULL)
      		pr_err("couldn't find map!\n");
      	else {
      		struct symbol *sym = map__find_symbol(map, addr, NULL);
      		if (sym == NULL)
      			pr_err("couldn't find addr!\n");
      		else
      			pr_info("addr %#Lx is in %s global var\n", addr, sym->name);
      	}
      	exit(0);
      }
      
      Added just after symbol__init() call in 'perf top', then:
      
      {
              u64 addr = strtoull(sym_filter, NULL, 16);
              struct map *map = map_groups__find(kmaps, MAP__VARIABLE, addr);
      
              if (map == NULL)
                      pr_err("couldn't find map!\n");
              else {
                      struct symbol *sym = map__find_symbol(map, addr, NULL);
                      if (sym == NULL)
                              pr_err("couldn't find addr!\n");
                      else
                              pr_info("addr %#Lx is in %s global var\n", addr, sym->name);
              }
              exit(0);
      }
      
      [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# grep ' [dD] ' /proc/kallsyms | grep ' sched'
      ffffffff817827d8 d sched_nr_latency
      ffffffff81782ce0 d sched_domains_mutex
      ffffffff8178c070 d schedstr.22423
      ffffffff817909a0 d sched_register_mutex
      ffffffff81823490 d sched_feat_names
      ffffffff81823558 d scheduler_running
      ffffffff818235b8 d sched_clock_running
      ffffffff818235bc D sched_clock_stable
      ffffffff81824f00 d sched_switch_trace
      [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s 0xffffffff817827d9
      addr 0xffffffff817827d9 is in sched_nr_latency global var
      [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s ffffffff81782ce0
      addr 0xffffffff81782ce0 is in sched_domains_mutex global var
      [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
      [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s ffffffff81782ce0 --vmlinux OFF
      The file OFF cannot be used, trying to use /proc/kallsyms...addr 0xffffffff81782ce0 is in sched_domains_mutex global var
      [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s ffffffff818235bc --vmlinux OFF
      The file OFF cannot be used, trying to use /proc/kallsyms...addr 0xffffffff818235bc is in sched_clock_stable global var
      [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
      
      So it works with both /proc/kallsyms and with ELF symtabs, either
      the one on the vmlinux explicitely passed via --vmlinux or in one
      in the vmlinux_path that matches the buildid for the running kernel
      or the one found in the buildid header section in a perf.data file.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1260550239-5372-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f1dfa0b1
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      perf symbols: Introduce ELF counterparts to symbol_type__is_a · d45868d3
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      For selecting the right types of symbols in ELF symtabs.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1260550239-5372-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d45868d3
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      perf symbols: Introduce symbol_type__is_a · 6893d4ee
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      For selecting the right types of symbols in /proc/kallsyms, will be
      followed by elf_symbol_type__is_a, for the same purpose on ELF
      symtabs.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1260550239-5372-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6893d4ee