When we build perf we place all of the .o files from the library files
(util, arch/x/util, etc) into libperf.a which is then linked into perf.
The problem is that the linker will by default only consider .o files
within the .a archive if they are necessary to satisfy an unresolved
symbol. As weak functions are not unresolved, it will not consider a .o
file from the archive containing the strong versions of weak functions
unless it requires it for another reason.
This patch adds the --whole-archive flags to the linker when passing in
the libperf.a file to ensure that it will consider every .o file in the
archive, not just what it believes that it needs. The end result is that
weak functions can now be overridden by strong variants of them in the
libperf.a file.
Cc: "tom.leiming" <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290991642-sup-5890@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There were a few stray calloc()'s and malloc()'s which were not having
their return values checked for success.
As the calling code either already coped with failure or didn't actually
care we just return -ENOMEM at that point.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4CDDF95A.1050400@csamuel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix annoying compiler warning in the is_top_script() function.
The issue was that a const char * was cast into a char * to call
ends_with(). We fix the users of ends_with() instead. Some are passing a
char *, but it is okay to cast the return value of ends_with() to char *
(because we understand what ends_with() does).
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4cf92096.17edd80a.1540.5d60@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Now that we have timestamps on FORK, EXIT, COMM, MMAP events we can
sort everything in time order. This fixes the following observed
problem:
mmap(file1) -> pagefault() -> munmap(file1)
mmap(file2) -> pagefault() -> munmap(file2)
Resulted in decoding both pagefaults in file2 because the file1 map
was already replaced by the file2 map when the map address was
identical.
With all events sorted we decode both pagefaults correctly.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1012051220450.2653@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add new macro OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT_NOOPT for parse_options.
It enables to pass the default value (opt->defval) to the callback function
processing options require no argument.
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20101203035853.7827.17502.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Nagai <akihiro.nagai.hw@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In the event that a DSO has not been identified, just print out [unknown]
instead of the instruction pointer as we previously were doing, which is pretty
meaningless for a shared object (at least to the users perspective).
The IP we print out is fairly meaningless in general anyway - it's just one
(the first) of the many addresses that were lumped together as unidentified,
and could span many shared objects and symbols. In reality if we see this
[unknown] output then the report -D output is going to be more useful anyway as
we can see all the different address that it represents.
If we are printing the symbols we are still going to see this IP in that column
anyway since they shouldn't resolve either.
This patch also changes the symbol address printouts so that they print out 0x
before the address, are left aligned, and changes the %L format string (which
relies on a glibc bug) to %ll.
Before:
74.11% :3259 4a6c [k] 4a6c
After:
74.11% :3259 [unknown] [k] 0x4a6c
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291603026-11785-2-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
At perf_session__process_event, so that we reduce the number of lines in eache
tool sample processing routine that now receives a sample_data pointer already
parsed.
This will also be useful in the next patch, where we'll allow sample the
identity fields in MMAP, FORK, EXIT, etc, when it will be possible to see (cpu,
timestamp) just after before every event.
Also validate callchains in perf_session__process_event, i.e. as early as
possible, and keep a counter of the number of events discarded due to invalid
callchains, warning the user about it if it happens.
There is an assumption that was kept that all events have the same sample_type,
that will be dealt with in the future, when this preexisting limitation will be
removed.
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291318772-30880-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds an option (-x/--field-separator) to print counts using a
CSV-style output. The user can pass a custom separator. This makes it very easy
to import counts directly into your favorite spreadsheet without having to
write scripts.
Example:
$ perf stat --field-separator=, -a -- sleep 1
4009.961740,task-clock-msecs
13,context-switches
2,CPU-migrations
189,page-faults
9596385684,cycles
3493659441,instructions
872897069,branches
41562,branch-misses
22424,cache-references
1289,cache-misses
Works also in non-aggregated mode:
$ perf stat -x , -a -A -- sleep 1
CPU0,1002.526168,task-clock-msecs
CPU1,1002.528365,task-clock-msecs
CPU2,1002.523360,task-clock-msecs
CPU3,1002.519878,task-clock-msecs
CPU0,1,context-switches
CPU1,5,context-switches
CPU2,5,context-switches
CPU3,6,context-switches
CPU0,0,CPU-migrations
CPU1,1,CPU-migrations
CPU2,0,CPU-migrations
CPU3,1,CPU-migrations
CPU0,2,page-faults
CPU1,6,page-faults
CPU2,9,page-faults
CPU3,174,page-faults
CPU0,2399439771,cycles
CPU1,2380369063,cycles
CPU2,2399142710,cycles
CPU3,2373161192,cycles
CPU0,872900618,instructions
CPU1,873030960,instructions
CPU2,872714525,instructions
CPU3,874460580,instructions
CPU0,221556839,branches
CPU1,218134342,branches
CPU2,218161730,branches
CPU3,218284093,branches
CPU0,18556,branch-misses
CPU1,1449,branch-misses
CPU2,3447,branch-misses
CPU3,12714,branch-misses
CPU0,8330,cache-references
CPU1,313844,cache-references
CPU2,47993728,cache-references
CPU3,826481,cache-references
CPU0,272,cache-misses
CPU1,5360,cache-misses
CPU2,1342193,cache-misses
CPU3,13992,cache-misses
This second version adds the ability to name a separator and uses
field-separator as the long option to be consistent with perf report.
Commiter note: Since we enabled --big-num by default in 201e0b0 and -x can't be
used with it, we need to notice if the user explicitely enabled or disabled -B,
add code to disable big_num if the user didn't explicitely set --big_num when
-x is used.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederik Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <4cf68aa7.0fedd80a.5294.1203@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The --displacement and --modules options to perf diff both use -m as a
short flag. Change --displacement to use -M since other perf commands
use -m, --modules.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-4-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Merge reason: This is an older commit under testing that was not pushed yet - merge it.
Also fix up the merge in command-list.txt.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
There are number of issues that prevent the use of multiple tracepoint events
being specified in a -e/--event switch, separated by commas.
For example, perf stat -e irq:irq_handler_entry,irq:irq_handler_exit ... fails
because the tracepoint event parsing code doesn't recognize the comma separator
properly.
This patch corrects those issues.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291156021-17711-1-git-send-email-cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There seems to be a new dependency on arch/*/lib/memcpy*.S when compiling
the perf tool. Make sure that file is included in the MANIFEST when
creating the tarball.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1291155133-3499-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
No need to check that many times if debug_trace is on.
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: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The ordered sample code allocates singular reference objects struct
sample_queue which have 48byte size on 64bit and 20 bytes on 32bit. That's
silly. Allocate ~64k sized chunks and hand them out.
Performance gain: ~ 15%
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101130163820.398713983@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When the sample queue is flushed we free the sample reference objects. Though
we need to malloc new objects when we process further. Stop the malloc/free
orgy and cache the already allocated object for resuage. Only allocate when
the cache is empty.
Performance gain: ~ 10%
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101130163820.338488630@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Profiling perf with perf revealed that a large part of the processing time is
spent in malloc/memcpy/free in the sample ordering code. That code copies the
data from the mmap into malloc'ed memory. That's silly. We can keep the mmap
and just store the pointer in the queuing data structure. For 64 bit this is
not a problem as we map the whole file anyway. On 32bit we keep 8 maps around
and unmap the oldest before mmaping the next chunk of the file.
Performance gain: 2.95s -> 1.23s (Faktor 2.4)
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101130163820.278787719@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
On 64bit we can map the whole file in one go, on 32bit we can at least map
32MB and not map/unmap tiny chunks of the file.
Base the progress bar on 1/16 of the data size.
Preparatory patch to get rid of the malloc/memcpy/free of trace data.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101130163820.213687773@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
No need to check twice.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101130163820.152886642@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The progress bar is changed when the file offset changes. This happens only
when the next mmap is done. No need to call ui_progress_update() for every
event.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101130163820.094836523@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Replace the pseudo C++ self argument with session and give the mmap related
variables a sensible name. shift is a complete misnomer - it took me several
rounds of cursing to figure out that it's not a shift value.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101130163820.029687218@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There is no reason to use a struct sample_event pointer in struct sample_queue
and type cast it when flushing the queue.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101130163819.969462809@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The homebrewn sort algorithm fails to sort in time order. One of the problem
spots is that it fails to deal with equal timestamps correctly.
My first gut reaction was to replace the fancy list with an rbtree, but the
performance is 3 times worse.
Rewrite it so it works.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101130163819.908482530@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix it by explaining what can be happening and giving the number of processed
and lost events.
Also holler if unknown events were found, that can be due to processing a
perf.data file collected using a newer tool where newer events got added on
reporting using an older perf tool, that or a bug, so ask for a report to be
made.
Works on both --tui and --stdio.
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Some filesystems like xfs and reiserfs will return DT_UNKNOWN for the
d_type. Handle this case by calling stat() to determine the type.
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290355779-3276-1-git-send-email-sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
If a 32bit userspace perf is running on a 64bit kernel, the end of the final
map in the kernel would incorrectly be set to 2^32-1 rather than 2^64-1.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290658375-10342-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tool developers have to fill in a 'perf_event_ops' method table to
specify how to handle each event, so far the ones that were not
explicitely especified would get a stub that would just discard the
event.
Change that so that tool developers can get the lost event details and
the total number of such events at the end of 'perf report -D' output.
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Collecting build-ids for long running sessions may take a long time
because it needs to traverse the whole just collected perf.data stream
of events, marking the DSOs that had hits and then looking for the
.note.gnu.build-id ELF section.
For things like the 'trace' tool that records and right away consumes
the data on systems where its unlikely that the DSOs being monitored
will change while 'trace' runs, it is desirable to remove build id
collection, so add a -B/--no-buildid option to perf record to allow such
use case.
Longer term we'll avoid all this if we, at DSO load time, in the kernel,
take advantage of this slow code path to collect the build-id and stash
it somewhere, so that we can insert it in the PERF_RECORD_MMAP event.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch ports arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S to perf bench mem
memcpy for benchmarking memcpy() in userland with tricky and
dirty way.
util/include/asm/cpufeature.h, util/include/asm/dwarf2.h, and
util/include/linux/linkage.h are mostly dummy files with small
wrappers, so that we are able to include memcpy_64.S
unmodified.
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: h.mitake@gmail.com
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
LKML-Reference: <1290668693-27068-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
At least on ARM, padding is inserted between rb_node and sym in struct
symbol_name_rb_node, causing "((void *)sym) - sizeof(struct rb_node)" to
point inside rb_node rather than to the symbol_name_rb_node. Fix this
by converting the code to use container_of().
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101123163106.GA25677@debian>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The 59365d1 commit, even being reverted by 33e0d57, showed a non robust
behavior in 'perf record': it really should just warn the user that some
functionality will not be available.
The new behavior then becomes:
[acme@felicio linux]$ ls -la /proc/{kallsyms,modules}
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Nov 22 12:19 /proc/kallsyms
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Nov 22 12:19 /proc/modules
[acme@felicio linux]$ perf record ls -R > /dev/null
Couldn't record kernel reference relocation symbol
Symbol resolution may be skewed if relocation was used (e.g. kexec).
Check /proc/kallsyms permission or run as root.
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.004 MB perf.data (~161 samples) ]
[acme@felicio linux]$ perf report --stdio
[kernel.kallsyms] with build id 77b05e00e64e4de1c9347d83879779b540d69f00 not found, continuing without symbols
# Events: 98 cycles
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ............... ....................
#
48.26% ls [kernel] [k] ffffffff8102b92b
22.49% ls libc-2.12.90.so [.] __strlen_sse2
8.35% ls libc-2.12.90.so [.] __GI___strcoll_l
8.17% ls ls [.] 11580
3.35% ls libc-2.12.90.so [.] _IO_new_file_xsputn
3.33% ls libc-2.12.90.so [.] _int_malloc
1.88% ls libc-2.12.90.so [.] _int_free
0.84% ls libc-2.12.90.so [.] malloc_consolidate
0.84% ls libc-2.12.90.so [.] __readdir64
0.83% ls ls [.] strlen@plt
0.83% ls libc-2.12.90.so [.] __GI_fwrite_unlocked
0.83% ls libc-2.12.90.so [.] __memcpy_sse2
#
# (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
#
[acme@felicio linux]$
It still has the build-ids for DSOs in the maps with hits:
[acme@felicio linux]$ perf buildid-list
77b05e00e64e4de1c9347d83879779b540d69f00 [kernel.kallsyms]
09c4a431a4a8b648fcfc2c2bdda70f56050ddff1 /bin/ls
af75ea9ad951d25e0f038901a11b3846dccb29a4 /lib64/libc-2.12.90.so
[acme@felicio linux]$
That can be used in another machine to resolve kernel symbols.
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch makes several changes to "perf stat":
- "perf stat" will no longer go ahead and run the application when one or
more of the specified events could not be opened.
- Use error() and die() instead of pr_err() so that the output is more
consistent with "perf top" and "perf record".
- Handle permission errors in a more robust way, and in a similar way to
"perf record" and "perf top".
In addition, the sys_perf_event_open() error handling of "perf top" and "perf
record" is made more consistent and adds the following phrase when an event
doesn't open (with something ther than an access or permission error):
"/bin/dmesg may provide additional information."
This is added because kernel code doesn't have a good way of expressing
detailed errors to user space, so its only avenue is to use printk's. However,
many users may not think of looking at dmesg to find out why an event is being
rejected.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Munsie <ianmunsi@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1290217044-26293-1-git-send-email-cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This change removes the use of hardcoded absolute "/usr/include/elfutils" paths
from the perf build. The problem with hardcoded paths is that it prevents them
from being overridden by $prefix or by -I in CFLAGS (e.g., for cross-compiling
purposes).
Instead, just include the "elfutils/" subdirectory as a relative path when
files are needed from that directory.
Tested by building perf:
- Cross-compiled for ARM on x86_64
- Built natively on x86_64
- Built on x86_64 with /usr/include/elfutils moved to another location
and manually included in CFLAGS
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289945793-31441-1-git-send-email-rmorell@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
