We keep both a 'runtime' elf image as well as a 'debug' elf image around
and generate symbols by looking at both of these.
This eliminates the need for the want_symtab/goto restart mechanism
combined with iterating over and reopening the elf images a second time.
Also give dso__synthsize_plt_symbols() the runtime image (which has
dynsyms) instead of the symbol image (which may only have a symtab and
no dynsyms).
Previously if a debug image was found all runtime images were ignored.
This fixes 2 issues:
- Symbol resolution to failure on PowerPC systems with debug symbols
installed, as the debug images lack a '.opd' section which contains
function descriptors.
- On all archs, plt synthesis failed when a debug image was loaded and
that debug image lacks a dynsym section while a runtime image has a
dynsym section.
Assumptions:
- If a .opd section exists, it is contained in the highest priority
image with a dynsym section.
- This generally implies that the debug image lacks a dynsym section
(ie: it is marked as NO_BITS).
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Hellsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344637382-22789-17-git-send-email-cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To properly handle platforms with an opd section, both a runtime image
(which contains the opd section but possibly lacks symbols) and a symbol
image (which probably lacks an opd section but has symbols).
The next patch ("perf symbol: use both runtime and debug images")
adjusts the callsite in dso__load() to take advantage of being able to
pass both runtime & debug images.
Assumptions made here:
- The opd section, if it exists in the runtime image, has headers in
both the runtime image and the debug/syms image.
- The index of the opd section (again, only if it exists in the runtime
image) is the same in both the runtime and debug/symbols image.
Both of these are true on RHEL, but it is unclear how accurate they are
in general (on platforms with function descriptors in opd sections).
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Hellsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344637382-22789-16-git-send-email-cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Factors opening of certain sections & tracking certain elf info into an
external structure.
The goal here is to keep multiple elfs (and their looked up
sections/indexes) around during the symbol generation process (in
dso__load()).
We need this to properly resolve symbols on PPC due to the use of
function descriptors & the .opd section (ie: symbols which are functions
don't point to their actual location, they point to their function
descriptor in .opd which contains their actual location.
It would be possible to just keep the (Elf *) around, but then we'd end
up with duplicate code for looking up the same sections and checking for
the existence of an important section wouldn't be as clean (and we need
to keep the Elf stuff confined to symtab-elf.c).
Utilized by the later patch
"perf symbols: Use both runtime and debug images"
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Hellsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344637382-22789-12-git-send-email-cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
kallsyms__parse() takes a callback that is called on every discovered
symbol. As /proc/kallsyms does not supply symbol sizes, the callback was
simply called with end=start, faking the symbol size to 1.
All of the callbacks (there are 2) used in calls to kallsyms__parse()
are _only_ used as callbacks for kallsyms__parse().
Given that kallsyms__parse() lacks real information about what
end/length should be, don't make up a length in kallsyms__parse().
Instead have the callbacks handle guessing the length.
Also relocate a comment regarding symbol creation to the callback which
does symbol creation (kallsyms__parse() is not in general used to create
symbols).
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Hellsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344637382-22789-3-git-send-email-cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix missing /etc/bash_completion.d directory creation, otherwise
the installation fails miserably on systems that don't have bash
completion installed yet or on specific target:
$ make DESTDIR=/tmp/junk-perf O=/tmp/pbuild -C tools/perf/ install
...
install -m 755 bash_completion /tmp/junk-perf/etc/bash_completion.d/perf
install: cannot create regular file
`/tmp/junk-perf/etc/bash_completion.d/perf': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/opt/sw/ahern/perf.git/tools/perf'
Also use sysconfdir variable instead of the hardcoded /etc to handle
overriden conf directory.
Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344522713-27951-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
If CONFIG options required for perf-lock are not enabled then the
corresponding tracepoints will not be enabled. Currently, the message to
the user is:
$ perf lock record -a -- sleep 1
invalid or unsupported event: 'lock:lock_acquire'
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
Improve the message with a suggestion on which CONFIG options are needed:
$ perf lock record -a -- sleep 1
tracepoint lock:lock_acquire is not enabled. Are CONFIG_LOCKDEP and CONFIG_LOCK_STAT enabled?
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344530137-25521-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently only trace point events are supported in perf/python script,
the first 3 patches of this serie add the support for all types of
events. This script is just a simple sample to show how to gather the
basic information of the events and analyze them.
This script will create one object for each event sample and insert them
into a table in a database, then leverage the simple SQL commands to
sort/group them. User can modify or write their brand new functions
according to their specific requirment.
Here is the sample of how to use the script:
$ perf record -a tree
$ perf script -s process_event.py
There is 100 records in gen_events table
Statistics about the general events grouped by thread/symbol/dso:
comm number histgram
==========================================
swapper 56 ######
tree 20 #####
perf 10 ####
sshd 8 ####
kworker/7:2 4 ###
ksoftirqd/7 1 #
plugin-containe 1 #
symbol number histgram
==========================================================
native_write_msr_safe 40 ######
__lock_acquire 8 ####
ftrace_graph_caller 4 ###
prepare_ftrace_return 4 ###
intel_idle 3 ##
native_sched_clock 3 ##
Unknown_symbol 2 ##
do_softirq 2 ##
lock_release 2 ##
lock_release_holdtime 2 ##
trace_graph_entry 2 ##
_IO_putc 1 #
__d_lookup_rcu 1 #
__do_fault 1 #
__schedule 1 #
_raw_spin_lock 1 #
delay_tsc 1 #
generic_exec_single 1 #
generic_fillattr 1 #
dso number histgram
==================================================================
[kernel.kallsyms] 95 #######
/lib/libc-2.12.1.so 5 ###
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344419875-21665-6-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch just follows Robert Richter's idea and the commit 37a058ea0
"perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events"
to similarly add a python handler for general events other than tracepoints.
For non-tracepoint events, this patch will try to find a function named
"process_event" in the python script, and pass the event attribute,
perf_sample, raw_data in format of raw string. And the python script can
use "struct" module's unpack function to disasemble the needed info and process.
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344419875-21665-2-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
[ committer note: Fixed up wrt da37896, i.e. pevent parm in script event handlers ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
With the OUTPUT variable set the libtraceevent.a file is wrongly built
in the source directory:
+ make -d OUTPUT=/.../.build/perf-user/ DESTDIR=/.../.install/perf-user/
...
Considering target file `../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a'.
File `../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a' does not exist.
Finished prerequisites of target file `../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a'.
Must remake target `../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a'.
Invoking recipe from Makefile:837 to update target `../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a'.
Putting child 0x703850 (../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a) PID 8365 on the chain.
Live child 0x703850 (../lib/traceevent//libtraceevent.a) PID 8365
SUBDIR ../lib/traceevent/
$ git clean -nxd
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/.event-parse.d
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/.parse-filter.d
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/.parse-utils.d
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/.trace-seq.d
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.o
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/libtraceevent.a
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.o
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/parse-utils.o
Would remove tools/lib/traceevent/trace-seq.o
This patch fixes this.
Note: Though this should already work with O=$outputdir we better use
the OUTPUT variable directly.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361396-7237-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fixes the following:
+ make OUTPUT=/.../.build/perf-user/ DESTDIR=/.../.install/perf-user/ man install-man
make -C Documentation man
make[1]: Entering directory `/.../.source/linux.perf/tools/perf/Documentation'
make[2]: Entering directory `/.../.source/linux.perf/tools/perf'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `PERF-VERSION-FILE'. Stop.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361396-7237-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We already lookup the associated event_format when reading the perf.data
header, so that we can cache the tracepoint name in evsel->name, so do
it a little further and save the event_format itself, so that we can
avoid relookups in tools that need to access it.
Change the tools to take the most obvious advantage, when they were
using pevent_find_event directly. More work is needed for further
removing the need of a pointer to pevent, such as when asking for event
field values ("common_pid" and the other common fields and per
event_format fields).
This is something that was planned but only got actually done when
Andrey Wagin needed to do this lookup at perf_tool->sample() time, when
we don't have access to pevent (session->pevent) to use with
pevent_find_event().
Cc: Andrey Wagin <avagin@gmail.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>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-txkvew2ckko0b594ae8fbnyk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
