Sometimes a test is problematic for some reason and one wants to skip it,
for instance:
[root@sandy ~]# perf test
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms : Ok
2: detect open syscall event : Ok
3: detect open syscall event on all cpus : Ok
4: read samples using the mmap interface : Ok
5: parse events tests : Warning: bad op token {
Warning: bad op token {
Warning: bad op token {
Warning: bad op token {
Warning: bad op token {
Warning: function is_writable_pte not defined
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
So now we can use -s/--skip while the problematic tests are being fixed,
allowing us to test all the other entries:
[root@sandy ~]# perf test -s 5
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms : Ok
2: detect open syscall event : Ok
3: detect open syscall event on all cpus : Ok
4: read samples using the mmap interface : Ok
5: parse events tests : Skip (user override)
6: x86 rdpmc test : Ok
7: Validate PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : Ok
8: Test perf pmu format parsing : Ok
9: Test dso data interface : Ok
10: roundtrip evsel->name check : Ok
11: Check parsing of sched tracepoints fields : Ok
12: Generate and check syscalls:sys_enter_open event fields: Ok
13: struct perf_event_attr setup : Ok
14: Test matching and linking mutliple hists : Ok
15: Try 'use perf' in python, checking link problems : Ok
[root@sandy ~]#
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-klzd8p57jzdryafqkmlppcb1@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Running the check-perf-trace scripts causes segfaults in both the Perl
and Python cases:
# perf script record check-perf-trace
# perf script -s libexec/perf-core/scripts/python/check-perf-trace.py
trace_begin
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
The reason is that the 'pevent' field was added to
perf_scripting_context but it wasn't hooked up with an actual pevent in
either case, so when one of the 'common' fields is accessed (in
util/trace-event-parse.c:get_common_fields()), pevent->events tries to
dereference a NULL pointer.
This sets the pevent field when the scripting context is set up.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d2b1b8166a6ca0a36e1f5255b88a8289058ba236.1358527965.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
For some reason the libtraceevent tracepoint-parsing code is missing
the FIELD_IS_SIGNED flag-setting code, which causes problems for the
Perl trace event binding at least, since it ends up unable to
recognize negative numbers.
Things like checking for negative return values therefore fail, causing
scripts like rwtop to instead interpret the negative return value as a
large positive value, which in turn get added to e.g. read totals with
insanely invalid results.
So set the FIELD_IS_SIGNED flag for tracepoint events that specify
"signed:1".
Before:
# perf script record rw-by-pid
# perf script report rw-by-pid
read counts by pid:
pid comm # reads bytes_requested bytes_read
------ -------------------- ----------- ---------- ----------
753 Xorg 88 512000 7.74763251095801e+20
1619 firefox 42 462 2.58254417031934e+20
1232 gnome-shell 11 176 1.10680464442257e+20
1471 gnome-terminal 3 16366 18446744073709551615
1408 libsocialweb-co 2 32 18446744073709551613
After:
# perf script report rw-by-pid
read counts by pid:
pid comm # reads bytes_requested bytes_read
------ -------------------- ----------- ---------- ----------
753 Xorg 88 512000 2764
1619 firefox 42 462 126
1232 gnome-shell 11 176 40
1471 gnome-terminal 3 16366 10
1408 libsocialweb-co 2 32 8
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471b5968821a455cf5168bb4567964e74ecf530.1358527965.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When make runs it tries to update the Makefile rules by reading all of
included Makefiles. During the perf build it checks PERF-VERSION-FILE
to get the current version number. But it triggers Makefile update so
that make runs again with the update Makefile and, in turn, users will
see duplicate CHK message on the second path.
Running make with -d option for debugging tells me this:
GNU Make 3.82
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Reading makefile `Makefile'...
Reading makefile `../scripts/Makefile.include' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/utilities.mak' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `PERF-VERSION-FILE' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/feature-tests.mak' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
CHK -fstack-protector-all
CHK -Wstack-protector
CHK -Wvolatile-register-var
...
Updating makefiles....
Considering target file `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
Must remake target `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
Invoking recipe from Makefile:52 to update target `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
Putting child 0x14037a0 (PERF-VERSION-FILE) PID 31925 on the chain.
Live child 0x14037a0 (PERF-VERSION-FILE) PID 31925
PERF_VERSION = 3.8.rc3.gf751db6
Reaping winning child 0x14037a0 PID 31925
Removing child 0x14037a0 PID 31925 from chain.
Successfully remade target file `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
...
Re-executing[1]: make -d <------------ here
GNU Make 3.82
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Reading makefile `Makefile'...
Reading makefile `../scripts/Makefile.include' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/utilities.mak' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `PERF-VERSION-FILE' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/feature-tests.mak' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
CHK -fstack-protector-all
CHK -Wstack-protector
CHK -Wvolatile-register-var
...
Actually PERF-VERSION-FILE is used only for perf.c to #define
PERF_VERSION macro. So make it like a C header file and include it
during compiling the perf.c file will remove the need of being
included into Makefile. Hench no need to update the Makefile and no
CHK lines anymore.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358337594-10916-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
These lines are came from GIT Makefile and never used for perf.
I found it from make -d output during working on previous patch.
Updating makefiles....
Considering target file `arch/x86/Makefile'.
No need to remake target `arch/x86/Makefile'.
Considering target file `config.mak'.
File `config.mak' does not exist.
Must remake target `config.mak'.
Failed to remake target file `config.mak'.
Considering target file `config.mak.autogen'.
File `config.mak.autogen' does not exist.
Must remake target `config.mak.autogen'.
Failed to remake target file `config.mak.autogen'.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358337594-10916-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Current perf report gets segmentation fault when a branch stack specific
sort key is provided by --sort option to a perf.data file which contains
no branch infomation. It's because those sort keys reference branch
info of a hist entry unconditionally. Maybe we can change it checks
whether such branch info is valid or not. But if the branch stacks are
not recorded, it'd be nop. Thus it'd be better to make those keys are
unselectable.
This patch separates those keys to a different dimension array, so that
if user passes such a key to a file which has no branch stack will get
following message rather than a segfault.
Error: Invalid --sort key: `symbol_from'
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356599507-14226-10-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The "pid" sort key prints "Command: Pid" output but it's misaligned.
It's because of the offset of 6 was added to the column length during
the calculation in order to reserve an space for Pid part but it isn't
honored when printed. The output before this patch was like this:
# Overhead Command: Pid Shared Object
# ........ ............. .................
#
99.70% noploop:17814 noploop
0.29% noploop:17814 [kernel.kallsyms]
0.01% noploop:17814 ld-2.15.so
Fix it by subtracting 6 for printing comm part.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356599507-14226-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf bench prints header message for bench suite before starting the
benchmark. However if the stdout is redirected to a file and bench
suite forks child processes this (and possibly other debugging
messages too) will be repeated multiple times.
$ perf bench sched messaging
# Running sched/messaging benchmark...
# 20 sender and receiver processes per group
# 10 groups == 400 processes run
Total time: 0.100 [sec]
$ perf bench sched messaging > result.txt
$ wc -l result.txt
391
In this file, there were so many "Running sched/messaging benchmark..."
lines. This was because stdout is converted to fully-buffered due to
the redirection and inherited child processes. Other lines are printed
after reaping all those tasks.
So fix it by flushing stdout before starting bench suites.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1357637966-8216-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The elf.h header file is used for NO_LIBELF build too so it should be
included anyway. Also remove duplicated include of the header file in
symbol-*.c. This patch fixes following build error on NO_LIBELF build:
CC tests/hists_link.o
tests/hists_link.c: In function ‘setup_fake_machine’:
tests/hists_link.c:132:8: error: ‘STB_GLOBAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
tests/hists_link.c:132:8: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356679009-32122-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
cppcheck reported:
[tools/perf/util/sysfs.c:50]: (error) Width 4096 given in format string
(no. 1) is larger than destination buffer 'sysfs_mountpoint[4096]',
use %4095s to prevent overflowing it
-> All other places in the kernel that use STR(PATH_MAX)
have a buffer size of PATH_MAX + 1.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50D9D30B.8090002@intra2net.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
According to Documentation/Changes, the kernel should be buildable with
GNU make 3.80+. tools/perf/config/utilities.mak contains the "$(or"
construct, which requires make 3.81. This causes "make" to fail on
systems with GNU make 3.80.
Replace "$(or" with an equivalent "$(if" expression, to restore backward
compatibility. Also fix an issue where _get_attempt was called with only
one argument. This prevented the error message from printing the name of
the variable that can be used to fix the problem.
Signed-off-by: Al Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1357680156-15520-1-git-send-email-alcooperx@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
