[GIT PULL 00/15] perf/core improvements and fixes

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Aug 23 2017 - 15:41:01 EST


Hi Ingo,

Please consider pulling,

- Arnaldo

Test results at the end of this message, as usual.

The following changes since commit ba63f76e22ee723819c8cec86b31f7ea3182b2ed:

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.14-20170821' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2017-08-22 12:16:39 +0200)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-4.14-20170823

for you to fetch changes up to 60913e005c8d19ec5187a638eafdd088509dfb9e:

perf tools: Fix static linking with libunwind (2017-08-22 13:24:55 -0300)

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perf/core improvements and fixes:

- Expression parser enhancements for metrics (Andi Kleen)

- Fix buffer overflow while freeing events in 'perf stat' (Andi Kleen)

- Fix static linking with elfutils's libdf and with libunwind
in Debian/Ubuntu (Konstantin Khlebnikov)

- Tighten detection of BPF events, avoiding matching some other PMU
events such as 'cpu/uops_executed.core,cmask=1/' as a .c source
file that ended up being considered a BPF event (Andi Kleen)

- Add Skylake server uncore JSON vendor events (Andi Kleen)

- Add support for printing new mem_info encodings, including
'perf test' checks (Andi Kleen)

- Really install manpages via 'make install-man' (Konstantin Khlebnikov)

- Fix documentation for perf_event_paranoid and perf_event_mlock_kb
sysctls (Konstantin Khlebnikov)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Andi Kleen (11):
perf xyarray: Save max_x, max_y
perf evsel: Fix buffer overflow while freeing events
perf bpf: Tighten detection of BPF events
perf tools: Add utility function to detect SMT status
perf tools: Expression parser enhancements for metrics
perf tools: Increase maximum number of events in expressions
perf tools: Dedup events in expression parsing
perf vendor events: Add core event list for Skylake Server
perf vendor events: Add Skylake server uncore event list
perf tools: Add support for printing new mem_info encodings
perf test: Add test cases for new data source encoding

Konstantin Khlebnikov (4):
perf tools: Really install manpages via 'make install-man'
perf: Fix documentation for sysctls perf_event_paranoid and perf_event_mlock_kb
perf tools: Fix static linking with libdw from elfutils
perf tools: Fix static linking with libunwind

Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 13 +-
tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 30 +-
tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/perf/Makefile.config | 16 +-
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/mapfile.csv | 1 +
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/cache.json | 1672 ++++++++++++++++++++
.../arch/x86/skylakex/floating-point.json | 88 ++
.../pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/frontend.json | 482 ++++++
.../perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/memory.json | 1396 ++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/other.json | 72 +
.../pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/pipeline.json | 950 +++++++++++
.../arch/x86/skylakex/uncore-memory.json | 172 ++
.../pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/uncore-other.json | 1156 ++++++++++++++
.../arch/x86/skylakex/virtual-memory.json | 284 ++++
tools/perf/tests/Build | 1 +
tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c | 4 +
tools/perf/tests/expr.c | 5 +
tools/perf/tests/mem.c | 56 +
tools/perf/tests/openat-syscall-all-cpus.c | 2 +-
tools/perf/tests/openat-syscall.c | 2 +-
tools/perf/tests/tests.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/Build | 1 +
tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 12 +-
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 41 +-
tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 7 +-
tools/perf/util/expr.h | 2 +-
tools/perf/util/expr.y | 74 +-
tools/perf/util/mem-events.c | 43 +-
tools/perf/util/parse-events.l | 23 +-
tools/perf/util/smt.c | 44 +
tools/perf/util/smt.h | 6 +
tools/perf/util/xyarray.c | 2 +
tools/perf/util/xyarray.h | 12 +
33 files changed, 6607 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/cache.json
create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/floating-point.json
create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/frontend.json
create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/memory.json
create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/other.json
create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/pipeline.json
create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/uncore-memory.json
create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/uncore-other.json
create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/virtual-memory.json
create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/mem.c
create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/smt.c
create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/smt.h

Test results:

The first ones are container (docker) based builds of tools/perf with and
without libelf support, objtool where it is supported and samples/bpf/, ditto.
Where clang is available, it is also used to build perf with/without libelf.

Several are cross builds, the ones with -x-ARCH, and the android one, and those
may not have all the features built, due to lack of multi-arch devel packages,
available and being used so far on just a few, like
debian:experimental-x-{arm64,mipsel}.

The 'perf test' one will perform a variety of tests exercising
tools/perf/util/, tools/lib/{bpf,traceevent,etc}, as well as run perf
commands with a variety of command line event specifications to then
intercept the sys_perf_event syscall to check that the perf_event_attr
fields are set up as expected, among a variety of other unit tests.

The 'perf test' also runs shell scripts exercising the tools, checking
if they affect the system in certain ways, like setting up kprobes and
uprobes, request callchains for well known programs and check that they
are the expected ones, see if 'perf trace' beautifies system call
arguments correctly, etc.

Additionally, a new set of tests, script based, runs the tools in a live system,
setting probes in place that then gets used by 'perf trace', with its output
compared against expected results.

Then there is the 'make -C tools/perf build-test' ones, that build tools/perf/
with a variety of feature sets, exercising the build with an incomplete set of
features as well as with a complete one. It is planned to have it run on each
of the containers mentioned above, using some container orchestration
infrastructure. Get in contact if interested in helping having this in place.

# dm
1 alpine:3.4: Ok
2 alpine:3.5: Ok
3 alpine:3.6: Ok
4 alpine:edge: Ok
5 android-ndk:r12b-arm: Ok
6 archlinux:latest: Ok
7 centos:5: Ok
8 centos:6: Ok
9 centos:7: Ok
10 debian:7: Ok
11 debian:8: Ok
12 debian:9: Ok
13 debian:experimental: Ok
14 debian:experimental-x-arm64: Ok
15 debian:experimental-x-mips: Ok
16 debian:experimental-x-mips64: Ok
17 debian:experimental-x-mipsel: Ok
18 fedora:20: Ok
19 fedora:21: Ok
20 fedora:22: Ok
21 fedora:23: Ok
22 fedora:24: Ok
23 fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc: Ok
24 fedora:25: Ok
25 fedora:26: Ok
26 fedora:rawhide: Ok
27 mageia:5: Ok
28 opensuse:13.2: Ok
29 opensuse:42.1: Ok
30 opensuse:42.2: Ok
31 opensuse:tumbleweed: Ok
32 oraclelinux:6: Ok
33 oraclelinux:7: Ok
34 ubuntu:12.04.5: Ok
35 ubuntu:14.04.4: Ok
36 ubuntu:14.04.4-x-linaro-arm64: Ok
37 ubuntu:15.10: Ok
38 ubuntu:16.04: Ok
39 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm: Ok
40 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm64: Ok
41 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc: Ok
42 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64: Ok
43 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64el: Ok
44 ubuntu:16.04-x-s390: Ok
45 ubuntu:16.10: Ok
46 ubuntu:17.04: Ok
47 ubuntu:17.10: Ok
#

# uname -a
Linux jouet 4.13.0-rc4+ #2 SMP Fri Aug 11 12:39:09 -03 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# perf test
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms : Ok
2: Detect openat syscall event : Ok
3: Detect openat syscall event on all cpus : Ok
4: Read samples using the mmap interface : Ok
5: Test data source output : Ok
6: Parse event definition strings : Ok
7: Simple expression parser : Ok
8: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : Ok
9: Parse perf pmu format : Ok
10: DSO data read : Ok
11: DSO data cache : Ok
12: DSO data reopen : Ok
13: Roundtrip evsel->name : Ok
14: Parse sched tracepoints fields : Ok
15: syscalls:sys_enter_openat event fields : Ok
16: Setup struct perf_event_attr : Ok
17: Match and link multiple hists : Ok
18: 'import perf' in python : Ok
19: Breakpoint overflow signal handler : Ok
20: Breakpoint overflow sampling : Ok
21: Number of exit events of a simple workload : Ok
22: Software clock events period values : Ok
23: Object code reading : Ok
24: Sample parsing : Ok
25: Use a dummy software event to keep tracking : Ok
26: Parse with no sample_id_all bit set : Ok
27: Filter hist entries : Ok
28: Lookup mmap thread : Ok
29: Share thread mg : Ok
30: Sort output of hist entries : Ok
31: Cumulate child hist entries : Ok
32: Track with sched_switch : Ok
33: Filter fds with revents mask in a fdarray : Ok
34: Add fd to a fdarray, making it autogrow : Ok
35: kmod_path__parse : Ok
36: Thread map : Ok
37: LLVM search and compile :
37.1: Basic BPF llvm compile : Ok
37.2: kbuild searching : Ok
37.3: Compile source for BPF prologue generation : Ok
37.4: Compile source for BPF relocation : Ok
38: Session topology : Ok
39: BPF filter :
39.1: Basic BPF filtering : Ok
39.2: BPF pinning : Ok
39.3: BPF prologue generation : Ok
39.4: BPF relocation checker : Ok
40: Synthesize thread map : Ok
41: Remove thread map : Ok
42: Synthesize cpu map : Ok
43: Synthesize stat config : Ok
44: Synthesize stat : Ok
45: Synthesize stat round : Ok
46: Synthesize attr update : Ok
47: Event times : Ok
48: Read backward ring buffer : Ok
49: Print cpu map : Ok
50: Probe SDT events : Ok
51: is_printable_array : Ok
52: Print bitmap : Ok
53: perf hooks : Ok
54: builtin clang support : Skip (not compiled in)
55: unit_number__scnprintf : Ok
56: x86 rdpmc : Ok
57: Convert perf time to TSC : Ok
58: DWARF unwind : Ok
59: x86 instruction decoder - new instructions : Ok
60: Intel cqm nmi context read : Skip
61: Use vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames : Ok
62: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping : Ok
63: Check open filename arg using perf trace + vfs_getname: Ok
64: Add vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames : Ok
#

$ make -C tools/perf build-test
make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf'
- tarpkg: ./tests/perf-targz-src-pkg .
make_pure_O: make
make_util_pmu_bison_o_O: make util/pmu-bison.o
make_tags_O: make tags
make_util_map_o_O: make util/map.o
make_no_libunwind_O: make NO_LIBUNWIND=1
make_clean_all_O: make clean all
make_no_libdw_dwarf_unwind_O: make NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1
make_perf_o_O: make perf.o
make_help_O: make help
make_no_libbionic_O: make NO_LIBBIONIC=1
make_no_libpython_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1
make_no_libperl_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1
make_doc_O: make doc
make_install_prefix_slash_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava/
make_install_O: make install
make_no_newt_O: make NO_NEWT=1
make_no_libnuma_O: make NO_LIBNUMA=1
make_install_bin_O: make install-bin
make_install_prefix_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava
make_no_auxtrace_O: make NO_AUXTRACE=1
make_no_ui_O: make NO_NEWT=1 NO_SLANG=1 NO_GTK2=1
make_no_gtk2_O: make NO_GTK2=1
make_minimal_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1 NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_NEWT=1 NO_GTK2=1 NO_DEMANGLE=1 NO_LIBELF=1 NO_LIBUNWIND=1 NO_BACKTRACE=1 NO_LIBNUMA=1 NO_LIBAUDIT=1 NO_LIBBIONIC=1 NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1 NO_AUXTRACE=1 NO_LIBBPF=1 NO_LIBCRYPTO=1 NO_SDT=1 NO_JVMTI=1
make_with_babeltrace_O: make LIBBABELTRACE=1
make_no_libelf_O: make NO_LIBELF=1
make_no_demangle_O: make NO_DEMANGLE=1
make_no_libaudit_O: make NO_LIBAUDIT=1
make_no_libbpf_O: make NO_LIBBPF=1
make_no_scripts_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_LIBPERL=1
make_no_backtrace_O: make NO_BACKTRACE=1
make_debug_O: make DEBUG=1
make_with_clangllvm_O: make LIBCLANGLLVM=1
make_no_slang_O: make NO_SLANG=1
OK
make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf'
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