Re: [PATCH] perf util: Display warning when perf report/annotate is missing some libs

[Jin, Yao]

On 3/22/2018 4:51 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 09:04:10AM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
> > On 3/21/2018 11:38 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:11:10AM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
> > > > Hi Jiri,
> > > >
> > > > I'm still thinking it's worth displaying the warning when perf missing some
> > > > libraries.
> > > >
> > > > Somebody just told me that perf didn't work well. While after some
> > > > investigations, I found it's just missing some libraries when building the
> > > > perf.
> > > >
> > > > But I have spent some time on getting the root cause. If with this patch, it
> > > > should be very easily to know that.
> > >
> > > true.. Arnaldo, any feedback on this one?
> > >
> > > > > I just think it'd better provide some hints to user. For example,
> > > > > "symbol is disabled and you need to install libelf/xxx", say something
> > > > > like that.
> > > > >
> > > > > But it looks the column can't contain too much information (i.e. no more
> > > > > space to contain the entire hints).
> > > > >
> > > > > Any idea? Or just add this warning in verbose mode?
> > > > >
> > > > > > also your change does not affect tui mode
> > > > > >
> > > > > > annotation for some reason does not start at all.. could be
> > > > > > little more verbose ;-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > jirka
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes, it doesn't affect tui mode.
> > > > >
> > > > > Or we just add this warning in verbose mode?
> > > > >
> > > > > e.g. perf report -v?
> > >
> > > how about displaying libraries separately with -vv output,
> > > that would mimic the build message, like:
> > >
> > >     $ ./perf -vv
> > >     perf version 4.16.rc6.g18fd48
> > >
> > >                      dwarf: [ on  ]
> > >         dwarf_getlocations: [ on  ]
> > >                      glibc: [ on  ]
> > >                       gtk2: [ on  ]
> > >                   libaudit: [ on  ]
> > >                     libbfd: [ on  ]
> > >                     libelf: [ on  ]
> > >                    libnuma: [ on  ]
> > >     numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on  ]
> > >                    libperl: [ on  ]
> > >                  libpython: [ on  ]
> > >                   libslang: [ on  ]
> > >                  libcrypto: [ on  ]
> > >                  libunwind: [ on  ]
> > >         libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on  ]
> > >                       zlib: [ on  ]
> > >                       lzma: [ on  ]
> > >                  get_cpuid: [ on  ]
> > >                        bpf: [ on  ]
> > >
> > > and perf -vvv could display the 'make VF=1' info
> > >
> > > jirka
> >
> > I'm just afraid that the newbie will not check the -vv on his own when he
> > gets trouble in using perf.
> >
> > In other words, if a user is experienced and he knows -vv yet, I may assume
> > that he should know installing all libraries before building the perf.
> >
> > This patch is specific for the perf newbie. It will directly shows the
> > error/warning when the user launches the perf binary. It will have a little
> > bit helps, I guess. :)
>
> I just don't like the idea that when you run perf report,
> or annotate it spits out lines for every missing feature
>
> maybe we could detect missing features for given command
> and display line about missing features and say something
> like:
>
> 'Warning: symbol,dwarf support not compiled in (for more details run perf -vv)'
>
> or somwthing like that.. ;-)
>
> jirka

Hi Jiri,

I think your idea is very good!

I guess following it's just an example copied from perf building 
process, right?

$ ./perf -vv
perf version 4.16.rc6.g18fd48

                 dwarf: [ on  ]
    dwarf_getlocations: [ on  ]
                 glibc: [ on  ]
                  gtk2: [ on  ]
              libaudit: [ on  ]
                libbfd: [ on  ]
                libelf: [ on  ]
               libnuma: [ on  ]
numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on  ]
               libperl: [ on  ]
             libpython: [ on  ]
              libslang: [ on  ]
             libcrypto: [ on  ]
             libunwind: [ on  ]
    libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on  ]
                  zlib: [ on  ]
                  lzma: [ on  ]
             get_cpuid: [ on  ]
                   bpf: [ on  ]

We can check some CFLAGS like "#ifdef HAVE_XXX" in perf code to 
determine if some libraries are compiled in.

For example,

#ifdef HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
	printf("libnuma: [ on  ]");
#endif

For some features, such as "numa_num_possible_cpus", which doesn't have 
CFLAGS variables. Maybe we can ignore them in report?

I'd like to upgrade my patch to support perf -vv.

Thanks
Jin Yao