kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/config, branch v4.5.4

perf build: Introduce FEATURES_DUMP make variable

2016-01-15T19:32:00+00:00

Introducing FEATURES_DUMP make variable to provide features detection dump file and bypass the feature detection. The intention is to use this during build tests to skip repeated features detection, like: Get feature dump static build into /tmp/fd file: $ make feature-dump FEATURE_DUMP_COPY=/tmp/fd LDFLAGS=-static BUILD: Doing 'make -j4' parallel build Auto-detecting system features: ... dwarf: [ OFF ] SNIP FEATURE-DUMP file copied into /tmp/fd Use /tmp/fd to build perf: $ make FEATURES_DUMP=/tmp/fd LDFLAGS=-static $ file perf perf: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, for ... Suggested-by: Wang Nan Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452830421-77757-7-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Set and pass DOCDIR to builtin-report.c

2016-01-12T15:42:07+00:00

It'll be used to locate perf document directory to find tips.txt in case it's not installed on the system. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452334589-8782-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools: Move Makefile.arch from perf/config to tools/scripts

2016-01-11T22:22:20+00:00

After this patch other directories can use this architecture detector without directly including it from perf's directory. Libbpf would utilize it to get proper $(ARCH) so it can receive correct uapi include directory. Tested-by: Naveen N. Rao Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452520124-2073-8-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com [ Add missing srctree definition in tests/make ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add -lutil in python lib list for broken python-config

2016-01-11T22:03:16+00:00

On some system the perf-config is broken, causes link failure like this: /usr/lib64/python2.7/config/libpython2.7.a(posixmodule.o): In function `posix_forkpty': /opt/wangnan/yocto-build/tmp-eglibc/work/x86_64-oe-linux/python/2.7.3-r0.3.1/Python-2.7.3/./Modules/posixmodule.c:3816: undefined reference to `forkpty' /usr/lib64/python2.7/config/libpython2.7.a(posixmodule.o): In function `posix_openpty': /opt/wangnan/yocto-build/tmp-eglibc/work/x86_64-oe-linux/python/2.7.3-r0.3.1/Python-2.7.3/./Modules/posixmodule.c:3756: undefined reference to `openpty' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [/home/wangnan/kernel-hydrogen/tools/perf/out/perf] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 $ python-config --libs -lpthread -ldl -lpthread -lutil -lm -lpython2.7 In this case a '-lutil' should be appended to -lpython2.7. (I know we have --start-group and --end-group. I can see them in command line of collect2 by strace. However it doesn't work. Seems I have a broken environment?) Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452520124-2073-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report: Show random usage tip on the help line

2016-01-08T16:15:46+00:00

Currently perf report only shows a help message "For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso" unconditionally (even if the sort keys were used). Add more help tips and show randomly. Load tips from ${prefix}/share/doc/perf-tip/tips.txt file. $ perf report | tail 0.10% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] irq_exit 0.09% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] flush_smp_call_function_queue 0.08% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe 0.03% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] group_sched_in 0.01% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe # # (Tip: Search options using a keyword: perf report -h ) # Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452166913-27046-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ Renamed it to perf_tip() and the parameter dirname to dirpath to fix the build on older distros ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools build feature: Move dwarf post unwind choice output into perf

2016-01-06T23:11:13+00:00

We decide what dwarf unwind to choose way after the Makefile.feature makefile is included. The $(dwarf-post-unwind) is not even set at that time. For the same reason it was never included in FEATURE-DUMP file. Moving it into perf VF=1 verbose display. $ make VF=1 BUILD: Doing 'make -j4' parallel build Auto-detecting system features: ... dwarf: [ on ] ... ... LIBUNWIND_DIR: ... LIBDW_DIR: ... DWARF post unwind library: libunwind ... Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Tested-by: Wang Nan Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450893514-9158-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Revert "perf tools: Improve setting of gcc debug option"

2015-12-10T19:09:40+00:00

This reverts commit e8b7ea4356fdd3c4de5478f3418eb84f8dce2b61. Martin created a gcc PR: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68836 Reported-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: David Ahern Cc: Martin Liska Cc: Namhyung Kim , Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151202164827.GA21124@krava.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bpf: Add BPF_PROLOGUE config options for further patches

2015-11-18T20:51:03+00:00

If both LIBBPF and DWARF are detected, it is possible to create prologue for eBPF programs to help them access kernel data. HAVE_BPF_PROLOGUE and CONFIG_BPF_PROLOGUE are added as flags for this feature. PERF_HAVE_ARCH_REGS_QUERY_REGISTER_OFFSET is introduced in commit 63ab024a5b6f295ca17a293ad81b7c728f49a89a ("perf tools: regs_query_register_offset() infrastructure"), which indicates that an architecture supports converting name of a register to its offset in 'struct pt_regs'. Without this support, BPF_PROLOGUE should be turned off. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447675815-166222-9-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Make perf depend on libbpf

2015-10-28T15:48:12+00:00

By adding libbpf into perf's Makefile, this patch enables perf to build libbpf if libelf is found and neither NO_LIBELF nor NO_LIBBPF is set. The newly introduced code is similar to how libapi and libtraceevent are wired into Makefile.perf. MANIFEST is also updated for 'make perf-*-src-pkg'. Append make_no_libbpf to tools/perf/tests/make. The 'bpf' feature check is appended into default FEATURE_TESTS and FEATURE_DISPLAY, so perf will check the API version of bpf in /path/to/kernel/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h. Which should not fail except when we are trying to port this code to an old kernel. Error messages are also updated to notify users about the lack of BPF support in 'perf record' if libelf is missing or the BPF API check failed. tools/lib/bpf is added to TAG_FOLDERS to allow us to navigate libbpf files when working on perf using tools/perf/tags. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Brendan Gregg Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: David Ahern Cc: He Kuang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kaixu Xia Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444826502-49291-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com [ Document NO_LIBBPF in Makefile.perf, noted by Jiri Olsa ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes before applying new changes

2015-09-18T07:24:01+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar