kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h, branch v6.4

perf probe: Fix add event failure when running 32-bit perf in a 64-bit kernel

2021-07-18T12:31:15+00:00

The "address" member of "struct probe_trace_point" uses long data type. If kernel is 64-bit and perf program is 32-bit, size of "address" variable is 32 bits. As a result, upper 32 bits of address read from kernel are truncated, an error occurs during address comparison in kprobe_warn_out_range(). Before: # perf probe -a schedule schedule is out of .text, skip it. Error: Failed to add events. Solution: Change data type of "address" variable to u64 and change corresponding address printing and value assignment. After: # perf.new.new probe -a schedule Added new event: probe:schedule (on schedule) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:schedule -aR sleep 1 # perf probe -l probe:schedule (on schedule@kernel/sched/core.c) # perf record -e probe:schedule -aR sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.156 MB perf.data (1366 samples) ] # perf report --stdio # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 1K of event 'probe:schedule' # Event count (approx.): 1366 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............... ................. ............ # 6.22% migration/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.22% migration/1 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.22% migration/2 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.22% migration/3 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.15% migration/10 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.15% migration/11 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.15% migration/12 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.15% migration/13 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.15% migration/14 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.15% migration/15 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.15% migration/4 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.15% migration/5 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.15% migration/6 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.15% migration/7 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.15% migration/8 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 6.15% migration/9 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule 0.22% rcu_sched [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule ... # # (Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!) # Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jianlin Lv Cc: Jin Yao Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Li Huafei Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210715063723.11926-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Add --bootconfig to output definition in bootconfig format

2021-06-18T16:50:05+00:00

Now the boot-time tracing supports kprobes events and that must be written in bootconfig file in the following format. ftrace.event.kprobes..probes = 'perf probe' already supports --definition (-D) action to show probe definitions, but the format is for tracefs: [p|r][:EVENT_NAME] This patch adds the --bootconfig option for -D action so that it outputs the probe definitions in bootconfig format. E.g. $ perf probe --bootconfig -D "path_lookupat:7 err:s32 s:string" ftrace.event.kprobes.path_lookupat_L7.probe = 'path_lookupat.isra.0+309 err_s32=%ax:s32 s_string=+0(%r13):string' Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/162282412351.452340.14871995440005640114.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Trace a magic number if variable is not found

2019-11-18T22:09:23+00:00

Trace a magic number as immediate value if the target variable is not found at some probe points which is based on one probe event. This feature is good for the case if you trace a source code line with some local variables, which is compiled into several instructions and some of the variables are optimized out on some instructions. Even if so, with this feature, perf probe trace a magic number instead of such disappeared variables and fold those probes on one event. E.g. without this patch: # perf probe -D "pud_page_vaddr pud" Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. Failed to find 'pud' in this function. p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23480787 pud=%ax:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23808453 pud=%bp:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23558082 pud=%ax:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+328373 pud=%r8:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+348448 pud=%bx:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23816818 pud=%bx:x64 With this patch: # perf probe -D "pud_page_vaddr pud" | head spurious_kernel_fault is blacklisted function, skip it. vmalloc_fault is blacklisted function, skip it. p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23480787 pud=%ax:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+149051 pud=\deade12d:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23808453 pud=%bp:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+315926 pud=\deade12d:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23807209 pud=\deade12d:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23557365 pud=%ax:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+314097 pud=%di:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+314015 pud=\deade12d:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+313893 pud=\deade12d:x64 p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+324083 pud=\deade12d:x64 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Tom Zanussi Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/157406476931.24476.6261475888681844285.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf-probe: Add user memory access attribute support

2019-05-26T03:04:42+00:00

Add user memory access attribute for kprobe event arguments. If a given 'local variable' is in user-space, User can specify memory access method by '@user' suffix. This is not only for string but also for data structure. If we access a field of data structure in user memory from kernel on some arch, it will fail. e.g. perf probe -a "sched_setscheduler param->sched_priority" This will fail to access the "param->sched_priority" because the param is __user pointer. Instead, we can now specify @user suffix for such argument. perf probe -a "sched_setscheduler param->sched_priority@user" Note that kernel memory access with "@user" must always fail on any arch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155789874562.26965.10836126971405890891.stgit@devnote2 Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

perf namespaces: Remove namespaces.h from .h headers

2019-01-25T14:12:09+00:00

There we need just forward declarations, so remove it and add it just on the .c files that actually touch the struct definitions. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wsjxzt99p83jubt6hu0med0f@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Support SDT markers having reference counter (semaphore)

2018-09-24T08:44:54+00:00

With this, perf buildid-cache will save SDT markers with reference counter in probe cache. Perf probe will be able to probe markers having reference counter. Ex, # readelf -n /tmp/tick | grep -A1 loop2 Name: loop2 ... Semaphore: 0x0000000010020036 # ./perf buildid-cache --add /tmp/tick # ./perf probe sdt_tick:loop2 # ./perf stat -e sdt_tick:loop2 /tmp/tick hi: 0 hi: 1 hi: 2 ^C Performance counter stats for '/tmp/tick': 3 sdt_tick:loop2 2.561851452 seconds time elapsed Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180820044250.11659-5-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju Reviewed-by: Song Liu Tested-by: Song Liu Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf probe: Allow placing uprobes in alternate namespaces.

2017-07-19T02:14:10+00:00

Teaches perf how to place a uprobe on a file that's in a different mount namespace. The user must add the probe using the --target-ns argument to perf probe. Once it has been placed, it may be recorded against without further namespace-specific commands. Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Brendan Gregg Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria [ PPC build fixed by Ravi: ] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500287542-6219-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter [ Fix !HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT build ] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499305693-1599-4-git-send-email-kjlx@templeofstupid.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools: Adopt __printf from kernel sources

2017-06-19T18:25:26+00:00

To have a more compact way to ask the compiler to perform printf like vargargs validation. v2: Fixed up build on arm, squashing a patch by Kim Phillips, thanks! Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kim Phillips Cc: Mathieu Poirier Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dopkqmmuqs04cxzql0024nnu@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf str{filter,list}: Disentangle headers

2017-04-19T16:01:52+00:00

There are places where we just need a forward declaration, and others were we need to include strlist.h and/or strfilter.h, reducing the impact of changes in headers on the build time, do it. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zab42gbiki88y9k0csorxekb@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo