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authorJin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>2018-01-16 18:43:08 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-02-27 17:29:21 +0300
commitab6c79b819f5a50cf41a11ebec17bef63b530333 (patch)
tree9124764bf20e56d0267d4453777f2d924a2a5dc8 /tools/perf/util/thread_map.h
parent853745f5e6d95faaae6381c9a01dbd43de992fb3 (diff)
downloadlinux-ab6c79b819f5a50cf41a11ebec17bef63b530333.tar.xz
perf stat: Ignore error thread when enabling system-wide --per-thread
If we execute 'perf stat --per-thread' with non-root account (even set kernel.perf_event_paranoid = -1 yet), it reports the error: jinyao@skl:~$ perf stat --per-thread Error: You may not have permission to collect system-wide stats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid, which controls use of the performance events system by unprivileged users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN). The current value is 2: -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users Ignore mlock limit after perf_event_mlock_kb without CAP_IPC_LOCK >= 0: Disallow ftrace function tracepoint by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN >= 1: Disallow CPU event access by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN >= 2: Disallow kernel profiling by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN To make this setting permanent, edit /etc/sysctl.conf too, e.g.: kernel.perf_event_paranoid = -1 Perhaps the ptrace rule doesn't allow to trace some processes. But anyway the global --per-thread mode had better ignore such errors and continue working on other threads. This patch will record the index of error thread in perf_evsel__open() and remove this thread before retrying. For example (run with non-root, kernel.perf_event_paranoid isn't set): jinyao@skl:~$ perf stat --per-thread ^C Performance counter stats for 'system wide': vmstat-3458 6.171984 cpu-clock:u (msec) # 0.000 CPUs utilized perf-3670 0.515599 cpu-clock:u (msec) # 0.000 CPUs utilized vmstat-3458 1,163,643 cycles:u # 0.189 GHz perf-3670 40,881 cycles:u # 0.079 GHz vmstat-3458 1,410,238 instructions:u # 1.21 insn per cycle perf-3670 3,536 instructions:u # 0.09 insn per cycle vmstat-3458 288,937 branches:u # 46.814 M/sec perf-3670 936 branches:u # 1.815 M/sec vmstat-3458 15,195 branch-misses:u # 5.26% of all branches perf-3670 76 branch-misses:u # 8.12% of all branches 12.651675247 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516117388-10120-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/thread_map.h')
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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/thread_map.h b/tools/perf/util/thread_map.h
index 5ec91cfd1869..2f689c90a8c6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/thread_map.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/thread_map.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ struct thread_map_data {
struct thread_map {
refcount_t refcnt;
int nr;
+ int err_thread;
struct thread_map_data map[];
};