linux/tools/perf, branch v3.16

perf symbols: Get kernel start address by symbol name

2014-06-20T07:34:22Z

The function machine__get_kernel_start_addr() was taking the first symbol of kallsyms as the start address. This is incorrect in certain cases where the first symbol is something at 0, while the actual kernel functions begin at a later point (e.g. 0x80200000). This patch fixes machine__get_kernel_start_addr() to search for the symbol "_text" or "_stext", which marks the beginning of kernel mapping. This was already being done in machine__create_kernel_maps(). Thus, this patch is just a refactor, to move that code into machine__get_kernel_start_addr(). Signed-off-by: Simon Que Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402943529-13244-1-git-send-email-sque@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Fix segfault in cumulative.callchain report

2014-06-20T07:34:18Z

When cumulative callchain mode is on, we could get samples with with no actual hits. This breaks the assumption of the annotation code, that each sample has annotation counts allocated and leads to segfault. Fixing this by additional checks for annotation stats. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402821332-12419-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tests: Add test for closing dso objects on EMFILE error

2014-06-12T14:53:23Z

Testing that perf properly closes opened dso objects and tries to reopen in case we run out of allowed file descriptors for dso data. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean Pihet Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed by: David Ahern Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-14-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tests: Add test for caching dso file descriptors

2014-06-12T14:53:22Z

Adding test that setup test_dso_data__fd_limit and test dso data file descriptors are cached appropriately. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean Pihet Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-13-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tests: Allow reuse of test_file function

2014-06-12T14:53:22Z

Making the test_file function to be reusable for new tests coming in following patches. Also changing the template name of temp files to "/tmp/perf-test-XXXXXX" to easily identify & blame. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean Pihet Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-12-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tests: Spawn child for each test

2014-06-12T14:53:22Z

In upcoming tests we will setup process limits, which might affect other tests. Spawning child for each test to prevent this. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean Pihet Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: David Ahern Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-11-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Add dso__data_* interface descriptons

2014-06-12T14:53:22Z

Adding descriptions/explanations for dso__data_* interface functions. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean Pihet Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-10-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Allow to close dso fd in case of open failure

2014-06-12T14:53:21Z

Adding do_open function that tries to close opened dso objects in case we fail to open the dso due to to crossing the allowed RLIMIT_NOFILE limit. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean Pihet Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-9-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Add file size check and factor dso__data_read_offset

2014-06-12T14:53:21Z

Adding file size check, because the lseek will succeed for any offset behind file size and thus succeed when it was expected to fail. Factoring the code to check the offset against file size earlier in the flow. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean Pihet Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-8-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Cache dso data file descriptor

2014-06-12T14:53:20Z

Caching dso data file descriptors to avoid expensive re-opens especially during DWARF unwind. We keep dsos data file descriptors open until their count reaches the half of the current fd open limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE). In this case we close file descriptor of the first opened dso object. We've got overall speedup (~27% for my workload) of report: 'perf report --stdio -i perf-test.data' (3 runs) (perf-test.data size was around 12GB) current code: 545,640,944,228 cycles ( +- 0.53% ) 785,255,798,320 instructions ( +- 0.03% ) 366.340910010 seconds time elapsed ( +- 3.65% ) after change: 435,895,036,114 cycles ( +- 0.26% ) 636,790,271,176 instructions ( +- 0.04% ) 266.481463387 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.13% ) Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean Pihet Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-7-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa