perf util: Remove kernel version deadcode

fetch_kernel_version() has been unused since Ian's 2023 commit
3d6dfae889174340 ("perf parse-events: Remove BPF event support")

Remove it, and it's helpers

perf util: Remove kernel version deadcode

fetch_kernel_version() has been unused since Ian's 2023 commit
3d6dfae889174340 ("perf parse-events: Remove BPF event support")

Remove it, and it's helpers.

I noticed there are a bunch of kernel-version macros that are also
unused nearby.

Also remove them.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Don't set attr.exclude_guest by default

The exclude_guest in the event attribute is to limit profiling in the
host environment. But I'm not sure why we want to set it by default
cause w

perf tools: Don't set attr.exclude_guest by default

The exclude_guest in the event attribute is to limit profiling in the
host environment. But I'm not sure why we want to set it by default
cause we don't care about it in most cases and I feel like it just
makes new PMU implementation complicated.

Of course it's useful for perf kvm command so I added the
exclude_GH_default variable to preserve the old behavior for perf kvm
and other commands like perf record and stat won't set the exclude bit.
This is helpful for AMD IBS case since having exclude_guest bit will
clear new feature bit due to the missing feature check logic.

$ sysctl kernel.perf_event_paranoid
kernel.perf_event_paranoid = 0

$ perf record -W -e ibs_op// -vv true 2>&1 | grep switching
switching off PERF_FORMAT_LOST support
switching off weight struct support
switching off bpf_event
switching off ksymbol
switching off cloexec flag
switching off mmap2
switching off exclude_guest, exclude_host

Intestingly, I found it sets the exclude_bit if "u" modifier is used.
I don't know why but it's neither intuitive nor consistent. Let's
remove the bit there too.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Atish Patra <[email protected]>
Cc: Mingwei Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Richter <[email protected]>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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perf cap: Tidy up and improve capability testing

Remove dependence on libcap. libcap is only used to query whether a
capability is supported, which is just 1 capget system call.

If the capget syste

perf cap: Tidy up and improve capability testing

Remove dependence on libcap. libcap is only used to query whether a
capability is supported, which is just 1 capget system call.

If the capget system call fails, fall back on root permission
checking. Previously if libcap fails then the permission is assumed
not present which may be pessimistic/wrong.

Add a used_root out argument to perf_cap__capable to say whether the
fall back root check was used. This allows the correct error message,
"root" vs "users with the CAP_PERFMON or CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability", to
be selected.

Tidy uses of perf_cap__capable so that tests aren't repeated if capget
isn't supported.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Changbin Du <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Oliver Upton <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf list: Add scandirat compatibility function

scandirat is used during the printing of tracepoint events but may be
missing from certain libcs. Add a compatibility implementation that
uses the sym

perf list: Add scandirat compatibility function

scandirat is used during the printing of tracepoint events but may be
missing from certain libcs. Add a compatibility implementation that
uses the symlink of an fd in /proc as a path for the reliably present
scandir.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Justin Stitt <[email protected]>
Cc: Bill Wendling <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Jihong <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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perf util: Move input_name to util

'input_name' is the name of the input perf.data file, it is used by data
convert and ui code. Move it to util to make it more consistent with
other global state.

perf util: Move input_name to util

'input_name' is the name of the input perf.data file, it is used by data
convert and ui code. Move it to util to make it more consistent with
other global state.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Chengdong Li <[email protected]>
Cc: Denis Nikitin <[email protected]>
Cc: Florian Fischer <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: John Garry <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Liška <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Leach <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Raul Silvera <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Avoid warning in do_realloc_array_as_needed()

do_realloc_array_as_needed() used memcpy() of zero size with a NULL
pointer. Check the size first to avoid sanitize warning.

Discovered usi

perf tools: Avoid warning in do_realloc_array_as_needed()

do_realloc_array_as_needed() used memcpy() of zero size with a NULL
pointer. Check the size first to avoid sanitize warning.

Discovered using EXTRA_CFLAGS="-fsanitize=undefined -fsanitize=address".

Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/[email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf util: Remove weak sched_getcpu

sched_getcpu may not be present and so a feature test and definition
exist to workaround this in the build. The feature test is used to
define HAVE_SCHED_GETCPU_S

perf util: Remove weak sched_getcpu

sched_getcpu may not be present and so a feature test and definition
exist to workaround this in the build. The feature test is used to
define HAVE_SCHED_GETCPU_SUPPORT and so this is sufficient to know
whether the local sched_getcpu is needed and a weak symbol can be
avoided.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Liška <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavithra Gurushankar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Quentin Monnet <[email protected]>
Cc: Roberto Sassu <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Rix <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Jihong <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Add reallocarray_as_needed()

Add helper reallocarray_as_needed() to reallocate an array to a larger
size and initialize the extra entries to an arbitrary value.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hu

perf tools: Add reallocarray_as_needed()

Add helper reallocarray_as_needed() to reallocate an array to a larger
size and initialize the extra entries to an arbitrary value.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Remove also guest kcore_dir with host kcore_dir

Copies of /proc/kallsyms, /proc/modules and an extract of /proc/kcore can
be stored in the perf.data output directory under the subdirecto

perf tools: Remove also guest kcore_dir with host kcore_dir

Copies of /proc/kallsyms, /proc/modules and an extract of /proc/kcore can
be stored in the perf.data output directory under the subdirectory named
kcore_dir. Guest machines will have their files also under subdirectories
beginning kcore_dir__ followed by the machine pid. Remove these also when
removing kcore_dir.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Print warning when HAVE_DEBUGINFOD_SUPPORT is not set and user tries to use debuginfod support

When one requests debuginfod, either via --debuginfod option, or with a
perf-config value,

perf tools: Print warning when HAVE_DEBUGINFOD_SUPPORT is not set and user tries to use debuginfod support

When one requests debuginfod, either via --debuginfod option, or with a
perf-config value, complain when perf is not built with it.

Signed-off-by: Martin Liška <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Try chroot'ed filename when opening dso/symbol

Currently it doesn't handle tasks in chroot properly. As filenames in
MMAP records base on their root directory, it's different than what

perf tools: Try chroot'ed filename when opening dso/symbol

Currently it doesn't handle tasks in chroot properly. As filenames in
MMAP records base on their root directory, it's different than what perf
tool can see from outside.

Add filename_with_chroot() helper to deal with those cases. The
function returns a new filename only if it's in a different root
directory. Since it needs to access /proc for the process, it only
works until the task exits.

With this change, I can see symbols in my program like below.

# perf record -o- chroot myroot myprog 3 | perf report -i-
...
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ................. .............................
#
99.83% myprog myprog [.] loop
0.04% chroot [kernel.kallsyms] [k] fxregs_fixup
0.04% chroot [kernel.kallsyms] [k] rsm_load_seg_32
...

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf record: Disable debuginfod by default

Fedora 35 sets DEBUGINFOD_URLS by default, which might lead to
unexpected stalls in perf record exit path, when we try to cache
profiled binaries.

# DEB

perf record: Disable debuginfod by default

Fedora 35 sets DEBUGINFOD_URLS by default, which might lead to
unexpected stalls in perf record exit path, when we try to cache
profiled binaries.

# DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS=1 ./perf record -a
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
Downloading from https://debuginfod.fedoraproject.org/ 447069
Downloading from https://debuginfod.fedoraproject.org/ 1502175
Downloading \^Z

Disabling DEBUGINFOD_URLS by default in perf record and adding
debuginfod option and .perfconfig variable support to enable id.

Default without debuginfo processing:
# perf record -a

Using system debuginfod setup:
# perf record -a --debuginfod

Using custom debuginfd url:
# perf record -a --debuginfod='https://evenbetterdebuginfodserver.krava'

Adding single perf_debuginfod_setup function and using
it also in perf buildid-cache command.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Petlan <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf report: Fix memory leaks around perf_tip()

perf_tip() may allocate memory or use a literal, this means memory
wasn't freed if allocated. Change the API so that literals aren't used.

At the sam

perf report: Fix memory leaks around perf_tip()

perf_tip() may allocate memory or use a literal, this means memory
wasn't freed if allocated. Change the API so that literals aren't used.

At the same time add missing frees for system_path. These issues were
spotted using leak sanitizer.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Support CAP_PERFMON capability

Extend error messages to mention CAP_PERFMON capability as an option to
substitute CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability for secure system performance
monitoring and ob

perf tools: Support CAP_PERFMON capability

Extend error messages to mention CAP_PERFMON capability as an option to
substitute CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability for secure system performance
monitoring and observability operations. Make
perf_event_paranoid_check() and __cmd_ftrace() to be aware of
CAP_PERFMON capability.

CAP_PERFMON implements the principle of least privilege for performance
monitoring and observability operations (POSIX IEEE 1003.1e 2.2.2.39
principle of least privilege: A security design principle that states
that a process or program be granted only those privileges (e.g.,
capabilities) necessary to accomplish its legitimate function, and only
for the time that such privileges are actually required)

For backward compatibility reasons access to perf_events subsystem remains
open for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for
secure perf_events monitoring is discouraged with respect to CAP_PERFMON
capability.

Committer testing:

Using a libcap with this patch:

diff --git a/libcap/include/uapi/linux/capability.h b/libcap/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
index 78b2fd4c8a95..89b5b0279b60 100644
--- a/libcap/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
+++ b/libcap/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
@@ -366,8 +366,9 @@ struct vfs_ns_cap_data {

#define CAP_AUDIT_READ 37

+#define CAP_PERFMON 38

-#define CAP_LAST_CAP CAP_AUDIT_READ
+#define CAP_LAST_CAP CAP_PERFMON

#define cap_valid(x) ((x) >= 0 && (x) <= CAP_LAST_CAP)

Note that using '38' in place of 'cap_perfmon' works to some degree with
an old libcap, its only when cap_get_flag() is called that libcap
performs an error check based on the maximum value known for
capabilities that it will fail.

This makes determining the default of perf_event_attr.exclude_kernel to
fail, as it can't determine if CAP_PERFMON is in place.

Using 'perf top -e cycles' avoids the default check and sets
perf_event_attr.exclude_kernel to 1.

As root, with a libcap supporting CAP_PERFMON:

# groupadd perf_users
# adduser perf -g perf_users
# mkdir ~perf/bin
# cp ~acme/bin/perf ~perf/bin/
# chgrp perf_users ~perf/bin/perf
# setcap "cap_perfmon,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_syslog=ep" ~perf/bin/perf
# getcap ~perf/bin/perf
/home/perf/bin/perf = cap_sys_ptrace,cap_syslog,cap_perfmon+ep
# ls -la ~perf/bin/perf
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root perf_users 16968552 Apr 9 13:10 /home/perf/bin/perf

As the 'perf' user in the 'perf_users' group:

$ perf top -a --stdio
Error:
Failed to mmap with 1 (Operation not permitted)
$

Either add the cap_ipc_lock capability to the perf binary or reduce the
ring buffer size to some smaller value:

$ perf top -m10 -a --stdio
rounding mmap pages size to 64K (16 pages)
Error:
Failed to mmap with 1 (Operation not permitted)
$ perf top -m4 -a --stdio
Error:
Failed to mmap with 1 (Operation not permitted)
$ perf top -m2 -a --stdio
PerfTop: 762 irqs/sec kernel:49.7% exact: 100.0% lost: 0/0 drop: 0/0 [4000Hz cycles], (all, 4 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

9.83% perf [.] __symbols__insert
8.58% perf [.] rb_next
5.91% [kernel] [k] module_get_kallsym
5.66% [kernel] [k] kallsyms_expand_symbol.constprop.0
3.98% libc-2.29.so [.] __GI_____strtoull_l_internal
3.66% perf [.] rb_insert_color
2.34% [kernel] [k] vsnprintf
2.30% [kernel] [k] string_nocheck
2.16% libc-2.29.so [.] _IO_getdelim
2.15% [kernel] [k] number
2.13% [kernel] [k] format_decode
1.58% libc-2.29.so [.] _IO_feof
1.52% libc-2.29.so [.] __strcmp_avx2
1.50% perf [.] rb_set_parent_color
1.47% libc-2.29.so [.] __libc_calloc
1.24% [kernel] [k] do_syscall_64
1.17% [kernel] [k] __x86_indirect_thunk_rax

$ perf record -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.552 MB perf.data (74 samples) ]
$ perf evlist
cycles
$ perf evlist -v
cycles: size: 120, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1
$ perf report | head -20
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 74 of event 'cycles'
# Event count (approx.): 15694834
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ............... .......................... ......................................
#
19.62% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] strnlen_user
13.88% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle
13.83% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] pfifo_fast_dequeue
13.51% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] kmem_cache_free
6.31% gnome-shell [kernel.vmlinux] [k] kmem_cache_free
5.66% kworker/u8:3+ix [kernel.vmlinux] [k] delay_tsc
4.42% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __set_cpus_allowed_ptr
3.45% kworker/2:1-eve [kernel.vmlinux] [k] shmem_truncate_range
2.29% gnome-shell libgobject-2.0.so.0.6000.7 [.] g_closure_ref
$

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Igor Lubashev <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf util: Factor out sysctl__nmi_watchdog_enabled()

The NMI watchdog status is required for metric group constraint
examination. Factor out sysctl__nmi_watchdog_enabled() to retrieve the
NMI watch

perf util: Factor out sysctl__nmi_watchdog_enabled()

The NMI watchdog status is required for metric group constraint
examination. Factor out sysctl__nmi_watchdog_enabled() to retrieve the
NMI watchdog status.

Users may count more than one metric group each time. If so, the NMI
watchdog status may be retrieved several times. To reduce the overhead,
cache the NMI watchdog status.

Replace the NMI watchdog status checking in print_footer() by
sysctl__nmi_watchdog_enabled().

Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jin Yao <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf record: Put a copy of kcore into the perf.data directory

Add a new 'perf record' option '--kcore' which will put a copy of
/proc/kcore, kallsyms and modules into a perf.data directory. Note, th

perf record: Put a copy of kcore into the perf.data directory

Add a new 'perf record' option '--kcore' which will put a copy of
/proc/kcore, kallsyms and modules into a perf.data directory. Note, that
without the --kcore option, output goes to a file as previously. The
tools' -o and -i options work with either a file name or directory name.

Example:

$ sudo perf record --kcore uname

$ sudo tree perf.data
perf.data
├── kcore_dir
│   ├── kallsyms
│   ├── kcore
│   └── modules
└── data

$ sudo perf script -v
build id event received for vmlinux: 1eaa285996affce2d74d8e66dcea09a80c9941de
build id event received for [vdso]: 8bbaf5dc62a9b644b4d4e4539737e104e4a84541
Samples for 'cycles' event do not have CPU attribute set. Skipping 'cpu' field.
Using CPUID GenuineIntel-6-8E-A
Using perf.data/kcore_dir/kcore for kernel data
Using perf.data/kcore_dir/kallsyms for symbols
perf 19058 506778.423729: 1 cycles: ffffffffa2caa548 native_write_msr+0x8 (vmlinux)
perf 19058 506778.423733: 1 cycles: ffffffffa2caa548 native_write_msr+0x8 (vmlinux)
perf 19058 506778.423734: 7 cycles: ffffffffa2caa548 native_write_msr+0x8 (vmlinux)
perf 19058 506778.423736: 117 cycles: ffffffffa2caa54a native_write_msr+0xa (vmlinux)
perf 19058 506778.423738: 2092 cycles: ffffffffa2c9b7b0 native_apic_msr_write+0x0 (vmlinux)
perf 19058 506778.423740: 37380 cycles: ffffffffa2f121d0 perf_event_addr_filters_exec+0x0 (vmlinux)
uname 19058 506778.423751: 582673 cycles: ffffffffa303a407 propagate_protected_usage+0x147 (vmlinux)
uname 19058 506778.423892: 2241841 cycles: ffffffffa2cae0c9 unwind_next_frame.part.5+0x79 (vmlinux)
uname 19058 506778.424430: 2457397 cycles: ffffffffa3019232 check_memory_region+0x52 (vmlinux)

Committer testing:

# rm -rf perf.data*
# perf record sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.024 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
# ls -l perf.data
-rw-------. 1 root root 34772 Oct 21 11:08 perf.data
# perf record --kcore uname
Linux
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.024 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
ls[root@quaco ~]# ls -lad perf.data*
drwx------. 3 root root 4096 Oct 21 11:08 perf.data
-rw-------. 1 root root 34772 Oct 21 11:08 perf.data.old
# perf evlist -v
cycles: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1
# perf evlist -v -i perf.data/data
cycles: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1
#

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf data: Rename directory "header" file to "data"

In preparation to support a single file directory format, rename "header"
to "data" because "header" is a mis-leading name when there is only 1 fi

perf data: Rename directory "header" file to "data"

In preparation to support a single file directory format, rename "header"
to "data" because "header" is a mis-leading name when there is only 1 file.
Note, in the multi-file case, the "header" file also contains data.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Fix resource leak of closedir() on the error paths

Both build_mem_topology() and rm_rf_depth_pat() have resource leaks of
closedir() on the error paths.

Fix this by calling closedir() b

perf tools: Fix resource leak of closedir() on the error paths

Both build_mem_topology() and rm_rf_depth_pat() have resource leaks of
closedir() on the error paths.

Fix this by calling closedir() before function returns.

Fixes: e2091cedd51b ("perf tools: Add MEM_TOPOLOGY feature to perf data file")
Fixes: cdb6b0235f17 ("perf tools: Add pattern name checking to rm_rf")
Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Feilong Lin <[email protected]>
Cc: Hu Shiyuan <[email protected]>
Cc: Igor Lubashev <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf copyfile: Move copyfile routines to separate files

Further reducing the util.c hodgepodge files.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <

perf copyfile: Move copyfile routines to separate files

Further reducing the util.c hodgepodge files.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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libperf: Move 'page_size' global variable to libperf

We need the 'page_size' variable in libperf, so move it there.

Add a libperf_init() as a global libperf init function to obtain this
value via s

libperf: Move 'page_size' global variable to libperf

We need the 'page_size' variable in libperf, so move it there.

Add a libperf_init() as a global libperf init function to obtain this
value via sysconf() at tool start.

Committer notes:

Add internal/lib.h to tools/perf/ files using 'page_size', sometimes
replacing util.h with it if that was the only reason for having util.h
included.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Petlan <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf debug: Remove needless include directives from debug.h

All we need there is a forward declaration for 'union perf_event', so
remove it from there and add missing header directives in places usi

perf debug: Remove needless include directives from debug.h

All we need there is a forward declaration for 'union perf_event', so
remove it from there and add missing header directives in places using
things from this indirect include.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Remove perf.h from source files not needing it

With the movement of lots of stuff out of perf.h to other headers we
ended up not needing it in lots of places, remove it from those places

perf tools: Remove perf.h from source files not needing it

With the movement of lots of stuff out of perf.h to other headers we
ended up not needing it in lots of places, remove it from those places.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf cacheline: Move cacheline related routines to separate files

To disentangle util/sort.h a bit more.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Ki

perf cacheline: Move cacheline related routines to separate files

To disentangle util/sort.h a bit more.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Add helpers to use capabilities if present

Add utilities to help checking capabilities of the running procss. Make
perf link with libcap, if it is available. If no libcap-dev[el],
fallb

perf tools: Add helpers to use capabilities if present

Add utilities to help checking capabilities of the running procss. Make
perf link with libcap, if it is available. If no libcap-dev[el],
fallback to the geteuid() == 0 test used before.

Committer notes:

$ perf test python
18: 'import perf' in python : FAILED!
$ perf test -v python
Couldn't bump rlimit(MEMLOCK), failures may take place when creating BPF maps, etc
18: 'import perf' in python :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 23288
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /tmp/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: cap_get_flag
test child finished with -1
---- end ----
'import perf' in python: FAILED!
$

This happens because differently from the perf binary generated with
this patch applied:

$ ldd /tmp/build/perf/perf | grep libcap
libcap.so.2 => /lib64/libcap.so.2 (0x00007f724a4ef000)
$

The python binding isn't linking with libcap:

$ ldd /tmp/build/perf/python/perf.so | grep libcap
$

So add 'cap' to the 'extra_libraries' variable in
tools/perf/util/setup.py, and rebuild:

$ perf test python
18: 'import perf' in python : Ok
$

If we explicitely disable libcap it also continues to work:

$ make NO_LIBCAP=1 -C tools/perf O=/tmp/build/perf install-bin
$ ldd /tmp/build/perf/perf | grep libcap
$ ldd /tmp/build/perf/python/perf.so | grep libcap
$ perf test python
18: 'import perf' in python : Ok
$

Signed-off-by: Igor Lubashev <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]>
Cc: James Morris <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
[ split from a larger patch ]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8a1e76cf5c7c9796d0d4d240fbaa85305298aafa.1565188228.git.ilubashe@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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libperf: Adopt the readn()/writen() functions from tools/perf

Move the readn()/writen() functions into libperf.

Keep those non-namespaced names because they will be shared only between
perf and lib

libperf: Adopt the readn()/writen() functions from tools/perf

Move the readn()/writen() functions into libperf.

Keep those non-namespaced names because they will be shared only between
perf and libperf.

Again, these are not exported functions.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Petlan <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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