For some cases, the callchain provided by the kernel may be empty. So,
the callchain ip filtering code will cause a crash if we do not check
whether the struct ip_callchain pointer is NULL before accessing any
members.
This can be observed on a powerpc64le system running Fedora 27 as shown
below.
# perf record -b -e cycles:u ls
Before:
# perf report --branch-history
perf: Segmentation fault
-------- backtrace --------
perf[0x1027615c]
linux-vdso64.so.1(__kernel_sigtramp_rt64+0x0)[0x7fff856304d8]
perf(arch_skip_callchain_idx+0x44)[0x10257c58]
perf[0x1017f2e4]
perf(thread__resolve_callchain+0x124)[0x1017ff5c]
perf(sample__resolve_callchain+0xf0)[0x10172788]
...
After:
# perf report --branch-history
Samples: 25 of event 'cycles:u', Event count (approx.): 2306870
Overhead Source:Line Symbol Shared Object
+ 11.60% _init+35736 [.] _init ls
+ 9.84% strcoll_l.c:137 [.] __strcoll_l libc-2.26.so
+ 9.16% memcpy.S:175 [.] __memcpy_power7 libc-2.26.so
+ 9.01% gconv_charset.h:54 [.] _nl_find_locale libc-2.26.so
+ 8.87% dl-addr.c:52 [.] _dl_addr libc-2.26.so
+ 8.83% _init+236 [.] _init ls
...
Reported-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180611104049.11048-1-sandipan@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Out of thread__find_addr_location(..., MAP__FUNCTION, ...), idea here is to
continue removing references to MAP__{FUNCTION,VARIABLE} ahead of
getting both types of symbols in the same rbtree, as various places do
two lookups, looking first at MAP__FUNCTION, then at MAP__VARIABLE.
So thread__find_symbol() will eventually do just that, and 'struct
symbol' will have the symbol type, for code that cares about that.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-n7528en9e08yd3flzmb26tth@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
dwfl_report_offline() works only when libraries are prelinked.
Replace dwfl_report_offline() with dwfl_report_elf() so we correctly
extract debug info even from libraries that are not prelinked.
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150114221045.GA17703@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So stop passing both machine and thread to several thread methods,
reducing function signature length.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ckcy19dcp1jfkmdihdjcqdn1@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cache the DWARF debug info for DSO so we don't have to rebuild it for each
address in the DSO.
Note that dso__new() uses calloc() so don't need to set dso->dwfl to NULL.
$ /tmp/perf.orig --version
perf version 3.18.rc1.gc2661b8
$ /tmp/perf.new --version
perf version 3.18.rc1.g402d62
$ perf stat -e cycles,instructions /tmp/perf.orig report -g > orig
Performance counter stats for '/tmp/perf.orig report -g':
6,428,177,183 cycles # 0.000 GHz
4,176,288,391 instructions # 0.65 insns per cycle
1.840666132 seconds time elapsed
$ perf stat -e cycles,instructions /tmp/perf.new report -g > new
Performance counter stats for '/tmp/perf.new report -g':
305,773,142 cycles # 0.000 GHz
276,048,272 instructions # 0.90 insns per cycle
0.087693543 seconds time elapsed
$ diff orig new
$
Changelog[v2]:
[Arnaldo Carvalho] Cache in existing global objects rather than create
new static/globals in functions.
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141022000958.GB2228@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Looks like util/debug.h was indirectly included before and is no longer
included now. pr_debug is left undefined and the build of perf tool
fails on Powerpc.
Explicitly include util/debug.h.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140807072700.GA17623@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When saving the callchain on Power, the kernel conservatively saves excess
entries in the callchain. A few of these entries are needed in some cases
but not others. We should use the DWARF debug information to determine
when the entries are needed.
Eg: the value in the link register (LR) is needed only when it holds the
return address of a function. At other times it must be ignored.
If the unnecessary entries are not ignored, we end up with duplicate arcs
in the call-graphs.
Use the DWARF debug information to determine if any callchain entries
should be ignored when building call-graphs.
Callgraph before the patch:
14.67% 2234 sprintft libc-2.18.so [.] __random
|
--- __random
|
|--61.12%-- __random
| |
| |--97.15%-- rand
| | do_my_sprintf
| | main
| | generic_start_main.isra.0
| | __libc_start_main
| | 0x0
| |
| --2.85%-- do_my_sprintf
| main
| generic_start_main.isra.0
| __libc_start_main
| 0x0
|
--38.88%-- rand
|
|--94.01%-- rand
| do_my_sprintf
| main
| generic_start_main.isra.0
| __libc_start_main
| 0x0
|
--5.99%-- do_my_sprintf
main
generic_start_main.isra.0
__libc_start_main
0x0
Callgraph after the patch:
14.67% 2234 sprintft libc-2.18.so [.] __random
|
--- __random
|
|--95.93%-- rand
| do_my_sprintf
| main
| generic_start_main.isra.0
| __libc_start_main
| 0x0
|
--4.07%-- do_my_sprintf
main
generic_start_main.isra.0
__libc_start_main
0x0
TODO: For split-debug info objects like glibc, we can only determine
the call-frame-address only when both .eh_frame and .debug_info
sections are available. We should be able to determin the CFA
even without the .eh_frame section.
Fix suggested by Anton Blanchard.
Thanks to valuable input on DWARF debug information from Ulrich Weigand.
Reported-by: Maynard Johnson <maynard@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Maynard Johnson <maynard@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140625154903.GA29607@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Sandipan Das