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2019-05-25perf-probe: Add user memory access attribute supportMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+2
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 <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-12-27perf probe: Support escaped character in parserMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+16
Support the special characters escaped by '\' in parser. This allows user to specify versions directly like below. ===== # ./perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.25.so malloc_get_state\\@GLIBC_2.2.5 Added new event: probe_libc:malloc_get_state (on malloc_get_state@GLIBC_2.2.5 in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe_libc:malloc_get_state -aR sleep 1 ===== Or, you can use separators in source filename, e.g. ===== # ./perf probe -x /opt/test/a.out foo+bar.c:3 Semantic error :There is non-digit character in offset. Error: Command Parse Error. ===== Usually "+" in source file cause parser error, but ===== # ./perf probe -x /opt/test/a.out foo\\+bar.c:4 Added new event: probe_a:main (on @foo+bar.c:4 in /opt/test/a.out) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe_a:main -aR sleep 1 ===== escaped "\+" allows you to specify that. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com> Cc: bhargavb <bhargavaramudu@gmail.com> Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151309111236.18107.5634753157435343410.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-12-27perf probe: Add __return suffix for return eventsMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+1
Add __return suffix for function return events automatically. Without this, user have to give --force option and will see the number suffix for each event like "function_1", which is not easy to recognize. Instead, this adds __return suffix to it automatically. E.g. ===== # ./perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.25.so 'malloc*%return' Added new events: probe_libc:malloc_printerr__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) probe_libc:malloc_consolidate__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) probe_libc:malloc_check__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) probe_libc:malloc_hook_ini__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) probe_libc:malloc__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) probe_libc:malloc_trim__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) probe_libc:malloc_usable_size__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) probe_libc:malloc_stats__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) probe_libc:malloc_info__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) probe_libc:mallochook__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) probe_libc:malloc_get_state__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) probe_libc:malloc_set_state__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe_libc:malloc_set_state__return -aR sleep 1 ===== Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com> Cc: bhargavb <bhargavaramudu@gmail.com> Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151275046418.24652.6696011972866498489.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-07-18perf buildid-cache: Support binary objects from other namespacesKrister Johansen1-0/+5
Teach buildid-cache how to add, remove, and update binary objects from other mount namespaces. Allow probe events tracing binaries in different namespaces to add their objects to the probe and build-id caches too. As a handy side effect, this also lets us access SDT probes in binaries from alternate mount namespaces. Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com> Tested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499305693-1599-5-git-send-email-kjlx@templeofstupid.com [ Add util/namespaces.c to tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources, to fix the python binding 'perf test' ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-07-18perf probe: Allow placing uprobes in alternate namespaces.Krister Johansen1-0/+9
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 <kjlx@templeofstupid.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ 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 <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ 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 <acme@redhat.com>
2017-06-07perf probe: Fix examples section of documentationSeongJae Park1-2/+6
An example in perf-probe documentation for pattern of function name based probe addition is not providing example command for that case. This commit fixes the example to give appropriate example command. Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Fixes: ee391de876ae ("perf probe: Update perf probe document") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170507103642.30560-1-sj38.park@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-01perf probe: Ignore vmlinux buildid if offline kernel is givenMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+2
Ignore the buildid of running kernel when both of --definition and --vmlinux is given because that kernel should be off-line. This also skips post-processing of kprobe event for relocating symbol and checking blacklist, because it can not be done on off-line kernel. E.g. without this fix perf shows an error as below ---- $ perf probe --vmlinux=./vmlinux-arm --definition do_sys_open ./vmlinux-arm with build id 7a1f76dd56e9c4da707cd3d6333f50748141434b not found, continuing without symbols Failed to find symbol do_sys_open in kernel Error: Failed to add events. ---- with this fix, we can get the definition ---- $ perf probe --vmlinux=./vmlinux-arm --definition do_sys_open p:probe/do_sys_open do_sys_open+0 ---- Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147214228193.23638.12581984840822162131.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-01perf probe: Show trace event definitionMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+7
Add --definition/-D option for showing the trace-event definition in stdout. This can be useful in debugging or combined with a shell script. e.g. ---- # perf probe --definition 'do_sys_open $params' p:probe/do_sys_open _text+2261728 dfd=%di:s32 filename=%si:u64 flags=%dx:s32 mode=%cx:u16 ---- Suggested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147214226712.23638.2240534040014013658.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-23ftrace: kprobe: uprobe: Show u8/u16/u32/u64 types in decimalMasami Hiramatsu1-3/+2
Change kprobe/uprobe-tracer to show the arguments type-casted with u8/u16/u32/u64 in decimal digits instead of hexadecimal. To minimize compatibility issue, the arguments without type casting are typed by x64 (or x32 for 32bit arch) by default. Note: all arguments set by old perf probe without types are shown in decimal by default. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151076135.12957.14684546093034343894.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-23perf probe: Support hexadecimal castingMasami Hiramatsu1-2/+2
Support hexadecimal unsigned integer casting by 'x'. This allows user to explicitly specify the output format of the probe arguments as hexadecimal. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151072679.12957.4458656416765710753.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-23ftrace: kprobe: uprobe: Add x8/x16/x32/x64 for hexadecimal typesMasami Hiramatsu1-2/+2
Add x8/x16/x32/x64 for hexadecimal type casting to kprobe/uprobe event tracer. These type casts can be used for integer arguments for explicitly showing them in hexadecimal digits in formatted text. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151067029.12957.11591314629326414783.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-09perf probe: Support signedness castingNaohiro Aota1-1/+9
The 'perf probe' tool detects a variable's type and use the detected type to add a new probe. Then, kprobes prints its variable in hexadecimal format if the variable is unsigned and prints in decimal if it is signed. We sometimes want to see unsigned variable in decimal format (i.e. sector_t or size_t). In that case, we need to investigate the variable's size manually to specify just signedness. This patch add signedness casting support. By specifying "s" or "u" as a type, perf-probe will investigate variable size as usual and use the specified signedness. E.g. without this: $ perf probe -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector' Added new event: probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1 $ cat trace_pipe|head dbench-9692 [003] d..1 971.096633: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=0x3a3d00 dbench-9692 [003] d..1 971.096685: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=0x1a3d80 dbench-9692 [003] d..1 971.096687: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=0x3a3d80 ... // need to investigate the variable size $ perf probe -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s64' Added new event: probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s64) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1 With this: // just use "s" to cast its signedness $ perf probe -v -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s' Added new event: probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1 $ cat trace_pipe|head dbench-9689 [001] d..1 1212.391237: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=128 dbench-9689 [001] d..1 1212.391252: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=131072 dbench-9697 [006] d..1 1212.398611: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=30208 This commit also update perf-probe.txt to describe "types". Most parts are based on existing documentation: Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt Committer note: Testing using 'perf trace': # perf probe -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector' Added new event: probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1 # trace --no-syscalls --ev probe:submit_bio 0.000 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0xc133c0) 3181.861 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x6cffb8) 3181.881 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x6cffc0) 3184.488 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x6cffc8) <SNIP> 4717.927 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x4dc7a88) 4717.970 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x4dc7880) ^C[root@jouet ~]# Now, using this new feature: [root@jouet ~]# perf probe -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s' Added new event: probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1 [root@jouet ~]# trace --no-syscalls --ev probe:submit_bio 0.000 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=7145704) 0.017 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=7145712) 0.019 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=7145720) 2.567 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=7145728) 5631.919 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0) 5631.941 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=8) 5631.945 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=16) 5631.948 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=24) ^C# With callchains: # trace --no-syscalls --ev probe:submit_bio/max-stack=10/ 0.000 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=50662544) submit_bio+0xa8200001 ([kernel.kallsyms]) submit_bh+0xa8200013 ([kernel.kallsyms]) jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xa8200691 ([kernel.kallsyms]) kjournald2+0xa82000ca ([kernel.kallsyms]) kthread+0xa82000d8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ret_from_fork+0xa820001f ([kernel.kallsyms]) 0.023 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=50662552) submit_bio+0xa8200001 ([kernel.kallsyms]) submit_bh+0xa8200013 ([kernel.kallsyms]) jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xa8200691 ([kernel.kallsyms]) kjournald2+0xa82000ca ([kernel.kallsyms]) kthread+0xa82000d8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ret_from_fork+0xa820001f ([kernel.kallsyms]) 0.027 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=50662560) submit_bio+0xa8200001 ([kernel.kallsyms]) submit_bh+0xa8200013 ([kernel.kallsyms]) jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xa8200691 ([kernel.kallsyms]) kjournald2+0xa82000ca ([kernel.kallsyms]) kthread+0xa82000d8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ret_from_fork+0xa820001f ([kernel.kallsyms]) 2.593 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=50662568) submit_bio+0xa8200001 ([kernel.kallsyms]) submit_bh+0xa8200013 ([kernel.kallsyms]) journal_submit_commit_record+0xa82001ac ([kernel.kallsyms]) jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xa82012e8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) kjournald2+0xa82000ca ([kernel.kallsyms]) kthread+0xa82000d8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ret_from_fork+0xa820001f ([kernel.kallsyms]) ^C# Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470710408-23515-1-git-send-email-naohiro.aota@hgst.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-13perf probe: Support a special SDT probe formatMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+3
Support a special SDT probe format which can omit the '%' prefix only if the SDT group name starts with "sdt_". So, for example both of "%sdt_libc:setjump" and "sdt_libc:setjump" are acceptable for perf probe --add. E.g. without this: # perf probe -a sdt_libc:setjmp Semantic error :There is non-digit char in line number. ... With this: # perf probe -a sdt_libc:setjmp Added new event: sdt_libc:setjmp (on %setjmp in /usr/lib64/libc-2.20.so) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e sdt_libc:setjmp -aR sleep 1 Suggested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146831794674.17065.13359473252168740430.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-13perf probe: Accept %sdt and %cached event nameMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+8
To improve usability, support %[PROVIDER:]SDTEVENT format to add new probes on SDT and cached events. e.g. ---- # perf probe -x /lib/libc-2.17.so %lll_lock_wait_private Added new event: sdt_libc:lll_lock_wait_private (on %lll_lock_wait_private in /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e sdt_libc:lll_lock_wait_private -aR sleep 1 # perf probe -l | more sdt_libc:lll_lock_wait_private (on __lll_lock_wait_private+21 in /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so) ---- Note that this is not only for SDT events, but also normal events with event-name. e.g. define "myevent" on cache (-n doesn't add the real probe) ---- # perf probe -x ./perf --cache -n --add 'myevent=dso__load $params' ---- Reuse the "myevent" from cache as below. ---- # perf probe -x ./perf %myevent ---- Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146831788372.17065.3645054540325909346.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-04perf probe: Add group name supportMasami Hiramatsu1-4/+6
Allow user to set group name for adding new event. Note that user must ensure that the group name doesn't conflict with existing group name carefully. E.g. Existing group name can conflict with other events. Especially, using the group name reserved for kernel modules can hide kernel embedded events when loading modules. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146736024091.27797.9471545190066268995.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-01perf probe: Remove caches when --cache is givenMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+1
'perf probe --del' removes caches when '--cache' is given. Note that the delete pattern is not the same as for normal events. If you cached probes with event name, --del "eventname" works as expected. However, if you skipped it, the cached probes doesn't have actual event name. In that case --del "probe-desc" is required (wildcard is acceptable). For example a cache entry has the probe-desc "vfs_read $params", you can remove it with --del 'vfs_read*'. ----- # perf probe --cache --list /[kernel.kallsyms] (1466a0a250b5d0070c6d0f03c5fed30b237970a1): vfs_read $params /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so (c31ffe7942bfd77b2fca8f9bd5709d387a86d3bc): getaddrinfo $params # perf probe --cache --del vfs_read\* Removed cached event: probe:vfs_read # perf probe --cache --list /[kernel.kallsyms] (1466a0a250b5d0070c6d0f03c5fed30b237970a1): /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so (c31ffe7942bfd77b2fca8f9bd5709d387a86d3bc): getaddrinfo $params ----- Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146736021651.27797.10250879847070772920.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-01perf probe: Show all cached probesMasami Hiramatsu1-2/+6
perf probe --list shows all cached probes when --cache is given. Each caches are shown with on which binary that probed. E.g.: ----- # perf probe --cache vfs_read \$params # perf probe --cache -x /lib64/libc-2.17.so getaddrinfo \$params # perf probe --cache --list [kernel.kallsyms] (1466a0a250b5d0070c6d0f03c5fed30b237970a1): vfs_read $params /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so (c31ffe7942bfd77b2fca8f9bd5709d387a86d3bc): getaddrinfo $params ----- Note that $params requires debuginfo. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146736020674.27797.13488316780383460180.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-06-15perf probe: Add --cache option to cache the probe definitionsMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+4
Add --cache option to cache the probe definitions. This just saves the result of the dwarf analysis to probe cache. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160615032840.31330.44412.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-08perf probe: Add --no-inlines option to avoid searching inline functionsMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+4
Add --no-inlines(--inlines) option to avoid searching inline functions. Searching all functions which matches glob pattern can take a long time and find a lot of inline functions. With this option perf-probe searches target on the non-inlined functions. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150508010333.24812.86568.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-08perf probe: Support $params special probe argumentMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+1
$params is similar to $vars but matches only function parameters not local variables. Thus, this is useful for tracing function parameter changing or tracing function call with parameters. Testing it: # perf probe tcp_sendmsg '$params' Added new event: probe:tcp_sendmsg (on tcp_sendmsg with $params) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:tcp_sendmsg -aR sleep 1 # perf probe -l probe:tcp_sendmsg (on tcp_sendmsg@acme/git/linux/net/ipv4/tcp.c with iocb sk msg size) # perf record -a -e probe:* press some random letters to generate TCP (sshd) traffic... ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.223 MB perf.data (6 samples) ] # perf script sshd 6385 [2] 3.907529: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24 sshd 6385 [2] 4.138973: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24 sshd 6385 [2] 4.378966: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24 sshd 6385 [2] 4.603681: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24 sshd 6385 [2] 4.818455: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24 sshd 6385 [2] 5.043603: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/probe/tcp_sendmsg/format name: tcp_sendmsg ID: 1927 format: field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0; field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1; field:unsigned long __probe_ip; offset:8; size:8; signed:0; field:u64 iocb; offset:16; size:8; signed:0; field:u64 sk; offset:24; size:8; signed:0; field:u64 msg; offset:32; size:8; signed:0; field:u64 size; offset:40; size:8; signed:0; print fmt: "(%lx) iocb=0x%Lx sk=0x%Lx msg=0x%Lx size=0x%Lx", REC->__probe_ip, REC->iocb, REC->sk, REC->msg, REC->size # Do some system wide tracing of this probe + write syscalls: # perf trace -e write --ev probe:* --filter-pids 6385 462.612 (0.010 ms): bash/19153 write(fd: 1</dev/pts/1>, buf: 0x7f7556c78000, count: 29 ) = 29 462.701 (0.027 ms): sshd/19152 write(fd: 3<socket:[63117]>, buf: 0x7f78dd12e160, count: 68 ) ... 462.701 ( ): probe:tcp_sendmsg:(ffffffff8163db30) iocb=0xffff8803ebec7e70 sk=0xffff88042196ab80 msg=0xffff8803ebec7da8 size=0x44) 462.710 (0.035 ms): sshd/19152 ... [continued]: write()) = 68 462.787 (0.009 ms): bash/19153 write(fd: 2</dev/pts/1>, buf: 0x7f7556c77000, count: 22 ) = 22 462.865 (0.002 ms): sshd/19152 write(fd: 3<socket:[63117]>, buf: 0x7f78dd12e160, count: 68 ) ... 462.865 ( ): probe:tcp_sendmsg:(ffffffff8163db30) iocb=0xffff8803ebec7e70 sk=0xffff88042196ab80 msg=0xffff8803ebec7da8 size=0x44) 462.873 (0.010 ms): sshd/19152 ... [continued]: write()) = 68 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150506124653.4961.59806.stgit@localhost.localdomain [ Add some examples to the changelog message showing how to use it ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-05perf probe: Accept filter argument for --funcsMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+2
This allows the user to pass the filter pattern directly to the --funcs option as below: ---- # ./perf probe -F *kmalloc __kmalloc devm_kmalloc mempool_kmalloc sg_kmalloc sock_kmalloc ---- We previously needed to use the --filter option for that. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150505022950.23399.22435.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-04perf probe: Accept filter argument for --listMasami Hiramatsu1-3/+3
Currently, perf-probe --list option ignores given event filter. ---- # ./perf probe -l vfs\* probe:vfs_read (on vfs_read@ksrc/linux-3/fs/read_write.c) probe_libc:malloc (on __libc_malloc@malloc/malloc.c in /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so) ---- This changes --list option to accept the event filter argument as below. ---- # ./perf probe -l vfs\* probe:vfs_read (on vfs_read@ksrc/linux-3/fs/read_write.c) # ./perf probe -l \*libc:\* probe_libc:malloc (on __libc_malloc@malloc/malloc.c in /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so) ---- Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150424094750.23967.53868.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-29perf probe: Make --funcs option exclusiveMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+2
The --funcs option should be given exclusively. This adds PARSE_OPT_EXCUSIVE flag on --funcs (-F) option. Without this, 'perf probe --funcs -l' just shows the list of probes. With this, it shows error message correctly. This also fixes the help message and the documentation. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150423134612.26128.58189.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-06perf probe: Update man pageMasami Hiramatsu1-2/+14
Update Documentation/perf-probe.txt to add descriptions of some newer options. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150130093746.30575.8571.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-09-17perf tools: Disable kernel symbol demangling by defaultAvi Kivity1-0/+3
Some Linux symbols (for example __vt_event_wait) are interpreted by the demangler as C++ mangled names, which of course they aren't. Disable kernel symbol demangling by default to avoid this, and allow enabling it with a new option --demangle-kernel for those who wish it. Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@cloudius-systems.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410581705-26968-1-git-send-email-avi@cloudius-systems.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-03-14perf probe: Clarify x86 register naming for perf probeAndi Kleen1-0/+2
Clarify how to specify x86 registers in perf probe. I recently ran into this problem and had to figure it out from the source. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393596135-4227-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-11perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absentSrikar Dronamraju1-2/+6
Options -m and -x explicitly allow tracing of modules / user space binaries. In absense of these options, check if the first argument can be used as a target. perf probe /bin/zsh zfree is equivalent to perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree. Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120416120925.30661.40409.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-11perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobesSrikar Dronamraju1-1/+14
- Enhances perf to probe user space executables and libraries. - Enhances -F/--funcs option of "perf probe" to list possible probe points in an executable file or library. - Documents userspace probing support in perf. [ Probing a function in the executable using function name ] perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree [ Probing a library function using function name ] perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc [ list probe-able functions in an executable ] perf probe -F -x /bin/zsh [ list probe-able functions in an library] perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6 Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120416120909.30661.99781.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-07-15perf probe: Support adding probes on offline kernel modulesMasami Hiramatsu1-2/+4
Support adding probes on offline kernel modules. This enables perf-probe to trace kernel-module init functions via perf-probe. If user gives the path of module with -m option, perf-probe expects the module is offline. This feature works with --add, --funcs, and --vars. E.g) # perf probe -m /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko \ -a "extent_io_init:5 extent_state_cache" Add new events: probe:extent_io_init (on extent_io_init:5 with extent_state_cache) probe:extent_io_init_1 (on extent_io_init:5 with extent_state_cache) You can now use it on all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:extent_io_init_1 -aR sleep 1 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110627072751.6528.10230.stgit@fedora15 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-16perf probe: Support function@filename syntax for --lineMasami Hiramatsu1-3/+4
Since "perf probe --add" supports function@filename syntax, --line option should also support it. Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20110210090810.1809.26913.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-28perf probe: Add filters support for available functionsMasami Hiramatsu1-4/+5
Add filters support for available function list. Default filter is "!_*" for filtering out local-purpose symbols. e.g.: # perf probe --filter="add*" -F add_disk add_disk_randomness add_input_randomness add_interrupt_randomness add_memory add_page_to_unevictable_list add_page_wait_queue ... Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20110120141545.25915.85930.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-28perf probe: Add variable filter supportMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+14
Add filters support for available variable list. Default filter is "!__k???tab_*&!__crc_*" for filtering out automatically generated symbols. The format of filter rule is "[!]GLOBPATTERN", so you can use wild cards. If the filter rule starts with '!', matched variables are filter out. e.g.: # perf probe -V schedule --externs --filter=cpu* Available variables at schedule @<schedule+0> cpumask_var_t cpu_callout_mask cpumask_var_t cpu_core_map cpumask_var_t cpu_isolated_map cpumask_var_t cpu_sibling_map int cpu_number long unsigned int* cpu_bit_bitmap ... Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20110120141539.25915.43401.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> [ committer note: Removed the elf.h include as it was fixed up in e80711c] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-24perf probe: Add --funcs to show available functions in symtabMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+4
Add --funcs to show available functions in symtab. Originally this feature came from Srikar's uprobes patches ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/27/244 ) e.g. ... __ablkcipher_walk_complete __absent_pages_in_range __account_scheduler_latency __add_pages __alloc_pages_nodemask __alloc_percpu __alloc_reserved_percpu __alloc_skb __alloc_workqueue_key __any_online_cpu __ata_ehi_push_desc ... This also supports symbols in module, e.g. ... cleanup_module cpuid_maxphyaddr emulate_clts emulate_instruction emulate_int_real emulate_invlpg emulator_get_dr emulator_set_dr emulator_task_switch emulator_write_emulated emulator_write_phys fx_init ... Original-patch-from: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20110113124611.22426.10835.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> [ committer note: Add missing elf.h for STB_GLOBAL that broke a RHEL4 build ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-21perf probe: Fix line range description since a single file is allowedFranck Bui-Huu1-1/+1
$ perf-probe -L sched.c is currently allowed but not documented. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> LKML-Reference: <1292854685-8230-5-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01perf probe: Fix spelling mistake in documentationShawn Bohrer1-1/+1
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-8-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-10-21perf probe: Add basic module supportMasami Hiramatsu1-2/+7
Add basic module probe support on perf probe. This introduces "--module <MODNAME>" option to perf probe for putting probes and showing lines and variables in the given module. Currently, this supports only probing on running modules. Supporting off-line module probing is the next step. e.g.) [show lines] # ./perf probe --module drm -L drm_vblank_info <drm_vblank_info:0> 0 int drm_vblank_info(struct seq_file *m, void *data) 1 { struct drm_info_node *node = (struct drm_info_node *) m->private 3 struct drm_device *dev = node->minor->dev; ... [show vars] # ./perf probe --module drm -V drm_vblank_info:3 Available variables at drm_vblank_info:3 @<drm_vblank_info+20> (unknown_type) data struct drm_info_node* node struct seq_file* m [put a probe] # ./perf probe --module drm drm_vblank_info:3 node m Add new event: probe:drm_vblank_info (on drm_vblank_info:3 with node m) You can now use it on all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:drm_vblank_info -aR sleep 1 [list probes] # ./perf probe -l probe:drm_vblank_info (on drm_vblank_info:3@drivers/gpu/drm/drm_info.c with ... Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20101021101341.3542.71638.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-10-21perf probe: Show accessible global variablesMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+5
Add --externs for allowing --vars to show accessible global (externally defined) variables from a given probe point too. This will give you a hint which globals can be accessible from the probe point. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20101021101335.3542.31003.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-10-21perf probe: Show accessible local variablesMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+7
Add -V (--vars) option for listing accessible local variables at given probe point. This will help finding which local variables are available for event arguments. e.g.) # perf probe -V call_timer_fn:23 Available variables at call_timer_fn:23 @<run_timer_softirq+345> function_type* fn int preempt_count long unsigned int data struct list_head work_list struct list_head* head struct timer_list* timer struct tvec_base* base Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20101021101323.3542.40282.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-07-05perf probe: Support tracing an entry of arrayMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+1
Add array-entry tracing support to perf probe. This enables to trace an entry of array which is indexed by constant value, e.g. array[0]. For example: $ perf probe -a 'bio_split bi->bi_io_vec[0]' Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100519195742.2885.5344.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-07-05perf probe: Support "string" typeMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+1
Support string type casting to event argument. If perf-probe finds an argument casted as string, it ensures the target variable is "(unsigned/signed) char *(or []). perf-probe also adds dereference if the target is a pointer. So, both of 'char buf[10];' and 'char *buf;' can be accessed by 'buf:string' Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100519195734.2885.1666.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-17perf probe: Add kernel source path optionChase Douglas1-0/+4
The probe plugin requires access to the source code for some operations. The source code must be in the exact same location as specified by the DWARF tags, but sometimes the location is an absolute path that cannot be replicated by a normal user. This change adds the -s|--source option to allow the user to specify the root of the kernel source tree. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1276543590-10486-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-26perf probe: Add --max-probes optionMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+3
Add --max-probes option to change the maximum limit of findable probe points per event, since inlined function can be expanded into thousands of probe points. Default value is 128. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20100421195640.24664.62984.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-14perf probe: Support basic type castingMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+2
Add basic type casting for arguments to perf probe. This allows users to specify the actual type of arguments. Of course, if user sets invalid types, kprobe-tracer rejects that. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100412171722.3790.50372.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-14perf probe: Use the last field name as the argument nameMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+1
Set the last field name to the argument name when the argument is refering a data-structure member. e.g. ./perf probe --add 'vfs_read file->f_mode' Add new event: probe:vfs_read (on vfs_read with f_mode=file->f_mode) This probe records file->f_mode, but the argument name becomes "f_mode". This enables perf-trace command to parse trace event format correctly. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100412171700.3790.72961.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-14perf probe: Support argument nameMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+9
Set given names to event arguments. The syntax is same as kprobe-tracer, you can add 'NAME=' right before each argument. e.g. ./perf probe vfs_read foo=file then, 'foo' is set to the argument name as below. ./perf probe -l probe:vfs_read (on vfs_read@linux-2.6-tip/fs/read_write.c with foo) Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100412171653.3790.74624.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-02perf probe: Fix --line syntax help and documentMasami Hiramatsu1-1/+1
Just fix typos. --line option accepts ':START-END' syntax, not ':START:END'. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> LKML-Reference: <20100402165038.23551.62590.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-17perf probe: Add --dry-run optionMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+5
Add --dry-run option for debugging and testing. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100316220605.32050.6571.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25perf probe: Add lazy line matching supportMasami Hiramatsu1-3/+27
Add lazy line matching support for specifying new probes. This also changes the syntax of perf probe a bit. Now perf probe accepts one of below probe event definitions. 1) Define event based on function name [EVENT=]FUNC[@SRC][:RLN|+OFF|%return|;PTN] [ARG ...] 2) Define event based on source file with line number [EVENT=]SRC:ALN [ARG ...] 3) Define event based on source file with lazy pattern [EVENT=]SRC;PTN [ARG ...] - New lazy matching pattern(PTN) follows ';' (semicolon). And it must be put the end of the definition. - So, @SRC is no longer the part which must be put at the end of the definition. Note that ';' (semicolon) can be interpreted as the end of a command by the shell. This means that you need to quote it. (anyway you will need to quote the lazy pattern itself too, because it may contains other sensitive characters, like '[',']' etc.). Lazy matching ------------- The lazy line matching is similar to glob matching except ignoring spaces in both of pattern and target. e.g. 'a=*' can matches 'a=b', 'a = b', 'a == b' and so on. This provides some sort of flexibility and robustness to probe point definitions against minor code changes. (for example, actual 10th line of schedule() can be changed easily by modifying schedule(), but the same line matching 'rq=cpu_rq*' may still exist.) Changes in v3: - Cast Dwarf_Addr to uintmax_t for printf-formats. Changes in v2: - Cast Dwarf_Addr to unsigned long long for printf-formats. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100225133611.6725.45078.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25perf probe: Update perf probe documentMasami Hiramatsu1-2/+26
Update perf-probe.txt to suit to current perf-probe command and add some examples. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100225133519.6725.58816.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13perf probe: Support --line option to show probable source-code linesMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+20
Add --line option to support showing probable source-code lines. perf probe --line SRC:LN[-LN|+NUM] or perf probe --line FUNC[:LN[-LN|+NUM]] This option shows source-code with line number if the line can be probed. Lines without line number (and blue color) means that the line can not be probed, because debuginfo doesn't have the information of those lines. The argument specifies the range of lines, "source.c:100-120" shows lines between 100th to l20th in source.c file. And "func:10+20" shows 20 lines from 10th line of func function. e.g. # ./perf probe --line kernel/sched.c:1080 <kernel/sched.c:1080> * * called with rq->lock held and irqs disabled */ static void hrtick_start(struct rq *rq, u64 delay) { struct hrtimer *timer = &rq->hrtick_timer; 1086 ktime_t time = ktime_add_ns(timer->base->get_time(), delay); hrtimer_set_expires(timer, time); 1090 if (rq == this_rq()) { 1091 hrtimer_restart(timer); 1092 } else if (!rq->hrtick_csd_pending) { 1093 __smp_call_function_single(cpu_of(rq), &rq->hrtick_csd, 1094 rq->hrtick_csd_pending = 1; If you specifying function name, this shows function-relative line number. # ./perf probe --line schedule <schedule:0> asmlinkage void __sched schedule(void) 1 { struct task_struct *prev, *next; unsigned long *switch_count; struct rq *rq; int cpu; need_resched: preempt_disable(); 9 cpu = smp_processor_id(); 10 rq = cpu_rq(cpu); 11 rcu_sched_qs(cpu); 12 prev = rq->curr; 13 switch_count = &prev->nivcsw; Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20100106144534.27218.77939.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>