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2017-10-24perf report: Fall-back to function name comparison for -g srclineMilian Wolff1-8/+12
When a callchain entry has no srcline available, we ended up comparing the instruction pointer. I consider this to be not too useful. Rather, I think we should group the entries by function name, which this patch adds. For people who want to split the data on the IP boundary, using `-g address` is the correct choice. Before: ~~~~~ 100.00% 38.86% [.] main | |--61.14%--main inlining.cpp:14 | std::norm<double> complex:664 | std::_Norm_helper<true>::_S_do_it<double> complex:654 | std::abs<double> complex:597 | std::__complex_abs complex:589 | | | |--56.03%--hypot | | | | | |--8.45%--__hypot_finite | | | | | |--7.62%--__hypot_finite | | | | | |--2.29%--__hypot_finite | | | | | |--2.24%--__hypot_finite | | | | | |--2.06%--__hypot_finite | | | | | |--1.81%--__hypot_finite ... ~~~~~ After: ~~~~~ 100.00% 38.86% [.] main | |--61.14%--main inlining.cpp:14 | std::norm<double> complex:664 | std::_Norm_helper<true>::_S_do_it<double> complex:654 | std::abs<double> complex:597 | std::__complex_abs complex:589 | | | |--60.29%--hypot | | | | | --56.03%--__hypot_finite | | | --0.85%--cabs ~~~~~ Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009203310.17362-7-milian.wolff@kdab.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-24perf callchain: Create real callchain entries for inlined framesMilian Wolff5-0/+103
The inline_node structs are maintained by the new dso->inlines tree. This in turn keeps ownership of the fake symbols and srcline string representing an inline frame. This tree is sorted by address to allow quick lookups. All other entries of the symbol beside the function name are unused for inline frames. The advantage of this approach is that all existing users of the callchain API can now transparently display inlined frames without having to patch their code. Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009203310.17362-6-milian.wolff@kdab.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-24perf callchain: Refactor inline_list to store srcline string directlyMilian Wolff2-16/+41
This is a preparation for the creation of real callchain entries for inlined frames. The rest of the perf code uses the srcline string. As such, using that also for the srcline API allows us to simplify some of the upcoming code. Most notably, it will allow us to cache the srcline for a given inline node and reuse it for different callchain entries. Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009203310.17362-5-milian.wolff@kdab.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-24perf callchain: Refactor inline_list to operate on symbolsMilian Wolff3-32/+69
This is a requirement to create real callchain entries for inlined frames. Since the list of inlines usually contains the target symbol too, i.e. the location where the frames get inlined to, we alias that symbol and reuse it as-is is. This ensures that other dependent functionality keeps working, most notably annotation of the target frames. For all other entries in the inline_list, a fake symbol is created. These are marked by new 'inlined' member which is set to true. Only those symbols are managed by the inline_list and get freed when the inline_list is deleted from within inline_node__delete. Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009203310.17362-4-milian.wolff@kdab.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-24perf callchain: Store srcline in callchain_cursor_nodeMilian Wolff3-26/+29
This is mostly a preparation to enable the creation of full callchain nodes for inline frames. Such frames will reference the IP of the non-inlined frame, but hold the symbol and srcline for an inlined location. As such, we won't be able to query the srcline on-demand based on the IP alone. Instead, we will leverage the functionality provided by this patch here, and store the srcline for the inlined nodes in the new srcline member of callchain_cursor_node. Note that this patch on its own leaks the srcline, as there is no free_callchain_cursor_node or similar. A future patch will add caching of the srcline and handle deletion properly. Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009203310.17362-3-milian.wolff@kdab.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-24perf report: Remove code to handle inline frames from browsersMilian Wolff5-282/+13
The follow-up commits will make inline frames first-class citizens in the callchain, thereby obsoleting all of this special code. Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009203310.17362-2-milian.wolff@kdab.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf vendor events: Add Goldmont Plus V1 event fileKan Liang7-0/+2414
Add a Intel event file for perf. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <Kan.liang@intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508331907-395162-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf namespaces: Add more appropriate set of headersArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+3
We don't need perf.h, that is a kitchen sink, all we need is perf_events.h for perf_ns_link_info, sys/types.h for pid_t and linux/types.h for u64, list_head. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-f2uxyaj4s2hmntkrezpa6dqz@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf kmem: Perform some cleanup if '--time' is given an invalid valueChristophe JAILLET1-1/+2
If the string passed in '--time' is invalid, we must do some cleanup before leaving. As in the other error handling paths of this function. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 2a865bd8dddd ("perf kmem: Add option to specify time window of interest") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170916060936.28199-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf script: Fix error handling pathChristophe JAILLET1-2/+4
If the string passed in '--time' is invalid, or if failed to set libtraceevent function resolver, we must do some cleanup before leaving. As in the other error handling paths of this function. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170916062537.28921-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf script: Use fprintf like printing uniformlyArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-232/+259
We've been mixing print() with fprintf() style printing for a while, but now we need to use fprintf() like syntax uniformly as a preparatory patch for supporting printing to different files, one per event. 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> Cc: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@didichuxing.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kv5z3v8ptfghbarv3a9usvin@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf tools: Introduce binary__fprintf()Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo5-55/+70
Out of print_binary() but receiving a fp pointer and expecting that the printer be a fprintf like function, i.e. receive a FILE pointer and return the number of characters printed. 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> Cc: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@didichuxing.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6oqnxr6lmgqe6q6p3iugnscx@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf vendor events: Fix incorrect cmask syntax for some Intel metricsAndi Kleen4-5/+5
Some of the metrics use an incorrect syntax for specifying the cmask for an event. Convert to perf syntax so that they can be resolved. Fixes metrics on Broadwell, SandyBridge. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3k3fkfj8obek9dkmryyrqzhu@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf tools: Do not check ABI headers in a detached tarball buildArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+5
When we use one of: [acme@jouet linux]$ make help | grep perf perf-tar-src-pkg - Build perf-4.14.0-rc3.tar source tarball perf-targz-src-pkg - Build perf-4.14.0-rc3.tar.gz source tarball perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-4.14.0-rc3.tar.bz2 source tarball perf-tarxz-src-pkg - Build perf-4.14.0-rc3.tar.xz source tarball [acme@jouet linux]$ I.e. when we create a detached tarball to build perf outside outside the enveloping kernel sources (from a kernel tarball or a checked out linux.git directory) we by definition can't check for differences among the tools/{include,arch}, etc files we originally copied from the kernel, so bail out in that case, to avoid warnings when doing the detached builds. 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: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vbrga0mhplv7niwxr3ghjyxv@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf annotate: Remove arch::cpuid_parse callbackJiri Olsa6-11/+27
There's no need for extra cpuid_parse arch callback, it can be handled directly in init callback. Adding the init function to x86 to cover the cpuid initialization. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171011150158.11895-2-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf list: Fix group description in the man pageAndi Kleen1-1/+1
Fix an incorrect description in the 'perf list' manpage. When a group does not fit into the hardware it is partially scheduled, but does not error out. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171010224322.15861-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf tests attr: Make hw events optionalJiri Olsa7-0/+41
Otherwise we fail on virtual machines with no support for specific HW events. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009130712.14747-1-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf mmap: Adopt push method from builtin-record.cArnaldo Carvalho de Melo3-100/+103
The previous prep patch was just to show exactly what changed in that function, now its time to move that method and things only it uses to the right place, mmap.[ch] 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: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-aaxywfgw3d44x6xlu8zm1avu@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf record: Make record__mmap_read genericArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-9/+13
It becomes a perf_mmap method, "push", that build reads from a mmap and "pushes" it to a consumer, that in the initial case, for 'perf record', just writes it to the perf.data file descriptor, but may be used by 'top', etc. 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: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-u4l1qjbi6l76r2k0nv99220n@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf mmap: Move perf_mmap and methods to separate mmap.[ch] filesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo6-323/+349
To better organize the sources, and we may end up even using it directly, without evlists and evsels. 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: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-oiqrm7grflurnnzo2ovfnslg@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf vendor events: Update JSON metrics for Skylake ServerAndi Kleen1-30/+12
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914200748.GA13837@tassilo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf vendor events: Update JSON metrics for SkylakeAndi Kleen1-10/+10
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914200748.GA13837@tassilo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf vendor events: Update JSON metrics for Sandy BridgeAndi Kleen1-6/+6
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914200748.GA13837@tassilo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf vendor events: Update JSON metrics for JakeTownAndi Kleen1-6/+6
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914200748.GA13837@tassilo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf vendor events: Update JSON metrics for IvyTownAndi Kleen1-9/+9
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914200748.GA13837@tassilo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf vendor events: Update JSON metrics for IvyBridgeAndi Kleen1-9/+9
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914200748.GA13837@tassilo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf vendor events: Update JSON metrics for Haswell ServerAndi Kleen1-8/+8
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914200748.GA13837@tassilo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf vendor events: Update JSON metrics for HaswellAndi Kleen1-8/+8
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914200748.GA13837@tassilo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf vendor events: Update JSON metrics for Broadwell ServerAndi Kleen1-9/+9
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914200748.GA13837@tassilo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-23perf vendor events: Update JSON metrics for BroadwellAndi Kleen1-9/+9
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914200748.GA13837@tassilo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-20Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixesIngo Molnar18-54/+123
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-20Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo-4.14-20171019' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgentIngo Molnar6-10/+35
Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: - Fix crash in perf_hpp__reset_output_field() (Jiri Olsa) - Fix eBPF file/vendor events ambiguity in event specification (Jiri Olsa) - Fix closing evsel fd in 'perf stat' (Jin Yao) - Make perf test shell trace+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh pass in Debian/Ubuntu (Li Zhijian) - Fix 'perf buildid-list --with-hits' crash when processing PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACE (Namhyung Kim) - Fix documentation for an inexistent option 'perf record -l' (Taeung Song) - Add long time reviewers to MAINTAINERS (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-18perf test shell trace+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh: Be compatible with Debian/UbuntuLi Zhijian1-3/+6
In debian/ubuntu, libc.so is located at a different place, /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so, so it outputs like this when testing: PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.040 ms --- ::1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.040/0.040/0.040/0.000 ms 0.000 probe_libc:inet_pton:(7f0e2db741c0)) __GI___inet_pton (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so) getaddrinfo (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so) [0xffffa9d40f34ff4d] (/bin/ping) Fix up the libc path to make sure this test works in more OSes. Committer testing: When this test fails one can use 'perf test -v', i.e. in verbose mode, where it'll show the expected backtrace, so, after applying this test: On Fedora 26: # perf test -v ping 62: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping : --- start --- test child forked, pid 23322 PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.058 ms --- ::1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.058/0.058/0.058/0.000 ms 0.000 probe_libc:inet_pton:(7fe344310d80)) __GI___inet_pton (/usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) getaddrinfo (/usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) _init (/usr/bin/ping) test child finished with 0 ---- end ---- probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping: Ok # Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com> Cc: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Philip Li <philip.li@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508315649-18836-1-git-send-email-lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-18perf xyarray: Fix wrong processing when closing evsel fdJin Yao1-2/+2
In current xyarray code, xyarray__max_x() returns max_y, and xyarray__max_y() returns max_x. It's confusing and for code logic it looks not correct. Error happens when closing evsel fd. Let's see this scenario: 1. Allocate an fd (pseudo-code) perf_evsel__alloc_fd(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int ncpus, int nthreads) { evsel->fd = xyarray__new(ncpus, nthreads, sizeof(int)); } xyarray__new(int xlen, int ylen, size_t entry_size) { size_t row_size = ylen * entry_size; struct xyarray *xy = zalloc(sizeof(*xy) + xlen * row_size); xy->entry_size = entry_size; xy->row_size = row_size; xy->entries = xlen * ylen; xy->max_x = xlen; xy->max_y = ylen; ...... } So max_x is ncpus, max_y is nthreads and row_size = nthreads * 4. 2. Use perf syscall and get the fd int perf_evsel__open(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct cpu_map *cpus, struct thread_map *threads) { for (cpu = 0; cpu < cpus->nr; cpu++) { for (thread = 0; thread < nthreads; thread++) { int fd, group_fd; fd = sys_perf_event_open(&evsel->attr, pid, cpus->map[cpu], group_fd, flags); FD(evsel, cpu, thread) = fd; } } static inline void *xyarray__entry(struct xyarray *xy, int x, int y) { return &xy->contents[x * xy->row_size + y * xy->entry_size]; } These codes don't have issues. The issue happens in the closing of fd. 3. Close fd. void perf_evsel__close_fd(struct perf_evsel *evsel) { int cpu, thread; for (cpu = 0; cpu < xyarray__max_x(evsel->fd); cpu++) for (thread = 0; thread < xyarray__max_y(evsel->fd); ++thread) { close(FD(evsel, cpu, thread)); FD(evsel, cpu, thread) = -1; } } Since xyarray__max_x() returns max_y (nthreads) and xyarry__max_y() returns max_x (ncpus), so above code is actually to be: for (cpu = 0; cpu < nthreads; cpu++) for (thread = 0; thread < ncpus; ++thread) { close(FD(evsel, cpu, thread)); FD(evsel, cpu, thread) = -1; } It's not correct! This change is introduced by "475fb533fb7d" ("perf evsel: Fix buffer overflow while freeing events") This fix is to let xyarray__max_x() return max_x (ncpus) and let xyarry__max_y() return max_y (nthreads) Committer note: This was also fixed by Ravi Bangoria, who provided the same patch, noticing the problem with 'perf record': <quote Ravi> I see 'perf record -p <pid>' crashes with following log: *** Error in `./perf': free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x000000000298b340 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x777e5)[0x7f7fd85c87e5] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x8037a)[0x7f7fd85d137a] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(cfree+0x4c)[0x7f7fd85d553c] ./perf(perf_evsel__close+0xb4)[0x4b7614] ./perf(perf_evlist__delete+0x100)[0x4ab180] ./perf(cmd_record+0x1d9)[0x43a5a9] ./perf[0x49aa2f] ./perf(main+0x631)[0x427841] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7f7fd8571830] ./perf(_start+0x29)[0x427a59] </> Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Fixes: d74be4767367 ("perf xyarray: Save max_x, max_y") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508339478-26674-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508327446-15302-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-18Revert "tools/power turbostat: stop migrating, unless '-m'"Len Brown1-9/+1
This reverts commit c91fc8519d87715a3a173475ea3778794c139996. That change caused a C6 and PC6 residency regression on large idle systems. Users also complained about new output indicating jitter: turbostat: cpu6 jitter 3794 9142 Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: 4.13+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.13+ Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-10-17perf buildid-list: Fix crash when processing PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACENamhyung Kim1-0/+2
Thomas reported that 'perf buildid-list' gets a SEGFAULT due to NULL pointer deref when he ran it on a data with namespace events. It was because the buildid_id__mark_dso_hit_ops lacks the namespace event handler and perf_too__fill_default() didn't set it. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () Missing separate debuginfos, use: dnf debuginfo-install audit-libs-2.7.7-1.fc25.s390x bzip2-libs-1.0.6-21.fc25.s390x elfutils-libelf-0.169-1.fc25.s390x +elfutils-libs-0.169-1.fc25.s390x libcap-ng-0.7.8-1.fc25.s390x numactl-libs-2.0.11-2.ibm.fc25.s390x openssl-libs-1.1.0e-1.1.ibm.fc25.s390x perl-libs-5.24.1-386.fc25.s390x +python-libs-2.7.13-2.fc25.s390x slang-2.3.0-7.fc25.s390x xz-libs-5.2.3-2.fc25.s390x zlib-1.2.8-10.fc25.s390x (gdb) where #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #1 0x00000000010fad6a in machines__deliver_event (machines=<optimized out>, machines@entry=0x2c6fd18, evlist=<optimized out>, event=event@entry=0x3fffdf00470, sample=0x3ffffffe880, sample@entry=0x3ffffffe888, tool=tool@entry=0x1312968 <build_id.mark_dso_hit_ops>, file_offset=1136) at util/session.c:1287 #2 0x00000000010fbf4e in perf_session__deliver_event (file_offset=1136, tool=0x1312968 <build_id.mark_dso_hit_ops>, sample=0x3ffffffe888, event=0x3fffdf00470, session=0x2c6fc30) at util/session.c:1340 #3 perf_session__process_event (session=0x2c6fc30, session@entry=0x0, event=event@entry=0x3fffdf00470, file_offset=file_offset@entry=1136) at util/session.c:1522 #4 0x00000000010fddde in __perf_session__process_events (file_size=11880, data_size=<optimized out>, data_offset=<optimized out>, session=0x0) at util/session.c:1899 #5 perf_session__process_events (session=0x0, session@entry=0x2c6fc30) at util/session.c:1953 #6 0x000000000103b2ac in perf_session__list_build_ids (with_hits=<optimized out>, force=<optimized out>) at builtin-buildid-list.c:83 #7 cmd_buildid_list (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at builtin-buildid-list.c:115 #8 0x00000000010a026c in run_builtin (p=0x1311f78 <commands+24>, argc=argc@entry=2, argv=argv@entry=0x3fffffff3c0) at perf.c:296 #9 0x000000000102bc00 in handle_internal_command (argv=<optimized out>, argc=2) at perf.c:348 #10 run_argv (argcp=<synthetic pointer>, argv=<synthetic pointer>) at perf.c:392 #11 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=0x3fffffff3c0) at perf.c:536 (gdb) Fix it by adding a stub event handler for namespace event. Committer testing: Further clarifying, plain using 'perf buildid-list' will not end up in a SEGFAULT when processing a perf.data file with namespace info: # perf record -a --namespaces sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.024 MB perf.data (1058 samples) ] # perf buildid-list | wc -l 38 # perf buildid-list | head -5 e2a171c7b905826fc8494f0711ba76ab6abbd604 /lib/modules/4.14.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux 874840a02d8f8a31cedd605d0b8653145472ced3 /lib/modules/4.14.0-rc3+/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko ea7223776730cd8a22f320040aae4d54312984bc /lib/modules/4.14.0-rc3+/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko 5961535e6732a8edb7f22b3f148bb2fa2e0be4b9 /lib/modules/4.14.0-rc3+/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko f045f54aa78cf1931cc893f78b6cbc52c72a8cb1 /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so # It is only when one asks for checking what of those entries actually had samples, i.e. when we use either -H or --with-hits, that we will process all the PERF_RECORD_ events, and since tools/perf/builtin-buildid-list.c neither explicitely set a perf_tool.namespaces() callback nor the default stub was set that we end up, when processing a PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACE record, causing a SEGFAULT: # perf buildid-list -H Segmentation fault (core dumped) ^C # Reported-and-Tested-by: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Fixes: f3b3614a284d ("perf tools: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017132900.11043-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-17perf record: Fix documentation for a inexistent option '-l'Taeung Song1-2/+2
'perf record' had a '-l' option that meant "scale counter values" a very long time ago, but it currently belongs to 'perf stat' as '-c'. So remove it. I found this problem in the below case. $ perf record -e cycles -l sleep 3 Error: unknown switch `l Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507907412-19813-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-14Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds6-23/+55
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Some tooling fixes plus three kernel fixes: a memory leak fix, a statistics fix and a crash fix" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix memory leaks on allocation failures perf/core: Fix cgroup time when scheduling descendants perf/core: Avoid freeing static PMU contexts when PMU is unregistered tools include uapi bpf.h: Sync kernel ABI header with tooling header perf pmu: Unbreak perf record for arm/arm64 with events with explicit PMU perf script: Add missing separator for "-F ip,brstack" (and brstackoff) perf callchain: Compare dsos (as well) for CCKEY_FUNCTION
2017-10-13userfaultfd: selftest: exercise -EEXIST only in background transferAndrea Arcangeli1-5/+20
I was stress testing some backports and with high load, after some time, the latest version of the selftest showed some false positive in connection with the uffdio_copy_retry. This seems to fix it while still exercising -EEXIST in the background transfer once in a while. The fork child will quit after the last UFFDIO_COPY is run, so a repeated UFFDIO_COPY may not return -EEXIST. This change restricts the -EEXIST stress to the background transfer where the memory can't go away from under it. Also updated uffdio_zeropage, so the interface is consistent. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171004171541.1495-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-10-13perf tools: Check wether the eBPF file exists in event parsingJiri Olsa1-2/+15
Adding the check wether the eBPF file exists, to consider it as eBPF input file. This way we can differentiate eBPF events from events that end up with same suffix as eBPF file. Before: $ perf stat -e 'cpu/uops_executed.core/' true bpf: builtin compilation failed: -95, try external compiler WARNING: unable to get correct kernel building directory. Hint: Set correct kbuild directory using 'kbuild-dir' option in [llvm] section of ~/.perfconfig or set it to "" to suppress kbuild detection. event syntax error: 'cpu/uops_executed.core/' \___ Failed to load cpu/uops_executed.c from source: 'version' section incorrect or lost After: $ perf stat -e 'cpu/uops_executed.core/' true Performance counter stats for 'true': 181,533 cpu/uops_executed.core/:u 0.002795447 seconds time elapsed If user makes type in the eBPF file, we prioritize the event syntax and show following warning: $ perf stat -e 'krava.c//' true event syntax error: 'krava.c//' \___ Cannot find PMU `krava.c'. Missing kernel support? Reported-and-Tested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013083736.15037-9-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-13perf hists: Add extra integrity checks to fmt_free()Jiri Olsa1-0/+7
Make sure the struct perf_hpp_fmt is properly unhooked before we free it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013083736.15037-3-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-13perf hists: Fix crash in perf_hpp__reset_output_field()Jiri Olsa1-1/+1
Du Changbin reported crash [1] when calling perf_hpp__reset_output_field() after unregistering field via perf_hpp__column_unregister(). This ends up in calling following list_del* sequence on the same format: perf_hpp__column_unregister: list_del(&format->list); perf_hpp__reset_output_field: list_del_init(&fmt->list); where the later list_del_init might touch already freed formats. Fixing this by replacing list_del() with list_del_init() in perf_hpp__column_unregister(). [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149059595826019&w=2 Reported-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013083736.15037-2-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-10Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-4.14-rc5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftestLinus Torvalds2-3/+3
Pull kselftest fixes from Shuah Khan: - fix for x86: sysret_ss_attrs test build failure preventing the x86 tests from running - fix mqueue: fix regression in silencing test run output * tag 'linux-kselftest-4.14-rc5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: selftests: mqueue: fix regression in silencing output from RUN_TESTS selftests: x86: sysret_ss_attrs doesn't build on a PIE build
2017-10-09tools include uapi bpf.h: Sync kernel ABI header with tooling headerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+1
Silences the checker: Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/bpf.h' The 90caccdd8cc0 ("bpf: fix bpf_tail_call() x64 JIT") cset only updated a comment in uapi/bpf.h. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rwx2cqbf0x1lwa1krsr6e6hd@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-09perf pmu: Unbreak perf record for arm/arm64 with events with explicit PMUMark Rutland3-19/+47
Currently, perf record is broken on arm/arm64 systems when the PMU is specified explicitly as part of the event, e.g. $ ./perf record -e armv8_cortex_a53/cpu_cycles/u true In such cases, perf record fails to open events unless perf_event_paranoid is set to -1, even if the PMU in question supports mode exclusion. Further, even when perf_event_paranoid is toggled, no samples are recorded. This is an unintended side effect of commit: e3ba76deef23064f ("perf tools: Force uncore events to system wide monitoring) ... which assumes that if a PMU has an associated cpu_map, it is an uncore PMU, and forces events for such PMUs to be system-wide. This is not true for arm/arm64 systems, which can have heterogeneous CPUs. To account for this, multiple CPU PMUs are exposed, each with a "cpus" field under sysfs, which the perf tool parses into a cpu_map. ARM PMUs do not have a "cpumask" file, and only have a "cpus" file. For the gory details as to why, see commit: 7e3fcffe95544010 ("perf pmu: Support alternative sysfs cpumask") Given all of this, we can instead identify uncore PMUs by explicitly checking for a "cpumask" file, and restore arm/arm64 PMU support back to a working state. This patch does so, adding a new perf_pmu::is_uncore field, and splitting the existing cpumask parsing so that it can be reused. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: 4.12+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> Fixes: e3ba76deef23064f ("perf tools: Force uncore events to system wide monitoring) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507315102-5942-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-06perf script: Add missing separator for "-F ip,brstack" (and brstackoff)Mark Santaniello1-2/+2
Prior to commit 55b9b50811ca ("perf script: Support -F brstack,dso and brstacksym,dso"), we were printing a space before the brstack data. It seems that this space was important. Without it, parsing is difficult. Very sorry for the mistake. Notice here how the "ip" and "brstack" run together: $ perf script -F ip,brstack | head -n 1 22e18c40x22e19e2/0x22e190b/P/-/-/0 0x22e19a1/0x22e19d0/P/-/-/0 0x22e195d/0x22e1990/P/-/-/0 0x22e18e9/0x22e1943/P/-/-/0 0x22e1a69/0x22e18c0/P/-/-/0 0x22e19f7/0x22e1a20/P/-/-/0 0x22e1910/0x22e19ee/P/-/-/0 0x22e19e2/0x22e190b/P/-/-/0 0x22e19a1/0x22e19d0/P/-/-/0 0x22e195d/0x22e1990/P/-/-/0 0x22e18e9/0x22e1943/P/-/-/0 0x22e1a69/0x22e18c0/P/-/-/0 0x22e19f7/0x22e1a20/P/-/-/0 0x22e1910/0x22e19ee/P/-/-/0 0x22e19e2/0x22e190b/P/-/-/0 0x22e19a1/0x22e19d0/P/-/-/0 After this diff, sanity is restored: $ perf script -F ip,brstack | head -n 1 22e18c4 0x22e19e2/0x22e190b/P/-/-/0 0x22e19a1/0x22e19d0/P/-/-/0 0x22e195d/0x22e1990/P/-/-/0 0x22e18e9/0x22e1943/P/-/-/0 0x22e1a69/0x22e18c0/P/-/-/0 0x22e19f7/0x22e1a20/P/-/-/0 0x22e1910/0x22e19ee/P/-/-/0 0x22e19e2/0x22e190b/P/-/-/0 0x22e19a1/0x22e19d0/P/-/-/0 0x22e195d/0x22e1990/P/-/-/0 0x22e18e9/0x22e1943/P/-/-/0 0x22e1a69/0x22e18c0/P/-/-/0 0x22e19f7/0x22e1a20/P/-/-/0 0x22e1910/0x22e19ee/P/-/-/0 0x22e19e2/0x22e190b/P/-/-/0 0x22e19a1/0x22e19d0/P/-/-/0 Signed-off-by: Mark Santaniello <marksan@fb.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: 4.13+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> Fixes: 55b9b50811ca ("perf script: Support -F brstack,dso and brstacksym,dso") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171006080722.3442046-1-marksan@fb.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-05selftests/net: rxtimestamp: Fix an off by oneDan Carpenter1-1/+1
The > should be >= so that we don't write one element beyond the end of the array. Fixes: 16e781224198 ("selftests/net: Add a test to validate behavior of rx timestamps") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-05Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo-4.14-20171005' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgentIngo Molnar1-1/+5
Pull perf/urgent fix from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: - Two functions from different binaries can have the same start address. Thus, comparing only the start address in match_chain() leads to inconsistent callchains. Fix this by adding a check for DSOs as well (Ravi Bangoria) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-05selftests: mqueue: fix regression in silencing output from RUN_TESTSShuah Khan1-2/+2
Fix fix regression in silencing output from RUN_TESTS introduced by commit <8230b905a6780c6> selftests: mqueue: Use full path to run tests from Makefile Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
2017-10-05selftests: x86: sysret_ss_attrs doesn't build on a PIE buildShuah Khan1-1/+1
sysret_ss_attrs fails to compile leading x86 test run to fail on systems configured to build using PIE by default. Add -no-pie fix it. Relocation might still fail if relocated above 4G. For now this change fixes the build and runs x86 tests. tools/testing/selftests/x86$ make gcc -m64 -o .../tools/testing/selftests/x86/single_step_syscall_64 -O2 -g -std=gnu99 -pthread -Wall single_step_syscall.c -lrt -ldl gcc -m64 -o .../tools/testing/selftests/x86/sysret_ss_attrs_64 -O2 -g -std=gnu99 -pthread -Wall sysret_ss_attrs.c thunks.S -lrt -ldl /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccS6pvIh.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.text' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Makefile:49: recipe for target '.../tools/testing/selftests/x86/sysret_ss_attrs_64' failed make: *** [.../tools/testing/selftests/x86/sysret_ss_attrs_64] Error 1 Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>