History log of /linux-master/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 9a4e47ef 14-Feb-2024 Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>

perf parse-regs: Introduce a weak function arch__sample_reg_masks()

Every architecture can provide a register list for sampling. If an
architecture doesn't support register sampling, it won't define the data
structure 'sample_reg_masks'. Consequently, any code using this
structure must be protected by the macro 'HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT'.

This patch defines a weak function, arch__sample_reg_masks(), which will
be replaced by an architecture-defined function for returning the
architecture's register list. With this refactoring, the function always
exists, the condition checking for 'HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT' is not
needed anymore, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ming Wang <wangming01@loongson.cn>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214113947.240957-4-leo.yan@linux.dev


# 2eb5dd41 03-Jul-2020 Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com>

perf record: Fix memory leak when using '--user-regs=?' to list registers

When using 'perf record's option '-I' or '--user-regs=' along with
argument '?' to list available register names, memory of variable 'os'
allocated by strdup() needs to be released before __parse_regs()
returns, otherwise memory leak will occur.

Fixes: bcc84ec65ad1 ("perf record: Add ability to name registers to record")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200703093344.189450-1-zhengzengkai@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 42466b9f 30-Sep-2019 Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

perf tools: Avoid 'sample_reg_masks' being const + weak

Being const + weak breaks with some compilers that constant-propagate
from the weak symbol. This behavior is outside of the specification, but
in LLVM is chosen to match GCC's behavior.

LLVM's implementation was set in this patch:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/f49573d1eedcf1e44893d5a062ac1b72c8419646

A const + weak symbol is set to be weak_odr:

https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html

ODR is one definition rule, and given there is one constant definition
constant-propagation is possible. It is possible to get this code to
miscompile with LLVM when applying link time optimization. As compilers
become more aggressive, this is likely to break in more instances.

Move the definition of sample_reg_masks to the conditional part of
perf_regs.h and guard usage with HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT. This avoids the
weak symbol.

Fix an issue when HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT isn't defined from patch v1.
In v3, add perf_regs.c for architectures that HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT but
don't declare sample_regs_masks.

Further notes:

Jiri asked:

"Is this just a precaution or you actualy saw some breakage?"

Ian answered:

"We saw a breakage with clang with thinlto enabled for linking. Our
compiler team had recently seen, and were surprised by, a similar issue
and were able to dig out the weak ODR issue."

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Mao Han <han_mao@c-sky.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191001003623.255186-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 215a0d30 04-Jul-2019 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf tools: Add missing headers, mostly stdlib.h

Part of the erosion of util/util.h, that will lose its include stdlib.h,
we need to add it to places where it is needed but was getting it
indirectly.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1imnqezw99ahc07fjeb51qby@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# af785e75 14-May-2019 Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>

perf parse-regs: Add generic support for arch__intr/user_reg_mask()

There may be different register mask for use with intr or user on some
platforms, e.g. Icelake.

Add weak functions arch__intr_reg_mask() and arch__user_reg_mask() to
return intr and user register mask respectively.

Check mask before printing or comparing the register name.

Generic code always return PERF_REGS_MASK. No functional change.

Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557865174-56264-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# aeea9062 14-May-2019 Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>

perf parse-regs: Split parse_regs

The available registers for --int-regs and --user-regs may be different,
e.g. XMM registers.

Split parse_regs into two dedicated functions for --int-regs and
--user-regs respectively.

Modify the warning message. "--user-regs=?" should be applied to show
the available registers for --user-regs.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557865174-56264-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
[ Changed docs as suggested by Ravi and agreed by Kan ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 4c1cf203 13-May-2019 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf parse-regs: Improve error output when faced with unknown register name

Add quotes around the register name and suggest using 'perf record -I?'
to get the list of available registers.

Before:

# perf record -Idi,xmm20,xmm1
Warning:
unknown register xmm20, check man page

Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]

-I, --intr-regs[=<any register>]
sample selected machine registers on interrupt, use -I ? to list register names
#
# perf record -Idi,xmm20,xmm1
Warning:
unknown register "xmm20", check man page or run "perf record -I?"

Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]

-I, --intr-regs[=<any register>]
sample selected machine registers on interrupt, use -I ? to list register names
#

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9a9hyuum8c0oggg86xd3sxc5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 4b6ab94e 15-Dec-2015 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

perf subcmd: Create subcmd library

Move the subcommand-related files from perf to a new library named
libsubcmd.a.

Since we're moving files anyway, go ahead and rename 'exec_cmd.*' to
'exec-cmd.*' to be consistent with the naming of all the other files.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.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/c0a838d4c878ab17fee50998811612b2281355c1.1450193761.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# bcc84ec6 31-Aug-2015 Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>

perf record: Add ability to name registers to record

This patch modifies the -I/--int-regs option to enablepassing the name
of the registers to sample on interrupt. Registers can be specified by
their symbolic names. For instance on x86, --intr-regs=ax,si.

The motivation is to reduce the size of the perf.data file and the
overhead of sampling by only collecting the registers useful to a
specific analysis. For instance, for value profiling, sampling only the
registers used to passed arguements to functions.

With no parameter, the --intr-regs still records all possible registers
based on the architecture.

To name registers, it is necessary to use the long form of the option,
i.e., --intr-regs:

$ perf record --intr-regs=si,di,r8,r9 .....

To record any possible registers:

$ perf record -I .....
$ perf report --intr-regs ...

To display the register, one can use perf report -D

To list the available registers:

$ perf record --intr-regs=\?
available registers: AX BX CX DX SI DI BP SP IP FLAGS CS SS R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441039273-16260-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>