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authorNaohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com>2016-08-09 11:40:08 +0900
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-08-09 10:52:22 -0300
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perf probe: Support signedness casting
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
index f2d9ff064e2d..5c290c682afe 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -297,10 +297,13 @@ static int convert_variable_type(Dwarf_Die *vr_die,
char sbuf[STRERR_BUFSIZE];
int bsize, boffs, total;
int ret;
+ char sign;
/* TODO: check all types */
- if (cast && strcmp(cast, "string") != 0) {
+ if (cast && strcmp(cast, "string") != 0 &&
+ strcmp(cast, "s") != 0 && strcmp(cast, "u") != 0) {
/* Non string type is OK */
+ /* and respect signedness cast */
tvar->type = strdup(cast);
return (tvar->type == NULL) ? -ENOMEM : 0;
}
@@ -361,6 +364,13 @@ static int convert_variable_type(Dwarf_Die *vr_die,
return (tvar->type == NULL) ? -ENOMEM : 0;
}
+ if (cast && (strcmp(cast, "u") == 0))
+ sign = 'u';
+ else if (cast && (strcmp(cast, "s") == 0))
+ sign = 's';
+ else
+ sign = die_is_signed_type(&type) ? 's' : 'u';
+
ret = dwarf_bytesize(&type);
if (ret <= 0)
/* No size ... try to use default type */
@@ -373,8 +383,7 @@ static int convert_variable_type(Dwarf_Die *vr_die,
dwarf_diename(&type), MAX_BASIC_TYPE_BITS);
ret = MAX_BASIC_TYPE_BITS;
}
- ret = snprintf(buf, 16, "%c%d",
- die_is_signed_type(&type) ? 's' : 'u', ret);
+ ret = snprintf(buf, 16, "%c%d", sign, ret);
formatted:
if (ret < 0 || ret >= 16) {