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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-07-09 16:36:45 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-07-09 16:36:45 -0300
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perf trace: Auto bump rlimit(MEMLOCK) for eBPF maps sake
Circa v5.2 this started to fail: # perf trace -e /wb/augmented_raw_syscalls.o event syntax error: '/wb/augmented_raw_syscalls.o' \___ Operation not permitted (add -v to see detail) Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events Usage: perf trace [<options>] [<command>] or: perf trace [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] or: perf trace record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf trace record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] -e, --event <event> event/syscall selector. use 'perf list' to list available events # In verbose mode we some -EPERM when creating a BPF map: # perf trace -v -e /wb/augmented_raw_syscalls.o <SNIP> libbpf: failed to create map (name: '__augmented_syscalls__'): Operation not permitted libbpf: failed to load object '/wb/augmented_raw_syscalls.o' bpf: load objects failed: err=-1: (Operation not permitted) event syntax error: '/wb/augmented_raw_syscalls.o' \___ Operation not permitted (add -v to see detail) Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events Usage: perf trace [<options>] [<command>] or: perf trace [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] or: perf trace record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf trace record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] -e, --event <event> event/syscall selector. use 'perf list' to list available events # If we bumped 'ulimit -l 128' to get it from the 64k default to double that, it worked, so use the recently added rlimit__bump_memlock() helper: # perf trace -e /wb/augmented_raw_syscalls.o -e open*,*sleep sleep 1 0.000 ( 0.007 ms): sleep/28042 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/etc/ld.so.cache", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 3 0.022 ( 0.004 ms): sleep/28042 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/lib64/libc.so.6", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 3 0.201 ( 0.007 ms): sleep/28042 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC) = 3 0.241 (1000.421 ms): sleep/28042 nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffd6c3e6ed0) = 0 # Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j6f2ioa6hj9dinzpjvlhcjoc@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-trace.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 1aa2ed096f65..4f0bbffee05f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <api/fs/tracing_path.h>
#include <bpf/bpf.h>
#include "util/bpf_map.h"
+#include "util/rlimit.h"
#include "builtin.h"
#include "util/cgroup.h"
#include "util/color.h"
@@ -3864,6 +3865,15 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv)
goto out;
}
+ /*
+ * Parsing .perfconfig may entail creating a BPF event, that may need
+ * to create BPF maps, so bump RLIM_MEMLOCK as the default 64K setting
+ * is too small. This affects just this process, not touching the
+ * global setting. If it fails we'll get something in 'perf trace -v'
+ * to help diagnose the problem.
+ */
+ rlimit__bump_memlock();
+
err = perf_config(trace__config, &trace);
if (err)
goto out;