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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 14:07:46 +0800
From: "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
CC: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@...il.com>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
"David Ahern" <dsahern@...il.com>, He Kuang <hekuang@...wei.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@...wei.com>,
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, <pi3orama@....com>,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Zefan Li" <lizefan@...wei.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 0/6] perf/core improvements and fixes
On 2015/6/4 13:48, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ingo,
>>
>> Please consider applying.
>>
>> One of the next requests probably will have the eBPF work by Wang Nan,
>> but I am still going thru it and want to test it thoroughly.
>>
>> BTW: Have you looked at it lately? It is at:
>>
>> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433144296-74992-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
>>
>> Super summary from the above cover letter:
>>
>> ---------------------
>> It enables 'perf record' to filter events using eBPF programs like:
>>
>> # perf record --event bpf-file.o sleep 1
>>
>> Events are selected and filtered according to definitions in bpf-file.o.
> Looks useful, but I think the UI needs one more tweak: could you fix it to be able
> to filter based on the eBPF _source_ file, not just the object file?
>
> People want to tweak such filters as they profile, so we should use the eBPF
> source code as the primary interface. We can compile it internally to the .o just
> fine. The .o file is a totally uninteresting intermediate product in itself.
>
> I.e. we need to first think through such profiling workflows from beginning to end
> before allowing them upstream.
In a private mail Alexei Starovoitov disscussed with me about this. He
said that he is working
on a shared object which can compile C program into BPF bytecode on the
fly. After he done his
work, I think perf can support dtrace-like profiling that, users will be
able to feed source
code to perf directly on cmdline. He said he can release it on June. I
added him to the CC-list.
However I think the '.o' intermediate is still needed. I'd like to share
a real profiling
experience using eBPF today, please keep an eye on it. In my experience,
since we are using C
instead of dtrace, the code piece could be relative complex. Therefore,
even if perf is able
to compile the C source on the fly, I think user still need to transfer
the profiling scripts
to the target machine. Therefor, for him, precompiling and do some
debugging on a high-end server
then transfer it into target machine (like a smartphone) is tolerable,
and useful for me.
Thank you.
>> ---------------------
>>
>> The first two patches from that series are in this pull req, as
>> they just move stuff into tools/include/linux/ from tools/perf/include.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> - Arnaldo
>>
>> The following changes since commit 5c9b9bc67c684e40b3a5e7e9facde0fb7200cd8c:
>>
>> Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2015-05-29 20:19:02 +0200)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to 1f121b03d058dd07199d8924373d3c52a207f63b:
>>
>> perf tools: Deal with kernel module names in '[]' correctly (2015-06-03 10:02:38 -0300)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> perf/core improvements and fixes:
>>
>> User visible:
>>
>> - Fix 'perf probe' segfault when glob matching function without debuginfo (Wang Nan)
>>
>> - Remove newline char when reading event scale and unit (Madhavan Srinivasan)
>>
>> - Deal with kernel module names in '[]' correctly (Wang Nan)
>>
>> Infrastructure:
>>
>> - Fix the search for the kernel DSO on the unified list (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>>
>> - Move tools/perf/util/include/linux/{kernel.h,list.h,poison.h} to tools/include,
>> to be used in tools/lib/bpf/ (Wang Nan)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
>> perf machine: Fix the search for the kernel DSO on the unified list
>>
>> Madhavan Srinivasan (1):
>> perf tools: Remove newline char when reading event scale and unit
>>
>> Wang Nan (4):
>> perf probe: Fix segfault when glob matching function without debuginfo
>> perf tools: Move linux/kernel.h to tools/include
>> tools: Move tools/perf/util/include/linux/{list.h,poison.h} to tools/include
>> perf tools: Deal with kernel module names in '[]' correctly
>>
>> tools/{perf/util => }/include/linux/kernel.h | 4 +-
>> tools/{perf/util => }/include/linux/list.h | 6 +--
>> tools/include/linux/poison.h | 1 +
>> tools/perf/MANIFEST | 3 ++
>> tools/perf/tests/kmod-path.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> tools/perf/util/dso.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++--
>> tools/perf/util/dso.h | 2 +-
>> tools/perf/util/header.c | 8 ++--
>> tools/perf/util/include/linux/poison.h | 1 -
>> tools/perf/util/machine.c | 22 ++++++++-
>> tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 11 ++++-
>> tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 26 ++++++++--
>> 12 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>> rename tools/{perf/util => }/include/linux/kernel.h (97%)
>> rename tools/{perf/util => }/include/linux/list.h (90%)
>> create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/poison.h
>> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/include/linux/poison.h
> Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!
>
> Ingo
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