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Date:   Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:58:31 +0000
From:   Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, namhyung@...nel.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] perf: add doc for how to build perf with Asan and
 UBSan

Sorry for delay.

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 11:07:58AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 04:05:41PM +0800, Changbin Du wrote:
> > AddressSanitizer (or ASan) and UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (or UBSan) are
> > very useful tools to detect program bugs.
> >  o AddressSanitizer (or ASan) is a GCC feature that detects memory
> >    corruption bugs such as buffer overflows or memory leaks.
> >  o UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (or UBSan) is a fast undefined behavior
> >    detector supprted by GCC. UBSan detect undefined behavior of programs
> >    at runtime.
> > 
> > This patch adds doc for how to use them on perf. Later patches will fix
> > some of the issues disclosed by them.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt
> > index f6fc6507ba55..cae6e1d9b901 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt
> > +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt
> > @@ -47,3 +47,23 @@ Those objects are then used in final linking:
> >  
> >  NOTE this description is omitting other libraries involved, only
> >       focusing on build framework outcomes
> 
> thanks for adding doc, one nit:
> 
> > +
> > +3) buld and install perf
> 
> there's already:
>  2) perf build
>  =============
> 
> please use something like 
> 
>  3) perf build for ASan/UBSan
>  ============================
> 
> > +  $ cd tools/perf
> > +  $ make DESTDIR=/usr
> > +  $ make DESTDIR=/usr install
> > +
> > +4) build with ASan or UBSan
> 
> no need for this label
> 
Thanks, I saw Arnaldo already taked this change with your suggestion.

> > +AddressSanitizer (or ASan) is a GCC feature that detects memory corruption bugs
> > +such as buffer overflows or memory leaks.
> > +  $ cd tools/perf
> > +  $ make DEBUG=1 EXTRA_CFLAGS='-fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=address'
> > +  $ ASAN_OPTIONS=log_path=asan.log ./perf record -a
> > +ASan outputs all detected issues into log file 'asan.log.<pid>'.
> > +
> > +UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (or UBSan) is a fast undefined behavior detector
> > +supprted by GCC. UBSan detect undefined behavior of programs at runtime.
> > +  $ cd tools/perf
> > +  $ make DEBUG=1 EXTRA_CFLAGS='-fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=undefined'
> > +  $ UBSAN_OPTIONS=print_stacktrace=1 ./perf record -a
> > +If UBSan detects any problem at runtime, it outputs a “runtime error:” message.
> > \ No newline at end of file
> > -- 
> > 2.19.1
> > 

-- 
Cheers,
Changbin Du