[PATCH] perf probe: Add kernel source path option

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Thu Jun 17 21:08:11 UTC 2010


The probe plugin requires access to the source code for some operations.  The
source code must be in the exact same location as specified by the DWARF tags,
but sometimes the location is an absolute path that cannot be replicated by a
normal user. This change adds the -s|--source option to allow the user to
specify the root of the kernel source tree.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1276543590-10486-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 9ed7e1b85cd55dc46cb9410a23086bdaa2ff3eb9 from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6.git)
---

This is needed to make perf probe useful for users of our Ubuntu
kernels. Otherwise they have to put the source code in a heirarchy under
/build, which nonroot users can't do.

Note that my sign-off is in the middle of the SOB area, and this is
cherry-picked from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's tree on it's way to .36.

 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt |    4 ++
 tools/perf/builtin-probe.c              |    2 +
 tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c          |   58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 tools/perf/util/symbol.h                |    1 +
 4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
index 94a258c..ea531d9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ OPTIONS
 --vmlinux=PATH::
 	Specify vmlinux path which has debuginfo (Dwarf binary).
 
+-s::
+--source=PATH::
+	Specify path to kernel source.
+
 -v::
 --verbose::
         Be more verbose (show parsed arguments, etc).
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
index e4a4da3..5455186 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
@@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
 		     "Show source code lines.", opt_show_lines),
 	OPT_STRING('k', "vmlinux", &symbol_conf.vmlinux_name,
 		   "file", "vmlinux pathname"),
+	OPT_STRING('s', "source", &symbol_conf.source_prefix,
+		   "directory", "path to kernel source"),
 #endif
 	OPT__DRY_RUN(&probe_event_dry_run),
 	OPT_INTEGER('\0', "max-probes", &params.max_probe_points,
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
index d964cb1..baf6653 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include "event.h"
 #include "debug.h"
 #include "util.h"
+#include "symbol.h"
 #include "probe-finder.h"
 
 /* Kprobe tracer basic type is up to u64 */
@@ -57,6 +58,55 @@ static int strtailcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Find a src file from a DWARF tag path. Prepend optional source path prefix
+ * and chop off leading directories that do not exist. Result is passed back as
+ * a newly allocated path on success.
+ * Return 0 if file was found and readable, -errno otherwise.
+ */
+static int get_real_path(const char *raw_path, char **new_path)
+{
+	if (!symbol_conf.source_prefix) {
+		if (access(raw_path, R_OK) == 0) {
+			*new_path = strdup(raw_path);
+			return 0;
+		} else
+			return -errno;
+	}
+
+	*new_path = malloc((strlen(symbol_conf.source_prefix) +
+			    strlen(raw_path) + 2));
+	if (!*new_path)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		sprintf(*new_path, "%s/%s", symbol_conf.source_prefix,
+			raw_path);
+
+		if (access(*new_path, R_OK) == 0)
+			return 0;
+
+		switch (errno) {
+		case ENAMETOOLONG:
+		case ENOENT:
+		case EROFS:
+		case EFAULT:
+			raw_path = strchr(++raw_path, '/');
+			if (!raw_path) {
+				free(*new_path);
+				*new_path = NULL;
+				return -ENOENT;
+			}
+			continue;
+
+		default:
+			free(*new_path);
+			*new_path = NULL;
+			return -errno;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 /* Line number list operations */
 
 /* Add a line to line number list */
@@ -1096,11 +1146,13 @@ end:
 static int line_range_add_line(const char *src, unsigned int lineno,
 			       struct line_range *lr)
 {
+	int ret;
+
 	/* Copy real path */
 	if (!lr->path) {
-		lr->path = strdup(src);
-		if (lr->path == NULL)
-			return -ENOMEM;
+		ret = get_real_path(src, &lr->path);
+		if (ret != 0)
+			return ret;
 	}
 	return line_list__add_line(&lr->line_list, lineno);
 }
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
index 5e02d2c..1675cfb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ struct symbol_conf {
 			full_paths,
 			show_cpu_utilization;
 	const char	*vmlinux_name,
+			*source_prefix,
 			*field_sep;
 	const char	*default_guest_vmlinux_name,
 			*default_guest_kallsyms,
-- 
1.7.0.4





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