[APPLIED] [PATCH] perf probe: Add kernel source path option

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Thu Jun 17 22:49:27 UTC 2010


Applied to Maverick linux master.

Thanks,
Leann

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 17:08 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> 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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