linux/tools/perf/util
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo ec80fde746 perf symbols: Handle /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
Perf uses /proc/modules to figure out where kernel modules are loaded.

With the advent of kptr_restrict, non root users get zeroes for all module
start addresses.

So check if kptr_restrict is non zero and don't generate the syntethic
PERF_RECORD_MMAP events for them.

Warn the user about it in perf record and in perf report.

In perf report the reference relocation symbol being zero means that
kptr_restrict was set, thus /proc/kallsyms has only zeroed addresses, so don't
use it to fixup symbol addresses when using a valid kallsyms (in the buildid
cache) or vmlinux (in the vmlinux path) build-id located automatically or
specified by the user.

Provide an explanation about it in 'perf report' if kernel samples were taken,
checking if a suitable vmlinux or kallsyms was found/specified.

Restricted /proc/kallsyms don't go to the buildid cache anymore.

Example:

 [acme@emilia ~]$ perf record -F 100000 sleep 1

 WARNING: Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) are restricted, check
 /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict.

 Samples in kernel functions may not be resolved if a suitable vmlinux file is
 not found in the buildid cache or in the vmlinux path.

 Samples in kernel modules won't be resolved at all.

 If some relocation was applied (e.g. kexec) symbols may be misresolved even
 with a suitable vmlinux or kallsyms file.

 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.005 MB perf.data (~231 samples) ]
 [acme@emilia ~]$

 [acme@emilia ~]$ perf report --stdio
 Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) were restricted,
 check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict before running 'perf record'.

 If some relocation was applied (e.g. kexec) symbols may be misresolved.

 Samples in kernel modules can't be resolved as well.

 # Events: 13  cycles
 #
 # Overhead  Command      Shared Object                 Symbol
 # ........  .......  .................  .....................
 #
    20.24%    sleep  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] page_fault
    20.04%    sleep  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] filemap_fault
    19.78%    sleep  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __lru_cache_add
    19.69%    sleep  ld-2.12.so         [.] memcpy
    14.71%    sleep  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] dput
     4.70%    sleep  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] flush_signal_handlers
     0.73%    sleep  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] perf_event_comm
     0.11%    sleep  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_write_msr_safe

 #
 # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
 #
 [acme@emilia ~]$

This is because it found a suitable vmlinux (build-id checked) in
/lib/modules/2.6.39-rc7+/build/vmlinux (use -v in perf report to see the long
file name).

If we remove that file from the vmlinux path:

 [root@emilia ~]# mv /lib/modules/2.6.39-rc7+/build/vmlinux \
		     /lib/modules/2.6.39-rc7+/build/vmlinux.OFF
 [acme@emilia ~]$ perf report --stdio
 [kernel.kallsyms] with build id 57298cdbe0131f6871667ec0eaab4804dcf6f562
 not found, continuing without symbols

 Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) were restricted, check
 /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict before running 'perf record'.

 As no suitable kallsyms nor vmlinux was found, kernel samples can't be
 resolved.

 Samples in kernel modules can't be resolved as well.

 # Events: 13  cycles
 #
 # Overhead  Command      Shared Object  Symbol
 # ........  .......  .................  ......
 #
    80.31%    sleep  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] 0xffffffff8103425a
    19.69%    sleep  ld-2.12.so         [.] memcpy

 #
 # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
 #
 [acme@emilia ~]$

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mt512joaxxbhhp1odop04yit@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-26 11:15:25 -03:00
..
include Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-05-23 09:25:52 -07:00
scripting-engines perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample() 2011-03-23 19:28:58 -03:00
ui perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c 2011-05-10 10:20:07 +02:00
abspath.c perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
alias.c perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them 2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
annotate.c perf symbols: Rename dso->origin to dso->symtab_type 2011-03-11 13:28:45 -03:00
annotate.h perf top: Live TUI Annotation 2011-02-22 12:02:07 -03:00
bitmap.c perf tools: Don't use code surrounded by __KERNEL__ 2010-05-02 12:00:44 -03:00
build-id.c perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample() 2011-03-23 19:28:58 -03:00
build-id.h perf annotate: Use build-ids to find the right DSO 2010-05-20 12:15:33 -03:00
cache.h perf tools: Don't fallback to setup_pager unconditionally 2011-01-31 18:08:39 -02:00
callchain.c perf tools: Kill event_t typedef, use 'union perf_event' instead 2011-01-29 16:25:37 -02:00
callchain.h perf tools: Kill event_t typedef, use 'union perf_event' instead 2011-01-29 16:25:37 -02:00
cgroup.c perf: Fix a build error with some GCC versions 2011-04-08 17:40:21 +02:00
cgroup.h perf tool: Add cgroup support 2011-02-16 13:30:48 +01:00
color.c perf hist: Replace ->print() routines by ->snprintf() equivalents 2010-04-02 16:28:15 -03:00
color.h perf hist: Replace ->print() routines by ->snprintf() equivalents 2010-04-02 16:28:15 -03:00
config.c perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
cpumap.c perf tools: Add missing cpu_map__delete() 2011-01-22 19:56:30 -02:00
cpumap.h perf tools: Add missing cpu_map__delete() 2011-01-22 19:56:30 -02:00
ctype.c perf tools: Move graph_line and graph_dotted_line from top 2009-11-23 21:55:20 +01:00
debug.c perf tools: Fixup exit path when not able to open events 2011-03-29 13:40:27 -03:00
debug.h perf tools: Fixup exit path when not able to open events 2011-03-29 13:40:27 -03:00
debugfs.c perf trace: Clean up find_debugfs() 2009-12-28 10:36:36 +01:00
debugfs.h perf tools: Mount debugfs automatically 2009-12-28 10:36:36 +01:00
environment.c
event.c perf symbols: Handle /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict 2011-05-26 11:15:25 -03:00
event.h perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsing 2011-05-22 03:38:36 +02:00
evlist.c Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent 2011-05-22 10:10:01 +02:00
evlist.h Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent 2011-05-22 10:10:01 +02:00
evsel.c perf tools: Robustify dynamic sample content fetch 2011-05-22 03:38:48 +02:00
evsel.h perf evsel: Fix use of inherit 2011-04-15 12:52:28 -03:00
exec_cmd.c perf tools: Makefile: Remove various and sundry cruft 2011-02-18 07:43:06 -02:00
exec_cmd.h perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
generate-cmdlist.sh
header.c perf symbols: Handle /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict 2011-05-26 11:15:25 -03:00
header.h perf tools: Move evlist sample helpers to evlist area 2011-05-22 03:12:29 +02:00
help.c perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
help.h perf tools: Protect header files with a consistent style 2009-09-24 21:27:51 +02:00
hist.c perf tools: Improve support for sessions with multiple events 2011-03-06 13:13:40 -03:00
hist.h perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample() 2011-03-23 19:28:58 -03:00
hweight.c perf tools: Don't use code surrounded by __KERNEL__ 2010-05-02 12:00:44 -03:00
levenshtein.c
levenshtein.h perf tools: Protect header files with a consistent style 2009-09-24 21:27:51 +02:00
map.c perf tools: Fix 64 bit integer format strings 2011-01-22 23:41:57 -02:00
map.h perf probe: Add basic module support 2010-10-21 16:11:44 -02:00
pager.c
parse-events.c perf: Fix multi-event parsing bug 2011-05-17 20:45:36 +02:00
parse-events.h perf script: Add support for H/W and S/W events 2011-03-14 17:07:20 -03:00
parse-options.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
parse-options.h perf options: add OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT_NOOPT 2010-12-06 15:33:29 -02:00
path.c perf tools: add test for strlcpy() 2010-08-21 11:22:47 -03:00
PERF-VERSION-GEN perf tools: Version incorrect with some versions of grep 2011-03-16 08:59:50 -03:00
probe-event.c perf probe: Fix multiple --vars options behavior 2011-04-05 15:36:04 -03:00
probe-event.h perf probe: Add filters support for available functions 2011-01-28 09:20:25 -02:00
probe-finder.c perf probe: Fix the missed parameter initialization 2011-05-10 17:06:23 +02:00
probe-finder.h perf probe: Add fastpath to do lookup by function name 2011-03-29 13:40:27 -03:00
pstack.c perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters 2010-05-14 20:05:21 -03:00
pstack.h perf ui: Move hists browser to util/ui/browsers/ 2010-08-10 16:11:08 -03:00
python.c Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent 2011-05-22 10:10:01 +02:00
quote.c perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
quote.h perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
run-command.c perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
run-command.h perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
session.c perf tools: Fix ommitted mmap data update on remap 2011-05-23 13:22:57 +02:00
session.h perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsing 2011-05-22 03:38:36 +02:00
setup.py perf tools: Fix NO_NEWT=1 python build error 2011-03-29 16:46:57 -03:00
sigchain.c perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
sigchain.h perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
sort.c perf hist: Better displaying of unresolved DSOs and symbols 2010-12-06 15:12:34 -02:00
sort.h perf: Keep track of the max depth of a callchain 2010-08-22 20:43:17 +02:00
strbuf.c perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
strbuf.h perf tools: Remove some unused functions 2010-05-18 23:03:35 -03:00
strfilter.c perf: Fix missing strndup declaration 2011-03-04 01:17:18 +01:00
strfilter.h perf tools: Add strfilter for general purpose string filter 2011-01-28 09:19:38 -02:00
string.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
strlist.c perf probe: Fix --del to update current event list 2009-12-15 20:22:01 +01:00
strlist.h perf tools: Add for_each macros for strlist 2009-12-15 20:22:02 +01:00
svghelper.c perf timechart: Fix black idle boxes in the title 2011-02-28 08:56:14 +01:00
svghelper.h perf tools: Protect header files with a consistent style 2009-09-24 21:27:51 +02:00
symbol.c perf symbols: Handle /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict 2011-05-26 11:15:25 -03:00
symbol.h perf symbols: Handle /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict 2011-05-26 11:15:25 -03:00
thread_map.c perf threads: Move thread_map to separate file 2011-01-24 10:59:00 -02:00
thread_map.h perf threads: Move thread_map to separate file 2011-01-24 10:59:00 -02:00
thread.c perf threads: Move thread_map to separate file 2011-01-24 10:59:00 -02:00
thread.h perf threads: Move thread_map to separate file 2011-01-24 10:59:00 -02:00
top.c perf top: Remove redundant syme->origin field 2011-03-11 13:28:45 -03:00
top.h perf symbol: Move sym_entry->skip to symbol->ignore 2011-03-11 13:36:01 -03:00
trace-event-info.c perf tools: Introduce event selectors 2011-01-03 16:39:04 -02:00
trace-event-parse.c rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread 2011-05-05 23:16:54 -07:00
trace-event-read.c perf: Use read() instead of lseek() in trace_event_read.c:skip() 2010-05-20 08:37:17 +02:00
trace-event-scripting.c perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample() 2011-03-23 19:28:58 -03:00
trace-event.h perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample() 2011-03-23 19:28:58 -03:00
types.h perf tools: Fix 64 bit integer format strings 2011-01-22 23:41:57 -02:00
usage.c
util.c perf util: Move do_read from session to util 2011-01-03 16:50:55 -02:00
util.h perf tools: Makefile: Remove platform-specific cruft 2011-02-18 07:42:07 -02:00
values.c perf tools: Fix 64 bit integer format strings 2011-01-22 23:41:57 -02:00
values.h perf tools: Protect header files with a consistent style 2009-09-24 21:27:51 +02:00
wrapper.c perf tools: remove xstrndup, xmalloc, xzalloc 2010-05-18 23:05:28 -03:00
xyarray.c perf tools: Introduce event selectors 2011-01-03 16:39:04 -02:00
xyarray.h perf tools: Introduce event selectors 2011-01-03 16:39:04 -02:00