machines__create_guest_kernel_maps() builds the guest kallsyms path
with snprintf() without checking the return value. A truncated path
could pass the access() check if a prefix directory happens to contain
a file named "kallsyms", leading to the wrong file being used for
symbol resolution.
Check for truncation and skip the directory.
Fixes: a1645ce12a ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
machines__create_guest_kernel_maps() calls scandir() which allocates
both the namelist array and each individual dirent entry. The code
frees the namelist array but not the individual entries, leaking memory
proportional to the number of directories under guestmount.
Free each namelist[i] after it is no longer needed.
Fixes: a1645ce12a ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
machines__create_guest_kernel_maps() checks errno == ERANGE after
strtol() to detect overflow, but does not clear errno first. A stale
ERANGE from an earlier library call (e.g. scandir internals) causes
valid numeric directory names to be incorrectly skipped.
Set errno = 0 before strtol() so only the current conversion can
trigger the ERANGE check.
Fixes: a1645ce12a ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
machines__create_guest_kernel_maps() jumps to the failure label when one
guest directory's kallsyms file fails access(), skipping all remaining
valid guest directories. An inaccessible directory is not fatal — other
guests may still be reachable.
Replace 'goto failure' with 'continue' so the loop processes all
directories, and remove the now-unreferenced failure label.
Fixes: a1645ce12a ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The guestmount path is built with snprintf() into a PATH_MAX buffer
without checking the return value. If symbol_conf.guestmount is long
enough to cause truncation, the truncated path could match a different
directory, causing the wrong guest to be associated with the pid.
Check for truncation and bail out early.
Fixes: a1645ce12a ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The static 'seen' strlist caches guestmount paths that have already
been reported as inaccessible, to avoid repeating the error message.
If strlist__new() fails (OOM), 'seen' stays NULL and the next call
dereferences it via strlist__has_entry() and strlist__add().
Guard both calls so that on allocation failure the error message is
still printed (just not deduplicated) instead of crashing.
Fixes: c80c3c2690 ("perf kvm: Limit repetitive guestmount message to once per directory")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
machine__process_fork_event() calls machine__findnew_thread() for the
parent thread, which can return NULL on allocation failure. The code
then dereferences parent via thread__pid(parent) without a NULL check
when validating whether the parent PID matches. The later NULL check
at thread__fork() does not prevent this earlier dereference.
Add a NULL guard before accessing the parent thread.
Fixes: 5cb73340d9 ("perf tools: Make fork event processing more resilient")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The bounds check for root_len >= path_size returns -1 directly without
closing the directory fd opened by io_dir__init() a few lines above.
Jump to the out label instead, which calls close(iod.dirfd).
Fixes: e7af194681 ("perf machine: Reuse module path buffer")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
machines__findnew() and machines__create_guest_kernel_maps() use
sprintf() to build paths by prepending symbol_conf.guestmount.
Both write into PATH_MAX stack buffers, but guestmount comes from
user configuration and is not length-checked. A guestmount path
at or near PATH_MAX causes a stack buffer overflow.
Switch to snprintf() with sizeof() to prevent overflow. The
subsequent access()/fopen() calls will fail on a truncated path.
Fixes: a1645ce12a ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
machine__init() always returns 0 even when memory allocation fails,
because commit 81f981d7ec ("perf machine: Free root_dir in
machine__init() error path") introduced 'int err = -ENOMEM' and an
error cleanup path but left the final 'return 0' instead of
'return err'.
Fix by returning err, check the return value in __machine__new_host()
which was ignoring it, and change machines__init() from void to int so
it too can propagate the error to perf_session__new(), aslr_tool__init()
and test callers.
The error cleanup also used zfree(&machine->kmaps), but kmaps is a
refcounted maps structure — use maps__zput() to properly drop the
reference, matching machine__exit().
Move dsos__init() and threads__init() before the first fallible
allocation (maps__new) so that machine__exit() is safe to call on
any machine struct that machine__init() touched, even on early failure.
Fixes: 81f981d7ec ("perf machine: Free root_dir in machine__init() error path")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
get_kernel_version() in machine.c and dso__load_guest_kernel_sym() in
symbol.c use sprintf() to construct paths by prepending root_dir to
"/proc/version" and "/proc/kallsyms" respectively. Both write into
PATH_MAX stack buffers, but root_dir comes from --guestmount or KVM
configuration and is not length-checked. A root_dir at or near
PATH_MAX causes a stack buffer overflow.
Switch to snprintf() with sizeof(path) to prevent overflow.
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Fixes: a1645ce12a ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host")
Cc: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
During kernel ELF symbol parsing (dso__process_kernel_symbol), proc
kallsyms image loading (dso__load_kernel_sym,
dso__load_guest_kernel_sym), and dynamic kernel memory map alignment
updates (machine__update_kernel_mmap), the loader directly modifies live
virtual address boundary keys fields on map objects.
If these boundaries are mutated while the map pointer actively resides
inside the parent maps cache array list (kmaps) outside of any lock
closure, an unsafe concurrent window is exposed where parallel worker
lookup threads (e.g., inside perf top) can mistakenly assume the cache
remains sorted based on stale parameters, executing binary search
queries (bsearch) across an unsorted range and triggering lookup
failures.
Fix this by introducing maps__mutate_mapping() that explicitly acquires
the parent maps write semaphore lock, executes an incoming mutation
callback block to perform the field updates under lock protection, and
invalidates the sorted tracking flags prior to releasing the write lock.
This guarantees synchronization invariants, closing the concurrent
lookup race window. The adjacent module alignment pass inside
machine__create_kernel_maps() is safely preserved as a high-performance
lockless pass, as its invocation lifecycle bounds remain strictly
single-threaded by contract during session initialization construction.
To safely support this unconditional down_write write lock mutator
without recursive read-to-write self-deadlock upgrades during lazy
symbol loading, we introduce a public maps__load_maps() API.
It copies map pointers under a brief read lock and force-loads all
modules locklessly outside the lock. Callers (such as perf inject) must
pre-load all kernel symbol maps up front at startup using
maps__load_maps(), completely bypassing dynamic runtime mutations.
Fixes: 39b12f7812 ("perf tools: Make it possible to read object code from vmlinux")
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.1-pro
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Gabriel Marin <gmx@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
A problem with putting bitfields into struct symbol is that other bits in
the symbol could be updated concurrently and only one update to the
underlying storage unit happen, leading to lost updates.
To avoid this, use atomics to atomically read or set part of 16-bits
of flags in the symbol. Add accessors to simplify this.
The idle value has 3 values in preparation for a later change that
will lazily update it.
Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Honglei Wang <jameshongleiwang@126.com>
Cc: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mapping symbol filtering is scattered across multiple files with
inconsistent checks. The kernel's own is_mapping_symbol() covers x86
local symbols ('.L*' and 'L0*') on top of the '$' prefix used by
ARM/AArch64/RISC-V, but the perf tool only checks '$'.
Extract is_ignored_kernel_symbol() into symbol.h matching the kernel
definition, and convert the kallsyms and ksymbol event paths to use it.
Add ksymbol event name validation and early mapping symbol filtering
before any state mutation.
Signed-off-by: Rui Qi <qirui.001@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The current IP of a leaf function when reported from a perf record with
"--call-graph lbr" is the "to" field of the LBR branch stack record.
The sample for the event being recorded may be further into the function
and there may be inlining information associated with it.
Rather than use the branch stack "to" field in this case switch to the
callchain appending the sample->ip and thereby allowing the inline
information to show.
Before this change:
```
$ perf record --call-graph lbr perf test -w inlineloop
...
$ perf script --fields +srcline
...
perf-inlineloop 467586 4649.344493: 950905 cpu_core/cycles/P:
55dfda2829c0 parent+0x0 (perf)
inlineloop.c:31
55dfda282a96 inlineloop+0x86 (perf)
inlineloop.c:47
55dfda236420 run_workload+0x59 (perf)
builtin-test.c:715
55dfda236b03 cmd_test+0x413 (perf)
builtin-test.c:825
...
```
After this change:
```
$ perf record --call-graph lbr perf test -w inlineloop
...
$ perf script --fields +srcline
...
perf-inlineloop 529703 11878.680815: 950905 cpu_core/cycles/P:
555ce86be9e6 leaf+0x26
inlineloop.c:20 (inlined)
555ce86be9e6 middle+0x26
inlineloop.c:27 (inlined)
555ce86be9e6 parent+0x26 (perf)
inlineloop.c:32
555ce86bea96 inlineloop+0x86 (perf)
inlineloop.c:47
555ce8672420 run_workload+0x59 (perf)
builtin-test.c:715
555ce8672b03 cmd_test+0x413 (perf)
builtin-test.c:825
...
```
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski <krzysztof.m.lopatowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add a new event type for deferred callchains and a new callback for the
struct perf_tool. For now it doesn't actually handle the deferred
callchains but it just marks the sample if it has the PERF_CONTEXT_
USER_DEFFERED in the callchain array.
At least, perf report can dump the raw data with this change. Actually
this requires the next commit to enable attr.defer_callchain, but if you
already have a data file, it'll show the following result.
$ perf report -D
...
0x2158@perf.data [0x40]: event: 22
.
. ... raw event: size 64 bytes
. 0000: 16 00 00 00 02 00 40 00 06 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 ......@.........
. 0010: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a7 7f 33 fe 18 7f 00 00 ..........3.....
. 0020: 0f 0e 33 fe 18 7f 00 00 48 14 33 fe 18 7f 00 00 ..3.....H.3.....
. 0030: 08 09 00 00 08 09 00 00 e6 7a e7 35 1c 00 00 00 .........z.5....
121163447014 0x2158 [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN_DEFERRED(IP, 0x2): 2312/2312: 0xb00000006
... FP chain: nr:3
..... 0: 00007f18fe337fa7
..... 1: 00007f18fe330e0f
..... 2: 00007f18fe331448
: unhandled!
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The dso_id previously contained the major, minor, inode and inode
generation information from a mmap2 event - the inode generation would
be zero when reading from /proc/pid/maps. The build_id was in the
dso. With build ID mmap2 events these fields wouldn't be initialized
which would largely mean the special empty case where any dso would
match for equality. This isn't desirable as if a dso is replaced we
want the comparison to yield a difference.
To support detecting the difference between DSOs based on build_id,
move the build_id out of the DSO and into the dso_id. The dso_id is
also stored in the DSO so nothing is lost. Capture in the dso_id what
parts have been initialized and rename dso_id__inject to
dso_id__improve_id so that it is clear the dso_id is being improved
upon with additional information. With the build_id in the dso_id, use
memcmp to compare for equality.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-7-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The length of PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL for BPF is a size of JITed code so
it'd be 0 when it's not JITed. The ksymbol is needed to symbolize the
code when it gets samples in the region but non-JITed code cannot get
samples. Thus it'd be ok to ignore them.
Actually it caused a performance issue in the perf tools on old ARM
kernels where it can refuse to JIT some BPF codes. It ended up
splitting the existing kernel map (kallsyms). And later lookup for a
kernel symbol would create a new kernel map from kallsyms and then
split it again and again. :(
Probably there's a bug in the kernel map/symbol handling in perf tools.
But I think we need to fix this anyway.
Reported-by: Kevin Nomura <nomurak@google.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305232838.128692-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
This was detected at the end of a 'perf record' session when build-id
collection was enabled and thus the BPF programs put in place while the
session was running, some even put in place by perf itself were
processed and inserted, with some overlaps related to BPF trampolines
and programs took place.
Using maps__fixup_overlap_and_insert() instead of maps__insert() "fixes"
the problem, in the sense that overlaps will be dealt with and then the
consistency will be kept, but it would be interesting to fully
understand why such overlaps take place and how to deal with them when
doing symbol resolution.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAP-5=fXEEMFgPF2aZhKsfrY_En+qoqX20dWfuE_ad73Uxf0ZHQ@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250228211734.33781-7-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
When testing perf trace on NixOS, I noticed significant startup delays:
- `ls`: ~2ms
- `strace ls`: ~10ms
- `perf trace ls`: ~550ms
Profiling showed that 51% of the time is spent reading files,
26% in loading BPF programs, and 11% in `newfstatat`.
This patch optimizes module path exploration by avoiding `stat()` calls
unless necessary. For filesystems that do not implement `d_type`
(DT_UNKNOWN), it falls back to the old behavior.
See `readdir(3)` for details.
This reduces `perf trace ls` time to ~500ms.
A more thorough startup optimization based on command parameters would
be ideal, but that is a larger effort.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Łopatowski <krzysztof.m.lopatowski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206113314.335376-2-krzysztof.m.lopatowski@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The struct dump_regs contains 512 bytes of cache_regs, meaning the two
values in perf_sample contribute 1088 bytes of its total 1384 bytes
size. Initializing this much memory has a cost reported by Tavian
Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com> as about 2.5% when running `perf
script --itrace=i0`:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d841b97b3ad2ca8bcab07e4293375fb7c32dfce7.1736618095.git.tavianator@tavianator.com/
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> replied that the zero
initialization was necessary and couldn't simply be removed.
This patch aims to strike a middle ground of still zeroing the
perf_sample, but removing 79% of its size by make user_regs and
intr_regs optional pointers to zalloc-ed memory. To support the
allocation accessors are created for user_regs and intr_regs. To
support correct cleanup perf_sample__init and perf_sample__exit
functions are created and added throughout the code base.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250113194345.1537821-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
In machine__create_module(), it reads /proc/modules to get a list of
modules in the system. The file shows the start address (of text) and
the size of the module so it uses the info to reconstruct system memory
maps for symbol resolution.
But module memory consists of multiple segments and they can be
scaterred. Currently perf tools assume they are contiguous and see some
overlaps. This can confuse the tool when it finds a map containing a
given address.
As we mostly care about the function symbols in the text segment, it can
fixup the size or end address of modules when there's an overlap. We
can use maps__fixup_end() which updates the end address using the start
address of the next map.
Ideally it should be able to track other segments (like data/rodata),
but that would require some changes in /proc/modules IMHO.
Reported-by: Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241218220453.203069-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
During the rework of the dso structure in patch ee756ef749 an
increment was forgotten for the symtab_type in case the data for
the kernel module are compressed. This affects the probing of the
kernel modules, which fails if the data are not already cached.
Increment the value of the symtab_type to its compressed variant so the
data could be recovered successfully.
Fixes: ee756ef749 ("perf dso: Add reference count checking and accessor functions")
Signed-off-by: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241010144836.16424-1-vmolnaro@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
When annotating a basic block, it's useful to display the occurrences
of other events in the block.
The branch counter feature is only available for newer Intel platforms.
So a dedicated option to display the branch counters is not introduced.
Reuse the existing --total-cycles option, which triggers the annotation
of a basic block and displays the cycle-related annotation.
When the branch counters information is available, the branch counters
are automatically appended after all the cycle-related annotation.
Accounting the branch counters as well when accounting the cycles in
hist__account_cycles().
In 'struct annotated_branch', introduce a br_cntr array to save the
accumulation of each branch counter.
In a sample, all the branch counters for a branch are saved in a u64
space.
Because the saturation of a branch counter is small, e.g., for Intel
Sierra Forest, the saturation is only 3.
Add ANNOTATION__BR_CNTR_SATURATED_FLAG to indicate if a branch counter
once saturated. That can be used to indicate a potential event lost
because of the saturation.
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240813160208.2493643-5-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The 'struct callchain_cursor_node' has a 'struct map_symbol' whose maps
and map members are reference counted. Ensure these values use a _get
routine to increment the reference counts and use map_symbol__exit() to
release the reference counts.
Do similar for 'struct thread's prev_lbr_cursor, but save the size of
the prev_lbr_cursor array so that it may be iterated.
Ensure that when stitch_nodes are placed on the free list the
map_symbols are exited.
Fix resolve_lbr_callchain_sample() by replacing list_replace_init() to
list_splice_init(), so the whole list is moved and nodes aren't leaked.
A reproduction of the memory leaks is possible with a leak sanitizer
build in the perf report command of:
```
$ perf record -e cycles --call-graph lbr perf test -w thloop
$ perf report --stitch-lbr
```
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: ff165628d7 ("perf callchain: Stitch LBR call stack")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
[ Basic tests after applying the patch, repeating the example above ]
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anne Macedo <retpolanne@posteo.net>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240808054644.1286065-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>