[PATCH V2 0/8] perf tools: Fix test "perf probe of function from different CU"

Chaitanya S Prakash ChaitanyaS.Prakash at arm.com
Tue Apr 9 20:34:15 PDT 2024


Link to V1: 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240220042957.2022391-1-ChaitanyaS.Prakash@arm.com/

On 4/8/24 11:52, Chaitanya S Prakash wrote:
> From: Chaitanya S Prakash <chaitanyas.prakash at arm.com>
>
> Defconfig doesn't provide all the necessary configs required for the
> test "perf probe of function from different CU" to run successfully on
> all platforms. Therefore the required configs have been added to
> config fragments to resolve this issue. On further investigation it was
> seen that the Perf treated all files beginning with "/tmp/perf-" as a
> map file despite them always ending in ".map", this caused the test to
> fail when Perf was built with NO_DWARF=1. As the file was parsed as a
> map file, the probe...--funcs command output garbage values instead of
> listing the functions in the binary. After fixing the issue an
> additional check to test the output of the probe...--funcs command has
> been added.
>
> Additionally, various functions within the codebase have been refactored
> and restructured. The definition of str_has_suffix() has been adopted
> from tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c and added to tools/lib/string.c in an
> attempt to make the function more generic. The implementation has been
> retained but the return values have been modified to resemble that of
> str_has_prefix(), i.e., return strlen(suffix) on success and 0 on
> failure. In light of the new addition, "ends_with()", a locally defined
> function used for checking if a string had a given suffix has been
> deleted and str_has_suffix() has replaced its usage. A call to
> strtailcmp() has also been replaced as str_has_suffix() seemed more
> suited for that particular use case.
>
> Finally str_has_prefix() is adopted from the kernel and is added to
> tools/lib/string.c, following which strstarts() is deleted and its use
> has been replaced with str_has_prefix().
>
> This patch series has been tested on 6.9-rc2 mainline kernel, both on
> arm64 and x86 platforms.
>
> Changes in V2:
> - Add str_has_suffix() and str_has_prefix() to tools/lib/string.c
> - Delete ends_with() and replace its usage with str_has_suffix()
> - Replace an instance of strtailcmp() with str_has_suffix()
> - Delete strstarts() from tools/include/linux/string.h and replace its
>    usage with str_has_prefix()
>
> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
> Cc: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry at oracle.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at kernel.org>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at kernel.org>
> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers at google.com>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter at intel.com>
> Cc: Chenyuan Mi <cymi20 at fudan.edu.cn>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>
> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria at amd.com>
> Cc: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli at nabijaczleweli.xyz>
> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king at gmail.com>
> Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du at huawei.com>
> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu at loongson.cn>
> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at gmail.com>
> Cc: Georg Müller <georgmueller at gmx.net>
> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett at oracle.com>
> Cc: bpf at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: coresight at lists.linaro.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-perf-users at vger.kernel.org
>
> Chaitanya S Prakash (8):
>    tools lib: adopt str_has_suffix() from bpftool/gen.c
>    perf util: Delete ends_with() and replace its use with
>      str_has_suffix()
>    perf util: Replace an instance of strtailcmp() by str_has_suffix()
>    tools lib: Adopt str_has_prefix() from kernel
>    tools: Delete strstarts() and replace its usage with str_has_prefix()
>    perf tools: Enable configs required for
>      test_uprobe_from_different_cu.sh
>    perf tools: Only treat files as map files when they have the extension
>      .map
>    perf test: Check output of the probe ... --funcs command
>
>   tools/include/linux/string.h                  | 12 ++----
>   tools/lib/string.c                            | 42 +++++++++++++++++++
>   tools/lib/subcmd/help.c                       |  2 +-
>   tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c              | 18 ++++----
>   tools/objtool/check.c                         |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/arch/arm/util/pmu.c                |  4 +-
>   tools/perf/arch/x86/annotate/instructions.c   | 14 +++----
>   tools/perf/arch/x86/util/env.c                |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c                      |  4 +-
>   tools/perf/builtin-config.c                   |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/builtin-daemon.c                   |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c                   |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/builtin-help.c                     |  6 +--
>   tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c                     |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c                      | 14 +++----
>   tools/perf/builtin-kwork.c                    | 10 ++---
>   tools/perf/builtin-lock.c                     |  6 +--
>   tools/perf/builtin-mem.c                      |  4 +-
>   tools/perf/builtin-sched.c                    |  6 +--
>   tools/perf/builtin-script.c                   | 30 ++++---------
>   tools/perf/builtin-stat.c                     |  4 +-
>   tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c                |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/builtin-trace.c                    |  6 +--
>   tools/perf/perf.c                             | 12 +++---
>   tools/perf/tests/config-fragments/config      |  3 ++
>   .../shell/test_uprobe_from_different_cu.sh    |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/tests/symbols.c                    |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/ui/browser.c                       |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c              |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/ui/stdio/hist.c                    |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/util/amd-sample-raw.c              |  4 +-
>   tools/perf/util/annotate.c                    |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/util/callchain.c                   |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/util/config.c                      | 12 +++---
>   tools/perf/util/map.c                         |  8 ++--
>   tools/perf/util/pmus.c                        |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/util/probe-event.c                 |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/util/sample-raw.c                  |  2 +-
>   tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c                  |  4 +-
>   tools/perf/util/symbol.c                      |  4 +-
>   40 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-)
>



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