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2014-07-03Merge tag 'usb-3.16-rc4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb Pull USB bugfixes from Greg KH: "Here's a round of USB bugfixes, quirk additions, and new device ids for 3.16-rc4. Nothing major in here at all, just a bunch of tiny changes. All have been in linux-next with no reported issues" * tag 'usb-3.16-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (33 commits) usb: chipidea: udc: delete td from req's td list at ep_dequeue usb: Kconfig: make EHCI_MSM selectable for QCOM SOCs usb-storage/SCSI: Add broken_fua blacklist flag usb: musb: dsps: fix the base address for accessing the mode register tools: ffs-test: fix header values endianess usb: phy: msm: Do not do runtime pm if the phy is not idle usb: musb: Ensure that cppi41 timer gets armed on premature DMA TX irq usb: gadget: gr_udc: Fix check for invalid number of microframes usb: musb: Fix panic upon musb_am335x module removal usb: gadget: f_fs: resurect usb_functionfs_descs_head structure Revert "tools: ffs-test: convert to new descriptor format fixing compilation error" xhci: Fix runtime suspended xhci from blocking system suspend. xhci: clear root port wake on bits if controller isn't wake-up capable xhci: correct burst count field for isoc transfers on 1.0 xhci hosts xhci: Use correct SLOT ID when handling a reset device command MAINTAINERS: update e-mail address usb: option: add/modify Olivetti Olicard modems USB: ftdi_sio: fix null deref at port probe MAINTAINERS: drop two usb-serial subdriver entries USB: option: add device ID for SpeedUp SU9800 usb 3g modem ...
2014-07-03tools/testing/selftests/ipc/msgque.c: improve error handling when not ↵Shuah Khan
running as root The test fails in the middle when it is not run as root while accessing /proc/sys/kernel/msg_next_id. Changed it to check for root at the beginning of the test and exit if not root. Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-03tools: memory-hotplug fix unexpected operator errorShuah Khan
on-off-test uses "$UID != 0" to test for root, but $UID is a construct specific to bash. Using /bin/sh that isn't bash results in the following error (due to the "$UID" part expanding to nothing): ./on-off-test.sh: 9: [: !=: unexpected operator Change Makefile to use bash instead. Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-03tools: cpu-hotplug fix unexpected operator errorShuah Khan
on-off-test uses "$UID != 0" to test for root, but $UID is a construct specific to bash. Using /bin/sh that isn't bash results in the following error (due to the "$UID" part expanding to nothing): ./on-off-test.sh: 9: [: !=: unexpected operator Change Makefile to use bash instead. Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-30Merge tag 'fixes-for-v3.16-rc4' of ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/balbi/usb into usb-linus Felipe writes: usb: fixes for v3.16-rc4 A few more fixes for this RC cycle. There's a revert of a previous patch which ended up being the wrong version, so we reverted that commit and applied a better fix. CPPI41 got a race condition fix which was found by Thomas Gleixner. The MSM PHY driver got a runtime pm usage fix so that it wouldn't kill the PHY while it was still being used. We also have a fix for a panic caused when removing musb_am335x driver. Other than that, a few other minor fixes. Signed-of-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
2014-06-30tools: ffs-test: fix header values endianessMichal Nazarewicz
It appears that no one ever run ffs-test on a big-endian machine, since it used cpu-endianess for fs_count and hs_count fields which should be in little-endian format. Fix by wrapping the numbers in cpu_to_le32. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
2014-06-27Revert "tools: ffs-test: convert to new descriptor format fixing compilation ↵Felipe Balbi
error" This reverts commit f2af74123f8c5a735248547f4286a3adc28633c1. There is a better fix for this build error coming in a following patch. Signed-of-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
2014-06-25Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc Pull powerpc fixes and cleanups from Ben Herrenschmidt: "Here are a handful or two of powerpc fixes and simple/trivial cleanups. A bunch of them fix ftrace with the new ABI v2 in Little Endian, the rest is a scattering of fairly simple things" * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc: Don't skip ePAPR spin-table CPUs powerpc/module: Fix TOC symbol CRC powerpc/powernv: Remove OPAL v1 takeover powerpc/kmemleak: Do not scan the DART table selftests/powerpc: Use the test harness for the TM DSCR test powerpc/cell: cbe_thermal.c: Cleaning up a variable is of the wrong type powerpc/kprobes: Fix jprobes on ABI v2 (LE) powerpc/ftrace: Use pr_fmt() to namespace error messages powerpc/ftrace: Fix nop of modules on 64bit LE (ABIv2) powerpc/ftrace: Fix inverted check of create_branch() powerpc/ftrace: Fix typo in mask of opcode powerpc: Add ppc_global_function_entry() powerpc/macintosh/smu.c: Fix closing brace followed by if powerpc: Remove __arch_swab* powerpc: Remove ancient DEBUG_SIG code powerpc/kerenl: Enable EEH for IO accessors
2014-06-24Merge tag 'fixes-for-v3.16-rc2' of ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/balbi/usb into usb-linus usb: fixes for v3.16-rc2 dwc3-omap won't crash anymore on module removal and suspend/resume won't kill xHCI interrupts. MUSB got a fix to handle Babble condition only in host mode, how it should be. The f_fs function driver got a fix for a NULL pointer dereference. Renesas gadget got a fix for Status stage handling. Signed-of-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
2014-06-24selftests/powerpc: Use the test harness for the TM DSCR testMichael Ellerman
This gives us standardised success/failure output and also handles killing the test if it runs forever (2 minutes). Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-06-19tools: ffs-test: convert to new descriptor format fixing compilation errorMichal Nazarewicz
Commit [ac8dde11: “usb: gadget: f_fs: Add flags to descriptors block”] which introduced a new descriptor format for FunctionFS removed the usb_functionfs_descs_head structure, which is still used by ffs-test. tool. Convert ffs-test by converting it to use the new header format. For testing kernels prior to 3.14 (when the new format was introduced) and parsing of the legacy headers in the new kernels, provide a compilation flag to make the tool use the old format. Finally, include information as to when the legacy FunctionFS headers format has been deprecated (which is also when the new one has been introduced). Reported-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
2014-06-14Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/urgent, to pick up the latest fixesIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-06-12Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc Pull more powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt: "Here are the remaining bits I was mentioning earlier. Mostly bug fixes and new selftests from Michael (yay !). He also removed the WSP platform and A2 core support which were dead before release, so less clutter. One little "feature" I snuck in is the doorbell IPI support for non-virtualized P8 which speeds up IPIs significantly between threads of a core" * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (34 commits) powerpc/book3s: Fix some ABIv2 issues in machine check code powerpc/book3s: Fix guest MC delivery mechanism to avoid soft lockups in guest. powerpc/book3s: Increment the mce counter during machine_check_early call. powerpc/book3s: Add stack overflow check in machine check handler. powerpc/book3s: Fix machine check handling for unhandled errors powerpc/eeh: Dump PE location code powerpc/powernv: Enable POWER8 doorbell IPIs powerpc/cpuidle: Only clear LPCR decrementer wakeup bit on fast sleep entry powerpc/powernv: Fix killed EEH event powerpc: fix typo 'CONFIG_PMAC' powerpc: fix typo 'CONFIG_PPC_CPU' powerpc/powernv: Don't escalate non-existing frozen PE powerpc/eeh: Report frozen parent PE prior to child PE powerpc/eeh: Clear frozen state for child PE powerpc/powernv: Reduce panic timeout from 180s to 10s powerpc/xmon: avoid format string leaking to printk selftests/powerpc: Add tests of PMU EBBs selftests/powerpc: Add support for skipping tests selftests/powerpc: Put the test in a separate process group selftests/powerpc: Fix instruction loop for ABIv2 (LE) ...
2014-06-12Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "A second round of perf updates: - wide reaching kprobes sanitization and robustization, with the hope of fixing all 'probe this function crashes the kernel' bugs, by Masami Hiramatsu. - uprobes updates from Oleg Nesterov: tmpfs support, corner case fixes and robustization work. - perf tooling updates and fixes from Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Ki, Arnaldo et al: * Add support to accumulate hist periods (Namhyung Kim) * various fixes, refactorings and enhancements" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits) perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe->def to ->defparam, minor comment updates perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter perf/x86: Add conditional branch filtering support perf/tool: Add conditional branch filter 'cond' to perf record perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND' uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register() perf/x86: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code perf/ARM: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context() perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error perf record: Fix poll return value propagation perf tools: Move elide bool into perf_hpp_fmt struct perf tools: Remove elide setup for SORT_MODE__MEMORY mode perf tools: Fix "==" into "=" in ui_browser__warning assignment perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target ...
2014-06-12Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov. 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J Benniston. 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn Mork. 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez. 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel Borkmann. 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee. 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers. From Ezequiel Garcia. 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy. 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli. 10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu. 11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses, from Lorenzo Colitti. 12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal Cardwell. 13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman. 14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru. 15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich. 16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits) rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0 tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery net: fec: Add software TSO support net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number net: fec: Factorize feature setting net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem net/core: Add VF link state control policy net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving ...
2014-06-12perf tests: Add test for closing dso objects on EMFILE errorJiri Olsa
Testing that perf properly closes opened dso objects and tries to reopen in case we run out of allowed file descriptors for dso data. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-14-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf tests: Add test for caching dso file descriptorsJiri Olsa
Adding test that setup test_dso_data__fd_limit and test dso data file descriptors are cached appropriately. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-13-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf tests: Allow reuse of test_file functionJiri Olsa
Making the test_file function to be reusable for new tests coming in following patches. Also changing the template name of temp files to "/tmp/perf-test-XXXXXX" to easily identify & blame. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-12-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf tests: Spawn child for each testJiri Olsa
In upcoming tests we will setup process limits, which might affect other tests. Spawning child for each test to prevent this. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-11-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf tools: Add dso__data_* interface descriptonsJiri Olsa
Adding descriptions/explanations for dso__data_* interface functions. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-10-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf tools: Allow to close dso fd in case of open failureJiri Olsa
Adding do_open function that tries to close opened dso objects in case we fail to open the dso due to to crossing the allowed RLIMIT_NOFILE limit. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-9-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf tools: Add file size check and factor dso__data_read_offsetJiri Olsa
Adding file size check, because the lseek will succeed for any offset behind file size and thus succeed when it was expected to fail. Factoring the code to check the offset against file size earlier in the flow. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-8-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf tools: Cache dso data file descriptorJiri Olsa
Caching dso data file descriptors to avoid expensive re-opens especially during DWARF unwind. We keep dsos data file descriptors open until their count reaches the half of the current fd open limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE). In this case we close file descriptor of the first opened dso object. We've got overall speedup (~27% for my workload) of report: 'perf report --stdio -i perf-test.data' (3 runs) (perf-test.data size was around 12GB) current code: 545,640,944,228 cycles ( +- 0.53% ) 785,255,798,320 instructions ( +- 0.03% ) 366.340910010 seconds time elapsed ( +- 3.65% ) after change: 435,895,036,114 cycles ( +- 0.26% ) 636,790,271,176 instructions ( +- 0.04% ) 266.481463387 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.13% ) Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-7-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf tools: Add global count of opened dso objectsJiri Olsa
Adding global count of opened dso objects so we could properly limit the number of opened dso data file descriptors. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-6-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf tools: Add global list of opened dso objectsJiri Olsa
Adding global list of opened dso objects, so we can track them and use the list for caching dso data file descriptors. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-5-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf tools: Add data_fd into dso objectJiri Olsa
Adding data_fd into dso object so we could handle caching of opened dso file data descriptors coming int next patches. Adding dso__data_close interface to keep the data_fd updated when the descriptor is closed. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf tools: Separate dso data related variablesJiri Olsa
Add separated structure/namespace for data related variables. We are going to add mode of them, so this way they will be clearly separated. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf tools: Cache register accesses for unwind processingJiri Olsa
Caching registers value into an array. Got about 4% speed up of perf_reg_value function for report command processing dwarf unwind stacks. Output from report over 1.5 GB data with DWARF unwind stacks: (TODO fix perf diff) current code: 5.84% perf perf [.] perf_reg_value change: 1.94% perf perf [.] perf_reg_value And little bit of overall speed up: (perf stat -r 5 -e '{cycles,instructions}:u' ...) current code: 310,298,611,754 cycles ( +- 0.33% ) 439,669,689,341 instructions ( +- 0.03% ) 188.656753166 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.82% ) change: 291,315,329,878 cycles ( +- 0.22% ) 391,763,485,304 instructions ( +- 0.03% ) 180.742249687 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.64% ) Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12perf record: Fix to honor user freq/interval properlyNamhyung Kim
When configuring event perf checked a wrong condition that user specified both of freq (-F) and period (-c) or the event has no default value. This worked because most of events don't have default value and only tracepoint events have default of 1 (and it's not desirable to change it for those events). However, Andi's downloadable event patch changes the situation so it cannot change the value for those events. Fix it by allowing override the default value if user gives one of the options. $ perf record -a -e uops_retired.all -F 4000 sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.325 MB perf.data (~14185 samples) ] $ perf evlist -F cpu/uops_retired.all/: sample_freq=4000 Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402292617-26278-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-12Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core Pull perf/core improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: User visible: * Improve 'perf probe' error messages, moving some diagnostic messages to only appear in --verbose mode and fixing up some error reporting related to variables and struct members. (Masami Hiramatsu) * Reflow 'perf timechart' man page. (Stanislav Fomichev) Developer stuff: * Be more precise when reporting missing libraries in a static tool build. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) * Show error messages from the multiple make invoked from 'make build-test'. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-06-11selftests/powerpc: Add tests of PMU EBBsMichael Ellerman
The Power8 Performance Monitor Unit (PMU) has a new feature called Event Based Branches (EBB). This commit adds tests of the kernel API for using EBBs. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-06-11selftests/powerpc: Add support for skipping testsMichael Ellerman
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-06-11selftests/powerpc: Put the test in a separate process groupMichael Ellerman
Allows us to kill the test and any children it has spawned. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-06-11selftests/powerpc: Fix instruction loop for ABIv2 (LE)Michael Ellerman
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-06-11powerpc: Correct DSCR during TM context switchSam bobroff
Correct the DSCR SPR becoming temporarily corrupted if a task is context switched during a transaction. The problem occurs while suspending the task and is caused by saving the DSCR to thread.dscr after it has already been set to the CPU's default value: __switch_to() calls __switch_to_tm() which calls tm_reclaim_task() which calls tm_reclaim_thread() which calls tm_reclaim() where the DSCR is set to the CPU's default __switch_to() calls _switch() where thread.dscr is set to the DSCR When the task is resumed, it's transaction will be doomed (as usual) and the DSCR SPR will be corrupted, although the checkpointed value will be correct. Therefore the DSCR will be immediately corrected by the transaction aborting, unless it has been suspended. In that case the incorrect value can be seen by the task until it resumes the transaction. The fix is to treat the DSCR similarly to the TAR and save it early in __switch_to(). A program exposing the problem is added to the kernel self tests as: tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-resched-dscr. Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10+] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-06-10Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt: "Here is the bulk of the powerpc changes for this merge window. It got a bit delayed in part because I wasn't paying attention, and in part because I discovered I had a core PCI change without a PCI maintainer ack in it. Bjorn eventually agreed it was ok to merge it though we'll probably improve it later and I didn't want to rebase to add his ack. There is going to be a bit more next week, essentially fixes that I still want to sort through and test. The biggest item this time is the support to build the ppc64 LE kernel with our new v2 ABI. We previously supported v2 userspace but the kernel itself was a tougher nut to crack. This is now sorted mostly thanks to Anton and Rusty. We also have a fairly big series from Cedric that add support for 64-bit LE zImage boot wrapper. This was made harder by the fact that traditionally our zImage wrapper was always 32-bit, but our new LE toolchains don't really support 32-bit anymore (it's somewhat there but not really "supported") so we didn't want to rely on it. This meant more churn that just endian fixes. This brings some more LE bits as well, such as the ability to run in LE mode without a hypervisor (ie. under OPAL firmware) by doing the right OPAL call to reinitialize the CPU to take HV interrupts in the right mode and the usual pile of endian fixes. There's another series from Gavin adding EEH improvements (one day we *will* have a release with less than 20 EEH patches, I promise!). Another highlight is the support for the "Split core" functionality on P8 by Michael. This allows a P8 core to be split into "sub cores" of 4 threads which allows the subcores to run different guests under KVM (the HW still doesn't support a partition per thread). And then the usual misc bits and fixes ..." [ Further delayed by gmail deciding that BenH is a dirty spammer. Google knows. ] * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (155 commits) powerpc/powernv: Add missing include to LPC code selftests/powerpc: Test the THP bug we fixed in the previous commit powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings powerpc/powernv: Pass buffer size to OPAL validate flash call powerpc/pseries: hcall functions are exported to modules, need _GLOBAL_TOC() powerpc: Exported functions __clear_user and copy_page use r2 so need _GLOBAL_TOC() powerpc/powernv: Set memory_block_size_bytes to 256MB powerpc: Allow ppc_md platform hook to override memory_block_size_bytes powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues in memory error handling code powerpc/eeh: Skip eeh sysfs when eeh is disabled powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB powerpc/powernv: Provide debugfs access to the LPC bus via OPAL powerpc/serial: Use saner flags when creating legacy ports powerpc: Add cpu family documentation powerpc/xmon: Fix up xmon format strings powerpc/powernv: Add calls to support little endian host powerpc: Document sysfs DSCR interface powerpc: Fix regression of per-CPU DSCR setting powerpc: Split __SYSFS_SPRSETUP macro arch: powerpc/fadump: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks ...
2014-06-10perf timechart: Reflow documentationStanislav Fomichev
Move options away from examples. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140610095216.GO26511@stfomichev-desktop.yandex.net Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-06-10perf probe: Improve error messages in --line optionMasami Hiramatsu
Improve error messages of 'perf probe --line' mode. Currently 'perf probe' shows the "Debuginfo analysis failed" message with an error code when the given symbol is not found: ----- # perf probe -L page_cgroup_init_flatmem Debuginfo analysis failed. (-2) Error: Failed to show lines. ----- But -2 (-ENOENT) means that the given source line or function was not found. With this patch, 'perf probe' shows the correct error message: ----- # perf probe -L page_cgroup_init_flatmem Specified source line is not found. Error: Failed to show lines. ----- There is also another debug error code is shown in the same function after get_real_path(). This removes that too. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140606071406.6788.47850.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocal Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-06-09perf probe: Improve an error message of perf probe --vars modeMasami Hiramatsu
Fix an error message when failed to find given address in --vars mode. Without this fix, perf probe -V doesn't show the final "Error" message if it fails to find given source line. Moreover, it tells it fails to find "variables" instead of the source line. ----- # perf probe -V foo@bar Failed to find variables at foo@bar (0) ----- The result also shows mysterious error code. Actually the error returns 0 or -ENOENT means that it just fails to find the address of given source line. (0 means there is no matching address, and -ENOENT means there is an entry(DIE) but it has no instance, e.g. an empty inlined function) This fixes it to show what happened and the final error message as below. ----- # perf probe -V foo@bar Failed to find the address of foo@bar Error: Failed to show vars. ----- Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140606071359.6788.84716.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocal Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-06-09perf probe: Show error code and description in verbose modeMasami Hiramatsu
Show error code and description only in verbose mode if 'perf probe' command failed. Current 'perf probe' shows error code with final error message, and that is meaningless for many users. This changes error messages to show the error code and its description only in verbose mode (-v option). Without this patch: ----- # perf probe -a do_execve@hoge Probe point 'do_execve@hoge' not found. Error: Failed to add events. (-2) ----- With this patch, normally the message doesn't show the misterious error number: ----- # perf probe -a do_execve@hoge Probe point 'do_execve@hoge' not found. Error: Failed to add events. ----- And in verbose mode, it also shows additional error messages as below: ----- # perf probe -va do_execve@hoge probe-definition(0): do_execve@hoge symbol:do_execve file:hoge line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) 0 arguments Looking at the vmlinux_path (6 entries long) Using /lib/modules/3.15.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux for symbols Open Debuginfo file: /lib/modules/3.15.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux Try to find probe point from debuginfo. Probe point 'do_execve@hoge' not found. Error: Failed to add events. Reason: No such file or directory (Code: -2) ----- Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140606071352.6788.76943.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocal Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-06-09perf probe: Improve error message for unknown member of data structureMasami Hiramatsu
Improve the error message if we can not find given member in the given structure. Currently perf probe shows a wrong error message as below. ----- # perf probe getname_flags:65 "result->BOGUS" result(type:filename) has no member BOGUS. Failed to find 'result' in this function. Error: Failed to add events. (-22) ----- The first message is correct, but the second one is not, since we didn't fail to find a variable but fails to find the member of given variable. ----- # perf probe getname_flags:65 "result->BOGUS" result(type:filename) has no member BOGUS. Error: Failed to add events. (-22) ----- With this patch, the error message shows only the first one. And if we really failed to find given variable, it tells us so. ----- # perf probe getname_flags:65 "BOGUS" Failed to find 'BOGUS' in this function. Error: Failed to add events. (-2) ----- Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140606071345.6788.23744.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocal Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-06-09perf tests: Show the inner make output when an error happensArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Before: [acme@zoo linux]$ make -C tools/perf -f tests/make make_static make: Entering directory `/home/git/linux/tools/perf' - make_static: cd . && make -f Makefile DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.JcWuM4Zu9f LDFLAGS=-static make: *** [make_static] Error 1 make: Leaving directory `/home/git/linux/tools/perf' [acme@zoo linux]$ After: [acme@zoo linux]$ make -C tools/perf -f tests/make make_static make: Entering directory `/home/git/linux/tools/perf' - make_static: cd . && make -f Makefile DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.X3su83i14u LDFLAGS=-static cd . && make -f Makefile DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.X3su83i14u LDFLAGS=-static BUILD: Doing 'make -j4' parallel build config/Makefile:303: *** No static glibc found, please install glibc-static. Stop. make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 test: test -x ./perf make: Leaving directory `/home/git/linux/tools/perf' [acme@zoo linux]$ Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-h4kby5wyp6nfev3882rzm3r9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-06-09perf tools: Emit more precise message for missing glibc static libraryArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
When the user does: make -C tools/perf LDFLAGS=-static asking for a static build, and the glibc-static (or equivalent) is not found, the message wasn't clear, stating that one of glibc-devel or glibc-static wasn't installed, clarify it checking if -static is present in LDFLAGS. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7e0sfobbzgeydzi9gsz8ss3m@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-06-09perf tools: Add dcacheline sortDon Zickus
In perf's 'mem-mode', one can get access to a whole bunch of details specific to a particular sample instruction. A bunch of those details relate to the data address. One interesting thing you can do with data addresses is to convert them into a unique cacheline they belong too. Organizing these data cachelines into similar groups and sorting them can reveal cache contention. This patch creates an alogorithm based on various sample details that can help group entries together into data cachelines and allows 'perf report' to sort on it. The algorithm relies on having proper mmap2 support in the kernel to help determine if the memory map the data address belongs to is private to a pid or globally shared. The alogortithm is as follows: o group cpumodes together o group entries with discovered maps together o sort on major, minor, inode and inode generation numbers o if userspace anon, then sort on pid o sort on cachelines based on data addresses The 'dcacheline' sort option in 'perf report' only works in 'mem-mode'. Sample output: # # Samples: 206 of event 'cpu/mem-loads/pp' # Total weight : 2534 # Sort order : dcacheline,pid # # Overhead Samples Data Cacheline Command: Pid # ........ ............ ...................................................................... .................. # 13.22% 1 [k] 0xffff88042f08ebc0 swapper: 0 9.27% 1 [k] 0xffff88082e8cea80 swapper: 0 3.59% 2 [k] 0xffffffff819ba180 swapper: 0 0.32% 1 [k] arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace_handler_na.23901+0xffffffffffffffe0 swapper: 0 0.32% 1 [k] timekeeper_seq+0xfffffffffffffff8 swapper: 0 Note: Added a '+1' to symlen size in hists__calc_col_len to prevent the next column from prematurely tabbing over and mis-aligning. Not sure what the problem is. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401208087-181977-8-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-09perf tools: Add support to dynamically get cacheline sizeDon Zickus
Different arches may have different cacheline sizes. Look it up and set a global variable for reference. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401480605-97442-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-09perf tools: Add cpumode to struct hist_entryDon Zickus
The next patch needs to sort on cpumode, so add it to hist_entry to be tracked. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401208087-181977-6-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-09perf report: Add mem-mode documentation to report commandDon Zickus
Add mem-mode sorting types and mem-mode itself to perf-report documentation. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400526833-141779-5-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-09Revert "perf: Disable PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 support"Don Zickus
This reverts commit 3090ffb5a2515990182f3f55b0688a7817325488. Re-enable the mmap2 interface as we will have a user soon. Since things have changed since perf disabled mmap2, small tweaks to the revert had to be done: o commit 9d4ecc88 forced (n!=8) to become (n<7) o a new libunwind test needed updating to use mmap2 interface Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401461382-209586-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-09perf tools: Update mmap2 interface with protection and flag bitsDon Zickus
The kernel piece passes more info now. Update the perf tool to reflect that and adjust the synthesized maps to play along. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400526833-141779-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-09perf script/python: Print array argument as stringNamhyung Kim
With the Sebastian's change of handling num array argument (of raw syscall enter), the script still failed to work like this: $ perf record -e raw_syscalls:* sleep 1 $ perf script -g python $ perf script -s perf-script.py ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "perf-script.py", line 42, in raw_syscalls__sys_enter (id, args), TypeError: %u format: a number is required, not list Fatal Python error: problem in Python trace event handler Aborted (core dumped) This is because the generated script tries to print the array arg as unsigned integer (%u). Since the python seems to convert arguments to strings by default, just using %s solved the problem for me. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401338695-18837-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>