[Dle-develop] [PATCH -tip perf/probes 3/5] perf/probes: Fall back to non-dwarf if possible

[Masami H. <mhi...@re...>]

Fall back to non-dwarf probe point if the probe definition may not
need dwarf analysis, when perf can't find vmlinux/debuginfo.
This might skip some inlined code of target function.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhi...@re...>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@el...>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <ro...@go...>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jke...@us...>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <an...@in...>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hc...@in...>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fc...@re...>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fwe...@gm...>
Cc: Jason Baron <jb...@re...>
Cc: K.Prasad <pr...@li...>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pe...@in...>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <sr...@li...>
---

 tools/perf/builtin-probe.c     |   65 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c |    8 +++--
 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
index 454ddfc..e44491b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static void parse_probe_event(const char *str)
 	/* Parse probe point */
 	parse_probe_point(argv[0], pp);
 	free(argv[0]);
-	if (pp->file)
+	if (pp->file || pp->line)
 		session.need_dwarf = 1;
 
 	/* Copy arguments */
@@ -347,36 +347,24 @@ int cmd_probe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
 	if (session.nr_probe == 0)
 		usage_with_options(probe_usage, options);
 
-#ifdef NO_LIBDWARF
 	if (session.need_dwarf)
-		semantic_error("Dwarf-analysis is not supported");
-#endif
-
-	/* Synthesize probes without dwarf */
-	for (j = 0; j < session.nr_probe; j++) {
-#ifndef NO_LIBDWARF
-		if (!session.probes[j].retprobe) {
-			session.need_dwarf = 1;
-			continue;
-		}
-#endif
-		ret = synthesize_probe_event(&session.probes[j]);
-		if (ret == -E2BIG)
-			semantic_error("probe point is too long.");
-		else if (ret < 0)
-			die("Failed to synthesize a probe point.");
-	}
-
-#ifndef NO_LIBDWARF
-	if (!session.need_dwarf)
-		goto setup_probes;
+#ifdef NO_LIBDWARF
+		semantic_error("Debuginfo-analysis is not supported");
+#else	/* !NO_LIBDWARF */
+		pr_info("Some probes require debuginfo.\n");
 
 	if (session.vmlinux)
 		fd = open(session.vmlinux, O_RDONLY);
 	else
 		fd = open_default_vmlinux();
-	if (fd < 0)
-		die("Could not open vmlinux/module file.");
+	if (fd < 0) {
+		if (session.need_dwarf)
+			die("Could not open vmlinux/module file.");
+
+		pr_warning("Could not open vmlinux/module file."
+			   " Try to use symbols.\n");
+		goto end_dwarf;
+	}
 
 	/* Searching probe points */
 	for (j = 0; j < session.nr_probe; j++) {
@@ -386,14 +374,35 @@ int cmd_probe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
 
 		lseek(fd, SEEK_SET, 0);
 		ret = find_probepoint(fd, pp);
-		if (ret <= 0)
-			die("No probe point found.\n");
+		if (ret < 0) {
+			if (session.need_dwarf)
+				die("Could not analyze debuginfo.");
+
+			pr_warning("An error was occurred in debuginfo"
+				   " analysis. Try to use symbols.\n");
+			break;
+		}
+		if (ret == 0)	/* No error but failed to find probe point. */
+			die("No probe point found.");
 	}
 	close(fd);
 
-setup_probes:
+end_dwarf:
 #endif /* !NO_LIBDWARF */
 
+	/* Synthesize probes without dwarf */
+	for (j = 0; j < session.nr_probe; j++) {
+		pp = &session.probes[j];
+		if (pp->found)	/* This probe is already found. */
+			continue;
+
+		ret = synthesize_probe_event(pp);
+		if (ret == -E2BIG)
+			semantic_error("probe point is too long.");
+		else if (ret < 0)
+			die("Failed to synthesize a probe point.");
+	}
+
 	/* Settng up probe points */
 	snprintf(buf, MAX_CMDLEN, "%s/../kprobe_events", debugfs_path);
 	fd = open(buf, O_WRONLY, O_APPEND);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
index 86cead3..f628dee 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -687,9 +687,11 @@ int find_probepoint(int fd, struct probe_point *pp)
 	struct probe_finder pf = {.pp = pp};
 
 	ret = dwarf_init(fd, DW_DLC_READ, 0, 0, &__dw_debug, &__dw_error);
-	if (ret != DW_DLV_OK)
-		die("Not found dwarf info in the vmlinux"
-		    " - please rebuild with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO.\n");
+	if (ret != DW_DLV_OK) {
+		pr_warning("Not found dwarf info in the vmlinux"
+			   " - please rebuild with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO.\n");
+		return -ENOENT;
+	}
 
 	pp->found = 0;
 	while (++cu_number) {


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhi...@re...