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Ian Rogers 89d64e7273 perf inject: Overhaul handling of pipe files
Previously inject->is_pipe was set if the input or output were a
pipe. Determining the input was a pipe had to be done prior to
starting the session and opening the file. This was done by comparing
the input file name with '-' but it fails if the pipe file is written
to disk.

Opening a pipe file from disk will correctly set perf_data.is_pipe, but
this is too late for 'perf inject' and results in a broken file. A
workaround is 'cat pipe_perf|perf inject -i - ...'.

This change removes inject->is_pipe and changes the dependent
conditions to use the is_pipe flag on the input
(inject->session->data) and output files (inject->output). This
ensures the is_pipe condition reflects things like the header being
read.

The change removes the use of perf file header repiping, that is
writing the file header out while reading it in. The case of input
pipe and output file cannot repipe as the attributes for the file are
unknown. To resolve this, write the file header when writing to disk
and as the attributes may be unknown, write them after the data.

Update sessions repipe variable to be trace_event_repipe as those are
the only events now impacted by it. Update __perf_session__new as the
repipe_fd no longer needs passing. Fully removing repipe from session
header reading will be done in a later change.

Committer testing:

  root@number:~# perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_*sleep/max-stack=4/ -o - sleep 0.01 | perf report -i -
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  #
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.050 MB - ]
  #
  # Total Lost Samples: 0
  #
  # Samples: 1  of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_clock_nanosleep'
  # Event count (approx.): 1
  #
  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object  Symbol
  # ........  .......  .............  ...............................
  #
     100.00%  sleep    libc.so.6      [.] clock_nanosleep@GLIBC_2.2.5
              |
              ---__libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34
                 __libc_start_call_main
                 0x562fc2560a9f
                 clock_nanosleep@GLIBC_2.2.5

  #
  # (Tip: Create an archive with symtabs to analyse on other machine: perf archive)
  #
  root@number:~# perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_*sleep/max-stack=4/ -o - sleep 0.01 > pipe.data
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.050 MB - ]
  root@number:~# perf report --stdio -i pipe.data
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  #
  #
  # Total Lost Samples: 0
  #
  # Samples: 1  of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_clock_nanosleep'
  # Event count (approx.): 1
  #
  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object  Symbol
  # ........  .......  .............  ...............................
  #
     100.00%  sleep    libc.so.6      [.] clock_nanosleep@GLIBC_2.2.5
              |
              ---__libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34
                 __libc_start_call_main
                 0x55f775975a9f
                 clock_nanosleep@GLIBC_2.2.5

  #
  # (Tip: To set sampling period of individual events use perf record -e cpu/cpu-cycles,period=100001/,cpu/branches,period=10001/ ...)
  #
  root@number:~#

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Cc: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829150154.37929-7-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2024-08-30 09:23:51 -03:00
arch RISC-V Fixes for 6.11-rc4 2024-08-16 11:18:09 -07:00
block block: Fix lockdep warning in blk_mq_mark_tag_wait 2024-08-15 19:25:03 -06:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - generate power-of-2 lengths more often 2024-07-13 11:50:28 +12:00
Documentation Devicetree fixes for v6.11, part 2: 2024-08-16 13:50:33 -07:00
drivers block-6.11-20240824 2024-08-16 14:03:31 -07:00
fs for-6.11-rc3-tag 2024-08-14 17:56:15 -07:00
include io_uring-6.11-20240824 2024-08-16 14:00:05 -07:00
init Rust fixes for v6.11 2024-08-16 11:24:06 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/sqpoll: annotate debug task == current with data_race() 2024-08-13 06:10:59 -06:00
ipc sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers 2024-07-24 20:59:29 +02:00
kernel A couple of fixes for tracing: 2024-08-16 11:12:29 -07:00
lib kunit/overflow: Fix UB in overflow_allocation_test 2024-08-15 09:24:55 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm 9 hotfixes. 5 are cc:stable, 4 either pertain to post-6.10 material or 2024-08-08 07:32:20 -07:00
net Including fixes from wireless and netfilter 2024-08-15 10:35:20 -07:00
rust Rust fixes for v6.11 2024-08-16 11:24:06 -07:00
samples Driver core changes for 6.11-rc1 2024-07-25 10:42:22 -07:00
scripts Rust fixes for v6.11 2024-08-16 11:24:06 -07:00
security KEYS: trusted: dcp: fix leak of blob encryption key 2024-08-15 22:01:14 +03:00
sound ALSA: hda/tas2781: Use correct endian conversion 2024-08-14 16:58:26 +02:00
tools perf inject: Overhaul handling of pipe files 2024-08-30 09:23:51 -03:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt KVM: x86: Disallow read-only memslots for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP (and TDX) 2024-08-14 12:28:24 -04:00
.clang-format Docs: Move clang-format from process/ to dev-tools/ 2024-06-26 16:36:00 -06:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package 2024-07-22 01:24:22 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update entry for David Heidelberg 2024-08-07 18:33:56 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS tracing: Update of MAINTAINERS and CREDITS file 2024-07-18 14:08:42 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS sound fixes for 6.11-rc3 2024-08-09 09:25:30 -07:00
Makefile Rust fixes for v6.11 2024-08-16 11:24:06 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.