perf tools: Make the mmap length autotuning more robust
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:19:00 +0000 (12:19 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:58:14 +0000 (11:58 -0300)
commit1be300f4cc1ddf975f158b4ab2f880854b29306b
tree14fcb9e184acb2b89c98f5113b45e20f6da5f4c9
parentfa37c025c5bec6704dad714365a7f62d9cb13a36
perf tools: Make the mmap length autotuning more robust

If /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb is not (power of 2 + PAGE_SIZE_in_kb)
and we let the perf tools do mmap length autosizing based on that, then, for
non-CAP_IPC_LOCK users when /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid is > -1, then
we get an -EINVAL that ends up in:

  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ trace usleep 1
  Invalid argument
  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ perf record usleep 1
  failed to mmap with 22 (Invalid argument)

After this fix:

  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ trace usleep 1
  <SNIP>
   0.806 ( 0.006 ms): munmap(addr: 0x7f7e4740a000, len: 66467) = 0
   0.869 ( 0.002 ms): brk(                                   ) = 0x7bb000
   0.873 ( 0.003 ms): brk(brk: 0x7dc000                      ) = 0x7dc000
   0.877 ( 0.001 ms): brk(                                   ) = 0x7dc000
   0.953 ( 0.058 ms): nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7fff26ab9420         ) = 0
   0.959 ( 0.000 ms): exit_group(
  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ perf record usleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.017 MB perf.data (~759 samples) ]
  [acme@ssdandy linux]$

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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-6p6l5ou6jev6o7ymc4nn1n2a@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/evlist.c