linux/tools
Wang Nan a074865e60 perf tools: Introduce perf hooks
Perf hooks allow hooking user code at perf events. They can be used for
manipulation of BPF maps, taking snapshot and reporting results. In this
patch two perf hook points are introduced: record_start and record_end.

To avoid buggy user actions, a SIGSEGV signal handler is introduced into
'perf record'. It turns off perf hook if it causes a segfault and report
an error to help debugging.

A test case for perf hook is introduced.

Test result:
  $ ./buildperf/perf test -v hook
  50: Test perf hooks                                          :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 10311
  SIGSEGV is observed as expected, try to recover.
  Fatal error (SEGFAULT) in perf hook 'test'
  test child finished with 0
  ---- end ----
  Test perf hooks: Ok

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161126070354.141764-5-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-11-29 12:13:27 -03:00
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accounting tools: move accounting tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:15 -06:00
arch x86/cpufeature: Add AVX512_4VNNIW and AVX512_4FMAPS features 2016-10-19 17:37:13 +02:00
build tools build: Add jvmti feature detection support 2016-11-14 12:40:32 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio tools/gpio: fix gpio-event-mon header comment 2016-08-08 09:50:22 +02:00
hv Drivers: hv: utils: Check VSS daemon is listening before a hot backup 2016-09-02 17:22:51 +02:00
iio Second set of iio new device support, features and cleanups for the 4.9 cycle. 2016-09-14 20:42:03 +02:00
include tools: Update asm-generic/mman-common.h copy from the kernel 2016-10-28 11:29:43 -02:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop tools: move laptops dslm tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:21 -06:00
lguest tools/lguest: Don't bork the terminal in case of wrong args 2016-09-08 08:05:24 +02:00
lib tools lib bpf: Retrive bpf_map through offset of bpf_map_def 2016-11-29 12:10:19 -03:00
net
nfsd
objtool objtool: Fix rare switch jump table pattern detection 2016-10-27 08:20:27 +02:00
pcmcia tools: move pcmcia crc32hash tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:27 -06:00
perf perf tools: Introduce perf hooks 2016-11-29 12:13:27 -03:00
power tools/power/acpi: Remove direct kernel source include reference 2016-11-16 22:31:26 +01:00
scripts tools build: Fix objtool build with ARCH=x86_64 2016-07-22 16:37:44 -03:00
spi Merge remote-tracking branches 'spi/topic/ti-qspi', 'spi/topic/tools', 'spi/topic/txx9' and 'spi/topic/xlp' into spi-next 2016-09-30 09:14:22 -07:00
testing linux-kselftest-4.9-rc1-update 2016-10-14 15:17:12 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb
virtio ringtest: poll for new buffers once before updating event index 2016-10-31 00:21:43 +02:00
vm tools/vm/page_owner: increase temporary buffer size 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
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