perf probe: Fix usage when libtraceevent is missing
authorAthira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:47:48 +0000 (19:17 +0530)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Thu, 2 Feb 2023 19:32:19 +0000 (16:32 -0300)
commit3980ee9ad8575915cda3790447af700bb865b493
tree751b7cd71007509b9d2314dd94c024313c2965b5
parentce4c8e7966f317ef2af896778b5fa9105a5cd351
perf probe: Fix usage when libtraceevent is missing

While parsing the tracepoint events in parse_events_add_tracepoint()
function, code checks for HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT support. This is needed
since libtraceevent is necessary for tracepoint. But while adding probe
points, check for LIBTRACEEVENT is not done in case of perf probe.
Hence, in environment with missing libtraceevent-devel, it is observed
that adding a probe point shows below message though it can't be used
via perf record.

Example:

Adding probe point:
./perf probe 'vfs_getname=getname_flags:72 pathname=result->name:string'
Added new event:
  probe:vfs_getname    (on getname_flags:72 with pathname=result->name:string)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe:vfs_getname -aR sleep 1

But trying perf record:
./perf  record -e probe:vfs_getname -aR sleep 1
event syntax error: 'probe:vfs_getname'
\___ unsupported tracepoint
libtraceevent is necessary for tracepoint support
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

The builtin tool like perf record needs libtraceevent to
parse tracefs. But still the probe can be used by enabling
via tracefs. Patch fixes the probe usage message to the user
based on presence of libtraceevent. With the fix,

 # ./perf probe 'pmu:myprobe=schedule'
 Added new event:
   pmu:myprobe          (on schedule)

 perf is not linked with libtraceevent, to use the new probe you can use tracefs:

cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
echo 1 > events/pmu/myprobe/enable
echo 1 > tracing_on
cat trace_pipe
Before removing the probe, echo 0 > events/pmu/myprobe/enable

Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230131134748.54567-1-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-probe.c