perf unwind: Don't show unwind error messages when augmenting frame pointer stack

Commit Fixes: b9f6fbb3b2c29736 ("perf arm64: Inject missing frames when
using 'perf record --call-graph=fp'") intended to add a 'best effort'
DWARF unwind that improved the frame pointer stack in most scenarios.

It's expected that the unwind will fail sometimes, but this shouldn't be
reported as an error. It only works when the return address can be
determined from the contents of the link register alone.

Fix the error shown when the unwinder requires extra registers by adding
a new flag that suppresses error messages. This flag is not set in the
normal --call-graph=dwarf unwind mode so that behavior is not changed.

Fixes: b9f6fbb3b2c29736 ("perf arm64: Inject missing frames when using 'perf record --call-graph=fp'")
Reported-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Tested-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Truong <alexandre.truong@arm.com>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220406145651.1392529-1-james.clark@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c b/tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
index 2dab2d2620608b5b5bf458d76144aa72253321d5..afdca7f2959f07d87716c26508178bb6647bd9cf 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ NO_TAIL_CALL_ATTRIBUTE noinline int test_dwarf_unwind__thread(struct thread *thr
        }
 
        err = unwind__get_entries(unwind_entry, &cnt, thread,
-                                 &sample, MAX_STACK);
+                                 &sample, MAX_STACK, false);
        if (err)
                pr_debug("unwind failed\n");
        else if (cnt != MAX_STACK) {

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/arm64-frame-pointer-unwind-support.c b/tools/perf/util/arm64-frame-pointer-unwind-support.c
index 2242a885fbd73387ffd347deba3bceb4ac74a95a..4940be4a0569cd441cee2c265433a2a06181c8fa 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/arm64-frame-pointer-unwind-support.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/arm64-frame-pointer-unwind-support.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ u64 get_leaf_frame_caller_aarch64(struct perf_sample *sample, struct thread *thr
                sample->user_regs.cache_regs[PERF_REG_ARM64_SP] = 0;
        }
 
-       ret = unwind__get_entries(add_entry, &entries, thread, sample, 2);
+       ret = unwind__get_entries(add_entry, &entries, thread, sample, 2, true);
        sample->user_regs = old_regs;
 
        if (ret || entries.length != 2)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index b80048546451359291fc886b6322d4f8c35cb600..95391236f5f6a9103a233d0e8feffb30b49e995a 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -2987,7 +2987,7 @@ static int thread__resolve_callchain_unwind(struct thread *thread,
                return 0;
 
        return unwind__get_entries(unwind_entry, cursor,
-                                  thread, sample, max_stack);
+                                  thread, sample, max_stack, false);
 }
 
 int thread__resolve_callchain(struct thread *thread,

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
index a74b517f74974dc9d1ecef4c1306915ca6c91850..94aa40f6e3482fc13fe13c70be640a19004f8fdd 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
@@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ frame_callback(Dwfl_Frame *state, void *arg)
        bool isactivation;
 
        if (!dwfl_frame_pc(state, &pc, NULL)) {
-               pr_err("%s", dwfl_errmsg(-1));
+               if (!ui->best_effort)
+                       pr_err("%s", dwfl_errmsg(-1));
                return DWARF_CB_ABORT;
        }
 
@@ -208,7 +209,8 @@ frame_callback(Dwfl_Frame *state, void *arg)
        report_module(pc, ui);
 
        if (!dwfl_frame_pc(state, &pc, &isactivation)) {
-               pr_err("%s", dwfl_errmsg(-1));
+               if (!ui->best_effort)
+                       pr_err("%s", dwfl_errmsg(-1));
                return DWARF_CB_ABORT;
        }
 
@@ -222,7 +224,8 @@ frame_callback(Dwfl_Frame *state, void *arg)
 int unwind__get_entries(unwind_entry_cb_t cb, void *arg,
                        struct thread *thread,
                        struct perf_sample *data,
-                       int max_stack)
+                       int max_stack,
+                       bool best_effort)
 {
        struct unwind_info *ui, ui_buf = {
                .sample         = data,
@@ -231,6 +234,7 @@ int unwind__get_entries(unwind_entry_cb_t cb, void *arg,
                .cb             = cb,
                .arg            = arg,
                .max_stack      = max_stack,
+               .best_effort    = best_effort
        };
        Dwarf_Word ip;
        int err = -EINVAL, i;

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.h b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.h
index 0cbd2650e280e52635f7e0d9058467d633239c5f..8c88bc4f2304b59561ffd482469ca63ce0f531f0 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ struct unwind_info {
        void                    *arg;
        int                     max_stack;
        int                     idx;
+       bool                    best_effort;
        struct unwind_entry     entries[];
 };
 

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c
index 71a3533491815749bd1ec84e659d659cba09957c..41e29fc7648ae9f79fe258d731b5cd1172c61cd6 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ struct unwind_info {
        struct perf_sample      *sample;
        struct machine          *machine;
        struct thread           *thread;
+       bool                     best_effort;
 };
 
 #define dw_read(ptr, type, end) ({     \
@@ -553,7 +554,8 @@ static int access_reg(unw_addr_space_t __maybe_unused as,
 
        ret = perf_reg_value(&val, &ui->sample->user_regs, id);
        if (ret) {
-               pr_err("unwind: can't read reg %d\n", regnum);
+               if (!ui->best_effort)
+                       pr_err("unwind: can't read reg %d\n", regnum);
                return ret;
        }
 
@@ -666,7 +668,7 @@ static int get_entries(struct unwind_info *ui, unwind_entry_cb_t cb,
                        return -1;
 
                ret = unw_init_remote(&c, addr_space, ui);
-               if (ret)
+               if (ret && !ui->best_effort)
                        display_error(ret);
 
                while (!ret && (unw_step(&c) > 0) && i < max_stack) {
@@ -704,12 +706,14 @@ static int get_entries(struct unwind_info *ui, unwind_entry_cb_t cb,
 
 static int _unwind__get_entries(unwind_entry_cb_t cb, void *arg,
                        struct thread *thread,
-                       struct perf_sample *data, int max_stack)
+                       struct perf_sample *data, int max_stack,
+                       bool best_effort)
 {
        struct unwind_info ui = {
                .sample       = data,
                .thread       = thread,
                .machine      = thread->maps->machine,
+               .best_effort  = best_effort
        };
 
        if (!data->user_regs.regs)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c
index e89a5479b361303e8b323182dd5509a18e5ead1b..509c287ee762808061821a9d2c52301e3b6955e4 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c
@@ -80,9 +80,11 @@ void unwind__finish_access(struct maps *maps)
 
 int unwind__get_entries(unwind_entry_cb_t cb, void *arg,
                         struct thread *thread,
-                        struct perf_sample *data, int max_stack)
+                        struct perf_sample *data, int max_stack,
+                        bool best_effort)
 {
        if (thread->maps->unwind_libunwind_ops)
-               return thread->maps->unwind_libunwind_ops->get_entries(cb, arg, thread, data, max_stack);
+               return thread->maps->unwind_libunwind_ops->get_entries(cb, arg, thread, data,
+                                                                      max_stack, best_effort);
        return 0;
 }

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind.h b/tools/perf/util/unwind.h
index ab8ad469c8de5aea6c7bf437bfee156f1b0ed2ed..b2a03fa5289b37c2744aab105415e8febe250f0b 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind.h
@@ -23,13 +23,19 @@ struct unwind_libunwind_ops {
        void (*finish_access)(struct maps *maps);
        int (*get_entries)(unwind_entry_cb_t cb, void *arg,
                           struct thread *thread,
-                          struct perf_sample *data, int max_stack);
+                          struct perf_sample *data, int max_stack, bool best_effort);
 };
 
 #ifdef HAVE_DWARF_UNWIND_SUPPORT
+/*
+ * When best_effort is set, don't report errors and fail silently. This could
+ * be expanded in the future to be more permissive about things other than
+ * error messages.
+ */
 int unwind__get_entries(unwind_entry_cb_t cb, void *arg,
                        struct thread *thread,
-                       struct perf_sample *data, int max_stack);
+                       struct perf_sample *data, int max_stack,
+                       bool best_effort);
 /* libunwind specific */
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT
 #ifndef LIBUNWIND__ARCH_REG_ID
@@ -65,7 +71,8 @@ unwind__get_entries(unwind_entry_cb_t cb __maybe_unused,
                    void *arg __maybe_unused,
                    struct thread *thread __maybe_unused,
                    struct perf_sample *data __maybe_unused,
-                   int max_stack __maybe_unused)
+                   int max_stack __maybe_unused,
+                   bool best_effort __maybe_unused)
 {
        return 0;
 }