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Thomas Richter eac8b39d08 perf report: Fix OOM error in TUI mode on s390 
[ Upstream commit 8a07aa4e9b ]

Debugging a OOM error using the TUI interface revealed this issue
on s390:

[tmricht@m83lp54 perf]$ cat /proc/kallsyms |sort
....
00000001119b7158 B radix_tree_node_cachep
00000001119b8000 B __bss_stop
00000001119b8000 B _end
000003ff80002850 t autofs_mount	[autofs4]
000003ff80002868 t autofs_show_options	[autofs4]
000003ff80002a98 t autofs_evict_inode	[autofs4]
....

There is a huge gap between the last kernel symbol
__bss_stop/_end and the first kernel module symbol
autofs_mount (from autofs4 module).

After reading the kernel symbol table via functions:

 dso__load()
 +--> dso__load_kernel_sym()
      +--> dso__load_kallsyms()
	   +--> __dso_load_kallsyms()
	        +--> symbols__fixup_end()

the symbol __bss_stop has a start address of 1119b8000 and
an end address of 3ff80002850, as can be seen by this debug statement:

  symbols__fixup_end __bss_stop start:0x1119b8000 end:0x3ff80002850

The size of symbol __bss_stop is 0x3fe6e64a850 bytes!
It is the last kernel symbol and fills up the space until
the first kernel module symbol.

This size kills the TUI interface when executing the following
code:

  process_sample_event()
    hist_entry_iter__add()
      hist_iter__report_callback()
        hist_entry__inc_addr_samples()
          symbol__inc_addr_samples(symbol = __bss_stop)
            symbol__cycles_hist()
               annotated_source__alloc_histograms(...,
				                symbol__size(sym),
		                                ...)

This function allocates memory to save sample histograms.
The symbol_size() marco is defined as sym->end - sym->start, which
results in above value of 0x3fe6e64a850 bytes and
the call to calloc() in annotated_source__alloc_histograms() fails.

The histgram memory allocation might fail, make this failure
no-fatal and continue processing.

Output before:
[tmricht@m83lp54 perf]$ ./perf --debug stderr=1 report -vvvvv \
					      -i ~/slow.data 2>/tmp/2
[tmricht@m83lp54 perf]$ tail -5 /tmp/2
  __symbol__inc_addr_samples(875): ENOMEM! sym->name=__bss_stop,
		start=0x1119b8000, addr=0x2aa0005eb08, end=0x3ff80002850,
		func: 0
problem adding hist entry, skipping event
0x938b8 [0x8]: failed to process type: 68 [Cannot allocate memory]
[tmricht@m83lp54 perf]$

Output after:
[tmricht@m83lp54 perf]$ ./perf --debug stderr=1 report -vvvvv \
					      -i ~/slow.data 2>/tmp/2
[tmricht@m83lp54 perf]$ tail -5 /tmp/2
   symbol__inc_addr_samples map:0x1597830 start:0x110730000 end:0x3ff80002850
   symbol__hists notes->src:0x2aa2a70 nr_hists:1
   symbol__inc_addr_samples sym:unlink_anon_vmas src:0x2aa2a70
   __symbol__inc_addr_samples: addr=0x11094c69e
   0x11094c670 unlink_anon_vmas: period++ [addr: 0x11094c69e, 0x2e, evidx=0]
   	=> nr_samples: 1, period: 526008
[tmricht@m83lp54 perf]$

There is no error about failed memory allocation and the TUI interface
shows all entries.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/90cb5607-3e12-5167-682d-978eba7dafa8@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-07-26 09:14:05 +02:00
arch arm64: mm: make CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32 configurable 2019-07-26 09:14:04 +02:00
block block, bfq: NULL out the bic when it's no longer valid 2019-07-14 08:11:17 +02:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: cryptd - Fix skcipher instance memory leak 2019-07-10 09:53:41 +02:00
Documentation Documentation/admin: Remove the vsyscall=native documentation 2019-07-14 08:11:18 +02:00
drivers net: sfp: add mutex to prevent concurrent state checks 2019-07-26 09:14:05 +02:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs fscrypt: clean up some BUG_ON()s in block encryption/decryption 2019-07-26 09:14:02 +02:00
include linux/kernel.h: fix overflow for DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL 2019-07-21 09:03:11 +02:00
init initramfs: free initrd memory if opening /initrd.image fails 2019-06-15 11:54:01 +02:00
ipc ipc: prevent lockup on alloc_msg and free_msg 2019-06-15 11:54:00 +02:00
kernel locking/lockdep: Fix merging of hlocks with non-zero references 2019-07-26 09:14:03 +02:00
lib lib/mpi: Fix karactx leak in mpi_powm 2019-07-10 09:53:42 +02:00
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mm mm/vmscan.c: prevent useless kswapd loops 2019-07-10 09:53:44 +02:00
net ipset: Fix memory accounting for hash types on resize 2019-07-26 09:14:05 +02:00
samples samples, bpf: suppress compiler warning 2019-07-14 08:11:04 +02:00
scripts scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: prefix addr2line with $CROSS_COMPILE 2019-07-10 09:53:39 +02:00
security apparmor: enforce nullbyte at end of tag string 2019-06-25 11:35:54 +08:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Headphone Mic can't record after S3 2019-07-14 08:11:16 +02:00
tools perf report: Fix OOM error in TUI mode on s390 2019-07-26 09:14:05 +02:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Fix kvm_device leak in vgic_its_destroy 2019-07-14 08:11:10 +02:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS platform/x86: Add Intel AtomISP2 dummy / power-management driver 2019-04-20 09:16:02 +02:00
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README 

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
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 Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.