Re: perf kvm segfaults while reporting events

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 6/1/12 7:56 AM, Pradeep Kumar Surisetty wrote:
> Hello
>
> perf kvm generats segfaults while reporting events.
>
> host&  guest:  3.4.0-rc4
>
> 1) Copied kallsyms, modules from guest to host.
>
> 2) recorded  events on host and guest&  report it using below commands.
>
>
> [root@host]# ./perf kvm --host --guest --guestkallsyms=/tmp/guest-kallsyms --guestmodules=/tmp/guest-modules record -a -o perf.data
> ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.381 MB perf.data (~16659 samples) ]
>
> [root@host]# ./perf kvm --host --guest --guestkallsyms=/tmp/guest-kallsyms --guestmodules=/tmp/guest-modules report -i perf.data --force
> perf: Segmentation fault

The short of it is that perf-kvm needs some work.

More specifically, the guest 'machine' is not created on the report path 
for the above arguments. This will prevent the segfault:

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 93d355d..c8e1323 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -918,6 +918,8 @@ static int perf_session_deliver_event(struct 
perf_session *session,
         }
         return tool->sample(tool, event, sample, evsel, machine);
     case PERF_RECORD_MMAP:
+       if (machine == NULL)
+           return 0;
         return tool->mmap(tool, event, sample, machine);
     case PERF_RECORD_COMM:
         return tool->comm(tool, event, sample, machine);


The --guestmount option (which has its own problems) combined with 
specific pid is more stable . e.g.,

mkdir /tmp/guestmount/<vm-pid>
sshfs root@<vm-ip>:/  /tmp/guestmount/<vm-pid> -o direct_io

perf kvm --host --guest --guestmount=/tmp/guestmount \
   record -p <vm-pid>  -o /tmp/perf.data -- sleep 1

perf kvm --host --guest --guestmount=/tmp/guestmount  report -i 
/tmp/perf.data --force --stdio

If you use the -a argument on record with multiple VMs running without 
an entry in /tmp/guestmount you'll see:

Warning:
7 unprocessable samples recorded.
Do you have a KVM guest running and not using 'perf kvm'?

David