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| author | Changbin Du | 2019-03-16 16:05:41 +0800 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | 2019-03-19 16:52:04 -0300 |
| commit | af7a14a750b8eb3cdb26ec15344616ca170b06f2 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b33dcf97aec69058cfde17a8b60cda666f7cd9a /tools | |
| parent | c3b4d5c4afb0856e62a60db04c71205712b0d24f (diff) | |
perf tools: Add doc about how to build perf with Asan and UBSan
AddressSanitizer (or ASan) and UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (or UBSan) are
very useful tools to detect program bugs:
- AddressSanitizer (or ASan) is a GCC feature that detects memory
corruption bugs such as buffer overflows and memory leaks.
- UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (or UBSan) is a fast undefined behavior
detector supported by GCC. UBSan detects undefined behaviors of programs
at runtime.
This patch adds a document about how to use them on perf. Later patches will fix
some of the issues disclosed by them.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190316080556.3075-2-changbin.du@gmail.com
[ Make some changes based on comments made by Jiri Olsa ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt index f6fc6507ba55..3766886c4bca 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt @@ -47,3 +47,27 @@ Those objects are then used in final linking: NOTE this description is omitting other libraries involved, only focusing on build framework outcomes + +3) Build with ASan or UBSan +========================== + $ cd tools/perf + $ make DESTDIR=/usr + $ make DESTDIR=/usr install + +AddressSanitizer (or ASan) is a GCC feature that detects memory corruption bugs +such as buffer overflows and memory leaks. + + $ cd tools/perf + $ make DEBUG=1 EXTRA_CFLAGS='-fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=address' + $ ASAN_OPTIONS=log_path=asan.log ./perf record -a + +ASan outputs all detected issues into a log file named 'asan.log.<pid>'. + +UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (or UBSan) is a fast undefined behavior detector +supported by GCC. UBSan detects undefined behaviors of programs at runtime. + + $ cd tools/perf + $ make DEBUG=1 EXTRA_CFLAGS='-fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=undefined' + $ UBSAN_OPTIONS=print_stacktrace=1 ./perf record -a + +If UBSan detects any problem at runtime, it outputs a “runtime error:” message. |