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authorChangbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>2019-03-16 11:05:41 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-03-19 22:52:04 +0300
commitaf7a14a750b8eb3cdb26ec15344616ca170b06f2 (patch)
tree6b33dcf97aec69058cfde17a8b60cda666f7cd9a /tools/perf
parentc3b4d5c4afb0856e62a60db04c71205712b0d24f (diff)
downloadlinux-af7a14a750b8eb3cdb26ec15344616ca170b06f2.tar.xz
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>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt
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--- 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.