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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[ Make some changes based on comments made by Jiri Olsa ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/Build.txt
index f6fc6507ba55ecade8065382a10723f67f914529..3766886c4bca3d967ed2e714982be5016c4816f4 100644 (file)
--- 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.