From: Kan Liang Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 18:23:05 +0000 (-0500) Subject: perf tools: Construct LBR call chain X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.2/o2_dc~146^2~68 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=384b60557b5522fcb99646f0eb6e7a344cdb94c6;p=pandora-kernel.git perf tools: Construct LBR call chain LBR call stack only has user-space callchains. It is output in the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK data format. For kernel callchains, it's still in the form of PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN. The perf tool has to handle both data sources to construct a complete callstack. For the "perf report -D" option, both lbr and fp information will be displayed. A new call chain recording option "lbr" is introduced into the perf tool for LBR call stack. The user can use --call-graph lbr to get the call stack information from hardware. Here are some examples. When profiling bc(1) on Fedora 19: echo 'scale=2000; 4*a(1)' > cmd; perf record --call-graph lbr bc -l < cmd If enabling LBR, perf report output looks like: 50.36% bc bc [.] bc_divide | --- bc_divide execute run_code yyparse main __libc_start_main _start 33.66% bc bc [.] _one_mult | --- _one_mult bc_divide execute run_code yyparse main __libc_start_main _start 7.62% bc bc [.] _bc_do_add | --- _bc_do_add | |--99.89%-- 0x2000186a8 --0.11%-- [...] 6.83% bc bc [.] _bc_do_sub | --- _bc_do_sub | |--99.94%-- bc_add | execute | run_code | yyparse | main | __libc_start_main | _start --0.06%-- [...] 0.46% bc libc-2.17.so [.] __memset_sse2 | --- __memset_sse2 | |--54.13%-- bc_new_num | | | |--51.00%-- bc_divide | | execute | | run_code | | yyparse | | main | | __libc_start_main | | _start | | | |--30.46%-- _bc_do_sub | | bc_add | | execute | | run_code | | yyparse | | main | | __libc_start_main | | _start | | | --18.55%-- _bc_do_add | bc_add | execute | run_code | yyparse | main | __libc_start_main | _start | --45.87%-- bc_divide execute run_code yyparse main __libc_start_main _start If using FP, perf report output looks like: echo 'scale=2000; 4*a(1)' > cmd; perf record --call-graph fp bc -l < cmd 50.49% bc bc [.] bc_divide | --- bc_divide 33.57% bc bc [.] _one_mult | --- _one_mult 7.61% bc bc [.] _bc_do_add | --- _bc_do_add 0x2000186a8 6.88% bc bc [.] _bc_do_sub | --- _bc_do_sub 0.42% bc libc-2.17.so [.] __memcpy_ssse3_back | --- __memcpy_ssse3_back If using LBR, perf report -D output looks like: 3458145275743 0x2fd750 [0xd8]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x2): 9748/9748: 0x408ea8 period: 609644 addr: 0 ... LBR call chain: nr:8 ..... 0: fffffffffffffe00 ..... 1: 0000000000408e50 ..... 2: 000000000040a458 ..... 3: 000000000040562e ..... 4: 0000000000408590 ..... 5: 00000000004022c0 ..... 6: 00000000004015dd ..... 7: 0000003d1cc21b43 ... FP chain: nr:2 ..... 0: fffffffffffffe00 ..... 1: 0000000000408ea8 ... thread: bc:9748 ...... dso: /usr/bin/bc The LBR call stack has the following known limitations: - Zero length calls are not filtered out by the hardware - Exception handing such as setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns not match - Pushing different return address onto the stack will have calls/returns not match - If callstack is deeper than the LBR, only the last entries are captured Tested-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: David Ahern Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Simon Que Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420482185-29830-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed