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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:01:40 +0900
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>,
Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@...g.com.ar>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] perf callchain: Prune misleading callchains for self entries
The "perf report -g" displays callchains callee-first order. That
means it can see the callers of the sample in a reverse order. For
example, "intel_idle" entry shows following callchain on my data.
Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol
-------- -------- --------------- ------------------ ----------------
40.53% 40.53% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle
|
--- intel_idle
cpuidle_enter
cpuidle_wrap_enter
cpuidle_enter_tk
cpuidle_idle_call
cpu_idle
|
|--85.25%-- start_secondary
|
--14.75%-- rest_init
start_kernel
x86_64_start_reservations
x86_64_start_kernel
So "intel_idle" was called by "cpuidle_enter", and in turn, it's
called by "cpuidle_wrap_enter" and so on.
When with -g "caller", it shows callchains in a reversed order -
"caller-first". I know it's sometimes useful but never used it.
40.53% 40.53% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle
|
|--85.25%-- start_secondary
| cpu_idle
| cpuidle_idle_call
| cpuidle_enter_tk
| cpuidle_wrap_enter
| cpuidle_enter
| intel_idle
|
--14.75%-- x86_64_start_kernel
x86_64_start_reservations
start_kernel
rest_init
cpu_idle
cpuidle_idle_call
cpuidle_enter_tk
cpuidle_wrap_enter
cpuidle_enter
intel_idle
However, with --children feature added, it now can show all callees of
the entry. For example, "start_kernel" entry now can display it calls
rest_init and in turn cpu_idle and then cpuidle_idle_call (95.72%).
6.14% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] start_kernel
|
--- start_kernel
rest_init
cpu_idle
|
|--97.52%-- cpuidle_idle_call
| cpuidle_enter_tk
| |
| |--99.91%-- cpuidle_wrap_enter
| | cpuidle_enter
| | intel_idle
| --0.09%-- [...]
--2.48%-- [...]
Note that start_kernel has no self overhead - meaning that it never
get sampled by itself but constructs such a nice callgraph. But,
sadly, if an entry has self overhead, callchain will get confused with
generated callchain (like above) and self callchains (which reversed
order) like the eariler example.
To be consistent with other entries, I'd like to make it just to show
a single entry - itself - like below since it doesn't have callees
(children) at all. But still use the whole callchain to construct
children entries (like the start_kernel) as usual.
40.53% 40.53% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle
|
--- intel_idle
Note that this is just for --children is enabled. Without that, it
will do the original behavior.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
---
tools/perf/util/hist.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.c b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
index 30df6187ee02..67f249daf34e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/hist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
@@ -716,7 +716,28 @@ iter_add_single_cumulative_entry(struct hist_entry_iter *iter,
iter->he = he;
he_cache[iter->curr++] = he;
- callchain_append(he->callchain, &callchain_cursor, sample->period);
+ if (callchain_param.order == ORDER_CALLER) {
+ struct callchain_cursor cursor;
+ int nr = callchain_cursor.nr;
+
+ /*
+ * When --children with -g caller, it just adds noise to
+ * self entries. Just adding last node (self) is enough
+ * and it'd privide a consistent view with other (cumulative)
+ * entries.
+ */
+ while (--nr) {
+ callchain_cursor_advance(&callchain_cursor);
+ }
+
+ BUG_ON(callchain_cursor.nr != callchain_cursor.pos + 1);
+
+ callchain_cursor_snapshot(&cursor, &callchain_cursor);
+
+ callchain_append(he->callchain, &cursor, sample->period);
+ } else {
+ callchain_append(he->callchain, &callchain_cursor, sample->period);
+ }
/*
* We need to re-initialize the cursor since callchain_append()
--
2.0.0
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