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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 08:09:42 +0900 From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> To: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@...il.com> CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com> Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 0/9] perf report: Support folded callchain output (v5) Hi Brendan and Arnaldo, On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:50:21AM -0800, Brendan Gregg wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This is what Brendan requested on the perf-users mailing list [1] to > > support FlameGraphs [2] more efficiently. This patchset adds a few > > more callchain options to adjust the output for it. > > > > * changes in v5) > > - honor field separator from -t option > > - add support for TUI and GTK > > > > * changes in v4) > > - add missing doc update > > - cleanup/fix callchain value print code > > - add Acked-by from Brendan and Jiri > > > > * changes in v3) > > - put the value before callchains > > - fix compile error > > > > > > At first, 'folded' output mode was added. The folded output puts the > > value, a space and all calchain nodes separated by semicolons. Now it > > only supports --stdio as other UI provides some way of folding and/or > > expanding callchains dynamically. > > > > The value is now can be one of 'percent', 'period', or 'count'. The > > percent is current default output and the period is the raw number of > > sample periods. The count is the number of samples for each callchain. > > > > The proposed features of hiding hist lines with '-F none' and showing > > hist info with callchains can be added as later work. > > > > Here's an example: > > > > $ perf report --no-children --show-nr-samples --stdio -g folded,count > > ... > > 39.93% 80 swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idel > > 57 intel_idle;cpuidle_enter_state;cpuidle_enter;call_cpuidle;cpu_startup_entry;start_secondary > > 23 intel_idle;cpuidle_enter_state;cpuidle_enter;call_cpuidle;cpu_startup_entry;rest_init;... > > > > Thanks, I tested it, it works! > > It lets me do this: > > # ./perf report --no-children -n --stdio -g folded,count -F pid > [...] > 0:swapper > 1032 xen_hypercall_sched_op;default_idle;arch_cpu_idle;default_idle_call;cpu_startup_entry;cpu_bringup_and_idle > 134 xen_hypercall_sched_op;default_idle;arch_cpu_idle;default_idle_call;cpu_startup_entry;rest_init;start_kernel;x86_64_start_reservations;xen_start_kernel > 1 xen_hypercall_xen_version;check_events;__schedule;schedule;schedule_preempt_disabled;cpu_startup_entry;cpu_bringup_and_idle > 1 xen_hypercall_xen_version;check_events;cpu_startup_entry;rest_init;start_kernel;x86_64_start_reservations;xen_start_kernel > 1248:bash > 43 copy_page_range;copy_process;_do_fork;sys_clone;entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath;__libc_fork;make_child > 6 xen_hypercall_xen_version;check_events;xen_dup_mmap;copy_process;_do_fork;sys_clone;entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath;__libc_fork;make_child > 4 xen_hypercall_xen_version;check_events;copy_page_range;copy_process;_do_fork;sys_clone;entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath;__libc_fork;make_child > [...] > > This is a parsable call chain summary, and which can be flamegraph'd > after a touch of awk. Later on we can add a "-F none" and "-g pid" > etc, but this patch solves the number one issue of avoiding the > expense of needing to re-aggregate the call chain output (output of > perf script), so I'd be pretty happy to use this instead. Thank you for testing. Arnaldo, could you please take a look at this? Thanks, Namhyung > > > > > $ perf report --no-children --stdio -g percent > > ... > > 39.93% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idel > > | > > ---intel_idle > > cpuidle_enter_state > > cpuidle_enter > > call_cpuidle > > cpu_startup_entry > > | > > |--28.63%-- start_secondary > > | > > --11.30%-- rest_init > > > > > > $ perf report --no-children --stdio --show-total-period -g period > > ... > > 39.93% 13018705 swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idel > > | > > ---intel_idle > > cpuidle_enter_state > > cpuidle_enter > > call_cpuidle > > cpu_startup_entry > > | > > |--9334403-- start_secondary > > | > > --3684302-- rest_init > > > > > > $ perf report --no-children --stdio --show-nr-samples -g count > > ... > > 39.93% 80 swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idel > > | > > ---intel_idle > > cpuidle_enter_state > > cpuidle_enter > > call_cpuidle > > cpu_startup_entry > > | > > |--57-- start_secondary > > | > > --23-- rest_init > > > > > > You can get it from 'perf/callchain-fold-v5' branch on my tree: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/namhyung/linux-perf.git > > > > Any comments are welcome, thanks > > Namhyung > > > > > > [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-perf-users/msg02498.html > > [2] http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html > > > > > > Namhyung Kim (9): > > perf report: Support folded callchain mode on --stdio > > perf callchain: Abstract callchain print function > > perf callchain: Add count fields to struct callchain_node > > perf report: Add callchain value option > > perf hists browser: Factor out hist_browser__show_callchain_list() > > perf hists browser: Support flat callchains > > perf hists browser: Support folded callchains > > perf ui/gtk: Support flat callchains > > perf ui/gtk: Support folded callchains > > > > tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 14 +- > > tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 4 +- > > tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 316 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > > tools/perf/ui/gtk/hists.c | 148 ++++++++++++++- > > tools/perf/ui/stdio/hist.c | 94 +++++++-- > > tools/perf/util/callchain.c | 135 ++++++++++++- > > tools/perf/util/callchain.h | 28 ++- > > tools/perf/util/util.c | 3 +- > > 8 files changed, 679 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-) > > > > -- > > 2.6.2 > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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