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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 07:16:15 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paulus@...ba.org, acme@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com, jkacur@...hat.com,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, efault@....de, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	mtosatti@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf report: Only load text symbols from kallsyms

Commit-ID:  03f6316d32738ec5eda2e6f628c12d1c01e61a87
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/03f6316d32738ec5eda2e6f628c12d1c01e61a87
Author:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:21:55 -0300
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:10:36 +0200

perf report: Only load text symbols from kallsyms

Just like we do for userspace when reading the symtab, reducing the
number of entries we insert on the symbols rbtree.

Before:

[acme@...lia ~]$ rm -f perf_report.perf ; perf record -o perf_report.perf perf stat perf report > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'perf':

     218.138382  task clock ticks     (msecs)
              4  context switches     (events)
              8  CPU migrations       (events)
           2136  pagefaults           (events)
       32746212  CPU cycles           (events)  (scaled from 67.04%)
       11961102  instructions         (events)  (scaled from 66.19%)
          49841  cache references     (events)  (scaled from 21.96%)
          13777  cache misses         (events)  (scaled from 21.98%)

 Wall-clock time elapsed:   218.702477 msecs

[acme@...lia ~]$ perf report -i perf_report.perf | head
11.06          perf [.] 0x00000000000057cb /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: dso__find_symbol
 9.15          perf [.] 0x00000000000056a0 /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: dso__insert_symbol
 8.72          perf [k] 0xffffffff8101b1d2 intel_pmu_enable_all
 8.51          perf [.] 0x0000000000006672 /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: thread__symbol_incnew
 3.83          perf [k] 0xffffffff811cfc5a vsnprintf
 3.40          perf [.] 0x0000000000005e33 /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: hex
 3.40          perf [.] 0x0000000000005ec7 /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: hex2long
 3.19          perf [k] 0xffffffff811ce1c1 number
 2.77          perf [.] 0x0000000000006869 /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: threads__findnew
 2.77          perf [.] 0x000000000000fde3 /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: rb_insert_color
[acme@...lia ~]$

After:

acme@...lia ~]$ rm -f perf_report.perf ; perf record -o perf_report.perf perf stat perf report > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'perf':

     190.228511  task clock ticks     (msecs)
              4  context switches     (events)
              7  CPU migrations       (events)
           1625  pagefaults           (events)
       29578745  CPU cycles           (events)  (scaled from 66.92%)
       10516914  instructions         (events)  (scaled from 66.47%)
          44015  cache references     (events)  (scaled from 22.04%)
           8248  cache misses         (events)  (scaled from 22.07%)

 Wall-clock time elapsed:   190.816096 msecs

[acme@...lia ~]$ perf report -i perf_report.perf | head
15.99          perf [.] 0x00000000000057a9 /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: dso__find_symbol
10.87          perf [.] 0x000000000000674d /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: thread__symbol_incnew
 8.74          perf [k] 0xffffffff8101b1d2 intel_pmu_enable_all
 5.54          perf [.] 0x0000000000005e42 /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: hex
 4.48          perf [.] 0x0000000000005ebe /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: hex2long
 4.48          perf [k] 0xffffffff811cfba0 vsnprintf
 3.84          perf [.] 0x00000000000056b4 /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: dso__insert_symbol
 3.62          perf [.] 0x00000000000068d0 /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: threads__findnew
 3.20          perf [k] 0xffffffff811ce0b3 number
 2.56          perf [.] 0x0000000000006d78 /home/acme/git/linux-2.6-tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf: __cmd_report
[acme@...lia ~]$

[ Impact: optimization ]

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090526222155.GJ4424@...stprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>


---
 Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c |   14 +++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
index c517483..a55f15d 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include <libelf.h>
 #include <gelf.h>
 #include <elf.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
 
 #include "util/list.h"
 #include "util/rbtree.h"
@@ -408,13 +409,20 @@ static int load_kallsyms(void)
 
 		int len = hex2long(line, &start);
 		
-		len += 3; /* ' t ' */
-		if (len >= line_len)
+		len++;
+		if (len + 2 >= line_len)
+			continue;
+
+		char symbol_type = line[len];
+		/*
+		 * We're interested only in code ('T'ext)
+		 */
+		if (toupper(symbol_type) != 'T')
 			continue;
 		/*
 		 * Well fix up the end later, when we have all sorted.
 		 */
-		struct symbol *sym = symbol__new(start, 0xdead, line + len);
+		struct symbol *sym = symbol__new(start, 0xdead, line + len + 2);
 
 		if (sym == NULL)
 			goto out_delete_dso;
--
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