linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/perf_events: Implement perf_arch_fetch_caller

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Date:	Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:22:13 +1100
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	anton@...ba.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/perf_events: Implement
 perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs for powerpc

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:04:54PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:46:15PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> >     14.99%            perf  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ._raw_spin_lock
> >                       |
> >                       --- ._raw_spin_lock
> >                          |          
> >                          |--25.00%-- .alloc_fd
> >                          |          (nil)
> >                          |          |          
> >                          |          |--50.00%-- .anon_inode_getfd
> >                          |          |          .sys_perf_event_open
> >                          |          |          syscall_exit
> >                          |          |          syscall
> >                          |          |          create_counter
> >                          |          |          __cmd_record
> >                          |          |          run_builtin
> >                          |          |          main
> >                          |          |          0xfd2e704
> >                          |          |          0xfd2e8c0
> >                          |          |          (nil)
> > 
> > ... etc.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> 
> 
> Cool!

By the way, I notice that gcc tends to inline the tracing functions,
which means that by going up 2 stack frames we miss some of the
functions.  For example, for the lock:lock_acquire event, we have
_raw_spin_lock() -> lock_acquire() -> trace_lock_acquire() ->
perf_trace_lock_acquire() -> perf_trace_templ_lock_acquire() ->
perf_fetch_caller_regs() -> perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs().

But in the ppc64 kernel binary I just built, gcc inlined
trace_lock_acquire in lock_acquire, and perf_trace_templ_lock_acquire
in perf_trace_lock_acquire.  Given that perf_fetch_caller_regs is
explicitly inlined, going up two levels from perf_fetch_caller_regs
gets us to _raw_spin_lock, whereas I think you intended it to get us
to trace_lock_acquire.  I'm not sure what to do about that - any
thoughts?

Paul.
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