linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf sort: Improve symbol sort output by separating unresolved samples by type

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Date:	Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:36:01 -0600
From:	emunson@...bm.net
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	<imunsie@....ibm.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf sort: Improve symbol sort output by separating
 unresolved samples by type

 On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:51:45 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> I took a profile that suggested 60% of total CPU time was in the
> hypervisor:
>
> # perf report --sort symbol
> ...
>     60.20%  [H] 0x33d43c
>      4.43%  [k] ._spin_lock_irqsave
>      1.07%  [k] ._spin_lock
>
> Using perf stat to get the user/kernel/hypervisor breakdown 
> contradicted
> this.
>
> The problem is we merge all unresolved samples into the one unknown
> bucket. If add a comparison by sample type to sort__sym_cmp we get 
> the
> real picture:
>
> # perf report --sort symbol
> ...
>     57.11%  [.] 0x80fbf63c
>      4.43%  [k] ._spin_lock_irqsave
>      1.07%  [k] ._spin_lock
>      0.65%  [H] 0x33d43c
>
> So it was almost all userspace, not hypervisor as the initial profile
> suggested.
>
> I found another issue while adding this. Symbol sorting sometimes 
> shows
> multiple entries for the unknown bucket:
>
> # perf report --sort symbol
> ...
>     16.65%  [.] 0x6cd3a8
>      7.25%  [.] 0x422460
>      5.37%  [.] yylex
>      4.79%  [.] malloc
>      4.78%  [.] _int_malloc
>      4.03%  [.] _int_free
>      3.95%  [.] hash_source_code_string
>      2.82%  [.] 0x532908
>      2.64%  [.] 0x36b538
>      0.94%  [H] 0x8000000000e132a4
>      0.82%  [H] 0x800000000000e8b0
>
> This happens because we aren't consistent with our sorting. On
> one hand we check to see if both symbols match and for two unresolved
> samples sym is NULL so we match:
>
>         if (left->ms.sym == right->ms.sym)
>                 return 0;
>
> On the other hand we use sample IP for unresolved samples when
> comparing against a symbol:
>
>        ip_l = left->ms.sym ? left->ms.sym->start : left->ip;
>        ip_r = right->ms.sym ? right->ms.sym->start : right->ip;
>
> This means unresolved samples end up spread across the rbtree and we
> can't merge them all.
>
> If we use cmp_null all unresolved samples will end up in the one 
> bucket
> and the output makes more sense:
>
> # perf report --sort symbol
> ...
>     39.12%  [.] 0x36b538
>      5.37%  [.] yylex
>      4.79%  [.] malloc
>      4.78%  [.] _int_malloc
>      4.03%  [.] _int_free
>      3.95%  [.] hash_source_code_string
>      2.26%  [H] 0x800000000000e8b0
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>


 Acked-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>

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