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Message-ID: <20120521104520.GA5923@m.brq.redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 12:45:20 +0200
From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFCv3 00/17] perf: Add backtrace post dwarf unwind
hi,
any feedback?
thanks,
jirka
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:37:01PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> hi,
> sending another RFC version. This mainly includes more general
> version of perf regs and stack interface. Details are below
> and in patches' comments.. ;)
>
> thanks for comments,
> jirka
>
> v3 changes:
> patch 01/17
> - added HAVE_PERF_REGS config option
> patch 02/17, 04/17
> - regs and stack perf interface is more general now
> patch 06/17
> - unrelated online fix for i386 compilation
> patch 16/17
> - few namespace fixies
>
> ---
> Adding the post unwinding user stack backtrace using dwarf unwind
> via libunwind. The original work was done by Frederic. I mostly took
> his patches and make them compile in current kernel code plus I added
> some stuff here and there.
>
> The main idea is to store user registers and portion of user
> stack when the sample data during the record phase. Then during
> the report, when the data is presented, perform the actual dwarf
> dwarf unwind.
>
> attached patches:
> 01/17 perf: Unified API to record selective sets of arch registers
> 02/17 perf: Add ability to attach registers dump to sample
> 03/17 perf: Factor __output_copy to be usable with specific copy function
> 04/17 perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample
> 05/17 perf: Add attribute to filter out user callchains
> 06/17 perf, tool: Fix format string for x86-32 compilation
> 07/17 perf, tool: Factor DSO symtab types to generic binary types
> 08/17 perf, tool: Add interface to read DSO image data
> 09/17 perf, tool: Add '.note' check into search for NOTE section
> 10/17 perf, tool: Back [vdso] DSO with real data
> 11/17 perf, tool: Add interface to arch registers sets
> 12/17 perf, tool: Add libunwind dependency for dwarf cfi unwinding
> 13/17 perf, tool: Support user regs and stack in sample parsing
> 14/17 perf, tool: Support for dwarf cfi unwinding on post processing
> 15/17 perf, tool: Support for dwarf mode callchain on perf record
> 16/17 perf, tool: Add dso data caching
> 17/17 perf, tool: Add dso data caching tests
>
> I tested on Fedora. There was not much gain on i386, because the
> binaries are compiled with frame pointers. Thought the dwarf
> backtrace is more accurade and unwraps calls in more details
> (functions that do not set the frame pointers).
>
> I could see some improvement on x86_64, where I got full backtrace
> where current code could got just the first address out of the
> instruction pointer.
>
> Example on x86_64:
> [dwarf]
> perf record -g -e syscalls:sys_enter_write date
>
> 100.00% date libc-2.14.90.so [.] __GI___libc_write
> |
> --- __GI___libc_write
> _IO_file_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5
> new_do_write
> _IO_do_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5
> _IO_file_overflow@@GLIBC_2.2.5
> 0x4022cd
> 0x401ee6
> __libc_start_main
> 0x4020b9
>
>
> [frame pointer]
> perf record -g fp -e syscalls:sys_enter_write date
>
> 100.00% date libc-2.14.90.so [.] __GI___libc_write
> |
> --- __GI___libc_write
>
> Also I tested on coreutils binaries mainly, but I could see
> getting wider backtraces with dwarf unwind for more complex
> application like firefox.
>
> The unwind should go throught [vdso] object. I haven't studied
> the [vsyscall] yet, so not sure there.
>
> Attached patches should work on both x86 and x86_64. I did
> some initial testing so far.
>
> The unwind backtrace can be interrupted by following reasons:
> - bug in unwind information of processed shared library
> - bug in unwind processing code (most likely ;) )
> - insufficient dump stack size
> - wrong register value - x86_64 does not store whole
> set of registers when in exception, but so far
> it looks like RIP and RSP should be enough
>
> thanks for comments,
> jirka
> ---
> arch/Kconfig | 6 +
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 2 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/perf_regs.h | 10 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/perf_regs_32.h | 84 +++
> arch/x86/include/asm/perf_regs_64.h | 99 ++++
> include/linux/perf_event.h | 49 ++-
> include/linux/perf_regs.h | 28 +
> kernel/events/callchain.c | 4 +-
> kernel/events/core.c | 204 +++++++-
> kernel/events/internal.h | 65 ++-
> kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/Makefile | 45 ++-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/Makefile | 3 +
> tools/perf/arch/x86/include/perf_regs.h | 108 ++++
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/unwind.c | 111 ++++
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 86 +++-
> tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 26 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 56 ++-
> tools/perf/builtin-test.c | 7 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 7 +-
> tools/perf/config/feature-tests.mak | 25 +
> tools/perf/perf.h | 9 +-
> tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/util/dso-test.c | 154 ++++++
> tools/perf/util/event.h | 16 +-
> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 24 +
> tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 3 +
> tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 43 ++-
> tools/perf/util/include/linux/compiler.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/map.c | 23 +-
> tools/perf/util/map.h | 7 +-
> tools/perf/util/perf_regs.h | 19 +
> tools/perf/util/python.c | 3 +-
> .../perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c | 3 +-
> .../util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c | 3 +-
> tools/perf/util/session.c | 134 +++++-
> tools/perf/util/session.h | 15 +-
> tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 435 +++++++++++++---
> tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 52 ++-
> tools/perf/util/trace-event-scripting.c | 3 +-
> tools/perf/util/trace-event.h | 5 +-
> tools/perf/util/unwind.c | 565 ++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/unwind.h | 34 ++
> tools/perf/util/vdso.c | 90 +++
> tools/perf/util/vdso.h | 8 +
> 46 files changed, 2488 insertions(+), 193 deletions(-)
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