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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:02:12 +0900
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
"ak@...ux.intel.com" <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules
Hi Adrian,
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:27:56AM +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 09/01/16 12:31, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > Hi Stephane,
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 10:01:24AM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> >> <acme@...nel.org> wrote:
> >>> Em Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 07:47:03AM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> >>>> On January 8, 2016 7:00:35 AM GMT+09:00, Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com> wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> >>>>> <acme@...nel.org> wrote:
> >>>>>> Em Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:56:14PM -0800, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> >>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Whenever you do:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> $ perf record -g -a sleep 10
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Perf will collect the callstack for each sample. At the end of the
> >>>>>>> run, perf record
> >>>>>>> adds the buildid for all dso with at least one sample. But when it
> >>>>> does this, it
> >>>>>>> only looks at the sampled IP and ignore the modules traversed by the
> >>>>> callstack.
> >>>>>>> That means that, it is not possible to uniquely identify the modules
> >>>>> executed,
> >>>>>>> unless they had at least one IP sample captured. But this is not
> >>>>>>> always the case.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> How about providing an option to perf record to force collecting
> >>>>>>> buildid for all IPs
> >>>>>>> captured in the callstack? I understand that would cost more at the
> >>>>> end of the
> >>>>>>> collection, but this would be beneficial to several monitoring
> >>>>> scenarios.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I agree, would consider applying a patch that provides the option but
> >>>>>> does not do this by default.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> I agree, not the default.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Stephane,
> >>>>
> >>>> Please see
> >>>>
> >>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/22/249
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Oops, Stephane, please try this, so that we can finally merge it :-\
> >>>
> >> I will try it today. However, I am a bit worried about the performance
> >> impact. Unless I am missing something in this approach we may end up
> >> looking up N times the same module if it appears in N callstacks. In
> >> Andi's suggested approach, there would be only one pass at the beginning
> >> (or the end of the run). But you could miss some modules if they are gone
> >> by the time you run the pass.
> >
> > How about this then?
> >
> > Adrian, is it ok to skip process_buildids() for the auxtrace?
>
> If you don't post-process (i.e. call process_buildids), then where do the
> DSOs come from? i.e. dsos__hit_all() just hits the DSOs that exist.
Ah, right. I somehow thought that it was processed already elsewhere.
Then, how about this?
>From 38b2bc273329afe4334a11d87d20ef71639132fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 22:37:55 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] perf record: Add --buildid-all option
The --buildid-all option is to record build-id of all DSOs in the file.
It might be very costly to postprocess samples to find which DSO hits.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 3 +++
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 3a1a32f5479f..fbceb631387c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -338,6 +338,9 @@ Options passed to clang when compiling BPF scriptlets.
Specify vmlinux path which has debuginfo.
(enabled when BPF prologue is on)
+--buildid-all::
+Record build-id of all DSOs regardless whether it's actually hit or not.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index dc4e0adf5c5b..319712a4e02b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ struct record {
int realtime_prio;
bool no_buildid;
bool no_buildid_cache;
+ bool buildid_all;
unsigned long long samples;
};
@@ -362,6 +363,13 @@ static int process_buildids(struct record *rec)
*/
symbol_conf.ignore_vmlinux_buildid = true;
+ /*
+ * If --buildid-all is given, it marks all DSO regardless of hits,
+ * so no need to process samples.
+ */
+ if (rec->buildid_all)
+ rec->tool.sample = NULL;
+
return perf_session__process_events(session);
}
@@ -756,12 +764,8 @@ out_child:
if (!rec->no_buildid) {
process_buildids(rec);
- /*
- * We take all buildids when the file contains
- * AUX area tracing data because we do not decode the
- * trace because it would take too long.
- */
- if (rec->opts.full_auxtrace)
+
+ if (rec->buildid_all)
dsos__hit_all(rec->session);
}
perf_session__write_header(rec->session, rec->evlist, fd, true);
@@ -1138,6 +1142,8 @@ struct option __record_options[] = {
"options passed to clang when compiling BPF scriptlets"),
OPT_STRING(0, "vmlinux", &symbol_conf.vmlinux_name,
"file", "vmlinux pathname"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "buildid-all", &record.buildid_all,
+ "Record build-id of all DSOs regardless of hits"),
OPT_END()
};
@@ -1255,6 +1261,14 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
if (err)
goto out_symbol_exit;
+ /*
+ * We take all buildids when the file contains
+ * AUX area tracing data because we do not decode the
+ * trace because it would take too long.
+ */
+ if (rec->opts.full_auxtrace)
+ rec->buildid_all = true;
+
if (record_opts__config(&rec->opts)) {
err = -EINVAL;
goto out_symbol_exit;
--
2.6.4
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