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Message-ID: <20171020161540.GG30002@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:15:40 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@...b.com>
Cc: jolsa@...nel.org, namhyung@...nel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] generate full callchain cursor entries for
inlined frames
Em Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 01:38:31PM +0200, Milian Wolff escreveu:
> This series of patches completely reworks the way inline frames are handled.
> Instead of querying for the inline nodes on-demand in the individual tools,
> we now create proper callchain nodes for inlined frames. The advantages this
> approach brings are numerous:
>
> - less duplicated code in the individual browser
> - aggregated cost for inlined frames for the --children top-down list
> - various bug fixes that arose from querying for a srcline/symbol based on
> the IP of a sample, which will always point to the last inlined frame
> instead of the corresponding non-inlined frame
> - overall much better support for visualizing cost for heavily-inlined C++
> code, which simply was confusing and unreliably before
> - srcline honors the global setting as to whether full paths or basenames
> should be shown
> - caches for inlined frames and srcline information, which allow us to
> enable inline frame handling by default
>
> For comparison, below lists the output before and after for `perf script`
> and `perf report`. The example file I used to generate the perf data is:
So, please check my tmp.perf/core branch, it has this patchset + the fix
I proposed for the match_chain() to always use absolute addresses.
- Arnaldo
> ~~~~~
> $ cat inlining.cpp
> #include <complex>
> #include <cmath>
> #include <random>
> #include <iostream>
>
> using namespace std;
>
> int main()
> {
> uniform_real_distribution<double> uniform(-1E5, 1E5);
> default_random_engine engine;
> double s = 0;
> for (int i = 0; i < 10000000; ++i) {
> s += norm(complex<double>(uniform(engine), uniform(engine)));
> }
> cout << s << '\n';
> return 0;
> }
> $ g++ -O2 -g -o inlining inlining.cpp
> $ perf record --call-graph dwarf ./inlining
> ~~~~~
>
> Now, the (broken) status-quo looks like this. Look for "NOTE:" to see some
> of my comments that outline the various issues I'm trying to solve by this
> patch series.
>
> ~~~~~
> $ perf script --inline
> ...
> inlining 11083 97459.356656: 33680 cycles:
> 214f7 __hypot_finite (/usr/lib/libm-2.25.so)
> ace3 hypot (/usr/lib/libm-2.25.so)
> a4a main (/home/milian/projects/src/perf-tests/inlining)
> std::__complex_abs
> std::abs<double>
> std::_Norm_helper<true>::_S_do_it<double>
> std::norm<double>
> main
> 20510 __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc-2.25.so)
> bd9 _start (/home/milian/projects/src/perf-tests/inlining)
> # NOTE: the above inlined stack is confusing: the a4a is an address into main,
> # which is the non-inlined symbol. the entry with the address should be
> # at the end of the stack, where it's actually duplicated once more but
> # there it's missing the address
> ...
> $ perf report -s sym -g srcline -i perf.inlining.data --inline --stdio
> ...
> --38.86%--_start
> __libc_start_main
> |
> |--15.68%--main random.tcc:3326
> | /home/milian/projects/src/perf-tests/inlining.cpp:14 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.tcc:3326 (inline)
> |
> |--10.36%--main random.h:143
> | /home/milian/projects/src/perf-tests/inlining.cpp:14 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.tcc:3332 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:332 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:151 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:143 (inline)
> |
> |--5.66%--main random.tcc:3332
> | /home/milian/projects/src/perf-tests/inlining.cpp:14 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.tcc:3332 (inline)
> ...
> # NOTE: the grouping is totally off because the first and last frame of the
> inline nodes is completely bogus, since the IP is used to find the sym/srcline
> which is different from the actual inlined sym/srcline.
> also, the code currently displays either the inlined function name or
> the corresponding filename (but in full length, instead of just the basename).
>
> $ perf report -s sym -g srcline -i perf.inlining.data --inline --stdio --no-children
> ...
> 38.86% [.] main
> |
> |--15.68%--main random.tcc:3326
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.tcc:3326 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
> | /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
> | /home/milian/projects/src/perf-tests/inlining.cpp:14 (inline)
> | __libc_start_main
> | _start
> ...
> # NOTE: the srcline for main is wrong, it should be inlining.cpp:14,
> i.e. what is displayed in the line below (see also perf script issue above)
> ~~~~~
>
> Afterwards, all of the above issues are resolved (and inlined frames are
> displayed by default):
>
> ~~~~~
> $ perf script
> ...
> inlining 11083 97459.356656: 33680 cycles:
> 214f7 __hypot_finite (/usr/lib/libm-2.25.so)
> ace3 hypot (/usr/lib/libm-2.25.so)
> a4a std::__complex_abs (inlined)
> a4a std::abs<double> (inlined)
> a4a std::_Norm_helper<true>::_S_do_it<double> (inlined)
> a4a std::norm<double> (inlined)
> a4a main (/home/milian/projects/src/perf-tests/inlining)
> 20510 __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc-2.25.so)
> bd9 _start (/home/milian/projects/src/perf-tests/inlining)
> ...
> # NOTE: only one main entry, at the correct position.
> we do display the (repeated) instruction pointer as that ensures
> interoperability with e.g. the stackcollapse-perf.pl script
>
> $ perf report -s sym -g srcline -i perf.inlining.data --stdio
> ...
> 100.00% 38.86% [.] main
> |
> |--61.14%--main inlining.cpp:14
> | std::norm<double> complex:664 (inlined)
> | std::_Norm_helper<true>::_S_do_it<double> complex:654 (inlined)
> | std::abs<double> complex:597 (inlined)
> | std::__complex_abs complex:589 (inlined)
> | |
> | |--60.29%--hypot
> | | |
> | | --56.03%--__hypot_finite
> | |
> | --0.85%--cabs
> |
> --38.86%--_start
> __libc_start_main
> |
> |--38.19%--main inlining.cpp:14
> | |
> | |--35.59%--std::uniform_real_distribution<double>::operator()<std::linear_congruential_engine<unsigned long, 16807ul, 0ul, 2147483647ul> > random.h:1809 (inlined)
> | | std::uniform_real_distribution<double>::operator()<std::linear_congruential_engine<unsigned long, 16807ul, 0ul, 2147483647ul> > random.h:1818 (inlined)
> | | |
> | | --34.37%--std::__detail::_Adaptor<std::linear_congruential_engine<unsigned long, 16807ul, 0ul, 2147483647ul>, double>::operator() random.h:185 (inlined)
> | | |
> | | |--17.91%--std::generate_canonical<double, 53ul, std::linear_congruential_engine<unsigned long, 16807ul, 0ul, 2147483647ul> > random.tcc:3332 (inlined)
> | | | |
> | | | --12.24%--std::linear_congruential_engine<unsigned long, 16807ul, 0ul, 2147483647ul>::operator() random.h:332 (inlined)
> | | | std::__detail::__mod<unsigned long, 2147483647ul, 16807ul, 0ul> random.h:151 (inlined)
> | | | |
> | | | |--10.36%--std::__detail::_Mod<unsigned long, 2147483647ul, 16807ul, 0ul, true, true>::__calc random.h:143 (inlined)
> | | | |
> | | | --1.88%--std::__detail::_Mod<unsigned long, 2147483647ul, 16807ul, 0ul, true, true>::__calc random.h:141 (inlined)
> | | |
> | | |--15.68%--std::generate_canonical<double, 53ul, std::linear_congruential_engine<unsigned long, 16807ul, 0ul, 2147483647ul> > random.tcc:3326 (inlined)
> | | |
> | | --0.79%--std::generate_canonical<double, 53ul, std::linear_congruential_engine<unsigned long, 16807ul, 0ul, 2147483647ul> > random.tcc:3335 (inlined)
> | |
> | --1.99%--std::norm<double> complex:664 (inlined)
> | std::_Norm_helper<true>::_S_do_it<double> complex:654 (inlined)
> | std::abs<double> complex:597 (inlined)
> | std::__complex_abs complex:589 (inlined)
> |
> --0.67%--main inlining.cpp:13
> ...
>
> # NOTE: still somewhat confusing due to the _start and __libc_start_main frames
> that actually are *above* the main frame. But at least the stuff below
> properly splits up and shows that mutiple functions got inlined into
> inlining.cpp:14, not just one as before.
>
> $ perf report -s sym -g srcline -i perf.inlining.data --stdio --no-children
> ...
> 38.86% [.] main
> |
> |--15.68%--std::generate_canonical<double, 53ul, std::linear_congruential_engine<unsigned long, 16807ul, 0ul, 2147483647ul> > random.tcc:3326 (inlined)
> | std::__detail::_Adaptor<std::linear_congruential_engine<unsigned long, 16807ul, 0ul, 2147483647ul>, double>::operator() random.h:185 (inlined)
> | std::uniform_real_distribution<double>::operator()<std::linear_congruential_engine<unsigned long, 16807ul, 0ul, 2147483647ul> > random.h:1818 (inlined)
> | std::uniform_real_distribution<double>::operator()<std::linear_congruential_engine<unsigned long, 16807ul, 0ul, 2147483647ul> > random.h:1809 (inlined)
> | main inlining.cpp:14
> | __libc_start_main
> | _start
> ...
> # NOTE: the first and last entry of the inline stack have the correct symbol and srcline now
> both function and srcline is shown, as well as the (inlined) suffix
> only the basename of the srcline is shown
>
> v7 fixes a crash in match_chain, when a map with invalid dso is encountered.
> It also drops the commit from v5 that tried to fix the srcline resolution.
>
> v6 rebases against the partial merge of this patch series in acme/perf/core
>
> v5 attends to Namhyung's code review. Most notably, it fixes a use-after-free
> crash. Additionally, srcline resolution for hist entries now also works
> correctly, when inline frame resolution is disabled.
>
> v4 splits the patch to create full callchain nodes for inline frames up further
> as suggested by Jiri. It also removes C99 comments and initializes the
> rb_root properly.
>
> v3 splits the initial patch up into two to simplify reviewing. It also adds a
> comment to clarify the lifetime handling of fake symbols and aliased non-fake
> symbols, based on the feedback by Namhyung.
>
> v2 fixes some issues reported by Namhyung or found by me in further
> testing, adds caching and enables inline frames by default.
>
>
> Milian Wolff (5):
> perf report: properly handle branch count in match_chain
> perf report: cache failed lookups of inlined frames
> perf report: cache srclines for callchain nodes
> perf report: use srcline from callchain for hist entries
> perf util: enable handling of inlined frames by default
>
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 3 +-
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt | 3 +-
> tools/perf/util/callchain.c | 133 +++++++++++++++++--------------
> tools/perf/util/dso.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/util/dso.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/event.c | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/hist.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/util/machine.c | 32 +++++---
> tools/perf/util/srcline.c | 82 +++++++++++++++----
> tools/perf/util/srcline.h | 7 ++
> tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 1 +
> 12 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.14.2
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