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Message-ID: <c9d5e3b1-63a1-c87d-32c2-4c3b25642d1a@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:54:03 +0800
From: "Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: acme@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
mingo@...hat.com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ak@...ux.intel.com,
kan.liang@...el.com, yao.jin@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] perf diff: Use hists to manage basic blocks per
symbol
On 6/12/2019 3:44 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 02:11:44PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 6/11/2019 4:56 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 07:41:47PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6/5/2019 7:44 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 10:36:14PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> SNIP
>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.h b/tools/perf/util/sort.h
>>>>>> index 43623fa..d1641da 100644
>>>>>> --- a/tools/perf/util/sort.h
>>>>>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.h
>>>>>> @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ struct hist_entry_diff {
>>>>>> /* HISTC_WEIGHTED_DIFF */
>>>>>> s64 wdiff;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + /* PERF_HPP_DIFF__CYCLES */
>>>>>> + s64 cycles;
>>>>>> };
>>>>>> };
>>>>>> @@ -143,6 +146,9 @@ struct hist_entry {
>>>>>> struct branch_info *branch_info;
>>>>>> long time;
>>>>>> struct hists *hists;
>>>>>> + void *block_hists;
>>>>>> + int block_idx;
>>>>>> + int block_num;
>>>>>> struct mem_info *mem_info;
>>>>>> struct block_info *block_info;
>>>>>
>>>>> could you please not add the new block* stuff in here,
>>>>> and instead use the "c2c model" and use yourr own struct
>>>>> on top of hist_entry? we are trying to librarize this
>>>>> stuff and keep only necessary things in here..
>>>>>
>>>>> you're already using hist_entry_ops, so should be easy
>>>>>
>>>>> something like:
>>>>>
>>>>> struct block_hist_entry {
>>>>> void *block_hists;
>>>>> int block_idx;
>>>>> int block_num;
>>>>> struct block_info *block_info;
>>>>>
>>>>> struct hist_entry he;
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> jirka
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jiri,
>>>>
>>>> After more considerations, maybe I can't move these stuffs from hist_entry
>>>> to block_hist_entry.
>>>
>>> why?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actually we use 2 kinds of hist_entry in this patch series. On kind of
>>>> hist_entry is for symbol/function. The other kind of hist_entry is for basic
>>>> block.
>>>
>>> correct
>>>
>>> so the way I see it the processing goes like this:
>>>
>>>
>>> 1) there's standard hist_entry processing ending up
>>> with evsel->hists->rb_root full of hist entries
>>>
>>> 2) then you process every hist_entry and create
>>> new 'struct hists' for each and fill it with
>>> symbol counts data
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> you could add 'struct hist_entry_ops' for the 1) processing
>>> that adds the 'struct hists' object for each hist_entry
>>>
>>> and add another 'struct hist_entry_ops' for 2) processing
>>> to carry the block data for each hist_entry
>>>
>>> jirka
>>>
>>
>> Hi Jiri,
>>
>> Yes, I can use two hist_entry_ops but one thing is still difficult to handle
>> that is the printing of blocks.
>>
>> One function may contain multiple blocks so I add 'block_num' in 'struct
>> hist_entry' to record the number of blocks.
>>
>> In patch "perf diff: Print the basic block cycles diff", I reuse most of
>> current code to print the blocks. The major change is:
>>
>> static int hist_entry__fprintf(struct hist_entry *he, size_t size,
>> char *bf, size_t bfsz, FILE *fp,
>> bool ignore_callchains) {
>>
>> + if (he->block_hists)
>> + return hist_entry__block_fprintf(he, bf, size, fp);
>> +
>
>
> you could do it the way we do hierarchy and have
> something like 'symbol_conf.report_block'
>
> if (symbol_conf.report_hierarchy)
> return hist_entry__hierarchy_fprintf(he, &hpp, hists, fp);
>
> and in hist_entry__block_fprintf you cast the hist_entry
> to your struct.. so you'll have all the data
>
> jirka
>
Thanks Jiri. So it looks I need to define 'struct block_hist_entry' in
util/sort.h, then hist_entry__block_fprintf can know this struct.
Previously I just defined this struct in builtin-diff.c.
Thanks
Jin Yao
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