perf tools: Construct LBR call chain
LBR call stack only has user-space callchains. It is output in the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK data format. For kernel callchains, it's still in the form of PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN. The perf tool has to handle both data sources to construct a complete callstack. For the "perf report -D" option, both lbr and fp information will be displayed. A new call chain recording option "lbr" is introduced into the perf tool for LBR call stack. The user can use --call-graph lbr to get the call stack information from hardware. Here are some examples. When profiling bc(1) on Fedora 19: echo 'scale=2000; 4*a(1)' > cmd; perf record --call-graph lbr bc -l < cmd If enabling LBR, perf report output looks like: 50.36% bc bc [.] bc_divide | --- bc_divide execute run_code yyparse main __libc_start_main _start 33.66% bc bc [.] _one_mult | --- _one_mult bc_divide execute run_code yyparse main __libc_start_main _start 7.62% bc bc [.] _bc_do_add | --- _bc_do_add | |--99.89%-- 0x2000186a8 --0.11%-- [...] 6.83% bc bc [.] _bc_do_sub | --- _bc_do_sub | |--99.94%-- bc_add | execute | run_code | yyparse | main | __libc_start_main | _start --0.06%-- [...] 0.46% bc libc-2.17.so [.] __memset_sse2 | --- __memset_sse2 | |--54.13%-- bc_new_num | | | |--51.00%-- bc_divide | | execute | | run_code | | yyparse | | main | | __libc_start_main | | _start | | | |--30.46%-- _bc_do_sub | | bc_add | | execute | | run_code | | yyparse | | main | | __libc_start_main | | _start | | | --18.55%-- _bc_do_add | bc_add | execute | run_code | yyparse | main | __libc_start_main | _start | --45.87%-- bc_divide execute run_code yyparse main __libc_start_main _start If using FP, perf report output looks like: echo 'scale=2000; 4*a(1)' > cmd; perf record --call-graph fp bc -l < cmd 50.49% bc bc [.] bc_divide | --- bc_divide 33.57% bc bc [.] _one_mult | --- _one_mult 7.61% bc bc [.] _bc_do_add | --- _bc_do_add 0x2000186a8 6.88% bc bc [.] _bc_do_sub | --- _bc_do_sub 0.42% bc libc-2.17.so [.] __memcpy_ssse3_back | --- __memcpy_ssse3_back If using LBR, perf report -D output looks like: 3458145275743 0x2fd750 [0xd8]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x2): 9748/9748: 0x408ea8 period: 609644 addr: 0 ... LBR call chain: nr:8 ..... 0: fffffffffffffe00 ..... 1: 0000000000408e50 ..... 2: 000000000040a458 ..... 3: 000000000040562e ..... 4: 0000000000408590 ..... 5: 00000000004022c0 ..... 6: 00000000004015dd ..... 7: 0000003d1cc21b43 ... FP chain: nr:2 ..... 0: fffffffffffffe00 ..... 1: 0000000000408ea8 ... thread: bc:9748 ...... dso: /usr/bin/bc The LBR call stack has the following known limitations: - Zero length calls are not filtered out by the hardware - Exception handing such as setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns not match - Pushing different return address onto the stack will have calls/returns not match - If callstack is deeper than the LBR, only the last entries are captured Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Simon Que <sque@chromium.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420482185-29830-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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