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Sukadev Bhattiprolu 6bcf9c1ff3 perf tools powerpc: Use dwfl_report_elf() instead of offline.
dwfl_report_offline() works only when libraries are prelinked.

Replace dwfl_report_offline() with dwfl_report_elf() so we correctly
extract debug info even from libraries that are not prelinked.

Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150114221045.GA17703@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-01-16 17:49:30 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo bb871a9c8d perf tools: A thread's machine can be found via thread->mg->machine
So stop passing both machine and thread to several thread methods,
reducing function signature length.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ckcy19dcp1jfkmdihdjcqdn1@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-10-29 10:32:46 -02:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu 7d073b335e perf tools powerpc: Cache the DWARF debug info
Cache the DWARF debug info for DSO so we don't have to rebuild it for each
address in the DSO.

Note that dso__new() uses calloc() so don't need to set dso->dwfl to NULL.

	$ /tmp/perf.orig --version
	perf version 3.18.rc1.gc2661b8
	$ /tmp/perf.new --version
	perf version 3.18.rc1.g402d62
	$ perf stat -e cycles,instructions /tmp/perf.orig report -g > orig

	 Performance counter stats for '/tmp/perf.orig report -g':

	     6,428,177,183 cycles                    #    0.000 GHz
	     4,176,288,391 instructions              #    0.65  insns per cycle

	       1.840666132 seconds time elapsed

	$ perf stat -e cycles,instructions /tmp/perf.new report -g > new

	 Performance counter stats for '/tmp/perf.new report -g':

	       305,773,142 cycles                    #    0.000 GHz
	       276,048,272 instructions              #    0.90  insns per cycle

	       0.087693543 seconds time elapsed
	$ diff orig new
	$

Changelog[v2]:

[Arnaldo Carvalho] Cache in existing global objects rather than create
                   new static/globals in functions.

Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141022000958.GB2228@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-10-29 10:32:46 -02:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu ad7e767a72 perf tools powerpc: Explicitly include util/debug.h
Looks like util/debug.h was indirectly included before and is no longer
included now. pr_debug is left undefined and the build of perf tool
fails on Powerpc.

Explicitly include util/debug.h.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140807072700.GA17623@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-08-20 08:29:10 -03:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu a60335ba32 perf tools powerpc: Adjust callchain based on DWARF debug info
When saving the callchain on Power, the kernel conservatively saves excess
entries in the callchain. A few of these entries are needed in some cases
but not others. We should use the DWARF debug information to determine
when the entries are  needed.

Eg: the value in the link register (LR) is needed only when it holds the
return address of a function. At other times it must be ignored.

If the unnecessary entries are not ignored, we end up with duplicate arcs
in the call-graphs.

Use the DWARF debug information to determine if any callchain entries
should be ignored when building call-graphs.

Callgraph before the patch:

    14.67%          2234  sprintft  libc-2.18.so       [.] __random
            |
            --- __random
               |
               |--61.12%-- __random
               |          |
               |          |--97.15%-- rand
               |          |          do_my_sprintf
               |          |          main
               |          |          generic_start_main.isra.0
               |          |          __libc_start_main
               |          |          0x0
               |          |
               |           --2.85%-- do_my_sprintf
               |                     main
               |                     generic_start_main.isra.0
               |                     __libc_start_main
               |                     0x0
               |
                --38.88%-- rand
                          |
                          |--94.01%-- rand
                          |          do_my_sprintf
                          |          main
                          |          generic_start_main.isra.0
                          |          __libc_start_main
                          |          0x0
                          |
                           --5.99%-- do_my_sprintf
                                     main
                                     generic_start_main.isra.0
                                     __libc_start_main
                                     0x0

Callgraph after the patch:

    14.67%          2234  sprintft  libc-2.18.so       [.] __random
            |
            --- __random
               |
               |--95.93%-- rand
               |          do_my_sprintf
               |          main
               |          generic_start_main.isra.0
               |          __libc_start_main
               |          0x0
               |
                --4.07%-- do_my_sprintf
                          main
                          generic_start_main.isra.0
                          __libc_start_main
                          0x0

TODO:	For split-debug info objects like glibc, we can only determine
	the call-frame-address only when both .eh_frame and .debug_info
	sections are available. We should be able to determin the CFA
	even without the .eh_frame section.

Fix suggested by Anton Blanchard.

Thanks to valuable input on DWARF debug information from Ulrich Weigand.

Reported-by: Maynard Johnson <maynard@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Maynard Johnson <maynard@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140625154903.GA29607@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-27 11:14:51 +02:00