linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/util/annotate.c, branch v4.9.16

perf annotate: Don't throw error for zero length symbols

2017-01-09T07:32:16+00:00

commit edee44be59190bf22d5c6e521f3852b7ff16862f upstream.

'perf report --tui' exits with error when it finds a sample of zero
length symbol (i.e. addr == sym->start == sym->end). Actually these are
valid samples. Don't exit TUI and show report with such symbols.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Anton Blanchard 
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/8/189
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Chris Riyder 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479804050-5028-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf annotate: Resolve 'call' operands to function names

2016-09-20T15:28:30+00:00

Before this patch the '_raw_spin_lock_irqsave' and 'update_rq_clock' operands
were appearing just as hexadecimal numbers:

  update_blocked_averages  /proc/kcore
       │       push   %r12
       │       push   %rbx
       │       and    $0xfffffffffffffff0,%rsp
       │       sub    $0x40,%rsp
       │       add    -0x662cac00(,%rdi,8),%rax
       │       mov    %rax,%rbx
       │       mov    %rax,%rdi
       │       mov    %rax,0x38(%rsp)
       │     → callq  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
       │       mov    %rbx,%rdi
       │       mov    %rax,0x30(%rsp)
       │     → callq  update_rq_clock
       │       mov    0x8d0(%rbx),%rax
       │       lea    0x8d0(%rbx),%r11

To check that all is right one can always use the 'o' hotkey and see
the original objdump -dS output, that for this case is:

  update_blocked_averages  /proc/kcore
       │ffffffff990d5489:   push   %r12
       │ffffffff990d548b:   push   %rbx
       │ffffffff990d548c:   and    $0xfffffffffffffff0,%rsp
       │ffffffff990d5490:   sub    $0x40,%rsp
       │ffffffff990d5494:   add    -0x662cac00(,%rdi,8),%rax
       │ffffffff990d549c:   mov    %rax,%rbx
       │ffffffff990d549f:   mov    %rax,%rdi
       │ffffffff990d54a2:   mov    %rax,0x38(%rsp)
       │ffffffff990d54a7: → callq  0xffffffff997eb7a0
       │ffffffff990d54ac:   mov    %rbx,%rdi
       │ffffffff990d54af:   mov    %rax,0x30(%rsp)
       │ffffffff990d54b4: → callq  0xffffffff990c7720
       │ffffffff990d54b9:   mov    0x8d0(%rbx),%rax
       │ffffffff990d54c0:   lea    0x8d0(%rbx),%r11

Use the 'h' hotkey to see a list of available hotkeys.

More work needed to cover operands for other instructions, such as 'mov',
that can resolve variable names, etc.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Chris Riyder 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Hemant Kumar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Naveen N. Rao 
Cc: Pawel Moll 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ravi Bangoria 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Taeung Song 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xqgtw9mzmzcjgwkis9kiiv1p@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate: Pass the symbol's map/dso to the instruction parsers

2016-09-20T15:28:29+00:00

So that things like:

       → callq  0xffffffff993e3230

found while disassembling /proc/kcore can be beautified by later
patches, that will resolve that address to a function, looking it up in
/proc/kallsyms.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Chris Riyder 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Hemant Kumar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Naveen N. Rao 
Cc: Pawel Moll 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ravi Bangoria 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Taeung Song 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-p76myuke4j7gplg54amaklxk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate: Do not ignore call instruction with indirect target

2016-09-20T15:28:29+00:00

Do not ignore call instruction with indirect target when its already
identified as a call. This is an extension of commit e8ea1561952b ("perf
annotate: Use raw form for register indirect call instructions") to
generalize annotation for all instructions with indirect calls.

This is needed for certain powerpc call instructions that use address in
a register (such as bctrl, btarl, ...).

Apart from that, when kcore is used to disassemble function, all call
instructions were ignored. This patch will fix it as a side effect by
not ignoring them. For example,

Before (with kcore):
       mov    %r13,%rdi
       callq  0xffffffff811a7e70
     ^ jmpq   64
       mov    %gs:0x7ef41a6e(%rip),%al

After (with kcore):
       mov    %r13,%rdi
     > callq  0xffffffff811a7e70
     ^ jmpq   64
       mov    %gs:0x7ef41a6e(%rip),%al

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman 
[Suggested about 'bctrl' instruction]
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Chris Riyder 
Cc: Hemant Kumar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Naveen N. Rao 
Cc: Pawel Moll 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Taeung Song 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471611578-11255-5-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate: Add branch stack / basic block

2016-09-08T16:44:03+00:00

I wanted to know the hottest path through a function and figured the
branch-stack (LBR) information should be able to help out with that.

The below uses the branch-stack to create basic blocks and generate
statistics from them.

        from    to              branch_i
        * ----> *
                |
                | block
                v
                * ----> *
                from    to      branch_i+1

The blocks are broken down into non-overlapping ranges, while tracking
if the start of each range is an entry point and/or the end of a range
is a branch.

Each block iterates all ranges it covers (while splitting where required
to exactly match the block) and increments the 'coverage' count.

For the range including the branch we increment the taken counter, as
well as the pred counter if flags.predicted.

Using these number we can find if an instruction:

 - had coverage; given by:

        br->coverage / br->sym->max_coverage

   This metric ensures each symbol has a 100% spot, which reflects the
   observation that each symbol must have a most covered/hottest
   block.

 - is a branch target: br->is_target && br->start == add

 - for targets, how much of a branch's coverages comes from it:

	target->entry / branch->coverage

 - is a branch: br->is_branch && br->end == addr

 - for branches, how often it was taken:

        br->taken / br->coverage

   after all, all execution that didn't take the branch would have
   incremented the coverage and continued onward to a later branch.

 - for branches, how often it was predicted:

        br->pred / br->taken

The coverage percentage is used to color the address and asm sections;
for low (<1%) coverage we use NORMAL (uncolored), indicating that these
instructions are not 'important'. For high coverage (>75%) we color the
address RED.

For each branch, we add an asm comment after the instruction with
information on how often it was taken and predicted.

Output looks like (sans color, which does loose a lot of the
information :/)

$ perf record --branch-filter u,any -e cycles:p ./branches 27
$ perf annotate branches

 Percent |	Source code & Disassembly of branches for cycles:pu (217 samples)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         :	branches():
    0.00 :	  40057a:       push   %rbp
    0.00 :	  40057b:       mov    %rsp,%rbp
    0.00 :	  40057e:       sub    $0x20,%rsp
    0.00 :	  400582:       mov    %rdi,-0x18(%rbp)
    0.00 :	  400586:       mov    %rsi,-0x20(%rbp)
    0.00 :	  40058a:       mov    -0x18(%rbp),%rax
    0.00 :	  40058e:       mov    %rax,-0x10(%rbp)
    0.00 :	  400592:       movq   $0x0,-0x8(%rbp)
    0.00 :	  40059a:       jmpq   400656 
    1.84 :	  40059f:       mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax	# +100.00%
    3.23 :	  4005a3:       and    $0x1,%eax
    1.84 :	  4005a6:       test   %rax,%rax
    0.00 :	  4005a9:       je     4005bf 	# -54.50% (p:42.00%)
    0.46 :	  4005ab:       mov    0x200bbe(%rip),%rax        # 601170 
   12.90 :	  4005b2:       add    $0x1,%rax
    2.30 :	  4005b6:       mov    %rax,0x200bb3(%rip)        # 601170 
    0.46 :	  4005bd:       jmp    4005d1 	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.92 :	  4005bf:       mov    0x200baa(%rip),%rax        # 601170 	# +49.54%
   13.82 :	  4005c6:       sub    $0x1,%rax
    0.46 :	  4005ca:       mov    %rax,0x200b9f(%rip)        # 601170 
    2.30 :	  4005d1:       mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax	# +50.46%
    0.46 :	  4005d5:       mov    %rax,%rdi
    0.46 :	  4005d8:       callq  400526 	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 :	  4005dd:       mov    %rax,-0x10(%rbp)	# +100.00%
    0.92 :	  4005e1:       mov    -0x18(%rbp),%rax
    0.00 :	  4005e5:       and    $0x1,%eax
    0.00 :	  4005e8:       test   %rax,%rax
    0.00 :	  4005eb:       je     4005ff 	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 :	  4005ed:       mov    0x200b7c(%rip),%rax        # 601170 
    0.00 :	  4005f4:       shr    $0x2,%rax
    0.00 :	  4005f8:       mov    %rax,0x200b71(%rip)        # 601170 
    0.00 :	  4005ff:       mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax	# +100.00%
    7.37 :	  400603:       and    $0x1,%eax
    3.69 :	  400606:       test   %rax,%rax
    0.00 :	  400609:       jne    400612 	# -59.25% (p:42.99%)
    1.84 :	  40060b:       mov    $0x1,%eax
   14.29 :	  400610:       jmp    400617 	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    1.38 :	  400612:       mov    $0x0,%eax	# +57.65%
   10.14 :	  400617:       test   %al,%al	# +42.35%
    0.00 :	  400619:       je     40062f 	# -57.65% (p:100.00%)
    0.46 :	  40061b:       mov    0x200b4e(%rip),%rax        # 601170 
    2.76 :	  400622:       sub    $0x1,%rax
    0.00 :	  400626:       mov    %rax,0x200b43(%rip)        # 601170 
    0.46 :	  40062d:       jmp    400641 	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.92 :	  40062f:       mov    0x200b3a(%rip),%rax        # 601170 	# +56.13%
    2.30 :	  400636:       add    $0x1,%rax
    0.92 :	  40063a:       mov    %rax,0x200b2f(%rip)        # 601170 
    0.92 :	  400641:       mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax	# +43.87%
    2.30 :	  400645:       mov    %rax,%rdi
    0.00 :	  400648:       callq  400526 	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 :	  40064d:       mov    %rax,-0x10(%rbp)	# +100.00%
    1.84 :	  400651:       addq   $0x1,-0x8(%rbp)
    0.92 :	  400656:       mov    -0x8(%rbp),%rax
    5.07 :	  40065a:       cmp    -0x20(%rbp),%rax
    0.00 :	  40065e:       jb     40059f 	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 :	  400664:       nop
    0.00 :	  400665:       leaveq
    0.00 :	  400666:       retq

(Note: the --branch-filter u,any was used to avoid spurious target and
branch points due to interrupts/faults, they show up as very small -/+
annotations on 'weird' locations)

Committer note:

Please take a look at:

  http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/perf/annotate_basic_blocks.png

To see the colors.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Anshuman Khandual 
Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
[ Moved sym->max_coverage to 'struct annotate', aka symbol__annotate(sym) ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Remove symbol_filter_t machinery

2016-09-05T14:14:50+00:00

We're not using it anymore, few users were, but we really could do
without it, simplify lots of functions by removing it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1zng8wdznn00iiz08bb7q3vn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate: Initialize the priv are in symbol__new()

2016-08-30T13:56:34+00:00

We need to initializa some fields (right now just a mutex) when we
allocate the per symbol annotation struct, so do it at the symbol
constructor instead of (ab)using the filter mechanism for that.

This way we remove one of the few cases we have for that symbol filter,
which will eventually led to removing it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cvz34avlz1lez888lob95390@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf disassemble: Extract logic to find file to pass to objdump to a separate function

2016-08-23T18:37:33+00:00

Disentangling this a bit further, more to come.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7bjv2xazuyzs0xw01mlwosn5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf disassemble: Simplify logic for picking the filename to disassemble

2016-08-23T18:37:33+00:00

Lots of changes to support kcore, compressed modules, build-id files
left us with some spaguetti code, simplify it a bit, more to come.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-h70p7x451li3f2fhs44vzmm8@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf disassemble: Move check for kallsyms + !kcore

2016-08-23T18:37:33+00:00

We don't need to do all that filename logic to then just have to test
something unrelated and bail out, move it to the start of the function.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lk1v4srtsktonnyp6t1o0uhx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo