Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752556AbaAQM15 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:27:57 -0500 Received: from mail-vb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:61209 "EHLO mail-vb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751958AbaAQM1y (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:27:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140117122431.GC1130@krava.brq.redhat.com> References: <1389098853-14466-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> <20140117122431.GC1130@krava.brq.redhat.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:27:53 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] perf tools: Add libdw DWARF unwind support From: Jean Pihet To: Jiri Olsa Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Corey Ashford , Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Namhyung Kim , Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , David Ahern , Jan Kratochvil Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Jiri, Let me start on it next week. Is that OK? Thx for the reminder, I had not entirely forgotten it though ;p Regards, Jean On 17 January 2014 13:24, Jiri Olsa wrote: > ping ;-) > > thanks, > jirka > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 01:47:17PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote: >> hi, >> adding libdw DWARF unwind support, which is part of just released >> elfutils package 0.158. >> >> We can now compile perf to have either libunwind DWARF unwind, >> (which is still default) or the new one libdw unwind. >> >> Examples: >> - compile in libdw unwinder if present: >> $ make NO_LIBUNWIND=1 >> >> - compile in libdw (with libdw installation directory) unwinder if present: >> $ make LIBDW_DIR=/opt/elfutils/ NO_LIBUNWIND=1 >> >> - disable post dwarf unwind completely: >> $ make NO_LIBUNWIND=1 NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1 >> >> Performance wise the libdw unwinder seems to be faster. >> Following results are from 2GB perf.data file with 249156 >> samples: >> >> The libdw unwind perf: >> $ time perf report -i ~/perf.data > perf.data.ldw >> >> real 0m35.746s >> user 0m24.211s >> sys 0m11.214s >> >> The libunwind unwind perf: >> $ time perf report -i ~/perf.data > perf.data.unw >> >> real 1m41.149s >> user 1m9.694s >> sys 0m30.595s >> >> In example above I've got 2206 differences (perf.data.ldw and >> perf.data.unw files) in the callchains output out of the 249156 >> samples which is below 1%. Together with some other tips for speed >> increase it's on my TODO list for future. >> >> Git tree: >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf.git/ >> perf/core_libdw_unwind >> >> Kudos to Jan Kratochvil for helping me with the new interface. >> >> Jean, >> I haven't tested on arm.. so not sure I broke anything there. >> Any chance you could test for me, and maybe make the automated >> test I added work there? ;-) >> >> thanks, >> jirka >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa >> Cc: Corey Ashford >> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker >> Cc: Ingo Molnar >> Cc: Namhyung Kim >> Cc: Paul Mackerras >> Cc: Peter Zijlstra >> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo >> Cc: David Ahern >> Cc: Jan Kratochvil >> Cc: Jean Pihet >> --- >> Jiri Olsa (16): >> perf tools: Automate setup of FEATURE_CHECK_(C|LD)FLAGS-all variables >> perf tools: Fix machine initialization >> perf tools: Make perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events global >> perf tests x86: Introduce perf_regs_load function >> perf tests x86: Add dwarf unwind test >> perf tools: Fix dwarf unwind max_stack processing >> perf tools: Do not report zero address in unwind >> perf tools: Add mask into struct regs_dump >> perf tools: Separate libunwind code to special object >> perf tools: Rename unwind__arch_reg_id into libunwind__arch_reg_id >> perf tools: Introduce HAVE_DWARF_UNWIND_SUPPORT macro >> perf tools: Separate perf_reg_value function in perf_regs object >> perf tools: Add feature check for libdw dwarf unwind >> perf tools: Add libdw DWARF post unwind support >> perf tools: Setup default dwarf post unwinder >> perf tests: Add NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND make test >> >> tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 19 ++++++- >> tools/perf/arch/arm/Makefile | 2 +- >> tools/perf/arch/arm/util/{unwind.c => unwind-libunwind.c} | 2 +- >> tools/perf/arch/x86/Makefile | 9 +++- >> tools/perf/arch/x86/include/perf_regs.h | 6 +++ >> tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/dwarf-unwind.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++ >> tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/regs_load.S | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/unwind-libdw.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++ >> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/{unwind.c => unwind-libunwind.c} | 4 +- >> tools/perf/builtin-inject.c | 1 - >> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 10 ++-- >> tools/perf/config/Makefile | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------- >> tools/perf/config/feature-checks/Makefile | 6 ++- >> tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-all.c | 5 ++ >> tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libdw-dwarf-unwind.c | 13 +++++ >> tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c | 8 +++ >> tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c | 144 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> tools/perf/tests/make | 63 +++++++++++----------- >> tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c | 17 +++--- >> tools/perf/tests/tests.h | 9 ++++ >> tools/perf/util/event.c | 12 ++--- >> tools/perf/util/event.h | 12 ++++- >> tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 13 ++--- >> tools/perf/util/machine.c | 4 +- >> tools/perf/util/perf_regs.c | 19 +++++++ >> tools/perf/util/perf_regs.h | 13 +++++ >> tools/perf/util/session.c | 5 +- >> tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c | 210 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.h | 21 ++++++++ >> tools/perf/util/{unwind.c => unwind-libunwind.c} | 50 ++++++----------- >> tools/perf/util/unwind.h | 11 ++-- >> 31 files changed, 849 insertions(+), 135 deletions(-) >> rename tools/perf/arch/arm/util/{unwind.c => unwind-libunwind.c} (95%) >> create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/dwarf-unwind.c >> create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/regs_load.S >> create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/unwind-libdw.c >> rename tools/perf/arch/x86/util/{unwind.c => unwind-libunwind.c} (95%) >> create mode 100644 tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libdw-dwarf-unwind.c >> create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c >> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/perf_regs.c >> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c >> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.h >> rename tools/perf/util/{unwind.c => unwind-libunwind.c} (92%) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/