Messages in this thread | | | From | Jiri Olsa <> | Subject | [RFCv5 00/23] perf: Add backtrace post dwarf unwind | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:47:51 +0200 |
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hi,
patches available also as tarball in here: http://people.redhat.com/~jolsa/perf_post_unwind_v6.tar.bz2
v6 changes: patch 01/23 - unrelated - ftrace stuff patch 03/23 - added PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER bit - added regs_user initialization patch 07/23 - added PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER bit - sample_stack_user changed to u32 and added size check new patches 1,9,10,20
v5 changes: patch 1/19 - having just one enum set of the perf registers patch 2/19 - using for_each_set_bit for scanning the mask - single regs enum for both 32 and 64 bits versions - using regs mask != 0 trigger to trigger the regs dump patch 5/19 - adding perf_output_skip so we can skip undumped part of the stack in RB patch 6/19 - using stack size != 0 trigger to trigger the stack dump - do not zero the memory for non retrieved part of the stack dump patch 7/19 - adding exclude_callchain_kernel attribute patch 8/19 - this could be taken without the rest of the series
v4 changes: - no real change from v3, just rebase - v3 patch 06/17 got already merged
v3 changes: patch 01/17 - added HAVE_PERF_REGS config option patch 02/17, 04/17 - regs and stack perf interface is more general now patch 06/17 - unrelated online fix for i386 compilation patch 16/17 - few namespace fixies
--- Adding the post unwinding user stack backtrace using dwarf unwind via libunwind. The original work was done by Frederic. I mostly took his patches and make them compile in current kernel code plus I added some stuff here and there.
The main idea is to store user registers and portion of user stack when the sample data during the record phase. Then during the report, when the data is presented, perform the actual dwarf dwarf unwind.
attached patches: 01/23 tracing/filter: Add missing initialization 02/23 perf: Unified API to record selective sets of arch registers 03/23 perf: Add ability to attach user level registers dump to sample 04/23 perf, x86: Add copy_from_user_nmi_nochk for best effort copy 05/23 perf: Factor __output_copy to be usable with specific copy function 06/23 perf: Add perf_output_skip function to skip bytes in sample 07/23 perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample 08/23 perf: Add attribute to filter out callchains 09/23 x86_64: Store userspace rsp in system_call fastpath 10/23 perf, tool: Adding PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER2 to the header swap check 11/23 perf, tool: Remove unsused evsel parameter from machine__resolve_callchain 12/23 perf, tool: Factor DSO symtab types to generic binary types 13/23 perf, tool: Add interface to read DSO image data 14/23 perf, tool: Add '.note' check into search for NOTE section 15/23 perf, tool: Back [vdso] DSO with real data 16/23 perf, tool: Add interface to arch registers sets 17/23 perf, tool: Add libunwind dependency for dwarf cfi unwinding 18/23 perf, tool: Support user regs and stack in sample parsing 19/23 perf, tool: Support for dwarf cfi unwinding on post processing 20/23 perf, tool: Adding round_up/round_down macros 21/23 perf, tool: Support for dwarf mode callchain on perf 22/23 perf, tool: Add dso data caching 23/23 perf, tool: Add dso data caching tests
I tested on Fedora. There was not much gain on i386, because the binaries are compiled with frame pointers. Thought the dwarf backtrace is more accurade and unwraps calls in more details (functions that do not set the frame pointers).
I could see some improvement on x86_64, where I got full backtrace where current code could got just the first address out of the instruction pointer.
Example on x86_64: [dwarf] perf record -g -e syscalls:sys_enter_write date
100.00% date libc-2.14.90.so [.] __GI___libc_write | --- __GI___libc_write _IO_file_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5 new_do_write _IO_do_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5 _IO_file_overflow@@GLIBC_2.2.5 0x4022cd 0x401ee6 __libc_start_main 0x4020b9
[frame pointer] perf record -g fp -e syscalls:sys_enter_write date
100.00% date libc-2.14.90.so [.] __GI___libc_write | --- __GI___libc_write
Also I tested on coreutils binaries mainly, but I could see getting wider backtraces with dwarf unwind for more complex application like firefox.
The unwind should go throught [vdso] object. I haven't studied the [vsyscall] yet, so not sure there.
Attached patches should work on both x86 and x86_64. I did some initial testing so far.
The unwind backtrace can be interrupted by following reasons: - bug in unwind information of processed shared library - bug in unwind processing code (most likely ;) ) - insufficient dump stack size - wrong register value - x86_64 does not store whole set of registers when in exception, but so far it looks like RIP and RSP should be enough
thanks for comments, jirka --- arch/Kconfig | 6 + arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/perf_regs.h | 34 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 5 + arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c | 90 +++ arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c | 15 +- include/linux/perf_event.h | 45 ++- include/linux/perf_regs.h | 19 + kernel/events/callchain.c | 25 +- kernel/events/core.c | 184 +++++++- kernel/events/internal.h | 69 ++- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 10 +- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 2 +- tools/perf/Makefile | 45 ++- tools/perf/arch/x86/Makefile | 3 + tools/perf/arch/x86/include/perf_regs.h | 80 +++ tools/perf/arch/x86/util/unwind.c | 111 ++++ tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 106 ++++- tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 24 +- tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 56 ++- tools/perf/builtin-test.c | 8 +- tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 7 +- tools/perf/config/feature-tests.mak | 25 + tools/perf/perf.h | 9 +- tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/dso-test-data.c | 154 ++++++ tools/perf/util/event.h | 16 +- tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 8 + tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 1 + tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 41 ++- tools/perf/util/header.c | 3 + tools/perf/util/include/linux/compiler.h | 1 + tools/perf/util/include/linux/kernel.h | 10 + tools/perf/util/map.c | 23 +- tools/perf/util/map.h | 9 +- tools/perf/util/perf_regs.h | 14 + tools/perf/util/python.c | 3 +- .../perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c | 3 +- .../util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c | 3 +- tools/perf/util/session.c | 111 ++++- tools/perf/util/session.h | 15 +- tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 435 ++++++++++++--- tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 52 ++- tools/perf/util/trace-event-scripting.c | 3 +- tools/perf/util/trace-event.h | 5 +- tools/perf/util/unwind.c | 567 ++++++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/util/unwind.h | 34 ++ tools/perf/util/vdso.c | 90 +++ tools/perf/util/vdso.h | 8 + 52 files changed, 2385 insertions(+), 211 deletions(-)
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