Re: [PATCH] Add inverted call graph report support to perf tool

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:57:01PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:32:43PM +0800, Sam Liao wrote:
> >  the sysprof that Ingo mentioned.
> 
> sysprof does something like that?
> 
> Note, another reason to avoid abusing the event.ip to group
> per caller, is that we could be able to:
> 
> perf report -s caller,sym -g caller
> 
> If we limit callchains to start from a given foo.so, this may
> sort hists per caller and then per endpoint.
> 
> If your library offers function func1, func2, etc... It will sort
> them per usage (func1 has been first used, then func2, etc...)

I meant func1 has been the most used, then came func2, etc...

> then per endpoint overhead (func1 most often sticks in strcpy(),
> then on read(), etc....).
> 
> Right?
> 
> That may or may not be useful. I don't know. In fact I don't
> want to take the responsibility to judge whether it's useful
> or not. Thus I prefer caller and ip to be two different
> properties of hist entries and not having one absusing the
> other, so that we don't prevent this feature to exist (or many
> other sort combinations I haven't imagined).