From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Milian Wolff Subject: Re: perf call stacks on 32bit ARM v7 Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 23:12:17 +0200 Message-ID: <2583963.6LxZiVeVan@agathebauer> References: <4233607.GXAFRqVoOG@agathebauer> <1679528.gn0OXkLKrD@agathebauer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5882775.EPO9Y1pq7l"; micalg="sha1"; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Return-path: Received: from mail.kdab.com ([176.9.126.58]:43276 "EHLO mail.kdab.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751229AbcJBVMZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2016 17:12:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-perf-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Jean Pihet Cc: "Wangnan (F)" , linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, hekuang 00206996 --nextPart5882775.EPO9Y1pq7l Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Freitag, 30. September 2016 09:32:44 CEST Jean Pihet wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Milian Wolff wrote: > > On Donnerstag, 29. September 2016 09:39:51 CEST Jean Pihet wrote: > >> Hi Milian, Wangnan, > >> > >> I am pretty busy this week. Let me check and come back to you next week. > > > > Sure, take your time - much appreciated! > > > >> PS: did you check the detailed instructions from the Linaro wiki pages? > >> These are linked from the Fosdem presentation slides. > > > > You mean this page, right: > > > > https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/libunwind > > I mean > https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/TOOLS/perf-callstack-unwinding > where the details about installation, compilation etc. are found. > > In short, DWARF unwinding on ARMv7 should work out of the box. You > need libunwind, the correct kernel config options and perf installed. > As you are mentioning the downside is the size of the generated trace > which can be a limitation on embedded systems. Some parameters can be > used to control the size of the generated trace (-F). No, I mean the size of the application code when debug symbols are added: tmp$ du -hs libQt5Core.so.5.7.1 63M libQt5Core.so.5.7.1 tmp$ strip libQt5Core.so.5.7.1 tmp$ du -hs libQt5Core.so.5.7.1 4.8M libQt5Core.so.5.7.1 And this is just one library involved of many in the applications I have to deal with regularly. I just had a case where the target platform had about 50MB storage space free. I resorted to connecting an USB drive to load the application code with debug symbols from. But this changes the performance behavior of the application, as the code is not loaded anymore from the often excruciatingly slow on-board flash drive. > > That does not mention perf at all, and only talks about libunwind. Note > > how > > your talk, and the wiki, say .exidx unwinding using libunwind works. But > > your slides also explicitly say that this mechanism is not supported by > > perf, yet. I would like to know the reason for that, or whether this is > > outdated information. > > I do not recall the details but .exidx is not supported on ARM, > because of the compiler that does not generate the info in the > binaries (you can check the ELF sections for it) If I compile with -funwind-tables, then I do get the .exidx section, see this link I posted earlier: https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/libunwind > or the kernel does not unwind the info. That sounds more like the culprit - can someone confirm, that: - for frame-pointer based unwinding, perf unwinds the stacks in kernel space - whereas dwarf-based unwinding copies the stack together with the samples into the perf.data, and does the unwinding later on So one would need to either - add .exidx unwinding support into the kernel - copy whatever is required into perf.data and do the unwinding later on can someone clarify what is actually required to do that? > > Thanks! > > I hope this helps! Cheers -- Milian Wolff | milian.wolff@kdab.com | Software Engineer KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH&Co KG, a KDAB Group company Tel: +49-30-521325470 KDAB - The Qt Experts --nextPart5882775.EPO9Y1pq7l Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExCzAJBgUrDgMCGgUAMIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAQAAoIIUdzCCBGYw ggNOoAMCAQICEFEmCpMc4n+cw6VfeeByroIwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAwgZMxCzAJBgNVBAYTAlVT MQswCQYDVQQIEwJVVDEXMBUGA1UEBxMOU2FsdCBMYWtlIENpdHkxHjAcBgNVBAoTFVRoZSBVU0VS VFJVU1QgTmV0d29yazEhMB8GA1UECxMYaHR0cDovL3d3dy51c2VydHJ1c3QuY29tMRswGQYDVQQD ExJVVE4gLSBEQVRBQ29ycCBTR0MwHhcNMDUwNjA3MDgwOTEwWhcNMTkwNjI0MTkwNjMwWjBvMQsw CQYDVQQGEwJTRTEUMBIGA1UEChMLQWRkVHJ1c3QgQUIxJjAkBgNVBAsTHUFkZFRydXN0IEV4dGVy bmFsIFRUUCBOZXR3b3JrMSIwIAYDVQQDExlBZGRUcnVzdCBFeHRlcm5hbCBDQSBSb290MIIBIjAN BgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAt/caM+byAAQtOeBOW+0fvGwPzbX6I7bO3psRM5ek 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