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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Cody P Schafer <devel-lists@codyps.com>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: perf kvm top --callgraph not showing callgraph
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:10:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BA6D96.5050004@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPoQQ-2Xqms+FL=sfGKftgyMJsRKbS4+Fh8dV6Th-XjoqCBRjw@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/13/13 7:04 PM, Cody P Schafer wrote:
> Hi all, I'm trying to use perf kvm to profile linux early boot.
>
> However, perf kvm top always appears to behave as though it's in
> non-callgraph mode.

During event collection perf kernel side does not walk the guest 
callchain. I believe it only collects IP.

David

>
> I dug through the code a bit, and it looks as though
> machine__resolve_challchain_sample() is getting called with an
> ip_callchain consistently containing only 2 entries:
> PERF_CONTEXT_KERNEL followed by PERF_CONTEXT_USER. This makes it
> appear that the perf_sample is not getting any callchain info from the
> kernel.
>
> System setup:
>
> I'm running qemu as follows:
>
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -kernel ./bzImage  -drive
> file=./rootfs.ext2,if=virtio -append "root=/dev/vda console=ttyS0
> earlyprintk=ttyS0 debug numa=fake=2 kmemleak=on extra_nr_node_ids=100"
> -smp 8 -nographic -enable-kvm -s -m 64G
>
> And perf kvm top as follows:
> $  sudo ./perf kvm --guestvmlinux ~/vmlinux top --call-graph
>
> The host `uname -a` is
>       Linux pizza 3.7.10-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP Thu Apr 25 15:11:18 PDT 2013
> x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2720QM CPU @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel
> GNU/Linux
>
> (And I've gotten the same results with 3.8.0-22-generic #33~precise1-Ubuntu).
>
> The guest kernel is v3.10-rc5 with some additional patches mostly to mm/*
>
> The version of the perf tool is 3.9.rc8.g25e33e (the version in
> linus's tree today).
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-14  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-14  1:04 BUG: perf kvm top --callgraph not showing callgraph Cody P Schafer
2013-06-14  1:10 ` David Ahern [this message]
2013-06-14 21:53   ` Cody P Schafer
2013-06-14 22:01     ` David Ahern
2013-06-14 23:11       ` Cody P Schafer
2013-06-14 23:23         ` David Ahern

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