[PATCH 0/4] perf script: fix duplicate symbols in db-export

Chris Phlipot
2016-05-11T02:04:35Z

This patch set contains 3 fixes for duplicate symbol creation in the
db-export implementation and one new symbol API required for the fixes.

commit 9c7b37cd63d0 already removed the majority of duplicates, but these
fixes take care of the remaining corner cases.

each patch (except for the 1st, which is a dependency for patch 2) reduces
the number of duplicate symbols exported. When all patches are applied,
my test workload has no more duplicate symbols being exported.

Tests ran:

$perf record --call-graph=dwarf stress -c 2 -t 20
$perf script -s scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py test all callchains
$psql test

To show the effect of the changes we run the following query before/after
the changes on a database created using the export-to-postgresql.py script
with callchains enabled. If this query returns any value greater than 1,
then it means that there are duplicates present.

In the test workload, at least one symbol occurs 299 times before applying
the fixes:

test=# select count(*) as cnt from symbols group by
sym_start,sym_end,dso_id order by cnt desc limit 1;
cnt
-----
299
(1 row)

After applying the fixes no symbol occurs more than once:

test=# select count(*) as cnt from symbols group by
sym_start,sym_end,dso_id order by cnt desc limit 1;
cnt
-----
1
(1 row)

Chris Phlipot (4):
perf symbols: add dso__insert_symbol function
perf script: fix symbol insertion behavior in db-export
perf script: fix callchain addresses in db-export
perf script: fix export of callchains with recursion in db-export

tools/perf/util/db-export.c | 12 ++++++------
tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 12 ++++++++++++
tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 3 +++
3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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