From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: buggy perf callgraph output
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:40:15 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101208164015.GA5444@amd> (raw)
Hi,
I get strange looking perf output with the callchain hits not sorted
properly for graph and fractal:
7.34% open [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc
|
--- kmem_cache_alloc
|
|---0.05%-- get_empty_filp
| do_filp_open
| do_sys_open
| sys_open
| system_call
| __open_nocancel
|
---0.16%-- getname
do_sys_open
sys_open
system_call
__open_nocancel
6.17% open [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
|
--- _raw_spin_lock
|
|---0.01%-- add_partial
| __slab_free
| kmem_cache_free
| file_free_rcu
| __rcu_process_callbacks
| rcu_process_callbacks
| __do_softirq
| call_softirq
| do_softirq
| irq_exit
| smp_apic_timer_interrupt
| apic_timer_interrupt
|
|---0.16%-- dput
| |
| --0.57%-- fput
| filp_close
| sys_close
| system_call
| __libc_close
|
|--0.60%-- link_path_walk
| do_path_lookup
| do_filp_open
| do_sys_open
| sys_open
| system_call
| __open_nocancel
|
|--0.57%-- __slab_free
| kmem_cache_free
| file_free_rcu
| __rcu_process_callbacks
| rcu_process_callbacks
| __do_softirq
With flat it looks a bit better:
7.34% open [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc
6.09%
kmem_cache_alloc
get_empty_filp
do_filp_open
do_sys_open
sys_open
system_call
__open_nocancel
1.07%
kmem_cache_alloc
getname
do_sys_open
sys_open
system_call
__open_nocancel
6.17% open [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
0.60%
_raw_spin_lock
link_path_walk
do_path_lookup
do_filp_open
do_sys_open
sys_open
system_call
__open_nocancel
0.57%
_raw_spin_lock
fd_install
do_sys_open
sys_open
system_call
__open_nocancel
0.57%
_raw_spin_lock
dput
fput
filp_close
sys_close
system_call
__libc_close
next reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-08 16:40 Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-12-08 21:48 ` buggy perf callgraph output Frederic Weisbecker
2010-12-15 13:02 ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-16 11:47 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-12-17 5:32 ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-23 12:55 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-12-23 13:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-12-23 13:35 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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