From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
emunson@mgebm.net, imunsie@au1.ibm.com, eranian@google.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] perf annotate: Numeric assembly labels cause incorrect annotation
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:55:35 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120207145535.71b9f22d@kryten> (raw)
A perf annotate of a kernel function written in assembly shows
very strange percentages:
: _GLOBAL(__copy_tofrom_user_base)
...
: addi r3,r3,1
99.67 : c00000000004d78c: addi r3,r3,1
:
0.00 : 1: bf cr7*4+2,2f
0.07 : c00000000004d790: bne- cr7,c00000000004d7a4
: err1; lhz r0,0(r4)
0.00 : c00000000004d794: lhz r0,0(r4)
: addi r4,r4,2
0.00 : c00000000004d798: addi r4,r4,2
: err1; sth r0,0(r3)
0.00 : c00000000004d79c: sth r0,0(r3)
: addi r3,r3,2
99.60 : c00000000004d7a0: addi r3,r3,2
:
0.00 : 2: bf cr7*4+1,3f
0.12 : c00000000004d7a4: ble- cr7,c00000000004d7b8
: err1; lwz r0,0(r4)
0.00 : c00000000004d7a8: lwz r0,0(r4)
: addi r4,r4,4
0.00 : c00000000004d7ac: addi r4,r4,4
: err1; stw r0,0(r3)
0.00 : c00000000004d7b0: stw r0,0(r3)
: addi r3,r3,4
99.48 : c00000000004d7b4: addi r3,r3,4
~300% in one function. Urgh.
This is caused by the way we parse objdump -S output, eg:
addi r3,r3,1
c00000000004d78c: addi r3,r3,1
1: bf cr7*4+2,2f
c00000000004d790: bne- cr7,c00000000004d7a4
We assume the asm label (1:) is an address, compute a bogus offset
into the function and then screw up the matching of samples to lines.
I notice this also fails with c inline assembly in a similar
manner.
We already have a sanity check that the address is not beyond the end
of the function, so add a check against the start too.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
---
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Index: linux-tip/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
===================================================================
--- linux-tip.orig/tools/perf/util/annotate.c 2012-01-09 17:45:09.056373433 +1100
+++ linux-tip/tools/perf/util/annotate.c 2012-02-07 13:53:01.610970209 +1100
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static int symbol__parse_objdump_line(st
end = map__rip_2objdump(map, sym->end);
offset = line_ip - start;
- if (offset < 0 || (u64)line_ip > end)
+ if (offset < 0 || (u64)line_ip < start || (u64)line_ip > end)
offset = -1;
}
next reply other threads:[~2012-02-07 3:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-07 3:55 Anton Blanchard [this message]
2012-02-07 14:25 ` [PATCH] perf annotate: Numeric assembly labels cause incorrect annotation Eric B Munson
2012-02-07 14:40 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-02-09 10:10 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-09 13:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-09 14:50 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-09 15:50 ` Mike Galbraith
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