[PATCH 06/15] perf report: Fall-back to function name comparison for -g srcline

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-10-25T16:00:59Z

When a callchain entry has no srcline available, we ended up comparing
the instruction pointer. I consider this to be not too useful. Rather, I
think we should group the entries by function name, which this patch
adds. For people who want to split the data on the IP boundary, using
`-g address` is the correct choice.

Before:

~~~~~
100.00% 38.86% [.] main
|
|--61.14%--main inlining.cpp:14
| std::norm<double> complex:664
| std::_Norm_helper<true>::_S_do_it<double> complex:654
| std::abs<double> complex:597
| std::__complex_abs complex:589
| |
| |--56.03%--hypot
| | |
| | |--8.45%--__hypot_finite
| | |
| | |--7.62%--__hypot_finite
| | |
| | |--2.29%--__hypot_finite
| | |
| | |--2.24%--__hypot_finite
| | |
| | |--2.06%--__hypot_finite
| | |
| | |--1.81%--__hypot_finite
...
~~~~~

After:

~~~~~
100.00% 38.86% [.] main
|
|--61.14%--main inlining.cpp:14
| std::norm<double> complex:664
| std::_Norm_helper<true>::_S_do_it<double> complex:654
| std::abs<double> complex:597
| std::__complex_abs complex:589
| |
| |--60.29%--hypot
| | |
| | --56.03%--__hypot_finite
| |
| --0.85%--cabs
~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009203310.17362-7-milian.wolff@kdab.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/util/callchain.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/callchain.c b/tools/perf/util/callchain.c
index e7ee794d1e5b..0f2ba493a7a3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/callchain.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/callchain.c
@@ -645,11 +645,9 @@ enum match_result {
MATCH_GT,
};

-static enum match_result match_chain_srcline(struct callchain_cursor_node *node,
- struct callchain_list *cnode)
+static enum match_result match_chain_strings(const char *left,
+ const char *right)
{
- const char *left = cnode->srcline;
- const char *right = node->srcline;
enum match_result ret = MATCH_EQ;
int cmp;

@@ -659,10 +657,8 @@ static enum match_result match_chain_srcline(struct callchain_cursor_node *node,
cmp = 1;
else if (left && !right)
cmp = -1;
- else if (cnode->ip == node->ip)
- cmp = 0;
else
- cmp = (cnode->ip < node->ip) ? -1 : 1;
+ return MATCH_ERROR;

if (cmp != 0)
ret = cmp < 0 ? MATCH_LT : MATCH_GT;
@@ -679,10 +675,18 @@ static enum match_result match_chain(struct callchain_cursor_node *node,
struct dso *right_dso = NULL;

if (callchain_param.key == CCKEY_SRCLINE) {
- enum match_result match = match_chain_srcline(node, cnode);
+ enum match_result match = match_chain_strings(cnode->srcline,
+ node->srcline);
+
+ /* if no srcline is available, fallback to symbol name */
+ if (match == MATCH_ERROR && cnode->ms.sym && node->sym)
+ match = match_chain_strings(cnode->ms.sym->name,
+ node->sym->name);

if (match != MATCH_ERROR)
return match;
+
+ /* otherwise fall-back to IP-based comparison below */
}

if (cnode->ms.sym && sym && callchain_param.key == CCKEY_FUNCTION) {
--
2.13.6