[tip:perf/core] perf report: Ask for ordered events for --tasks option

tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2018-02-17T11:32:57Z

Commit-ID: 8614ada0be7d7be84b85c006d526a9c8f76484fa
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/8614ada0be7d7be84b85c006d526a9c8f76484fa
Author: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 19:17:57 +0100
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:09:23 -0300

perf report: Ask for ordered events for --tasks option

If we have the time in, keep the events in time order.

Committer notes:

Trying to be more verbose, what actual effect this will have in this particular
case?

Before and after this patch shows the artifacts:

--- /tmp/before 2018-02-06 15:40:29.536411625 -0300
+++ /tmp/after 2018-02-06 15:40:51.963403599 -0300
@@ -5,34 +5,34 @@
2540 2540 1818 | gnome-terminal-
3489 3489 2540 | bash
32433 32433 3489 | perf
- 32434 32434 32433 | perf
+ 32434 32434 32433 | make
32441 32441 32434 | make
32514 32514 32441 | make
511 511 32514 | sh
- 512 512 511 | sh
+ 512 512 511 | install
<SNIP>

We don't have 'perf' calling 'perf' calling 'make', etc, the second
'perf' actually is 'make', i.e. there was reordering of the relevant
PERF_RECORD_COMM and PERF_RECORD_FORK records.

Ditto for sh/install later on.

Look for FORK and COMM meta events, for those tids:

# perf report -D | egrep 'PERF_RECORD_(FORK|COMM)' | egrep '3243[34]'
0 14774650990679 0x1a3cd8 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_FORK(32433:32433):(3489:3489)
1 14774652080381 0x1d6568 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_COMM exec: perf:32433/32433
1 14774742473340 0x1dbb48 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_FORK(32434:32434):(32433:32433)
0 14774752005779 0x1a4af8 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_COMM exec: make:32434/32434
0 14774753997960 0x1a5578 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_FORK(32435:32435):(32434:32434)
0 14774756070782 0x1a5618 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_FORK(32438:32438):(32434:32434)
0 14774757772939 0x1a5680 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_FORK(32440:32440):(32434:32434)
0 14774758230600 0x1a56e8 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_FORK(32441:32441):(32434:32434)
#

First column is the cpu, second is the timestamp.

So they are on different CPUs, thus ring buffers, and when we don't use
the ordered_events class, we end up mixing that up, use it to take
advantage of the PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND meta events to go on
ordering the events using the PERF_SAMPLE_TIME present in the
PERF_RECORD_{FORK,COMM,EXIT,SAMPLE,etc} records in the ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180206181813.10943-2-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index 4ad5dc6..8ef7166 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -614,6 +614,7 @@ static int stats_print(struct report *rep)
static void tasks_setup(struct report *rep)
{
memset(&rep->tool, 0, sizeof(rep->tool));
+ rep->tool.ordered_events = true;
if (rep->mmaps_mode) {
rep->tool.mmap = perf_event__process_mmap;
rep->tool.mmap2 = perf_event__process_mmap2;