Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] perf report/annotate: Support average IPC and IPC coverage for function

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:39:34PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
> Add supporting of displaying the average IPC and IPC coverage
> percentage per function.
> 
> For example,
> 
> $ perf record -b ...
> $ perf report -s symbol or
>   perf report -s symbol --stdio
> 
> Overhead  Symbol                           IPC   [IPC Coverage]
>   39.60%  [.] __random                     2.30  [ 54.8%]
>   18.02%  [.] main                         0.43  [ 54.3%]
>   14.21%  [.] compute_flag                 2.29  [100.0%]
>   14.16%  [.] rand                         0.36  [100.0%]
>    7.06%  [.] __random_r                   2.57  [ 70.5%]
>    6.85%  [.] rand@plt                     0.00  [  0.0%]
>   ...
> 
> $ perf annotate --stdio2
> 
> Percent  IPC Cycle (Average IPC: 2.30, IPC Coverage: 54.8%)
> 
>                         Disassembly of section .text:
> 
>                         000000000003aac0 <random@@GLIBC_2.2.5>:
>   8.32  3.28              sub    $0x18,%rsp
>         3.28              mov    $0x1,%esi
>         3.28              xor    %eax,%eax
>         3.28              cmpl   $0x0,argp_program_version_hook@@GLIBC_2.2.5+0x1e0
>  11.57  3.28     1      ↓ je     20
>                           lock   cmpxchg %esi,__abort_msg@@GLIBC_PRIVATE+0x8a0
>                         ↓ jne    29
>                         ↓ jmp    43
>  11.57  1.10        20:   cmpxchg %esi,__abort_msg@@GLIBC_PRIVATE+0x8a0
>  ...
> 
> v4:
> ---
>     Add a new patch "perf report: Documentation average IPC and IPC coverage"
>     to explain the new columns "IPC" and "IPC Coverage".
> 
>     Other patches are not changed.
> 
> v3:
> ---
>     Remove the sortkey "ipc" from command-line. The columns "IPC"
>     and "[IPC Coverage]" are automatically enabled when "symbol"
>     is specified.
> 
>     Patch "perf report: Display average IPC and IPC coverage per symbol"
>     is impacted.
> 
> v2:
> ---
>   1. Merge in Jiri's patch to support stdio mode
> 
>   2. Add a new patch "perf annotate: Create a annotate2 flag
>      in struct symbol" which records if the symbol has been
>      annotated yet.
> 
>   3. Minor update such as adding { } for multiline code in 'if'
>      condition.
> 
> Jin Yao (4):
>   perf annotate: Compute average IPC and IPC coverage per symbol
>   perf annotate: Create a annotate2 flag in struct symbol
>   perf report: Display average IPC and IPC coverage per symbol
>   perf report: Documentation average IPC and IPC coverage

Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

thanks,
jirka