[PATCH V2 7/9] perf top: Add option to enable the LBR stitching approach

kan.liang
2020-03-09T17:47:56Z

With the LBR stitching approach, the reconstructed LBR call stack
can break the HW limitation. However, it may reconstruct invalid call
stacks in some cases, e.g. exception handing such as setjmp/longjmp.
Also, it may impact the processing time especially when the number of
samples with stitched LBRs are huge.

Add an option to enable the approach.
The option must be used with --call-graph lbr.

Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt | 9 +++++++++
tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 11 +++++++++++
tools/perf/util/top.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
index 324b6b53c86b..0648d96981fe 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
@@ -310,6 +310,15 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
go straight to the histogram browser, just like 'perf top' with no events
explicitely specified does.

+--stitch-lbr::
+ Show callgraph with stitched LBRs, which may have more complete
+ callgraph. The option must be used with --call-graph lbr recording.
+ Disabled by default. In common cases with call stack overflows,
+ it can recreate better call stacks than the default lbr call stack
+ output. But this approach is not full proof. There can be cases
+ where it creates incorrect call stacks from incorrect matches.
+ The known limitations include exception handing such as
+ setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns not match.

INTERACTIVE PROMPTING KEYS
--------------------------
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index f6dd1a63f159..aae8282b1fac 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include "util/map.h"
#include "util/mmap.h"
#include "util/session.h"
+#include "util/thread.h"
#include "util/symbol.h"
#include "util/synthetic-events.h"
#include "util/top.h"
@@ -766,6 +767,9 @@ static void perf_event__process_sample(struct perf_tool *tool,
if (machine__resolve(machine, &al, sample) < 0)
return;

+ if (top->stitch_lbr)
+ al.thread->lbr_stitch_enable = true;
+
if (!machine->kptr_restrict_warned &&
symbol_conf.kptr_restrict &&
al.cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL) {
@@ -1543,6 +1547,8 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv)
"number of thread to run event synthesize"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "namespaces", &opts->record_namespaces,
"Record namespaces events"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "stitch-lbr", &top.stitch_lbr,
+ "Enable LBR callgraph stitching approach"),
OPTS_EVSWITCH(&top.evswitch),
OPT_END()
};
@@ -1612,6 +1618,11 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv)
}
}

+ if (top.stitch_lbr && !(callchain_param.record_mode == CALLCHAIN_LBR)) {
+ pr_err("Error: --stitch-lbr must be used with --call-graph lbr\n");
+ goto out_delete_evlist;
+ }
+
if (opts->branch_stack && callchain_param.enabled)
symbol_conf.show_branchflag_count = true;

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/top.h b/tools/perf/util/top.h
index f117d4f4821e..45dc84ddff37 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/top.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/top.h
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct perf_top {
bool use_tui, use_stdio;
bool vmlinux_warned;
bool dump_symtab;
+ bool stitch_lbr;
struct hist_entry *sym_filter_entry;
struct evsel *sym_evsel;
struct perf_session *session;
--
2.17.1