Re: [PATCH] perf tool: Ensure forward progress unwinding frames

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 12/9/13, 3:02 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>> On 12/1/13, 5:01 PM, David Ahern wrote:
>>> The dwarf option for callstacks is getting stuck on the unwind and showing
>>> repeated frames. For example,
>>>
>>> qemu-system-x86 13759 [001] 287663.084957: syscalls:sys_enter_futex: uaddr: 0x7f770a958700, op: 0x00000081, val: 0x00000001, utime: 0x7f75ea
>>>              7f7705fd23ea __lll_unlock_wake (/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so)
>>>              7f7705fcf045 _L_unlock_649 (/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so)
>>>              7f7705fcf045 _L_unlock_649 (/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so)
>>>              7f7705fcf045 _L_unlock_649 (/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so)
>>>              7f7705fcf045 _L_unlock_649 (/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so)
>>>              7f7705fcf045 _L_unlock_649 (/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so)
>>>              ...
>
> I wonder this is us or libunwind bug (or cfi code) ;-)
>
> looks like you can reproduce..? are you using the latest libunwind?

$ rpm -q libunwind
libunwind-0.99-2.20110424git1e10c293.fc16.x86_64

>
>
>>>              (Last frame repeats 126 times)
>>>
>>> Catch that the same frame is hit multiple times and break out of the loop.
>>>
>>> With this patch:
>>>
>>> qemu-system-x86 13759 [001] 287663.084967: syscalls:sys_exit_futex: 0x1
>>>              7f7705fd23ea __lll_unlock_wake (/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so)
>>>              7f7705fcf045 _L_unlock_649 (/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so)
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>   tools/perf/util/unwind.c | 5 +++++
>>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind.c
>>> index 0efd5393de85..817ffc1f3a00 100644
>>> --- a/tools/perf/util/unwind.c
>>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind.c
>>> @@ -563,6 +563,7 @@ static int get_entries(struct unwind_info *ui, unwind_entry_cb_t cb,
>>>   {
>>>   	unw_addr_space_t addr_space;
>>>   	unw_cursor_t c;
>>> +	unw_word_t prev_ip = 0;
>>>   	int ret;
>>>
>>>   	addr_space = unw_create_addr_space(&accessors, 0);
>>> @@ -579,6 +580,10 @@ static int get_entries(struct unwind_info *ui, unwind_entry_cb_t cb,
>>>   		unw_word_t ip;
>>>
>>>   		unw_get_reg(&c, UNW_REG_IP, &ip);
>>> +		if (ip == prev_ip)
>>> +			break;
>>> +		prev_ip = ip;
>
> hum, how about recursion?
>
> how about some counter and break after some insane value

I chose > 1 as the insane value. Do you have a suggestion on something 
else? 5? 10?

> and maybe display some warning..
>
>    qemu-system-x86 13759 [001] 287663.084967: syscalls:sys_exit_futex: 0x1
>               7f7705fd23ea __lll_unlock_wake (/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so)
>               7f7705fcf045 _L_unlock_649 (/lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so)
>               warning: unwind broken

sure.

David