perf thread: Add a knob for LBR stitch approach
authorKan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:25:09 +0000 (13:25 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Sat, 18 Apr 2020 12:05:01 +0000 (09:05 -0300)
commit771fd155dfaa5332da69d606db16fe27bd9d388d
treebfff0bf71bfd58b305416681a976f96e7bbf9d71
parente2b23483eb1d851b4c48935a995f79b2de41c3ed
perf thread: Add a knob for LBR stitch approach

The LBR stitch approach should be disabled by default. Because

- The stitching approach base on LBR call stack technology. The known
  limitations of LBR call stack technology still apply to the approach,
  e.g. Exception handing such as setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns
  not match.

- This approach is not foolproof. There can be cases where it creates
  incorrect call stacks from incorrect matches. There is no attempt to
  validate any matches in another way.

The 'lbr_stitch_enable' is used to indicate whether enable LBR stitch
approach, which is disabled by default. The following patch will
introduce a new option for each tools to enable the LBR stitch
approach.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Pavel Gerasimov <pavel.gerasimov@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Slobodskoy <vitaly.slobodskoy@intel.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200319202517.23423-10-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/thread.c
tools/perf/util/thread.h