perf_counter, x86: Fix kernel-space call-chains
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:57:59 +0000 (09:57 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:08:08 +0000 (09:08 +0200)
Kernel-space call-chains were trimmed at the first entry because
we never processed anything beyond the first stack context.

Allow the backtrace to jump from NMI to IRQ stack then to task stack
and finally user-space stack.

Also calculate the stack and bp variables correctly so that the
stack walker does not exit early.

We can get deep traces as a result, visible in perf report -D output:

0x32af0 [0xe0]: PERF_EVENT (IP, 5): 15134: 0xffffffff815225fd period: 1
... chain: u:2, k:22, nr:24
.....  0: 0xffffffff815225fd
.....  1: 0xffffffff810ac51c
.....  2: 0xffffffff81018e29
.....  3: 0xffffffff81523939
.....  4: 0xffffffff81524b8f
.....  5: 0xffffffff81524bd9
.....  6: 0xffffffff8105e498
.....  7: 0xffffffff8152315a
.....  8: 0xffffffff81522c3a
.....  9: 0xffffffff810d9b74
..... 10: 0xffffffff810dbeec
..... 11: 0xffffffff810dc3fb

This is a 22-entries kernel-space chain.

(We still only record reliable stack entries.)

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c

index 09d8cb6..6d5e7cf 100644 (file)
@@ -1575,8 +1575,8 @@ static void backtrace_warning(void *data, char *msg)
 
 static int backtrace_stack(void *data, char *name)
 {
-       /* Don't bother with IRQ stacks for now */
-       return -1;
+       /* Process all stacks: */
+       return 0;
 }
 
 static void backtrace_address(void *data, unsigned long addr, int reliable)
@@ -1594,6 +1594,8 @@ static const struct stacktrace_ops backtrace_ops = {
        .address                = backtrace_address,
 };
 
+#include "../dumpstack.h"
+
 static void
 perf_callchain_kernel(struct pt_regs *regs, struct perf_callchain_entry *entry)
 {
@@ -1601,26 +1603,20 @@ perf_callchain_kernel(struct pt_regs *regs, struct perf_callchain_entry *entry)
        char *stack;
        int nr = entry->nr;
 
-       callchain_store(entry, instruction_pointer(regs));
+       callchain_store(entry, regs->ip);
 
        stack = ((char *)regs + sizeof(struct pt_regs));
 #ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
-       bp = frame_pointer(regs);
+       get_bp(bp);
 #else
        bp = 0;
 #endif
 
-       dump_trace(NULL, regs, (void *)stack, bp, &backtrace_ops, entry);
+       dump_trace(NULL, regs, (void *)&stack, bp, &backtrace_ops, entry);
 
        entry->kernel = entry->nr - nr;
 }
 
-
-struct stack_frame {
-       const void __user       *next_fp;
-       unsigned long           return_address;
-};
-
 static int copy_stack_frame(const void __user *fp, struct stack_frame *frame)
 {
        int ret;
@@ -1652,7 +1648,7 @@ perf_callchain_user(struct pt_regs *regs, struct perf_callchain_entry *entry)
        callchain_store(entry, regs->ip);
 
        while (entry->nr < MAX_STACK_DEPTH) {
-               frame.next_fp        = NULL;
+               frame.next_frame             = NULL;
                frame.return_address = 0;
 
                if (!copy_stack_frame(fp, &frame))
@@ -1662,7 +1658,7 @@ perf_callchain_user(struct pt_regs *regs, struct perf_callchain_entry *entry)
                        break;
 
                callchain_store(entry, frame.return_address);
-               fp = frame.next_fp;
+               fp = frame.next_frame;
        }
 
        entry->user = entry->nr - nr;