Re: [PATCH 1/1 tip] perf report: Introduce -u/--unresolved-symbols

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Mon Jul 27 2009 - 23:11:14 EST


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:11:26PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> So that we can concentrate on getting more symtabs or on figuring out
> which files we have to recompile with -g or ask proprietary vendors for
> graciously ship us rich symtabs.
>
> For instance, shame on me:
>
> [acme@doppio ~]$ perf report -us comm,dso,symbol | head -7
> # Samples: 22501
> #
> # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
> # ........ ............ ............................................ ......
> #
> 82.53% npviewer.bin /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [.] 0x000000003820d7
> 6.34% skype /opt/skype_static-2.0.0.72/skype [.] 0x00000000e1e0b1
>
> ;-)
>
> But the next cset should be rather nice, as I realized that doing:
>
> yum install /usr/lib/debug/<DSO NAME WITH MISSING SYMTAB>.debug
>
> Works!
>
> Now think about a world where:
>
> yum install /usr/lib/debug/<DSO NAME WITH MISSING SYMTAB>.symtab
>
> Works, makes the internet a better place by not downloading whales,
> oops, debuginfo files full of crap we don't need.
>
> Don't get me wrong, the aforementioned crap has its place in this world,
> just not for the perf tools, _so far_.
>
> Ah, and replace 'yum' with zypper, apt-get (I tried!), smart, urpmi,
> whatever-is-your-still-non-standardized way to get needed pieces to do
> real work.
>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>,
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---



Looks pretty useful :-)

Thanks!
Frederic.



> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 5 +++++
> tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 11 +++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
> index e72e931..86aec08 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
> +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
> @@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ OPTIONS
> all occurances of this separator in symbol names (and other output)
> with a '.' character, that thus it's the only non valid separator.
>
> +-u::
> +--unresolved-symbols
> +
> + Consider only unresolved symbols.
> +
> SEE ALSO
> --------
> linkperf:perf-stat[1]
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
> index a118bc7..c30f4cd 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ static int modules;
>
> static int full_paths;
> static int show_nr_samples;
> +static int show_only_unresolved_symbols;
>
> static unsigned long page_size;
> static unsigned long mmap_window = 32;
> @@ -1556,8 +1557,12 @@ process_sample_event(event_t *event, unsigned long offset, unsigned long head)
> if (dso_list && dso && dso->name && !strlist__has_entry(dso_list, dso->name))
> return 0;
>
> - if (sym_list && sym && !strlist__has_entry(sym_list, sym->name))
> - return 0;
> + if (sym) {
> + if (show_only_unresolved_symbols)
> + return 0;
> + if (sym_list && !strlist__has_entry(sym_list, sym->name))
> + return 0;
> + }
>
> if (hist_entry__add(thread, map, dso, sym, ip, chain, level, period)) {
> eprintf("problem incrementing symbol count, skipping event\n");
> @@ -2020,6 +2025,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
> OPT_STRING('t', "field-separator", &field_sep, "separator",
> "separator for columns, no spaces will be added between "
> "columns '.' is reserved."),
> + OPT_BOOLEAN('u', "unresolved-symbols", &show_only_unresolved_symbols,
> + "Show only the symbols that were no resolved to names"),
> OPT_END()
> };
>
> --
> 1.6.2.5
>

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