Re: [RFC PATCH] perf report: add sort by file lines

From: Lin Ming
Date: Tue Mar 29 2011 - 12:46:01 EST


On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 17:54 +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 17:32 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> >
> > Peter suggested to reverse map the reported IP (PEBS + fixup)
> > to a data access using dwarf info.
> > So I wrote this patch to see if the direction is right.
>
> I'm not sure this is quite the same thing, I'm not arguing this might
> not be useful, but this is not about data access.
>
> Suppose you have a line like:
>
> foo->bar->fubar = tmp->blah;
>
> There's 3 indirections there, a line number doesn't even get you close
> to knowing what data access triggered the event.
>
> struct bar {
> int poekoe[5];
> int fubar;
> };
>
> struct foo {
> long poekoe[3];
> struct bar *bar;
> };
>
> struct tmp {
> long poekoe[4];
> int blah;
> };
>
> void foo(struct foo *foo, struct tmp *tmp)
> {
> foo->bar->fubar = tmp->blah;
> }
>
> Which gives (somewhat simplified):
>
> foo:
> .cfi_startproc
> pushq %rbp
> .cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
> movq %rsp, %rbp
> .cfi_offset 6, -16
> .cfi_def_cfa_register 6
> movq %rdi, -8(%rbp)
> movq %rsi, -16(%rbp)
> movq -8(%rbp), %rax /* load foo arg from stack */
> movq 24(%rax), %rax /* load foo->bar */
> movq -16(%rbp), %rdx /* load tmp arg from stack */
> movl 32(%rdx), %edx /* load tmp->blah */
> movl %edx, 20(%rax) /* store bar->fubar */
> leave
> ret
> .cfi_endproc

I need to have a close look at how dwarf cfi thing works.

>
> where I annotated the various moves with C comments.
>
> Now depending on what exact IP you get using PEBS+fixup you could using
> DWARF bits generate similar deductions from the code as I did in those
> comments and thus know exactly what data member was accessed and how
> (read/write).

Is it an unwind of the call frame stack to find out what data member was
accessed?
How to know the access type(read or write)?

>
> With that data you could then borrow some pahole code and annotate the
> various data structures to illustrate read/write distributions, which
> can then be used as input for data-reorder.

Could you explain a bit more about this?

Thanks,
Lin Ming


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