Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] perf diff: Use hists to manage basic blocks per symbol

From: Jin, Yao
Date: Wed Jun 12 2019 - 02:16:23 EST




On 6/11/2019 4:56 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 07:41:47PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:


On 6/5/2019 7:44 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 10:36:14PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:

SNIP

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.h b/tools/perf/util/sort.h
index 43623fa..d1641da 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/sort.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.h
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ struct hist_entry_diff {
/* HISTC_WEIGHTED_DIFF */
s64 wdiff;
+
+ /* PERF_HPP_DIFF__CYCLES */
+ s64 cycles;
};
};
@@ -143,6 +146,9 @@ struct hist_entry {
struct branch_info *branch_info;
long time;
struct hists *hists;
+ void *block_hists;
+ int block_idx;
+ int block_num;
struct mem_info *mem_info;
struct block_info *block_info;

could you please not add the new block* stuff in here,
and instead use the "c2c model" and use yourr own struct
on top of hist_entry? we are trying to librarize this
stuff and keep only necessary things in here..

you're already using hist_entry_ops, so should be easy

something like:

struct block_hist_entry {
void *block_hists;
int block_idx;
int block_num;
struct block_info *block_info;

struct hist_entry he;
};



jirka


Hi Jiri,

After more considerations, maybe I can't move these stuffs from hist_entry
to block_hist_entry.

why?


Actually we use 2 kinds of hist_entry in this patch series. On kind of
hist_entry is for symbol/function. The other kind of hist_entry is for basic
block.

correct

so the way I see it the processing goes like this:


1) there's standard hist_entry processing ending up
with evsel->hists->rb_root full of hist entries

2) then you process every hist_entry and create
new 'struct hists' for each and fill it with
symbol counts data



you could add 'struct hist_entry_ops' for the 1) processing
that adds the 'struct hists' object for each hist_entry

and add another 'struct hist_entry_ops' for 2) processing
to carry the block data for each hist_entry

jirka


Hi Jiri,

Yes, I can use two hist_entry_ops but one thing is still difficult to handle that is the printing of blocks.

One function may contain multiple blocks so I add 'block_num' in 'struct hist_entry' to record the number of blocks.

In patch "perf diff: Print the basic block cycles diff", I reuse most of current code to print the blocks. The major change is:

static int hist_entry__fprintf(struct hist_entry *he, size_t size,
char *bf, size_t bfsz, FILE *fp,
bool ignore_callchains) {

+ if (he->block_hists)
+ return hist_entry__block_fprintf(he, bf, size, fp);
+
hist_entry__snprintf(he, &hpp);
}

+static int hist_entry__block_fprintf(struct hist_entry *he,
+ char *bf, size_t size,
+ FILE *fp)
+{
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < he->block_num; i++) {
+ struct perf_hpp hpp = {
+ .buf = bf,
+ .size = size,
+ .skip = false,
+ };
+
+ he->block_idx = i;
+ hist_entry__snprintf(he, &hpp);
+
+ if (!hpp.skip)
+ ret += fprintf(fp, "%s\n", bf);
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
+

So it looks at least I need to add 'block_num' to 'struct hist_entry', otherwise I can't reuse most of codes.

Any idea for 'block_num'?

Thanks
Jin Yao