[PATCH v7 2/9] perf c2c: add function view browser skeleton

From: Jiebin Sun

Date: Thu Aug 06 2026 - 03:41:51 EST


Add the skeleton of the c2c function view: a new TUI browser in
tools/perf/ui/browsers/c2c-function.c reached by pressing TAB in the
cacheline view. This commit wires up the entry point (a stub that will be
filled in by later patches), declares perf_c2c__browse_function_view() in
c2c.h, and adds the TAB key handler and help text to the cacheline browser.

Link c2c-function.o directly into perf rather than libperf-ui.a. The
browser is part of the c2c command and later patches make it depend on
state and callbacks provided by builtin-c2c.o. libperf-ui.a is also linked
into python/perf.so under --whole-archive, without the builtin command
objects, which would leave those command-private symbols unresolved.
Build the browser only with CONFIG_SLANG, matching its TUI-only entry
point.

Signed-off-by: Jiebin Sun <jiebin.sun@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Tianyou Li <tianyou.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Wangyang Guo <wangyang.guo@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/Build | 1 +
tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 4 ++
tools/perf/c2c.h | 12 +++--
tools/perf/ui/browsers/c2c-function.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/perf/ui/browsers/c2c-function.c

diff --git a/tools/perf/Build b/tools/perf/Build
index e18c80a5c1bc..21b509f3a23d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/Build
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ perf-y += builtin-mem.o
perf-y += builtin-data.o
perf-y += builtin-version.o
perf-y += builtin-c2c.o
+perf-$(CONFIG_SLANG) += ui/browsers/c2c-function.o
perf-y += builtin-daemon.o

perf-$(CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT) += builtin-kmem.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
index 4a3cf8c906f9..12b18208d3dd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
@@ -2737,6 +2737,7 @@ static int perf_c2c__hists_browse(struct hists *hists)
static const char help[] =
" d Display cacheline details \n"
" ENTER Toggle callchains (if present) \n"
+ " TAB Switch to function view\n"
" q Quit \n";

browser = perf_c2c_browser__new(hists);
@@ -2758,6 +2759,9 @@ static int perf_c2c__hists_browse(struct hists *hists)
case 'd':
perf_c2c__browse_cacheline(browser->he_selection);
break;
+ case '\t':
+ perf_c2c__browse_function_view();
+ break;
case '?':
ui_browser__help_window(&browser->b, help);
break;
diff --git a/tools/perf/c2c.h b/tools/perf/c2c.h
index aac01d4f6760..704b452aa390 100644
--- a/tools/perf/c2c.h
+++ b/tools/perf/c2c.h
@@ -132,18 +132,24 @@ void c2c_fmt_free(struct perf_hpp_fmt *fmt);
bool c2c_fmt_equal(struct perf_hpp_fmt *a, struct perf_hpp_fmt *b);

/*
- * The TUI browser is only built with SLANG support. The stub below keeps the
- * header self-contained for NO_SLANG builds, as util/hist.h does for its own
- * TUI entry points.
+ * The TUI browsers are only built with SLANG support. The stubs below keep
+ * the header self-contained for NO_SLANG builds, as util/hist.h does for its
+ * own TUI entry points.
*/
#ifdef HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT
int perf_c2c__browse_cacheline(struct hist_entry *he);
+int perf_c2c__browse_function_view(void);
#else
static inline int
perf_c2c__browse_cacheline(struct hist_entry *he __maybe_unused)
{
return 0;
}
+
+static inline int perf_c2c__browse_function_view(void)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
#endif

#endif /* _PERF_C2C_H_ */
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/c2c-function.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/c2c-function.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c0fd7799e4f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/c2c-function.c
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * C2C Function Browser - function-level cacheline sharing analysis
+ *
+ * Displays a 3-level hierarchy showing which functions share cachelines:
+ * Level 1: Read-side functions sorted by Cycles % (estimated load cycles)
+ * Level 2: Functions sampled writing the shared lines read by level 1
+ * Level 3: The specific cachelines where the two functions contend
+ *
+ * Builds the hierarchy from the existing cacheline histograms
+ * (c2c_hist_entry->hists), reusing the shared c2c data structures.
+ */
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <inttypes.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <tools/libc_compat.h> /* reallocarray */
+#include <asm/bug.h>
+#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/rbtree.h>
+#include <linux/zalloc.h>
+
+#include "../browser.h"
+#include "../keysyms.h"
+#include "../libslang.h"
+#include "../ui.h"
+#include "../../util/addr_location.h"
+#include "../../util/cacheline.h"
+#include "../../util/debug.h"
+#include "../../util/hist.h"
+#include "../../util/map.h"
+#include "../../util/mem-events.h"
+#include "../../util/mem-info.h"
+#include "../../util/sort.h"
+#include "../../util/symbol.h"
+#include "../../util/thread.h"
+#include "../../c2c.h"
+#include "hists.h"
+
+struct perf_c2c_ext {
+ struct c2c_hists function_hists;
+ /* Total estimated cycles across all level-1 entries. */
+ u64 total_cycles;
+};
+
+static struct perf_c2c_ext c2c_ext __maybe_unused;
+
+struct c2c_function_browser {
+ struct hist_browser hb;
+};
+
+static inline __maybe_unused u64 c2c_hitm_count(const struct c2c_stats *stats)
+{
+ return stats->tot_hitm;
+}
+
+static inline __maybe_unused bool symbol_name_equal(struct symbol *a, struct symbol *b)
+{
+ /* Two unknown symbols compare equal, matching cmp_null() in util/sort.c. */
+ if (!a || !b)
+ return a == b;
+ return arch__compare_symbol_names(a->name, b->name) == 0;
+}
+
+static inline __maybe_unused u64 hist_entry__iaddr(struct hist_entry *he)
+{
+ if (he->mem_info)
+ return mem_info__iaddr(he->mem_info)->addr;
+ return he->ip;
+}
+
+int perf_c2c__browse_function_view(void)
+{
+ ui__warning("C2C function view is not implemented yet.\n");
+ return 0;
+}
--
2.52.0