Re: perf top -g -U --sort=symbol --children == lalalalala?

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu Sep 11 2014 - 08:43:30 EST


On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 17:09 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Em Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 01:54:01PM +0200, Mike Galbraith escreveu:
> >> Seems the now default on --children thingy doesn't like -U much.
> >
> > Namhyung, can you please take a look at this?
>
> So what is the problem here?

Well, if you don't see anything wrong, I guess nothing at all.

> >> Samples: 5K of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 2268660922
> >> Children Self Symbol
> >> + 46.42% 0.04% [k] system_call_fastpath

I'll just turn it off until I figure out what cool stuff this is telling
me. why that symbol becomes the number one hit, and why total% > 100.

To me, it looks like top smoked it's breakfast, went to lala land ;-)

-Mike

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