[PATCH 01/10] perf callchain: Use global caching provided by libunwind

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Oct 29 2014 - 08:56:42 EST


From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>

The libunwind provides two caching policy which are global and
per-thread. As perf unwinds callchains in a single thread, it'd
sufficient to use global caching.

This speeds up my perf report from 14s to 7s on a ~260MB data file.
Although the output sometimes contains a slight difference (~0.01% in
terms of number of lines printed) on callchains which were not resolved.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@xxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412556363-26229-4-git-send-email-namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/thread.c | 3 +++
tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c | 12 ++++++++++++
tools/perf/util/unwind.h | 3 +++
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/thread.c b/tools/perf/util/thread.c
index 2b7b2d91c016..c41411726c7a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/thread.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/thread.c
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ int __thread__set_comm(struct thread *thread, const char *str, u64 timestamp,
if (!new)
return -ENOMEM;
list_add(&new->list, &thread->comm_list);
+
+ if (exec)
+ unwind__flush_access(thread);
}

thread->comm_set = true;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c
index e060386165c5..4d45c0dfe343 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c
@@ -539,11 +539,23 @@ int unwind__prepare_access(struct thread *thread)
return -ENOMEM;
}

+ unw_set_caching_policy(addr_space, UNW_CACHE_GLOBAL);
thread__set_priv(thread, addr_space);

return 0;
}

+void unwind__flush_access(struct thread *thread)
+{
+ unw_addr_space_t addr_space;
+
+ if (callchain_param.record_mode != CALLCHAIN_DWARF)
+ return;
+
+ addr_space = thread__priv(thread);
+ unw_flush_cache(addr_space, 0, 0);
+}
+
void unwind__finish_access(struct thread *thread)
{
unw_addr_space_t addr_space;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind.h b/tools/perf/util/unwind.h
index c17c4855bdbc..f50b737235eb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ int unwind__get_entries(unwind_entry_cb_t cb, void *arg,
#ifdef HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT
int libunwind__arch_reg_id(int regnum);
int unwind__prepare_access(struct thread *thread);
+void unwind__flush_access(struct thread *thread);
void unwind__finish_access(struct thread *thread);
#else
static inline int unwind__prepare_access(struct thread *thread __maybe_unused)
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ static inline int unwind__prepare_access(struct thread *thread __maybe_unused)
return 0;
}

+static inline void unwind__flush_access(struct thread *thread __maybe_unused) {}
static inline void unwind__finish_access(struct thread *thread __maybe_unused) {}
#endif
#else
@@ -49,6 +51,7 @@ static inline int unwind__prepare_access(struct thread *thread __maybe_unused)
return 0;
}

+static inline void unwind__flush_access(struct thread *thread __maybe_unused) {}
static inline void unwind__finish_access(struct thread *thread __maybe_unused) {}
#endif /* HAVE_DWARF_UNWIND_SUPPORT */
#endif /* __UNWIND_H */
--
1.9.3

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