Re: [RFC] The -Og debugging experience

[Jiri Olsa]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 03:04:27PM +0100, Martin LiÅka wrote:

SNIP

> Hi.
> 
> Unfortunately, running 'perf report' for a medium-size report is very fast a

not if you use TUI ;-)

> killing the process from other terminal produces:
> 
> [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7ffff7fc5740 (LWP 7429))]
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007ffff632d230 in __write_nocancel () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #1  0x00007ffff62c4dff in _IO_new_file_write () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #2  0x00007ffff62c4403 in new_do_write () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #3  0x00007ffff62c5d09 in __GI__IO_do_write () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #4  0x00007ffff62c5417 in __GI__IO_file_xsputn () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #5  0x00007ffff6299cdb in vfprintf () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #6  0x00007ffff62a03f7 in fprintf () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #7  0x00000000004ef12c in hist_entry__fprintf (he=he@entry=0x1c62b30, size=<optimized out>, size@entry=0, hists=hists@entry=0x1813818, 
                                                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                                                              

>     bf=bf@entry=0x1d5cd40 "     0.08%  cc1plus   cc1plus", ' ' <repeats 11 times>, "[.] _Z25number_of_iterations_exitP4loopP8edge_defP15tree_niter_descbb", ' ' <repeats 91 times>..., bfsz=bfsz@entry=479, fp=fp@entry=0x7ffff65f0640 <_IO_2_1_stdout_>)
>     at ui/stdio/hist.c:427
> #8  0x00000000004ef549 in hists__fprintf (hists=hists@entry=0x1813818, show_header=show_header@entry=true, max_rows=max_rows@entry=0, max_cols=max_cols@entry=0, min_pcnt=0, fp=0x7ffff65f0640 <_IO_2_1_stdout_>) at ui/stdio/hist.c:534
> #9  0x000000000042d6a3 in perf_evlist__tty_browse_hists (evlist=0x1812c90, rep=rep@entry=0x7fffffffc6e0, help=help@entry=0x515948 "For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso") at builtin-report.c:370
> #10 0x000000000042d7d2 in report__browse_hists (rep=rep@entry=0x7fffffffc6e0) at builtin-report.c:455
> #11 0x000000000042d992 in __cmd_report (rep=rep@entry=0x7fffffffc6e0) at builtin-report.c:571
> #12 0x000000000042ec1f in cmd_report (argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffde00, prefix=<optimized out>) at builtin-report.c:957
                                                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


> #13 0x000000000046c496 in run_builtin (p=p@entry=0x7771a0 <commands+192>, argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0x7fffffffde00) at perf.c:387
> #14 0x000000000046c693 in handle_internal_command (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffde00) at perf.c:448
> #15 0x000000000046c6fe in run_argv (argcp=argcp@entry=0x7fffffffdc6c, argv=argv@entry=0x7fffffffdc60) at perf.c:492
> #16 0x000000000046c94c in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffde00) at perf.c:609
> 
> Which is fine.

marked 2 instances of 'optimized out' cases above in your output

> 
> I've been using GCC 5.2. What version are you using?

5.1.1

> I've also tried to run './perf test' and terminate the process at random places, but the back trace was OK.
> 
> I would appreciate if you send me a patch that causes a segfault that is wrongly displayed.

if you run TUI, you dont need to be fast ;-) make sure you compile with slang devel pkg

thanks.
jirka
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