[PATCH 3/7] perf report: fix off-by-one for non-activation frames

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Wed May 24 2017 - 02:22:15 EST

From: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@xxxxxxxx>

As the documentation for dwfl_frame_pc says, frames that
are no activation frames need to have their program counter
decremented by one to properly find the function of the caller.

This fixes many cases where perf report currently attributes
the cost to the next line. I.e. I have code like this:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <thread>
#include <chrono>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
this_thread::sleep_for(chrono::milliseconds(1000));
this_thread::sleep_for(chrono::milliseconds(100));
this_thread::sleep_for(chrono::milliseconds(10));

return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Now compile and record it:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
g++ -std=c++11 -g -O2 test.cpp
echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
perf record \
--event sched:sched_stat_sleep \
--event sched:sched_process_exit \
--event sched:sched_switch --call-graph=dwarf \
--output perf.data.raw \
./a.out
echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
perf inject --sched-stat --input perf.data.raw --output perf.data
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Before this patch, the report clearly shows the off-by-one issue.
Most notably, the last sleep invocation is incorrectly attributed
to the "return 0;" line:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Overhead Source:Line
........ ...........

100.00% core.c:0
|
---__schedule core.c:0
schedule
do_nanosleep hrtimer.c:0
hrtimer_nanosleep
sys_nanosleep
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath .tmp_entry_64.o:0
__nanosleep_nocancel .:0
std::this_thread::sleep_for<long, std::ratio<1l, 1000l> > thread:323
|
|--90.08%--main test.cpp:9
| __libc_start_main
| _start
|
|--9.01%--main test.cpp:10
| __libc_start_main
| _start
|
--0.91%--main test.cpp:13
__libc_start_main
_start
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

With this patch here applied, the issue is fixed. The report becomes
much more usable:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Overhead Source:Line
........ ...........

100.00% core.c:0
|
---__schedule core.c:0
schedule
do_nanosleep hrtimer.c:0
hrtimer_nanosleep
sys_nanosleep
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath .tmp_entry_64.o:0
__nanosleep_nocancel .:0
std::this_thread::sleep_for<long, std::ratio<1l, 1000l> > thread:323
|
|--90.08%--main test.cpp:8
| __libc_start_main
| _start
|
|--9.01%--main test.cpp:9
| __libc_start_main
| _start
|
--0.91%--main test.cpp:10
__libc_start_main
_start
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Similarly it works for signal frames:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

__noinline void bar(void)
{
volatile long cnt = 0;

for (cnt = 0; cnt < 100000000; cnt++);
}

__noinline void foo(void)
{
bar();
}

void sig_handler(int sig)
{
foo();
}

int main(void)
{
signal(SIGUSR1, sig_handler);
raise(SIGUSR1);

foo();
return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Before, the report wrongly points to `signal.c:29` after raise():

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
$ perf report --stdio --no-children -g srcline -s srcline
...
100.00% signal.c:11
|
---bar signal.c:11
|
|--50.49%--main signal.c:29
| __libc_start_main
| _start
|
--49.51%--0x33a8f
raise .:0
main signal.c:29
__libc_start_main
_start
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

With this patch in, the issue is fixed and we instead get:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
100.00% signal signal [.] bar
|
---bar signal.c:11
|
|--50.49%--main signal.c:29
| __libc_start_main
| _start
|
--49.51%--0x33a8f
raise .:0
main signal.c:27
__libc_start_main
_start
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Note how this patch fixes this issue for both unwinding methods, i.e.
both dwfl and libunwind. The former case is straight-forward thanks
to dwfl_frame_pc. For libunwind, we replace the functionality via
unw_is_signal_frame for any but the very first frame.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yao Jin <yao.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c | 6 +++++-
tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
index f90e11a555b2..943a06291587 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
@@ -168,12 +168,16 @@ frame_callback(Dwfl_Frame *state, void *arg)
{
struct unwind_info *ui = arg;
Dwarf_Addr pc;
+ bool isactivation;

- if (!dwfl_frame_pc(state, &pc, NULL)) {
+ if (!dwfl_frame_pc(state, &pc, &isactivation)) {
pr_err("%s", dwfl_errmsg(-1));
return DWARF_CB_ABORT;
}

+ if (!isactivation)
+ --pc;
+
return entry(pc, ui) || !(--ui->max_stack) ?
DWARF_CB_ABORT : DWARF_CB_OK;
}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c
index f8455bed6e65..84d553898e2a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c
@@ -692,6 +692,17 @@ static int get_entries(struct unwind_info *ui, unwind_entry_cb_t cb,

while (!ret && (unw_step(&c) > 0) && i < max_stack) {
unw_get_reg(&c, UNW_REG_IP, &ips[i]);
+
+ /*
+ * Decrement the IP for any non-activation frames.
+ * this is required to properly find the srcline
+ * for caller frames.
+ * See also the documentation for dwfl_frame_pc,
+ * which this code tries to replicate.
+ */
+ if (unw_is_signal_frame(&c) <= 0)
+ --ips[i];
+
++i;
}

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2.13.0