[PATCH v2]: perf/x86: expose user space frame-pointer value on a sample
From: Alexey Budankov
Date: Tue Apr 10 2018 - 11:40:15 EST
Store user space frame-pointer value (BP register) into Perf trace
on a sample for a process so the value becomes available when
unwinding call stacks for functions gaining event samples.
Test executable for the example below was compiled with frame pointer
support enabled:
g++ -o futex-fp -fpermissive --no-omit-frame-pointer futex.c
and profiled using:
tools/perf/perf record --user-regs=IP,SP,BP \
-g --call-graph=dwarf,1024 -e cycles -- ./futex-fp
Output of
tools/perf/perf report -i perf.data --stdio
demonstrates the effect of the patch change so before saving BP
value on a sample we have several frames missing above main
function frame:
# Samples: 138K of event 'cpu-cycles'
# Event count (approx.): 92713835335
#
# Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ........ ........ ................ ..........................
#
96.15% 0.72% futex-fp futex-fp [.] main
|
|--95.43%--main
| |
| |--71.56%--syscall
| | |
| | |--57.28%--entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
| | | |
| | | --56.95%--do_syscall_64
| | | |
| | | --55.77%--sys_futex
and after saving BP value on a sample we have expected
_start
__libc_start_main
frames unwound:
# Samples: 128K of event 'cpu-cycles'
# Event count (approx.): 85349981034
#
# Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ........ ........ ................ ..................
#
95.83% 0.00% futex-fp futex-fp [.] _start
|
==> ---_start
==> __libc_start_main
main
|
|--71.28%--syscall
| |
| |--55.67%--entry_SYSCALL_64
| | |
| | --55.40%--do_syscall_64
| | |
| | --54.21%--sys_futex
Testing results:
tools/perf/perf test
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms : Ok
2: Detect openat syscall event : Ok
3: Detect openat syscall event on all cpus : Ok
4: Read samples using the mmap interface : Ok
5: Test data source output : Ok
6: Parse event definition strings : Ok
7: Simple expression parser : Ok
8: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : Ok
9: Parse perf pmu format : Ok
10: DSO data read : Ok
11: DSO data cache : Ok
12: DSO data reopen : Ok
13: Roundtrip evsel->name : Ok
14: Parse sched tracepoints fields : Ok
15: syscalls:sys_enter_openat event fields : Ok
16: Setup struct perf_event_attr : Skip
17: Match and link multiple hists : Ok
18: 'import perf' in python : FAILED!
19: Breakpoint overflow signal handler : Ok
20: Breakpoint overflow sampling : Ok
21: Breakpoint accounting : Ok
22: Number of exit events of a simple workload : Ok
23: Software clock events period values : Ok
24: Object code reading : Ok
25: Sample parsing : Ok
26: Use a dummy software event to keep tracking : Ok
27: Parse with no sample_id_all bit set : Ok
28: Filter hist entries : Ok
29: Lookup mmap thread : Ok
30: Share thread mg : Ok
31: Sort output of hist entries : Ok
32: Cumulate child hist entries : Ok
33: Track with sched_switch : Ok
34: Filter fds with revents mask in a fdarray : Ok
35: Add fd to a fdarray, making it autogrow : Ok
36: kmod_path__parse : Ok
37: Thread map : Ok
38: LLVM search and compile :
38.1: Basic BPF llvm compile : Skip
38.2: kbuild searching : Skip
38.3: Compile source for BPF prologue generation : Skip
38.4: Compile source for BPF relocation : Skip
39: Session topology : Ok
40: BPF filter :
40.1: Basic BPF filtering : Skip
40.2: BPF pinning : Skip
40.3: BPF prologue generation : Skip
40.4: BPF relocation checker : Skip
41: Synthesize thread map : Ok
42: Remove thread map : Ok
43: Synthesize cpu map : Ok
44: Synthesize stat config : Ok
45: Synthesize stat : Ok
46: Synthesize stat round : Ok
47: Synthesize attr update : Ok
48: Event times : Ok
49: Read backward ring buffer : Ok
50: Print cpu map : Ok
51: Probe SDT events : Ok
52: is_printable_array : Ok
53: Print bitmap : Ok
54: perf hooks : Ok
55: builtin clang support : Skip (not compiled in)
56: unit_number__scnprintf : Ok
57: mem2node : Ok
58: x86 rdpmc : Ok
59: Convert perf time to TSC : Ok
60: DWARF unwind : Ok
61: x86 instruction decoder - new instructions : Ok
62: Use vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames : Ok
63: Add vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames : Ok
64: Check open filename arg using perf trace + vfs_getname: Ok
65: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping : Ok
make -C tools/perf/ build-test
make: Entering directory '/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf'
- tarpkg: ./tests/perf-targz-src-pkg .
- /root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP: cd . && make FEATURE_DUMP_COPY=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP feature-dump
cd . && make FEATURE_DUMP_COPY=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP feature-dump
make_util_map_o_O: cd . && make util/map.o FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.hCniCh5IOV DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.pE0ZNthwCF
make_install_prefix_slash_O: cd . && make install prefix=/tmp/krava/ FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.aug1Rs4tNf DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.Nr57uRH4a7
make_no_libunwind_O: cd . && make NO_LIBUNWIND=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.K6mNdV9ny7 DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.rJ4MiEneK3
make_install_bin_O: cd . && make install-bin FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.4qmyWxqRIq DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.fQ9pvBSPbK
make_no_libbionic_O: cd . && make NO_LIBBIONIC=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.Ja0slX338A DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.QoqYxqLoLM
make_no_libbpf_O: cd . && make NO_LIBBPF=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.M4cGuRET89 DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.yRbVHtN25b
make_doc_O: cd . && make doc FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.vit59hhoQw DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.Pdf8YRdUZ6
make_no_slang_O: cd . && make NO_SLANG=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.HVyxNOBsAd DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.a0faga36nq
make_no_libdw_dwarf_unwind_O: cd . && make NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.wmv42sG9uM DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.QqGhSX5KBD
make_clean_all_O: cd . && make clean all FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.EXQULIs1Lz DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.R7rWtWOfbj
make_no_gtk2_O: cd . && make NO_GTK2=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.Ic7nrL0sJw DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.CG4zzMpTRo
make_util_pmu_bison_o_O: cd . && make util/pmu-bison.o FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.SlTUvMOKNC DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.EPHTxRCqhZ
make_help_O: cd . && make help FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.8ERtFQpSgy DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.qm6slgq3vY
make_no_libpython_O: cd . && make NO_LIBPYTHON=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.nBDottRklF DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.wa3Y3kbyuj
make_no_auxtrace_O: cd . && make NO_AUXTRACE=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.DUdGkNlbTo DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.hCudQY48Pl
make_no_libaudit_O: cd . && make NO_LIBAUDIT=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.R881i6xKAm DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.93owQPSDcX
make_no_scripts_O: cd . && make NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_LIBPERL=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.reGc8rOYV1 DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.B6QViKjMvW
make_with_babeltrace_O: cd . && make LIBBABELTRACE=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.FhQXwacUez DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.I3nVzmrMkw
- /root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP_STATIC: cd . && make FEATURE_DUMP_COPY=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP_STATIC LDFLAGS='-static' feature-dump
cd . && make FEATURE_DUMP_COPY=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP_STATIC LDFLAGS='-static' feature-dump
make_static_O: cd . && make LDFLAGS=-static FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP_STATIC -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.WAd4qqaobf DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.HQGv9RVti6
make_tags_O: cd . && make tags FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.4exbvnNqL7 DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.egmegRFPBa
make_no_backtrace_O: cd . && make NO_BACKTRACE=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.EVUZhEZdL1 DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.IU2Hw5iXV9
make_debug_O: cd . && make DEBUG=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.82NeGzBeKh DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.0nDEL657DW
make_no_ui_O: cd . && make NO_NEWT=1 NO_SLANG=1 NO_GTK2=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.WPsaGPykuA DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.BE2i6xrlcz
make_minimal_O: cd . && make NO_LIBPERL=1 NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_NEWT=1 NO_GTK2=1 NO_DEMANGLE=1 NO_LIBELF=1 NO_LIBUNWIND=1 NO_BACKTRACE=1 NO_LIBNUMA=1 NO_LIBAUDIT=1 NO_LIBBIONIC=1 NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1 NO_AUXTRACE=1 NO_LIBBPF=1 NO_LIBCRYPTO=1 NO_SDT=1 NO_JVMTI=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.mqwTCtkYMZ DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.HAE2gO2Qcc
make_install_prefix_O: cd . && make install prefix=/tmp/krava FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.i9spzN3Ffn DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.HZaM1gdpnX
make_no_libelf_O: cd . && make NO_LIBELF=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.yXvEPnLS3l DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.wDVGcoV12j
make_pure_O: cd . && make FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.Lyk3dyMDUS DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.X7yG8O8oPZ
make_no_newt_O: cd . && make NO_NEWT=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.u2rAAJ77BP DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.ZO73ixWJ4R
make_perf_o_O: cd . && make perf.o FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.PzkhlImKTo DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.9Z5E1d0ADO
make_install_O: cd . && make install FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.LeTMZGGxYu DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.i0QyvEIrk0
make_no_libnuma_O: cd . && make NO_LIBNUMA=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.FBhx6NatXS DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.1LrUcc5i7s
make_no_libperl_O: cd . && make NO_LIBPERL=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.iPoY2Rkjbw DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.kUsnd09yOc
make_with_clangllvm_O: cd . && make LIBCLANGLLVM=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.yA8pvPEJHH DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.XwY7J5Etvy
make_no_demangle_O: cd . && make NO_DEMANGLE=1 FEATURES_DUMP=/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/BUILD_TEST_FEATURE_DUMP -j8 O=/tmp/tmp.NARFUtnpY0 DESTDIR=/tmp/tmp.dR62bKhig0
OK
make: Leaving directory '/root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf'
Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- lifted restriction on frame pointer architecture so it's value is provided
as for i386 as for x86_64 processes
MAINTAINERS file lacks references to appropriate folks for reviewing
changes at arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c so probably it makes sense to
update the file as well in this respect.
---
arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c
index e47b2dbbdef3..8d68658eff7f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c
@@ -156,7 +156,13 @@ void perf_get_regs_user(struct perf_regs *regs_user,
* Most system calls don't save these registers, don't report them.
*/
regs_user_copy->bx = -1;
- regs_user_copy->bp = -1;
+ /*
+ * Store user space frame-pointer value on sample
+ * to facilitate stack unwinding for cases when
+ * user space executable code has such support
+ * enabled at compile time;
+ */
+ regs_user_copy->bp = user_regs->bp;
regs_user_copy->r12 = -1;
regs_user_copy->r13 = -1;
regs_user_copy->r14 = -1;