[PATCH 05/73] perf tools: Speed up report for perf compiled with linwunwind

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri May 17 2019 - 15:39:02 EST


From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

When compiled with libunwind, perf does some preparatory work when
processing side-band events. This is not needed when report actually
don't unwind dwarf callchains, so it's disabled with
dwarf_callchain_users bool.

However we could move that check to higher level and shield more
unwanted code for normal report processing, giving us following speed up
on kernel build profile:

Before:

$ perf record make -j40
...
$ ll ../../perf.data
-rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 461783932 Apr 26 09:11 perf.data
$ perf stat -e cycles:u,instructions:u perf report -i perf.data > out

Performance counter stats for 'perf report -i perf.data':

78,669,920,155 cycles:u
99,076,431,951 instructions:u # 1.26 insn per cycle

55.382823668 seconds time elapsed

27.512341000 seconds user
27.712871000 seconds sys

After:

$ perf stat -e cycles:u,instructions:u perf report -i perf.data > out

Performance counter stats for 'perf report -i perf.data':

59,626,798,904 cycles:u
88,583,575,849 instructions:u # 1.49 insn per cycle

21.296935559 seconds time elapsed

20.010191000 seconds user
1.202935000 seconds sys

The speed is higher with profile having many side-band events,
because these trigger libunwind preparatory code.

This does not apply for perf compiled with libdw for dwarf unwind,
only for build with libunwind.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190426073804.17238-1-jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/thread.c | 3 ++-
tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c | 6 ------
tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c | 10 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/thread.c b/tools/perf/util/thread.c
index 50678d318185..403045a2bbea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/thread.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/thread.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include "map.h"
#include "symbol.h"
#include "unwind.h"
+#include "callchain.h"

#include <api/fs/fs.h>

@@ -327,7 +328,7 @@ static int thread__prepare_access(struct thread *thread)
{
int err = 0;

- if (symbol_conf.use_callchain)
+ if (dwarf_callchain_users)
err = __thread__prepare_access(thread);

return err;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c
index f3c666a84e4d..25e1406b1f8b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c
@@ -617,8 +617,6 @@ static unw_accessors_t accessors = {

static int _unwind__prepare_access(struct thread *thread)
{
- if (!dwarf_callchain_users)
- return 0;
thread->addr_space = unw_create_addr_space(&accessors, 0);
if (!thread->addr_space) {
pr_err("unwind: Can't create unwind address space.\n");
@@ -631,15 +629,11 @@ static int _unwind__prepare_access(struct thread *thread)

static void _unwind__flush_access(struct thread *thread)
{
- if (!dwarf_callchain_users)
- return;
unw_flush_cache(thread->addr_space, 0, 0);
}

static void _unwind__finish_access(struct thread *thread)
{
- if (!dwarf_callchain_users)
- return;
unw_destroy_addr_space(thread->addr_space);
}

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c
index 9778b3133b77..c0811977d7d5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include "session.h"
#include "debug.h"
#include "env.h"
+#include "callchain.h"

struct unwind_libunwind_ops __weak *local_unwind_libunwind_ops;
struct unwind_libunwind_ops __weak *x86_32_unwind_libunwind_ops;
@@ -24,6 +25,9 @@ int unwind__prepare_access(struct thread *thread, struct map *map,
struct unwind_libunwind_ops *ops = local_unwind_libunwind_ops;
int err;

+ if (!dwarf_callchain_users)
+ return 0;
+
if (thread->addr_space) {
pr_debug("unwind: thread map already set, dso=%s\n",
map->dso->name);
@@ -65,12 +69,18 @@ int unwind__prepare_access(struct thread *thread, struct map *map,

void unwind__flush_access(struct thread *thread)
{
+ if (!dwarf_callchain_users)
+ return;
+
if (thread->unwind_libunwind_ops)
thread->unwind_libunwind_ops->flush_access(thread);
}

void unwind__finish_access(struct thread *thread)
{
+ if (!dwarf_callchain_users)
+ return;
+
if (thread->unwind_libunwind_ops)
thread->unwind_libunwind_ops->finish_access(thread);
}
--
2.20.1