[PATCH 09/14] perf c2c: add stats merging and memory management helpers

From: Jiebin Sun

Date: Fri Jun 26 2026 - 03:04:12 EST


Add statistics aggregation and memory management functions for
function view histogram entries:

Stats merging:
- c2c_stats_merge(): combine two stats structs (Welford online merge)
- c2c_add_cstats(): merge all compute_stats sub-fields
- hist_entry__add_c2c_stats(): update hist_entry stat counters

Memory management:
- c2c_function_he_free(): free entry and recursively free children
- c2c_he__free_hierarchy(): recursive cleanup of hroot_out tree

Entry allocation reuses c2c_he_zalloc(), which was made shared via
c2c.h in an earlier patch.

These are used during hierarchy construction to allocate entries
and aggregate C2C statistics across cacheline-function pairs.

Signed-off-by: Jiebin Sun <jiebin.sun@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Tianyou Li <tianyou.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Wangyang Guo <wangyang.guo@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/ui/browsers/c2c-function.c | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 158 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/c2c-function.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/c2c-function.c
index c11a81d93c21..a42378f395f5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/c2c-function.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/c2c-function.c
@@ -649,6 +649,164 @@ c2c_function_hists__reinit(struct c2c_hists *c2c_hists,
return function_hpp_list__parse(&c2c_hists->list, output, sort, env);
}

+/* Welford online merge of two "stats" (from util/stat.h) accumulators. */
+static void c2c_stats_merge(struct stats *dest, const struct stats *src)
+{
+ double delta;
+
+ if (src->n == 0)
+ return;
+
+ if (dest->n == 0) {
+ *dest = *src;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ delta = src->mean - dest->mean;
+ dest->M2 += src->M2 + delta * delta * dest->n * src->n / (dest->n + src->n);
+ dest->mean = (dest->mean * dest->n + src->mean * src->n) / (dest->n + src->n);
+ dest->n += src->n;
+
+ /* Update min/max */
+ if (src->max > dest->max)
+ dest->max = src->max;
+ if (src->min < dest->min)
+ dest->min = src->min;
+}
+
+/* Merge compute_stats during function aggregation. */
+static __maybe_unused void c2c_add_cstats(struct compute_stats *dest,
+ const struct compute_stats *src)
+{
+ c2c_stats_merge(&dest->rmt_hitm, &src->rmt_hitm);
+ c2c_stats_merge(&dest->lcl_hitm, &src->lcl_hitm);
+ c2c_stats_merge(&dest->rmt_peer, &src->rmt_peer);
+ c2c_stats_merge(&dest->lcl_peer, &src->lcl_peer);
+ c2c_stats_merge(&dest->load, &src->load);
+}
+
+static __maybe_unused bool hist_entry__add_c2c_stats(struct hist_entry *he,
+ const struct c2c_stats *stats)
+{
+ u64 nr_events = c2c_hitm_count(stats) + stats->rmt_peer + stats->lcl_peer;
+ u64 weight1 = c2c_hitm_count(stats);
+
+ he->stat.nr_events += nr_events;
+ he->stat.period += nr_events;
+ he->stat.weight1 += weight1;
+
+ if (!symbol_conf.cumulate_callchain)
+ return true;
+
+ if (!he->stat_acc) {
+ he->stat_acc = calloc(1, sizeof(struct he_stat));
+ if (!he->stat_acc)
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ he->stat_acc->nr_events += nr_events;
+ he->stat_acc->period += nr_events;
+ he->stat_acc->weight1 += weight1;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
+static void c2c_he__free_hierarchy(struct hist_entry *he);
+
+/*
+ * Free a function-view histogram entry (hist_entry_ops::free).
+ */
+static void c2c_function_he_free(void *ptr)
+{
+ struct hist_entry *he = ptr;
+ struct c2c_hist_entry *c2c_he;
+
+ c2c_he = container_of(he, struct c2c_hist_entry, he);
+
+ if (c2c_he->hists) {
+ perf_hpp__reset_output_field(&c2c_he->hists->list);
+ hists__delete_entries(&c2c_he->hists->hists);
+ zfree(&c2c_he->hists);
+ }
+
+ c2c_he__free_hierarchy(he);
+
+ zfree(&c2c_he->nodeset);
+ zfree(&c2c_he->cpuset);
+ zfree(&c2c_he->nodestr);
+ zfree(&c2c_he->node_stats);
+
+ free(c2c_he);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Free all child entries under @he, recursively (hroot_out sub-tree).
+ *
+ * Children are built by c2c_child_entry__alloc(), which BORROWS thread and
+ * ms (plain copy, no thread__get()/map__get()) and OWNS only mem_info (a
+ * clone), stat_acc and the c2c-specific fields (hists, cpuset, nodeset,
+ * nodestr, node_stats). We therefore must NOT call hist_entry__delete()
+ * here: it would thread__zput()/map_symbol__exit() the borrowed refs and
+ * underflow their refcounts. Free exactly the owned resources instead.
+ */
+static void c2c_he__free_hierarchy(struct hist_entry *he)
+{
+ struct rb_node *nd;
+ struct hist_entry *child_he;
+ struct c2c_hist_entry *child_c2c;
+
+ /*
+ * Leaf entries alias hroot_out with sorted_chain (callchains) in a
+ * union, so they have no child hierarchy to free here.
+ */
+ if (he->leaf)
+ return;
+
+ if (RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&he->hroot_out.rb_root))
+ return;
+
+ nd = rb_first_cached(&he->hroot_out);
+ while (nd) {
+ struct rb_node *next = rb_next(nd);
+
+ child_he = rb_entry(nd, struct hist_entry, rb_node);
+ child_c2c = container_of(child_he, struct c2c_hist_entry, he);
+
+ if (child_he->stat_acc)
+ zfree(&child_he->stat_acc);
+
+ if (child_he->mem_info)
+ mem_info__put(child_he->mem_info);
+
+ if (child_c2c->hists) {
+ perf_hpp__reset_output_field(&child_c2c->hists->list);
+ hists__delete_entries(&child_c2c->hists->hists);
+ zfree(&child_c2c->hists);
+ }
+
+ zfree(&child_c2c->cpuset);
+ zfree(&child_c2c->nodeset);
+ zfree(&child_c2c->nodestr);
+ zfree(&child_c2c->node_stats);
+
+ c2c_he__free_hierarchy(child_he);
+
+ rb_erase_cached(&child_he->rb_node, &he->hroot_out);
+ free(child_c2c);
+
+ nd = next;
+ }
+
+ /* All children erased; clear the tree (and its cached leftmost). */
+ he->hroot_out = RB_ROOT_CACHED;
+}
+
+/* Entry operations for function view */
+static struct hist_entry_ops c2c_function_entry_ops __maybe_unused = {
+ .new = c2c_he_zalloc,
+ .free = c2c_function_he_free,
+};
+
int perf_c2c__browse_function_view(struct hists *hists __maybe_unused)
{
ui__warning("C2C function view is not implemented yet.\n");
--
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