Perf tool fails to unwind user stack if the event raises in a shared
object. This patch improves tests/dwarf-unwind.c to demonstrate the
problem by utilizing commonly used glibc function "bsearch". If perf is
not statically linked, the testcase will try to unwind a mixed call
trace.
By debugging libunwind I found that there is a bug in unwind-libunwind:
it always passes 0 as segbase to libunwind, cause libunwind unable to
locate debug_frame entry fir first level ip address (I add some more
debugging output into libunwind to make things clear):
>_Uarm_dwarf_find_debug_frame: start_ip = 10be98, end_ip = 10c2a4
>_Uarm_dwarf_find_debug_frame: found debug_frame table `/lib/libc-2.18.so': segbase=0x0, len=7, gp=0x0, table_data=0x449388
>_Uarm_dwarf_search_unwind_table: call lookup:ip = b6cd3bcc, segbase = 0, rel_ip = b6cd3bcc
>lookup: e->start_ip_offset = bcf18 (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
>lookup: e->start_ip_offset = 6d314 (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
>lookup: e->start_ip_offset = 33d0c (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
...
>lookup: e->start_ip_offset = 15d0c (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
>lookup: e->start_ip_offset = 15c40 (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
>_Uarm_dwarf_search_unwind_table: IP b6cd3bcc inside range b6c12000-b6d4c000, but no explicit unwind info found
>put_rs_cache: unmasking signals/interrupts and releasing lock
>_Uarm_dwarf_step: returning -10
>_Uarm_step: dwarf_step()=-10
This patch passes map->start as segbase to dwarf_find_debug_frame(), so
di will be initialized correctly.
In addition, dso and executable are different when setting segbase. This
patch first check whether the elf is executable, and pass segbase only
for shared object.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421203007-75799-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The unw_addr_space_t in libunwind represents an address space to be used
for stack unwinding. It doesn't need to be create/destory everytime to
unwind callchain (as in get_entries) and can have a same lifetime as
thread (unless exec called).
So move the address space construction/destruction logic to the thread
lifetime handling functions. This is a preparation to enable caching in
the unwind library.
Note that it saves unw_addr_space_t object using thread__set_priv(). It
seems currently only used by perf trace and perf kvm stat commands which
don't use callchain.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412556363-26229-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Fixup unwind-libunwind.c missing CALLCHAIN_DWARF definition, added
missing __maybe_unused on unused parameters in stubs at util/unwind.h ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Caching dso data file descriptors to avoid expensive re-opens
especially during DWARF unwind.
We keep dsos data file descriptors open until their count reaches
the half of the current fd open limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE). In this case
we close file descriptor of the first opened dso object.
We've got overall speedup (~27% for my workload) of report:
'perf report --stdio -i perf-test.data' (3 runs)
(perf-test.data size was around 12GB)
current code:
545,640,944,228 cycles ( +- 0.53% )
785,255,798,320 instructions ( +- 0.03% )
366.340910010 seconds time elapsed ( +- 3.65% )
after change:
435,895,036,114 cycles ( +- 0.26% )
636,790,271,176 instructions ( +- 0.04% )
266.481463387 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.13% )
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-7-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
