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perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace events

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We are taking a wrong regs snapshot when a trace event triggers.
Either we use get_irq_regs(), which gives us the interrupted
registers if we are in an interrupt, or we use task_pt_regs()
which gives us the state before we entered the kernel, assuming
we are lucky enough to be no kernel thread, in which case
task_pt_regs() returns the initial set of regs when the kernel
thread was started.

What we want is different. We need a hot snapshot of the regs,
so that we can get the instruction pointer to record in the
sample, the frame pointer for the callchain, and some other
things.

Let's use the new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for that.

Comparison with perf record -e lock: -R -a -f -g
Before:

        perf  [kernel]                   [k] __do_softirq
               |
               --- __do_softirq
                  |
                  |--55.16%-- __open
                  |
                   --44.84%-- __write_nocancel

After:

            perf  [kernel]           [k] perf_tp_event
               |
               --- perf_tp_event
                  |
                  |--41.07%-- lock_acquire
                  |          |
                  |          |--39.36%-- _raw_spin_lock
                  |          |          |
                  |          |          |--7.81%-- hrtimer_interrupt
                  |          |          |          smp_apic_timer_interrupt
                  |          |          |          apic_timer_interrupt

The old case was producing unreliable callchains. Now having
right frame and instruction pointers, we have the trace we
want.

Also syscalls and kprobe events already have the right regs,
let's use them instead of wasting a retrieval.

v2: Follow the rename perf_save_regs() -> perf_fetch_caller_regs()

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
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Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-03 07:16:16 +01:00
parent 5331d7b846
commit c530665c31
6 changed files with 19 additions and 14 deletions
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include/linux/ftrace_event.h
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@ -187,6 +187,9 @@ do { \
#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
struct perf_event;
DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct pt_regs, perf_trace_regs);
extern int ftrace_profile_enable(int event_id);
extern void ftrace_profile_disable(int event_id);
extern int ftrace_profile_set_filter(struct perf_event *event, int event_id,
@ -198,11 +201,11 @@ ftrace_perf_buf_prepare(int size, unsigned short type, int *rctxp,
static inline void
ftrace_perf_buf_submit(void *raw_data, int size, int rctx, u64 addr,
u64 count, unsigned long irq_flags)
u64 count, unsigned long irq_flags, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
struct trace_entry *entry = raw_data;
perf_tp_event(entry->type, addr, count, raw_data, size);
perf_tp_event(entry->type, addr, count, raw_data, size, regs);
perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(rctx);
local_irq_restore(irq_flags);
}