perf tools: Construct LBR call chain

LBR call stack only has user-space callchains. It is output in the
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK data format. For kernel callchains, it's
still in the form of PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN.

The perf tool has to handle both data sources to construct a
complete callstack.

For the "perf report -D" option, both lbr and fp information will be
displayed.

A new call chain recording option "lbr" is introduced into the perf
tool for LBR call stack. The user can use --call-graph lbr to get
the call stack information from hardware.

Here are some examples.

When profiling bc(1) on Fedora 19:

  echo 'scale=2000; 4*a(1)' > cmd; perf record --call-graph lbr bc -l < cmd

If enabling LBR, perf report output looks like:

    50.36%       bc  bc                 [.] bc_divide
                 |
                 --- bc_divide
                     execute
                     run_code
                     yyparse
                     main
                     __libc_start_main
                     _start
    33.66%       bc  bc                 [.] _one_mult
                 |
                 --- _one_mult
                     bc_divide
                     execute
                     run_code
                     yyparse
                     main
                     __libc_start_main
                     _start
     7.62%       bc  bc                 [.] _bc_do_add
                 |
                 --- _bc_do_add
                    |
                    |--99.89%-- 0x2000186a8
                     --0.11%-- [...]
     6.83%       bc  bc                 [.] _bc_do_sub
                 |
                 --- _bc_do_sub
                    |
                    |--99.94%-- bc_add
                    |          execute
                    |          run_code
                    |          yyparse
                    |          main
                    |          __libc_start_main
                    |          _start
                     --0.06%-- [...]
     0.46%       bc  libc-2.17.so       [.] __memset_sse2
                 |
                 --- __memset_sse2
                    |
                    |--54.13%-- bc_new_num
                    |          |
                    |          |--51.00%-- bc_divide
                    |          |          execute
                    |          |          run_code
                    |          |          yyparse
                    |          |          main
                    |          |          __libc_start_main
                    |          |          _start
                    |          |
                    |          |--30.46%-- _bc_do_sub
                    |          |          bc_add
                    |          |          execute
                    |          |          run_code
                    |          |          yyparse
                    |          |          main
                    |          |          __libc_start_main
                    |          |          _start
                    |          |
                    |           --18.55%-- _bc_do_add
                    |                     bc_add
                    |                     execute
                    |                     run_code
                    |                     yyparse
                    |                     main
                    |                     __libc_start_main
                    |                     _start
                    |
                     --45.87%-- bc_divide
                               execute
                               run_code
                               yyparse
                               main
                               __libc_start_main
                               _start

If using FP, perf report output looks like:

  echo 'scale=2000; 4*a(1)' > cmd; perf record --call-graph fp bc -l < cmd

    50.49%       bc  bc                 [.] bc_divide
                 |
                 --- bc_divide
    33.57%       bc  bc                 [.] _one_mult
                 |
                 --- _one_mult
     7.61%       bc  bc                 [.] _bc_do_add
                 |
                 --- _bc_do_add
                     0x2000186a8
     6.88%       bc  bc                 [.] _bc_do_sub
                 |
                 --- _bc_do_sub
     0.42%       bc  libc-2.17.so       [.] __memcpy_ssse3_back
                 |
                 --- __memcpy_ssse3_back

If using LBR, perf report -D output looks like:

3458145275743 0x2fd750 [0xd8]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x2): 9748/9748: 0x408ea8 period: 609644 addr: 0
... LBR call chain: nr:8
.....  0: fffffffffffffe00
.....  1: 0000000000408e50
.....  2: 000000000040a458
.....  3: 000000000040562e
.....  4: 0000000000408590
.....  5: 00000000004022c0
.....  6: 00000000004015dd
.....  7: 0000003d1cc21b43
... FP chain: nr:2
.....  0: fffffffffffffe00
.....  1: 0000000000408ea8
 ... thread: bc:9748
 ...... dso: /usr/bin/bc

The LBR call stack has the following known limitations:

 - Zero length calls are not filtered out by the hardware

 - Exception handing such as setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns not
   match

 - Pushing different return address onto the stack will have
   calls/returns not match

 - If callstack is deeper than the LBR, only the last entries are
   captured

Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Simon Que <sque@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420482185-29830-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 91 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index 1bca3a9..9e0f60a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -1502,18 +1502,100 @@ static int remove_loops(struct branch_entry *l, int nr)
 	return nr;
 }
 
-static int thread__resolve_callchain_sample(struct thread *thread,
-					     struct ip_callchain *chain,
-					     struct branch_stack *branch,
-					     struct symbol **parent,
-					     struct addr_location *root_al,
-					     int max_stack)
+/*
+ * Recolve LBR callstack chain sample
+ * Return:
+ * 1 on success get LBR callchain information
+ * 0 no available LBR callchain information, should try fp
+ * negative error code on other errors.
+ */
+static int resolve_lbr_callchain_sample(struct thread *thread,
+					struct perf_sample *sample,
+					struct symbol **parent,
+					struct addr_location *root_al,
+					int max_stack)
 {
+	struct ip_callchain *chain = sample->callchain;
+	int chain_nr = min(max_stack, (int)chain->nr);
+	int i, j, err;
+	u64 ip;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < chain_nr; i++) {
+		if (chain->ips[i] == PERF_CONTEXT_USER)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	/* LBR only affects the user callchain */
+	if (i != chain_nr) {
+		struct branch_stack *lbr_stack = sample->branch_stack;
+		int lbr_nr = lbr_stack->nr;
+		/*
+		 * LBR callstack can only get user call chain.
+		 * The mix_chain_nr is kernel call chain
+		 * number plus LBR user call chain number.
+		 * i is kernel call chain number,
+		 * 1 is PERF_CONTEXT_USER,
+		 * lbr_nr + 1 is the user call chain number.
+		 * For details, please refer to the comments
+		 * in callchain__printf
+		 */
+		int mix_chain_nr = i + 1 + lbr_nr + 1;
+
+		if (mix_chain_nr > PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH + PERF_MAX_BRANCH_DEPTH) {
+			pr_warning("corrupted callchain. skipping...\n");
+			return 0;
+		}
+
+		for (j = 0; j < mix_chain_nr; j++) {
+			if (callchain_param.order == ORDER_CALLEE) {
+				if (j < i + 1)
+					ip = chain->ips[j];
+				else if (j > i + 1)
+					ip = lbr_stack->entries[j - i - 2].from;
+				else
+					ip = lbr_stack->entries[0].to;
+			} else {
+				if (j < lbr_nr)
+					ip = lbr_stack->entries[lbr_nr - j - 1].from;
+				else if (j > lbr_nr)
+					ip = chain->ips[i + 1 - (j - lbr_nr)];
+				else
+					ip = lbr_stack->entries[0].to;
+			}
+
+			err = add_callchain_ip(thread, parent, root_al, false, ip);
+			if (err)
+				return (err < 0) ? err : 0;
+		}
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int thread__resolve_callchain_sample(struct thread *thread,
+					    struct perf_evsel *evsel,
+					    struct perf_sample *sample,
+					    struct symbol **parent,
+					    struct addr_location *root_al,
+					    int max_stack)
+{
+	struct branch_stack *branch = sample->branch_stack;
+	struct ip_callchain *chain = sample->callchain;
 	int chain_nr = min(max_stack, (int)chain->nr);
 	int i, j, err;
 	int skip_idx = -1;
 	int first_call = 0;
 
+	callchain_cursor_reset(&callchain_cursor);
+
+	if (has_branch_callstack(evsel)) {
+		err = resolve_lbr_callchain_sample(thread, sample, parent,
+						   root_al, max_stack);
+		if (err)
+			return (err < 0) ? err : 0;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Based on DWARF debug information, some architectures skip
 	 * a callchain entry saved by the kernel.
@@ -1521,8 +1603,6 @@ static int thread__resolve_callchain_sample(struct thread *thread,
 	if (chain->nr < PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH)
 		skip_idx = arch_skip_callchain_idx(thread, chain);
 
-	callchain_cursor_reset(&callchain_cursor);
-
 	/*
 	 * Add branches to call stack for easier browsing. This gives
 	 * more context for a sample than just the callers.
@@ -1623,9 +1703,9 @@ int thread__resolve_callchain(struct thread *thread,
 			      struct addr_location *root_al,
 			      int max_stack)
 {
-	int ret = thread__resolve_callchain_sample(thread, sample->callchain,
-						   sample->branch_stack,
-						   parent, root_al, max_stack);
+	int ret = thread__resolve_callchain_sample(thread, evsel,
+						   sample, parent,
+						   root_al, max_stack);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;