perf report: Add --max-stack option to limit callchain stack scan

When callgraph data was included in the perf data file, it may take a
long time to scan all those data and merge them together especially if
the stored callchains are long and the perf data file itself is large,
like a Gbyte or so.

The callchain stack is currently limited to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH (127).
This is a large value. Usually the callgraph data that developers are
most interested in are the first few levels, the rests are usually not
looked at.

This patch adds a new --max-stack option to perf-report to limit the
depth of callchain stack data to look at to reduce the time it takes for
perf-report to finish its processing. It trades the presence of trailing
stack information with faster speed.

The following table shows the elapsed time of doing perf-report on a
perf.data file of size 985,531,828 bytes.

  --max_stack   Elapsed Time    Output data size
  -----------   ------------    ----------------
  not set        88.0s          124,422,651
  64             87.5s          116,303,213
  32             87.2s          112,023,804
  16             86.6s           94,326,380
  8              59.9s           33,697,248
  4              40.7s           10,116,637
  -g none        27.1s            2,555,810

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382107129-2010-4-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

3 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index 6b861ae..ea93425 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -1253,10 +1253,12 @@ static int machine__resolve_callchain_sample(struct machine *machine,
 					     struct thread *thread,
 					     struct ip_callchain *chain,
 					     struct symbol **parent,
-					     struct addr_location *root_al)
+					     struct addr_location *root_al,
+					     int max_stack)
 {
 	u8 cpumode = PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER;
-	unsigned int i;
+	int chain_nr = min(max_stack, (int)chain->nr);
+	int i;
 	int err;
 
 	callchain_cursor_reset(&callchain_cursor);
@@ -1266,7 +1268,7 @@ static int machine__resolve_callchain_sample(struct machine *machine,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	for (i = 0; i < chain->nr; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < chain_nr; i++) {
 		u64 ip;
 		struct addr_location al;
 
@@ -1338,12 +1340,14 @@ int machine__resolve_callchain(struct machine *machine,
 			       struct thread *thread,
 			       struct perf_sample *sample,
 			       struct symbol **parent,
-			       struct addr_location *root_al)
+			       struct addr_location *root_al,
+			       int max_stack)
 {
 	int ret;
 
 	ret = machine__resolve_callchain_sample(machine, thread,
-						sample->callchain, parent, root_al);
+						sample->callchain, parent,
+						root_al, max_stack);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.h b/tools/perf/util/machine.h
index d44c09b..4c1f5d5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.h
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ int machine__resolve_callchain(struct machine *machine,
 			       struct thread *thread,
 			       struct perf_sample *sample,
 			       struct symbol **parent,
-			       struct addr_location *root_al);
+			       struct addr_location *root_al,
+			       int max_stack);
 
 /*
  * Default guest kernel is defined by parameter --guestkallsyms
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 19fc716..854c5aa 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -1512,7 +1512,8 @@ void perf_evsel__print_ip(struct perf_evsel *evsel, union perf_event *event,
 	if (symbol_conf.use_callchain && sample->callchain) {
 
 		if (machine__resolve_callchain(machine, evsel, al.thread,
-					       sample, NULL, NULL) != 0) {
+					       sample, NULL, NULL,
+					       PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH) != 0) {
 			if (verbose)
 				error("Failed to resolve callchain. Skipping\n");
 			return;