[PATCH v5] perf record: collect user registers set jointly with dwarf stacks

* [PATCH v5] perf record: collect user registers set jointly with dwarf stacks
@ 2019-05-30 19:03 Alexey Budankov
  2019-05-30 19:41 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  2019-06-17 18:58 ` [tip:perf/core] perf record: Allow mixing --user-regs with --call-graph=dwarf tip-bot for Alexey Budankov
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Alexey Budankov @ 2019-05-30 19:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  Cc: Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Kim, Alexander Shishkin, Peter Zijlstra,
	Ingo Molnar, Andi Kleen, linux-kernel


When dwarf stacks are collected jointly with user specified register
set using --user-regs option like below the full register context is
captured on a sample:

  $ perf record -g --call-graph dwarf,1024 --user-regs=IP,SP,BP -- stack_test2.g.O3

  188143843893585 0x6b48 [0x4f8]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4002): 23828/23828: 0x401236 period: 1363819 addr: 0x7ffedbdd51ac
  ... FP chain: nr:0
  ... user regs: mask 0xff0fff ABI 64-bit
  .... AX    0x53b
  .... BX    0x7ffedbdd3cc0
  .... CX    0xffffffff
  .... DX    0x33d3a
  .... SI    0x7f09b74c38d0
  .... DI    0x0
  .... BP    0x401260
  .... SP    0x7ffedbdd3cc0
  .... IP    0x401236
  .... FLAGS 0x20a
  .... CS    0x33
  .... SS    0x2b
  .... R8    0x7f09b74c3800
  .... R9    0x7f09b74c2da0
  .... R10   0xfffffffffffff3ce
  .... R11   0x246
  .... R12   0x401070
  .... R13   0x7ffedbdd5db0
  .... R14   0x0
  .... R15   0x0
  ... ustack: size 1024, offset 0xe0
   . data_src: 0x5080021
   ... thread: stack_test2.g.O:23828
   ...... dso: /root/abudanko/stacks/stack_test2.g.O3

After applying the change suggested in the patch the sample data contain
only user specified register values. IP and SP registers (DWARF_MINIMAL_REGS)
are collected anyways regardless of the --user-regs value provided from
the command line:

  -g call-graph dwarf,K                         full_regs
  --user-regs=user_regs                         user_regs
  -g call-graph dwarf,K --user-regs=user_regs	user_regs + DWARF_MINIMAL_REGS

  $ perf record -g --call-graph dwarf,1024 --user-regs=BP -- ls
  WARNING: The use of --call-graph=dwarf may require all the user registers, specifying a subset with --user-regs may render DWARF unwinding unreliable, so the minimal registers set (IP, SP) is explicitly forced.
  arch   COPYING	Documentation  include	Kbuild	 lbuild    MAINTAINERS	modules.builtin		 Module.symvers  perf.data.old	scripts   System.map  virt
  block  CREDITS	drivers        init	Kconfig  lib	   Makefile	modules.builtin.modinfo  net		 README		security  tools       vmlinux
  certs  crypto	fs	       ipc	kernel	 LICENSES  mm		modules.order		 perf.data	 samples	sound	  usr	      vmlinux.o
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.030 MB perf.data (10 samples) ]

  188368474305373 0x5e40 [0x470]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4002): 23839/23839: 0x401236 period: 1260507 addr: 0x7ffd3d85e96c
  ... FP chain: nr:0
  ... user regs: mask 0x1c0 ABI 64-bit
  .... BP    0x401260
  .... SP    0x7ffd3d85cc20
  .... IP    0x401236
  ... ustack: size 1024, offset 0x58
   . data_src: 0x5080021

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
---
Changes in v5:
- renamed minimal dwarf regs set macro to DWARF_MINIMAL_REGS
- edited warning message

Changes in v4:
- added warning message about dwarf registers unconditionally 
  included into the collected registers set

Changes in v3:
- avoid changes in platform specific header files

Changes in v2:
- implemented dwarf register set to avoid corrupted trace 
  when --user-regs option value omits IP,SP
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index a6f572a40deb..375ab4eb7560 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -669,6 +669,8 @@ int perf_evsel__group_desc(struct perf_evsel *evsel, char *buf, size_t size)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+#define DWARF_MINIMAL_REGS ((1ULL << PERF_REG_IP) | (1ULL << PERF_REG_SP))
+
 static void __perf_evsel__config_callchain(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
 					   struct record_opts *opts,
 					   struct callchain_param *param)
@@ -702,7 +704,14 @@ static void __perf_evsel__config_callchain(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
 		if (!function) {
 			perf_evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, REGS_USER);
 			perf_evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, STACK_USER);
-			attr->sample_regs_user |= PERF_REGS_MASK;
+			if (opts->sample_user_regs) {
+				attr->sample_regs_user |= DWARF_MINIMAL_REGS;
+				pr_warning("WARNING: The use of --call-graph=dwarf may require all the user registers, "
+					   "specifying a subset with --user-regs may render DWARF unwinding unreliable, "
+					   "so the minimal registers set (IP, SP) is explicitly forced.\n");
+			} else {
+				attr->sample_regs_user |= PERF_REGS_MASK;
+			}
 			attr->sample_stack_user = param->dump_size;
 			attr->exclude_callchain_user = 1;
 		} else {
-- 
2.20.1


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