From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: ahmadkhorrami <ahmadkhorrami@ut.ac.ir>
Cc: Linux-trace Users <linux-trace-users@vger.kernel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Wrong Perf Backtraces
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 20:34:21 -0400
Message-ID: <20200322203421.715b32d8@oasis.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd85fc28dfb5dcf7fc10507c3c86a56d@ut.ac.ir>
On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:54:01 +0430
ahmadkhorrami <ahmadkhorrami@ut.ac.ir> wrote:
> Hi,
> I used "Perf" to extract call graphs in an evince benchmark. The command
> used is as follows:
> sudo perf record -d --call-graph dwarf -c 10000 e
> mem_load_uops_retired.l3_miss:uppp /opt/evince-3.28.4/bin/evince
>
> I extracted the backtraces using "perf script" and found out that there
> are many corrupted backtrace instances. Some contained repeated function
> calls, for example two consecutive gmallocn()s exactly at the same
> offsets. There are also some backtraces where the callers and callees do
> not match.
Could you show some examples of the backtraces you mention?
>
> Note that that mappings are correct. In other words, each single line of
> the reported backtraces is correct (i.e., addresses match with
> functions). But is seems that there are some function calls in the
> middle, which are missed by "Perf". Strangely, in all runs (and also
> with different sampling frequencies) the problem occurs exactly at the
> same place.
>
> I am really confused and looking forward to any help. I can also send
> backtraces if needed.
-- Steve
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2020-03-22 20:24 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-23 0:34 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
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2020-03-23 8:49 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-23 10:03 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-25 15:18 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-25 15:46 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-25 18:54 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-25 18:58 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-03-25 19:10 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-25 19:28 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-03-25 20:01 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-25 20:39 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-25 21:02 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-25 21:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-03-25 21:37 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-25 21:46 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-25 22:21 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-25 23:09 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-26 9:59 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-26 13:20 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-26 15:39 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-26 18:19 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-26 18:21 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-27 9:20 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-27 10:59 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-27 11:04 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-27 12:10 ` Milian Wolff
2020-03-27 12:58 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-27 13:25 ` Milian Wolff
2020-03-27 13:33 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-27 18:43 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-27 22:37 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-27 23:12 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-28 23:34 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-29 0:43 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-29 1:16 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-29 11:19 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-29 11:52 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-29 12:08 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-29 12:39 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-29 13:50 ` Milian Wolff
2020-03-29 14:23 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-29 19:20 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-30 6:09 ` Milian Wolff
2020-03-30 13:07 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-30 13:49 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-30 19:05 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-30 21:05 ` debuginfod-based dwarf downloading, was " Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-31 9:26 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-31 14:00 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-31 4:43 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-31 9:30 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-31 11:53 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-31 12:43 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-31 13:20 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-03-31 13:39 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-31 14:44 ` Milian Wolff
2020-03-31 15:02 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-31 15:05 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-31 15:29 ` Milian Wolff
2020-03-31 16:10 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-03-31 19:20 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-31 19:17 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-31 20:57 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-04-04 1:01 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-04-11 16:42 ` ahmadkhorrami
2020-04-11 21:04 ` ahmadkhorrami
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