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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: ahmadkhorrami <ahmadkhorrami@ut.ac.ir>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Linux-trace Users <linux-trace-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-trace-users-owner@vger.kernel.org,
	Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Wrong Perf Backtraces
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:07:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200330130750.GC2361248@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2522580.mvXUDI8C0e@agathebauer>

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 08:09:53AM +0200, Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Sonntag, 29. März 2020 21:20:10 CEST Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 03:50:57PM +0200, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > > On Sonntag, 29. März 2020 14:39:33 CEST ahmadkhorrami wrote:
> > > > Thanks. I did both of your changes. Perhaps some outputs are revised.
> > > > But I still have repeated function calls and the script detects them.
> > > 
> > > > Here is one of them when the sampling period is 1000 events:
> > > <snip>
> > > 
> > > > Here, we have two consecutive "7f91788120b5
> > > > gtk_widget_propagate_state+0x195
> > > > (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0.2200.30) gtkwidget.c:0" lines,
> > > > while "gtk_widget_propagate_state+0x195" is not recursive. It should
> > > > call "gtk_container_forall", which does not occur even after the second
> > > > (inner) call.
> > > 
> > > Potentially you are just lacking some debug symbols here for this GTK
> > > library. note that "gtkwidget.c:0" is bogus already - the line numbers
> > > start with 1, so
> > could we just skip those then? pass on all zero lined inlines
> > and not add/display them
> 
> I guess so - but quite frankly I'm a bit uneasy to do this without further 
> exploration about the actual causes here. Afaik DWARF does not say anything 
> about the validity, so in theory there might be some language/compiler that 
> encodes valid DWARF locations with line 0?
> 
> Generally, it would be quite interesting to figure out why there is /some/ 
> DWARF data here such that the code thinks it's able to decode the inline frame 
> but then fails and leads to this confusing result?

right, but it's beyond my DWARF expertise ;-) we'll need
to wait till one of you guys could take a look on it

thanks,
jirka


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-30 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <157597d74ff17f781d9de7e7e3defd13@ut.ac.ir>
2020-03-22 20:24 ` Wrong Perf Backtraces ahmadkhorrami
2020-03-23  0:34   ` Steven Rostedt
     [not found]     ` <21b3df4080709f193d62b159887e2a83@ut.ac.ir>
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 [this message]
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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