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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-team@lge.com, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix to put caller above callee in children mode
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 09:30:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170523073018.GA28417@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170522125029.32525-1-namhyung@kernel.org>

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 09:50:29PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> The __hpp__sort_acc() sorts entries using callchain depth in order to
> put callers above in children mode.  But it assumed the callchain order
> was callee-first.  Now default (for children) is caller-first so the
> order of entries is reverted.
> 
> For example, consider following case.
> 
>   $ perf report --no-children
>   ..l
>   # Overhead  Command  Shared Object        Symbol
>   # ........  .......  ...................  ..........................
>   #
>       99.44%  a.out    a.out                [.] main
>               |
>               ---main
>                  __libc_start_main
>                  _start
> 
> Then children mode should show 'start' above '__libc_start_main' since
> it's the caller (parent) of the __libc_start_main.  But it's reversed:
> 
>   # Children      Self  Command  Shared Object    Symbol
>   # ........  ........  .......  ...............  .....................
>   #
>       99.61%     0.00%  a.out    libc-2.25.so     [.] __libc_start_main
>       99.61%     0.00%  a.out    a.out            [.] _start
>       99.54%    99.44%  a.out    a.out            [.] main
> 
> This patch fixes it.
> 
>   # Children      Self  Command  Shared Object    Symbol
>   # ........  ........  .......  ...............  .....................
>   #
>       99.61%     0.00%  a.out    a.out            [.] _start
>       99.61%     0.00%  a.out    libc-2.25.so     [.] __libc_start_main
>       99.54%    99.44%  a.out    a.out            [.] main
> 
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

thanks,
jirka

      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-23  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-22 12:50 [PATCH] perf tools: Fix to put caller above callee in children mode Namhyung Kim
2017-05-23  7:30 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]

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