linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
Cc: jolsa@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ak@linux.intel.com, kan.liang@intel.com, yao.jin@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] perf report: Support interactive annotation of code without symbols
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:49:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49849512-c6a7-22ab-5c93-03fd78ad82d6@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200318154206.GG11531@kernel.org>



On 3/18/2020 11:42 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:39:38PM +0800, Jin Yao escreveu:
>> For perf report on stripped binaries it is currently impossible to do
>> annotation. The annotation state is all tied to symbols, but there are
>> either no symbols, or symbols are not covering all the code.
>>
>> We should support the annotation functionality even without symbols.
>>
>> This patch fakes a symbol and the symbol name is the string of address.
>> After that, we just follow current annotation working flow.
>>
>> For example,
>>
>> 1. perf report
>>
>> Overhead  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
>>    20.67%  div      libc-2.27.so      [.] __random_r
>>    17.29%  div      libc-2.27.so      [.] __random
>>    10.59%  div      div               [.] 0x0000000000000628
>>     9.25%  div      div               [.] 0x0000000000000612
>>     6.11%  div      div               [.] 0x0000000000000645
>>
>> 2. Select the line of "10.59%  div      div               [.] 0x0000000000000628" and ENTER.
>>
>> Annotate 0x0000000000000628
>> Zoom into div thread
>> Zoom into div DSO (use the 'k' hotkey to zoom directly into the kernel)
>> Browse map details
>> Run scripts for samples of symbol [0x0000000000000628]
>> Run scripts for all samples
>> Switch to another data file in PWD
>> Exit
>>
>> 3. Select the "Annotate 0x0000000000000628" and ENTER.
>>
>> Percent│
>>         │
>>         │
>>         │     Disassembly of section .text:
>>         │
>>         │     0000000000000628 <.text+0x68>:
>>         │       divsd %xmm4,%xmm0
>>         │       divsd %xmm3,%xmm1
>>         │       movsd (%rsp),%xmm2
>>         │       addsd %xmm1,%xmm0
>>         │       addsd %xmm2,%xmm0
>>         │       movsd %xmm0,(%rsp)
>>
>> Now we can see the dump of object starting from 0x628.
> 
> Testing this I noticed this discrepancy when using 'o' in the annotate
> view to see the address columns:
> 
> Samples: 10K of event 'cycles', 4000 Hz, Event count (approx.): 7738221585
> 0x0000000000ea8b97  /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/9/cc1 [Percent: local period]
> Percent│                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ▒
>         │                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ▒
>         │                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ▒
>         │        Disassembly of section .text:                                                                                                                                                                                                             ▒
>         │                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ◆
>         │        00000000012a8b97 <linemap_get_expansion_line@@Base+0x227>:                                                                                                                                                                                ▒
>         │12a8b97:   cmp     %rax,(%rdi)                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ▒
>         │12a8b9a: ↓ je      12a8ba0 <linemap_get_expansion_line@@Base+0x230>                                                                                                                                                                               ▒
>         │12a8b9c:   xor     %eax,%eax                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ▒
>         │12a8b9e: ← retq                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ▒
>         │12a8b9f:   nop                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ▒
>         │12a8ba0:   mov     0x8(%rsi),%edx
> 
> 
> 
>   See that 0x0000000000ea8b97 != 12a8b97
> 
> How can we explain that?
> 
> - Arnaldo
>   

Not very clear about the reason. Actually the patch doesn't change the 
annotate view, it only fakes a dummy symbol.

I want to debug it but I'm failed to reproduce this issue on my machine. :(

Thanks
Jin Yao

>>   v5:
>>   ---
>>   Remove the hotkey 'a' implementation from this patch. It
>>   will be moved to a separate patch.
>>
>>   v4:
>>   ---
>>   1. Support the hotkey 'a'. When we press 'a' on address,
>>      now it supports the annotation.
>>
>>   2. Change the patch title from
>>      "Support interactive annotation of code without symbols" to
>>      "perf report: Support interactive annotation of code without symbols"
>>
>>   v3:
>>   ---
>>   Keep just the ANNOTATION_DUMMY_LEN, and remove the
>>   opts->annotate_dummy_len since it's the "maybe in future
>>   we will provide" feature.
>>
>>   v2:
>>   ---
>>   Fix a crash issue when annotating an address in "unknown" object.
>>
>>   The steps to reproduce this issue:
>>
>>   perf record -e cycles:u ls
>>   perf report
>>
>>      75.29%  ls       ld-2.27.so        [.] do_lookup_x
>>      23.64%  ls       ld-2.27.so        [.] __GI___tunables_init
>>       1.04%  ls       [unknown]         [k] 0xffffffff85c01210
>>       0.03%  ls       ld-2.27.so        [.] _start
>>
>>   When annotating 0xffffffff85c01210, the crash happens.
>>
>>   v2 adds checking for ms->map in add_annotate_opt(). If the object is
>>   "unknown", ms->map is NULL.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>   tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>>   tools/perf/util/annotate.h     |  1 +
>>   2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
>> index f36dee499320..2f07680559c4 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
>> @@ -2465,13 +2465,41 @@ do_annotate(struct hist_browser *browser, struct popup_action *act)
>>   	return 0;
>>   }
>>   
>> +static struct symbol *new_annotate_sym(u64 addr, struct map *map)
>> +{
>> +	struct symbol *sym;
>> +	struct annotated_source *src;
>> +	char name[64];
>> +
>> +	snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "%-#.*lx", BITS_PER_LONG / 4, addr);
>> +
>> +	sym = symbol__new(addr, ANNOTATION_DUMMY_LEN, 0, 0, name);
>> +	if (sym) {
>> +		src = symbol__hists(sym, 1);
>> +		if (!src) {
>> +			symbol__delete(sym);
>> +			return NULL;
>> +		}
>> +
>> +		dso__insert_symbol(map->dso, sym);
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	return sym;
>> +}
>> +
>>   static int
>>   add_annotate_opt(struct hist_browser *browser __maybe_unused,
>>   		 struct popup_action *act, char **optstr,
>> -		 struct map_symbol *ms)
>> +		 struct map_symbol *ms,
>> +		 u64 addr)
>>   {
>> -	if (ms->sym == NULL || ms->map->dso->annotate_warned ||
>> -	    symbol__annotation(ms->sym)->src == NULL)
>> +	if (!ms->map || !ms->map->dso || ms->map->dso->annotate_warned)
>> +		return 0;
>> +
>> +	if (!ms->sym)
>> +		ms->sym = new_annotate_sym(addr, ms->map);
>> +
>> +	if (ms->sym == NULL || symbol__annotation(ms->sym)->src == NULL)
>>   		return 0;
>>   
>>   	if (asprintf(optstr, "Annotate %s", ms->sym->name) < 0)
>> @@ -3219,17 +3247,20 @@ static int perf_evsel__hists_browse(struct evsel *evsel, int nr_events,
>>   			nr_options += add_annotate_opt(browser,
>>   						       &actions[nr_options],
>>   						       &options[nr_options],
>> -						       &bi->from.ms);
>> +						       &bi->from.ms,
>> +						       bi->from.al_addr);
>>   			if (bi->to.ms.sym != bi->from.ms.sym)
>>   				nr_options += add_annotate_opt(browser,
>>   							&actions[nr_options],
>>   							&options[nr_options],
>> -							&bi->to.ms);
>> +							&bi->to.ms,
>> +							bi->to.al_addr);
>>   		} else {
>>   			nr_options += add_annotate_opt(browser,
>>   						       &actions[nr_options],
>>   						       &options[nr_options],
>> -						       browser->selection);
>> +						       browser->selection,
>> +						       browser->he_selection->ip);
>>   		}
>>   skip_annotation:
>>   		nr_options += add_thread_opt(browser, &actions[nr_options],
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.h b/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
>> index 455403e8fede..c8463c48adf2 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
>> @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ bool ins__is_fused(struct arch *arch, const char *ins1, const char *ins2);
>>   #define ANNOTATION__CYCLES_WIDTH 6
>>   #define ANNOTATION__MINMAX_CYCLES_WIDTH 19
>>   #define ANNOTATION__AVG_IPC_WIDTH 36
>> +#define ANNOTATION_DUMMY_LEN	256
>>   
>>   struct annotation_options {
>>   	bool hide_src_code,
>> -- 
>> 2.17.1
>>
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-19  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-27  4:39 [PATCH v5 0/3] perf report: Support annotation of code without symbols Jin Yao
2020-02-27  4:39 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] perf util: Print al_addr when symbol is not found Jin Yao
2020-04-04  8:42   ` [tip: perf/urgent] perf report: " tip-bot2 for Jin Yao
2020-02-27  4:39 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] perf report: Support interactive annotation of code without symbols Jin Yao
2020-03-18 15:42   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-03-18 15:43     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-03-18 15:46       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-03-19  1:11         ` Jin, Yao
2020-03-19  0:56       ` Jin, Yao
2020-03-19  0:49     ` Jin, Yao [this message]
2020-04-04  8:42   ` [tip: perf/urgent] " tip-bot2 for Jin Yao
2020-02-27  4:39 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] perf report: Support hotkey 'a' on address for annotation Jin Yao
2020-04-04  8:42   ` [tip: perf/urgent] perf report/top TUI: Support hotkey 'a' for annotation of unresolved addresses tip-bot2 for Jin Yao
2020-03-02  4:08 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] perf report: Support annotation of code without symbols Ravi Bangoria
2020-03-02 12:51 ` Jiri Olsa

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=49849512-c6a7-22ab-5c93-03fd78ad82d6@linux.intel.com \
    --to=yao.jin@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=ak@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=arnaldo.melo@gmail.com \
    --cc=jolsa@kernel.org \
    --cc=kan.liang@intel.com \
    --cc=mingo@redhat.com \
    --cc=peterz@infradead.org \
    --cc=yao.jin@intel.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).