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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2016-06-23 16:40:58 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-06-23 17:04:26 -0300
commite216708d982a1c262f411fee2fcac2bd9ec93a32 (patch)
tree4941ea4945af89202d02c3f06e186dad4dd7bfac /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
parent50f736372d5ea0ce97ede698f957c9b141aa569e (diff)
perf script: Add callindent option
Based on patches from Andi Kleen. When printing PT instruction traces with perf script it is rather useful to see some indentation for the call tree. This patch adds a new callindent field to perf script that prints spaces for the function call stack depth. We already have code to track the function call stack for PT, that we can reuse with minor modifications. The resulting output is not quite as nice as ftrace yet, but a lot better than what was there before. Note there are some corner cases when the thread stack gets code confused and prints incorrect indentation. Even with that it is fairly useful. When displaying kernel code traces it is recommended to run as root, as otherwise perf doesn't understand the kernel addresses properly, and may not reset the call stack correctly on kernel boundaries. Example output: sudo perf-with-kcore record eg2 -a -e intel_pt// -- sleep 1 sudo perf-with-kcore script eg2 --ns -F callindent,time,comm,pid,sym,ip,addr,flags,cpu --itrace=cre | less ... swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116586: call irq_exit ffffffff8104d620 smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x30 => ffffffff8107e720 irq_exit swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116586: call idle_cpu ffffffff8107e769 irq_exit+0x49 => ffffffff810a3970 idle_cpu swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116586: return idle_cpu ffffffff810a39b7 idle_cpu+0x47 => ffffffff8107e76e irq_exit swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116586: call tick_nohz_irq_exit ffffffff8107e7bd irq_exit+0x9d => ffffffff810f2fc0 tick_nohz_irq_exit swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: call __tick_nohz_idle_enter ffffffff810f2fe0 tick_nohz_irq_exit+0x20 => ffffffff810f28d0 __tick_nohz_idle_enter swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: call ktime_get ffffffff810f28f1 __tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x21 => ffffffff810e9ec0 ktime_get swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: call read_tsc ffffffff810e9ef6 ktime_get+0x36 => ffffffff81035070 read_tsc swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: return read_tsc ffffffff81035084 read_tsc+0x14 => ffffffff810e9efc ktime_get swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: return ktime_get ffffffff810e9f46 ktime_get+0x86 => ffffffff810f28f6 __tick_nohz_idle_enter swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: call sched_clock_idle_sleep_event ffffffff810f290b __tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x3b => ffffffff810a7380 sched_clock_idle_sleep_event swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: call sched_clock_cpu ffffffff810a738b sched_clock_idle_sleep_event+0xb => ffffffff810a72e0 sched_clock_cpu swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: call sched_clock ffffffff810a734d sched_clock_cpu+0x6d => ffffffff81035750 sched_clock swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: call native_sched_clock ffffffff81035754 sched_clock+0x4 => ffffffff81035640 native_sched_clock swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: return native_sched_clock ffffffff8103568c native_sched_clock+0x4c => ffffffff81035759 sched_clock swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: return sched_clock ffffffff8103575c sched_clock+0xc => ffffffff810a7352 sched_clock_cpu swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: return sched_clock_cpu ffffffff810a7356 sched_clock_cpu+0x76 => ffffffff810a7390 sched_clock_idle_sleep_event swapper 0 [000] 5830.389116919: return sched_clock_idle_sleep_event ffffffff810a7391 sched_clock_idle_sleep_event+0x11 => ffffffff810f2910 __tick_nohz_idle_enter ... Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466689258-28493-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
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@@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ OPTIONS
"tr end" for "bE". However the "x" flag will be display separately in those
cases e.g. "jcc (x)" for a condition branch within a transaction.
+ The callindent field is synthesized and may have a value when
+ Instruction Trace decoding. For calls and returns, it will display the
+ name of the symbol indented with spaces to reflect the stack depth.
+
Finally, a user may not set fields to none for all event types.
i.e., -F "" is not allowed.