Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 00/15] perf report: Add support to accumulatehist periods

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Oct 29 2012 - 15:09:03 EST


On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 16:19 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> When --cumulate option is given, it'll be shown like this:
>
> $ perf report --cumulate
> (...)
> + 93.63% abc libc-2.15.so [.] __libc_start_main
> + 93.35% abc abc [.] main
> + 93.35% abc abc [.] c
> + 93.35% abc abc [.] b
> + 93.35% abc abc [.] a
> + 5.17% abc ld-2.15.so [.] _dl_map_object
> + 5.17% abc ld-2.15.so [.] _dl_map_object_from_fd
> + 1.13% abc ld-2.15.so [.] _dl_start_user
> + 1.13% abc ld-2.15.so [.] _dl_start
> + 0.29% abc perf [.] main
> + 0.29% abc perf [.] run_builtin
> + 0.29% abc perf [.] cmd_record
> + 0.29% abc libpthread-2.15.so [.] __libc_close
> + 0.07% abc ld-2.15.so [.] _start
> + 0.07% abc [kernel.kallsyms] [k] page_fault
>
> (This output came from TUI since stdio bothered by callchains)

Right, so I tried this and I would expect the callchains to be inverted
too, so that when I expand say 'c' I would see that 'c' calls 'b' for
100% which calls 'a' for 100%.

Instead I get the regular callchains, expanding 'c' gives me main calls
it for 100%.

Adding -G (invert callchains) doesn't make it better, in that case, when
I expand 'c' we start at '__libc_start_main' instead of 'c'.

Is there anything I'm missing?
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