[PATCH 19/21] perf top: Add --children option

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Wed Jan 22 2014 - 19:16:44 EST


The --children option is for showing accumulated overhead (period)
value as well as self overhead. It should be used with one of -g or
--call-graph option.

Tested-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@xxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt | 6 ++++++
tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
index cdd8d4946dba..01b6fd1a4428 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
@@ -149,6 +149,12 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
Setup and enable call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording,
implies -g.

+--children::
+ Accumulate callchain of children to parent entry so that then can
+ show up in the output. The output will have a new "Children" column
+ and will be sorted on the data. It requires -g/--call-graph option
+ enabled.
+
--max-stack::
Set the stack depth limit when parsing the callchain, anything
beyond the specified depth will be ignored. This is a trade-off
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 9de14f71c196..439e000b0f39 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -1087,6 +1087,8 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
OPT_CALLBACK(0, "call-graph", &top.record_opts,
"mode[,dump_size]", record_callchain_help,
&parse_callchain_opt),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "children", &symbol_conf.cumulate_callchain,
+ "Accumulate callchains of children and show total overhead as well"),
OPT_INTEGER(0, "max-stack", &top.max_stack,
"Set the maximum stack depth when parsing the callchain. "
"Default: " __stringify(PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH)),
@@ -1186,6 +1188,11 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)

top.sym_evsel = perf_evlist__first(top.evlist);

+ if (!symbol_conf.use_callchain) {
+ symbol_conf.cumulate_callchain = false;
+ perf_hpp__cancel_cumulate();
+ }
+
symbol_conf.priv_size = sizeof(struct annotation);

symbol_conf.try_vmlinux_path = (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name == NULL);
--
1.7.11.7

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