Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] perf annotate: Fix fused instr logic for assembly functions

From: Jin, Yao
Date: Sun Sep 12 2021 - 21:54:22 EST


Hi Arnaldo, Ravi

On 9/12/2021 3:03 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
Em Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 10:08:53AM +0530, Ravi Bangoria escreveu:
Some x86 microarchitectures fuse a subset of cmp/test/ALU instructions
with branch instructions, and thus perf annotate highlight such valid
pairs as fused.

Jin, are you ok with this? Can I have your reviewed-by?

- Arnaldo

Oh, my original patch could only handle the case like:

cmp xxx
je aaa

But it didn't consider Ravi's case something like:

cmp xxx
cmp yyy
je aaa
je bbb

Thanks for Ravi fixing this issue! Backward searching is probably a better solution.

Frankly I can't reproduce Ravi's case, but for my test suite, Ravi's patch works as well.

Reviewed-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Jin Yao

When annotated with source, perf uses struct disasm_line to contain
either source or instruction line from objdump output. Usually, a C
statement generates multiple instructions which include such
cmp/test/ALU + branch instruction pairs. But in case of assembly
function, each individual assembly source line generate one
instruction. Perf annotate instruction fusion logic assumes previous
disasm_line as previous instruction line, which is wrong because,
for assembly function, previous disasm_line contains source line.
And thus perf fails to highlight valid fused instruction pairs for
assembly functions.

Fix it by searching backward until we find an instruction line and
consider that disasm_line as fused with current branch instruction.

Before:
│ cmpq %rcx, RIP+8(%rsp)
0.00 │ cmp %rcx,0x88(%rsp)
│ je .Lerror_bad_iret <--- Source line
0.14 │ ┌──je b4 <--- Instruction line
│ │movl %ecx, %eax

After:
│ cmpq %rcx, RIP+8(%rsp)
0.00 │ ┌──cmp %rcx,0x88(%rsp)
│ │je .Lerror_bad_iret
0.14 │ ├──je b4
│ │movl %ecx, %eax

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/ui/browser.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
tools/perf/ui/browser.h | 2 +-
tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c | 24 +++++++++++++++-------
3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browser.c b/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
index 781afe42e90e..fa5bd5c20e96 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
@@ -757,25 +757,40 @@ void __ui_browser__line_arrow(struct ui_browser *browser, unsigned int column,
}
void ui_browser__mark_fused(struct ui_browser *browser, unsigned int column,
- unsigned int row, bool arrow_down)
+ unsigned int row, int diff, bool arrow_down)
{
- unsigned int end_row;
+ int end_row;
- if (row >= browser->top_idx)
- end_row = row - browser->top_idx;
- else
+ if (diff <= 0)
return;
SLsmg_set_char_set(1);
if (arrow_down) {
+ if (row + diff <= browser->top_idx)
+ return;
+
+ end_row = row + diff - browser->top_idx;
ui_browser__gotorc(browser, end_row, column - 1);
- SLsmg_write_char(SLSMG_ULCORN_CHAR);
- ui_browser__gotorc(browser, end_row, column);
- SLsmg_draw_hline(2);
- ui_browser__gotorc(browser, end_row + 1, column - 1);
SLsmg_write_char(SLSMG_LTEE_CHAR);
+
+ while (--end_row >= 0 && end_row > (int)(row - browser->top_idx)) {
+ ui_browser__gotorc(browser, end_row, column - 1);
+ SLsmg_draw_vline(1);
+ }
+
+ end_row = (int)(row - browser->top_idx);
+ if (end_row >= 0) {
+ ui_browser__gotorc(browser, end_row, column - 1);
+ SLsmg_write_char(SLSMG_ULCORN_CHAR);
+ ui_browser__gotorc(browser, end_row, column);
+ SLsmg_draw_hline(2);
+ }
} else {
+ if (row < browser->top_idx)
+ return;
+
+ end_row = row - browser->top_idx;
ui_browser__gotorc(browser, end_row, column - 1);
SLsmg_write_char(SLSMG_LTEE_CHAR);
ui_browser__gotorc(browser, end_row, column);
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browser.h b/tools/perf/ui/browser.h
index 3678eb88f119..510ce4554050 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browser.h
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browser.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ void ui_browser__write_graph(struct ui_browser *browser, int graph);
void __ui_browser__line_arrow(struct ui_browser *browser, unsigned int column,
u64 start, u64 end);
void ui_browser__mark_fused(struct ui_browser *browser, unsigned int column,
- unsigned int row, bool arrow_down);
+ unsigned int row, int diff, bool arrow_down);
void __ui_browser__show_title(struct ui_browser *browser, const char *title);
void ui_browser__show_title(struct ui_browser *browser, const char *title);
int ui_browser__show(struct ui_browser *browser, const char *title,
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c
index ef4da4295bf7..e81c2493efdf 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c
@@ -125,13 +125,20 @@ static void annotate_browser__write(struct ui_browser *browser, void *entry, int
ab->selection = al;
}
-static bool is_fused(struct annotate_browser *ab, struct disasm_line *cursor)
+static int is_fused(struct annotate_browser *ab, struct disasm_line *cursor)
{
struct disasm_line *pos = list_prev_entry(cursor, al.node);
const char *name;
+ int diff = 1;
+
+ while (pos && pos->al.offset == -1) {
+ pos = list_prev_entry(pos, al.node);
+ if (!ab->opts->hide_src_code)
+ diff++;
+ }
if (!pos)
- return false;
+ return 0;
if (ins__is_lock(&pos->ins))
name = pos->ops.locked.ins.name;
@@ -139,9 +146,11 @@ static bool is_fused(struct annotate_browser *ab, struct disasm_line *cursor)
name = pos->ins.name;
if (!name || !cursor->ins.name)
- return false;
+ return 0;
- return ins__is_fused(ab->arch, name, cursor->ins.name);
+ if (ins__is_fused(ab->arch, name, cursor->ins.name))
+ return diff;
+ return 0;
}
static void annotate_browser__draw_current_jump(struct ui_browser *browser)
@@ -155,6 +164,7 @@ static void annotate_browser__draw_current_jump(struct ui_browser *browser)
struct annotation *notes = symbol__annotation(sym);
u8 pcnt_width = annotation__pcnt_width(notes);
int width;
+ int diff = 0;
/* PLT symbols contain external offsets */
if (strstr(sym->name, "@plt"))
@@ -205,11 +215,11 @@ static void annotate_browser__draw_current_jump(struct ui_browser *browser)
pcnt_width + 2 + notes->widths.addr + width,
from, to);
- if (is_fused(ab, cursor)) {
+ diff = is_fused(ab, cursor);
+ if (diff > 0) {
ui_browser__mark_fused(browser,
pcnt_width + 3 + notes->widths.addr + width,
- from - 1,
- to > from);
+ from - diff, diff, to > from);
}
}
--
2.27.0