Re: [PATCH 0/1] perf report: append inlines to non-dwarf callchains

[Artem Savkov]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 04:44:20PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:18:49AM -0700, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 12:41 AM Artem Savkov <asavkov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 02:26:18PM -0700, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 6:36 AM Artem Savkov <asavkov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > In an email to Arnaldo Andrii Nakryiko suggested that perf can get
> > > > > information about inlined functions from dwarf when available and then
> > > > > add it to userspace stacktraces even in framepointer or lbr mode.
> > > > > Looking closer at perf it turned out all required bits and pieces are
> > > > > already there and inline information can be easily added to both
> > > > > framepointer and lbr callchains by adding an append_inlines() call to
> > > > > add_callchain_ip().
> > > >
> > > > Looks great!  Have you checked it with perf report -g callee ?
> > > > I'm not sure the ordering of inlined functions is maintained
> > > > properly.  Maybe you can use --no-children too to simplify
> > > > the output.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the suggestion. I actually have another test program with
> > > functions being numbered rather than (creatively) named, so it might be
> > > easier to use it to figure out ordering. Here's the code:
> > 
> > Yep, looks good.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> So, I'll apply this shorter patch instead, ok?

Looks good to me, much cleaner. Thanks.

> - Arnaldo
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> index 803c9d1803dd26ef..abf6167f28217fe6 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
>  #include <linux/zalloc.h>
>  
>  static void __machine__remove_thread(struct machine *machine, struct thread *th, bool lock);
> +static int append_inlines(struct callchain_cursor *cursor, struct map_symbol *ms, u64 ip);
>  
>  static struct dso *machine__kernel_dso(struct machine *machine)
>  {
> @@ -2322,6 +2323,10 @@ static int add_callchain_ip(struct thread *thread,
>  	ms.maps = al.maps;
>  	ms.map = al.map;
>  	ms.sym = al.sym;
> +
> +	if (append_inlines(cursor, &ms, ip) == 0)
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	srcline = callchain_srcline(&ms, al.addr);
>  	return callchain_cursor_append(cursor, ip, &ms,
>  				       branch, flags, nr_loop_iter,

-- 
 Artem