Perf script can report the dso for "addr" and "ip" fields.
This adds the same support for the "brstack" and "brstacksym" fields.
This can be helpful for AutoFDO: we can ignore LBR entries unless the
source and target address are both in the target module we are about to
build.
I built a small test akin to "while(1) { do_nothing(); }" where the
do_nothing function is loaded from a dso:
$ cat burncpu.cpp
#include <dlfcn.h>
int main() {
void* handle = dlopen("./dso.so", RTLD_LAZY);
if (!handle) return -1;
typedef void (*fp)();
fp do_nothing = (fp) dlsym(handle, "do_nothing");
while(1) {
do_nothing();
}
}
$ cat dso.cpp
extern "C" void do_nothing() {}
$ cat build.sh
#!/bin/bash
g++ -shared dso.cpp -o dso.so
g++ burncpu.cpp -o burncpu -ldl
I sampled the execution with perf record -b. Using the new perf script
functionality I can easily find cases where there was a transition from one
dso to another:
$ perf record -a -b -- sleep 5
[ perf record: Woken up 55 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 18.815 MB perf.data (43593 samples) ]
$ perf script -F brstack,dso | sed 's/\/0 /\/0\n/g' | grep burncpu | grep dso.so | head -n 1
0x7f967139b6aa(/tmp/burncpu/dso.so)/0x4006b1(/tmp/burncpu/exe)/P/-/-/0
$ perf script -F brstacksym,dso | sed 's/\/0 /\/0\n/g' | grep burncpu | grep dso.so | head -n 1
do_nothing+0x5(/tmp/burncpu/dso.so)/main+0x44(/tmp/burncpu/exe)/P/-/-/0
Signed-off-by: Mark Santaniello <marksan@fb.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170619163825.2012979-1-marksan@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>