perf tools: Construct LBR call chain

LBR call stack only has user-space callchains. It is output in the
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK data format. For kernel callchains, it's
still in the form of PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN.

The perf tool has to handle both data sources to construct a
complete callstack.

For the "perf report -D" option, both lbr and fp information will be
displayed.

A new call chain recording option "lbr" is introduced into the perf
tool for LBR call stack. The user can use --call-graph lbr to get
the call stack information from hardware.

Here are some examples.

When profiling bc(1) on Fedora 19:

  echo 'scale=2000; 4*a(1)' > cmd; perf record --call-graph lbr bc -l < cmd

If enabling LBR, perf report output looks like:

    50.36%       bc  bc                 [.] bc_divide
                 |
                 --- bc_divide
                     execute
                     run_code
                     yyparse
                     main
                     __libc_start_main
                     _start
    33.66%       bc  bc                 [.] _one_mult
                 |
                 --- _one_mult
                     bc_divide
                     execute
                     run_code
                     yyparse
                     main
                     __libc_start_main
                     _start
     7.62%       bc  bc                 [.] _bc_do_add
                 |
                 --- _bc_do_add
                    |
                    |--99.89%-- 0x2000186a8
                     --0.11%-- [...]
     6.83%       bc  bc                 [.] _bc_do_sub
                 |
                 --- _bc_do_sub
                    |
                    |--99.94%-- bc_add
                    |          execute
                    |          run_code
                    |          yyparse
                    |          main
                    |          __libc_start_main
                    |          _start
                     --0.06%-- [...]
     0.46%       bc  libc-2.17.so       [.] __memset_sse2
                 |
                 --- __memset_sse2
                    |
                    |--54.13%-- bc_new_num
                    |          |
                    |          |--51.00%-- bc_divide
                    |          |          execute
                    |          |          run_code
                    |          |          yyparse
                    |          |          main
                    |          |          __libc_start_main
                    |          |          _start
                    |          |
                    |          |--30.46%-- _bc_do_sub
                    |          |          bc_add
                    |          |          execute
                    |          |          run_code
                    |          |          yyparse
                    |          |          main
                    |          |          __libc_start_main
                    |          |          _start
                    |          |
                    |           --18.55%-- _bc_do_add
                    |                     bc_add
                    |                     execute
                    |                     run_code
                    |                     yyparse
                    |                     main
                    |                     __libc_start_main
                    |                     _start
                    |
                     --45.87%-- bc_divide
                               execute
                               run_code
                               yyparse
                               main
                               __libc_start_main
                               _start

If using FP, perf report output looks like:

  echo 'scale=2000; 4*a(1)' > cmd; perf record --call-graph fp bc -l < cmd

    50.49%       bc  bc                 [.] bc_divide
                 |
                 --- bc_divide
    33.57%       bc  bc                 [.] _one_mult
                 |
                 --- _one_mult
     7.61%       bc  bc                 [.] _bc_do_add
                 |
                 --- _bc_do_add
                     0x2000186a8
     6.88%       bc  bc                 [.] _bc_do_sub
                 |
                 --- _bc_do_sub
     0.42%       bc  libc-2.17.so       [.] __memcpy_ssse3_back
                 |
                 --- __memcpy_ssse3_back

If using LBR, perf report -D output looks like:

3458145275743 0x2fd750 [0xd8]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x2): 9748/9748: 0x408ea8 period: 609644 addr: 0
... LBR call chain: nr:8
.....  0: fffffffffffffe00
.....  1: 0000000000408e50
.....  2: 000000000040a458
.....  3: 000000000040562e
.....  4: 0000000000408590
.....  5: 00000000004022c0
.....  6: 00000000004015dd
.....  7: 0000003d1cc21b43
... FP chain: nr:2
.....  0: fffffffffffffe00
.....  1: 0000000000408ea8
 ... thread: bc:9748
 ...... dso: /usr/bin/bc

The LBR call stack has the following known limitations:

 - Zero length calls are not filtered out by the hardware

 - Exception handing such as setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns not
   match

 - Pushing different return address onto the stack will have
   calls/returns not match

 - If callstack is deeper than the LBR, only the last entries are
   captured

Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Simon Que <sque@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420482185-29830-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 0baf75f12b7c..504b7e664e6c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -553,15 +553,67 @@ int perf_session_queue_event(struct perf_session *s, union perf_event *event,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void callchain__printf(struct perf_sample *sample)
+static void callchain__lbr_callstack_printf(struct perf_sample *sample)
 {
+	struct ip_callchain *callchain = sample->callchain;
+	struct branch_stack *lbr_stack = sample->branch_stack;
+	u64 kernel_callchain_nr = callchain->nr;
 	unsigned int i;
 
-	printf("... chain: nr:%" PRIu64 "\n", sample->callchain->nr);
+	for (i = 0; i < kernel_callchain_nr; i++) {
+		if (callchain->ips[i] == PERF_CONTEXT_USER)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	if ((i != kernel_callchain_nr) && lbr_stack->nr) {
+		u64 total_nr;
+		/*
+		 * LBR callstack can only get user call chain,
+		 * i is kernel call chain number,
+		 * 1 is PERF_CONTEXT_USER.
+		 *
+		 * The user call chain is stored in LBR registers.
+		 * LBR are pair registers. The caller is stored
+		 * in "from" register, while the callee is stored
+		 * in "to" register.
+		 * For example, there is a call stack
+		 * "A"->"B"->"C"->"D".
+		 * The LBR registers will recorde like
+		 * "C"->"D", "B"->"C", "A"->"B".
+		 * So only the first "to" register and all "from"
+		 * registers are needed to construct the whole stack.
+		 */
+		total_nr = i + 1 + lbr_stack->nr + 1;
+		kernel_callchain_nr = i + 1;
+
+		printf("... LBR call chain: nr:%" PRIu64 "\n", total_nr);
+
+		for (i = 0; i < kernel_callchain_nr; i++)
+			printf("..... %2d: %016" PRIx64 "\n",
+			       i, callchain->ips[i]);
+
+		printf("..... %2d: %016" PRIx64 "\n",
+		       (int)(kernel_callchain_nr), lbr_stack->entries[0].to);
+		for (i = 0; i < lbr_stack->nr; i++)
+			printf("..... %2d: %016" PRIx64 "\n",
+			       (int)(i + kernel_callchain_nr + 1), lbr_stack->entries[i].from);
+	}
+}
+
+static void callchain__printf(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
+			      struct perf_sample *sample)
+{
+	unsigned int i;
+	struct ip_callchain *callchain = sample->callchain;
+
+	if (has_branch_callstack(evsel))
+		callchain__lbr_callstack_printf(sample);
+
+	printf("... FP chain: nr:%" PRIu64 "\n", callchain->nr);
 
-	for (i = 0; i < sample->callchain->nr; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < callchain->nr; i++)
 		printf("..... %2d: %016" PRIx64 "\n",
-		       i, sample->callchain->ips[i]);
+		       i, callchain->ips[i]);
 }
 
 static void branch_stack__printf(struct perf_sample *sample)
@@ -718,9 +770,9 @@ static void dump_sample(struct perf_evsel *evsel, union perf_event *event,
 	sample_type = evsel->attr.sample_type;
 
 	if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN)
-		callchain__printf(sample);
+		callchain__printf(evsel, sample);
 
-	if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK)
+	if ((sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK) && !has_branch_callstack(evsel))
 		branch_stack__printf(sample);
 
 	if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER)