[PATCH 1/3] perf tools: Fix missing top level callchain

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Thu Oct 22 2009 - 17:23:44 EST


While recursively printing the branches of each callchains, we forget
to display the root. It is never printed.

Say we have:

symbol
f1
f2
|
-------- f3
| f4
|
---------f5
f6

Actually we never see that, instead it displays:

symbol
|
--------- f3
| f4
|
--------- f5
f6

However f1 is always the same than "symbol" and if we are sorting by
symbols first then "symbol", f1 and f2 will be well aligned like in the
above example, so displaying f1 looks redundant here.

But if we are sorting by something else first (dso, comm, etc...),
displaying f1 doesn't look redundant but rather necessary because the
symbol is not well aligned anymore with its callchain:

comm dso symbol
f1
f2
|
--------- [...]

And we want the callchain to be obvious.
So we fix the bug by printing the root branch, but we also filter its
first entry if we are sorting by symbols first.

Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
tools/perf/util/sort.c | 10 +++++++---
tools/perf/util/sort.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index bee207c..3d8c522 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ static void init_rem_hits(void)
}

static size_t
-callchain__fprintf_graph(FILE *fp, struct callchain_node *self,
- u64 total_samples, int depth, int depth_mask)
+__callchain__fprintf_graph(FILE *fp, struct callchain_node *self,
+ u64 total_samples, int depth, int depth_mask)
{
struct rb_node *node, *next;
struct callchain_node *child;
@@ -174,9 +174,9 @@ callchain__fprintf_graph(FILE *fp, struct callchain_node *self,
new_total,
cumul);
}
- ret += callchain__fprintf_graph(fp, child, new_total,
- depth + 1,
- new_depth_mask | (1 << depth));
+ ret += __callchain__fprintf_graph(fp, child, new_total,
+ depth + 1,
+ new_depth_mask | (1 << depth));
node = next;
}

@@ -197,6 +197,33 @@ callchain__fprintf_graph(FILE *fp, struct callchain_node *self,
}

static size_t
+callchain__fprintf_graph(FILE *fp, struct callchain_node *self,
+ u64 total_samples)
+{
+ struct callchain_list *chain;
+ int i = 0;
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ list_for_each_entry(chain, &self->val, list) {
+ if (chain->ip >= PERF_CONTEXT_MAX)
+ continue;
+
+ if (!i++ && sort_by_sym_first)
+ continue;
+
+ if (chain->sym)
+ ret += fprintf(fp, " %s\n", chain->sym->name);
+ else
+ ret += fprintf(fp, " %p\n",
+ (void *)(long)chain->ip);
+ }
+
+ ret += __callchain__fprintf_graph(fp, self, total_samples, 1, 1);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static size_t
callchain__fprintf_flat(FILE *fp, struct callchain_node *self,
u64 total_samples)
{
@@ -244,8 +271,7 @@ hist_entry_callchain__fprintf(FILE *fp, struct hist_entry *self,
break;
case CHAIN_GRAPH_ABS: /* Falldown */
case CHAIN_GRAPH_REL:
- ret += callchain__fprintf_graph(fp, chain,
- total_samples, 1, 1);
+ ret += callchain__fprintf_graph(fp, chain, total_samples);
case CHAIN_NONE:
default:
break;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
index 40c9acd..60ced70 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ char default_parent_pattern[] = "^sys_|^do_page_fault";
char *parent_pattern = default_parent_pattern;
char default_sort_order[] = "comm,dso,symbol";
char *sort_order = default_sort_order;
-int sort__need_collapse = 0;
-int sort__has_parent = 0;
+int sort__need_collapse = 0;
+int sort__has_parent = 0;
+int sort_by_sym_first;

unsigned int dsos__col_width;
unsigned int comms__col_width;
@@ -265,6 +266,10 @@ int sort_dimension__add(const char *tok)
sort__has_parent = 1;
}

+ if (list_empty(&hist_entry__sort_list) &&
+ !strcmp(sd->name, "symbol"))
+ sort_by_sym_first = true;
+
list_add_tail(&sd->entry->list, &hist_entry__sort_list);
sd->taken = 1;

@@ -273,4 +278,3 @@ int sort_dimension__add(const char *tok)

return -ESRCH;
}
-
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.h b/tools/perf/util/sort.h
index 13806d7..24c2b70 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/sort.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ extern struct sort_entry sort_parent;
extern unsigned int dsos__col_width;
extern unsigned int comms__col_width;
extern unsigned int threads__col_width;
+extern int sort_by_sym_first;

struct hist_entry {
struct rb_node rb_node;
--
1.6.2.3

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