Re: [PATCH 11/13] perf: add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK(v3)

From: Arun Sharma
Date: Mon Jan 09 2012 - 20:25:46 EST


On 1/9/12 8:49 AM, Stephane Eranian wrote:
From: Roberto Agostino Vitillo<ravitillo@xxxxxxx>

This patch adds:
- ability to parse samples with PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
- sort on branches
- build histograms on branches

[..]
static struct sort_dimension sort_dimensions[] = {
- { .name = "pid", .entry =&sort_thread, },
- { .name = "comm", .entry =&sort_comm, },
- { .name = "dso", .entry =&sort_dso, },
- { .name = "symbol", .entry =&sort_sym, },
- { .name = "parent", .entry =&sort_parent, },
- { .name = "cpu", .entry =&sort_cpu, },
+ { .name = "pid", .entry =&sort_thread, },
+ { .name = "comm", .entry =&sort_comm, },
+ { .name = "dso", .entry =&sort_dso, },
+ { .name = "dso_from", .entry =&sort_dso_from,.taken = true },
+ { .name = "dso_to", .entry =&sort_dso_to, .taken = true },
+ { .name = "symbol", .entry =&sort_sym, },
+ { .name = "symbol_from",.entry =&sort_sym_from,.taken = true },
+ { .name = "symbol_to", .entry =&sort_sym_to, .taken = true },
+ { .name = "parent", .entry =&sort_parent, },
+ { .name = "cpu", .entry =&sort_cpu, },
+ { .name = "mispredict", .entry =&sort_mispredict, },
};

The new sort dimensions don't seem to show up in perf report -h. Could you please update the help text?

Also:

# perf script -h

-f, --fields <str> comma separated output fields prepend with 'type:'. Valid types: hw,sw,trace,raw. Fields: comm,tid,pid,time,cpu,event,trace,ip,sym,dso,addr

You probably want to add a field here, so I could:

perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u
perf script -f event,branch_stack

and examine raw (symbolized) samples like I can with

perf record -g
perf script -f event,ip,sym

-Arun

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