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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-07-01 21:02:09 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-07-01 22:37:23 +0200
commit0406ca6d8e849d9dd027c8cb6791448e81411aef (patch)
tree3de38f9c75f41ec28b5b15b211f4e6df7ea7f437 /arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
parent5da50258584469ddfee6545feb4eb2252a8d7e7b (diff)
perf_counter: Ignore the nmi call frames in the x86-64 backtraces
About every callchains recorded with perf record are filled up including the internal perfcounter nmi frame: perf_callchain perf_counter_overflow intel_pmu_handle_irq perf_counter_nmi_handler notifier_call_chain atomic_notifier_call_chain notify_die do_nmi nmi We want ignore this frame as it's not interesting for instrumentation. To solve this, we simply ignore every frames from nmi context. New example of "perf report -s sym -c" after this patch: 9.59% [k] search_by_key 4.88% search_by_key reiserfs_read_locked_inode reiserfs_iget reiserfs_lookup do_lookup __link_path_walk path_walk do_path_lookup user_path_at vfs_fstatat vfs_lstat sys_newlstat system_call_fastpath __lxstat 0x406fb1 3.19% search_by_key search_by_entry_key reiserfs_find_entry reiserfs_lookup do_lookup __link_path_walk path_walk do_path_lookup user_path_at vfs_fstatat vfs_lstat sys_newlstat system_call_fastpath __lxstat 0x406fb1 [...] For now this patch only solves the problem in x86-64. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1246474930-6088-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
index f517944b2b1..cf86a5e7381 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
extern int kstack_depth_to_print;
+int x86_is_stack_id(int id, char *name);
+
/* Generic stack tracer with callbacks */
struct stacktrace_ops {