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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2010-03-03 07:16:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2010-03-10 14:40:38 +0100 |
| commit | c530665c31c0140b74ca7689e7f836177796e5bd (patch) | |
| tree | ac9ebb98aca58fdf84cc18958a94393a9a7bbdf3 /kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | |
| parent | 5331d7b84613b8325362dde53dc2bff2fb87d351 (diff) | |
perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace events
We are taking a wrong regs snapshot when a trace event triggers.
Either we use get_irq_regs(), which gives us the interrupted
registers if we are in an interrupt, or we use task_pt_regs()
which gives us the state before we entered the kernel, assuming
we are lucky enough to be no kernel thread, in which case
task_pt_regs() returns the initial set of regs when the kernel
thread was started.
What we want is different. We need a hot snapshot of the regs,
so that we can get the instruction pointer to record in the
sample, the frame pointer for the callchain, and some other
things.
Let's use the new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for that.
Comparison with perf record -e lock: -R -a -f -g
Before:
perf [kernel] [k] __do_softirq
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--- __do_softirq
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|--55.16%-- __open
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--44.84%-- __write_nocancel
After:
perf [kernel] [k] perf_tp_event
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--- perf_tp_event
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|--41.07%-- lock_acquire
| |
| |--39.36%-- _raw_spin_lock
| | |
| | |--7.81%-- hrtimer_interrupt
| | | smp_apic_timer_interrupt
| | | apic_timer_interrupt
The old case was producing unreliable callchains. Now having
right frame and instruction pointers, we have the trace we
want.
Also syscalls and kprobe events already have the right regs,
let's use them instead of wasting a retrieval.
v2: Follow the rename perf_save_regs() -> perf_fetch_caller_regs()
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c index cba47d7935c..7e6e84fb7b6 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static void prof_syscall_enter(struct pt_regs *regs, long id) rec->nr = syscall_nr; syscall_get_arguments(current, regs, 0, sys_data->nb_args, (unsigned long *)&rec->args); - ftrace_perf_buf_submit(rec, size, rctx, 0, 1, flags); + ftrace_perf_buf_submit(rec, size, rctx, 0, 1, flags, regs); } int prof_sysenter_enable(struct ftrace_event_call *call) @@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ static void prof_syscall_exit(struct pt_regs *regs, long ret) rec->nr = syscall_nr; rec->ret = syscall_get_return_value(current, regs); - ftrace_perf_buf_submit(rec, size, rctx, 0, 1, flags); + ftrace_perf_buf_submit(rec, size, rctx, 0, 1, flags, regs); } int prof_sysexit_enable(struct ftrace_event_call *call) |