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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-07-01 21:02:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-07-01 22:37:23 +0200 |
| commit | 0406ca6d8e849d9dd027c8cb6791448e81411aef (patch) | |
| tree | 3de38f9c75f41ec28b5b15b211f4e6df7ea7f437 /arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h | |
| parent | perf_counter tools: Share list.h with the kernel (diff) | |
| download | linux-0406ca6d8e849d9dd027c8cb6791448e81411aef.tar.xz linux-0406ca6d8e849d9dd027c8cb6791448e81411aef.zip | |
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.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h index f517944b2b17..cf86a5e73815 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 { |