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perf thread-stack: Represent jmps to the start of a different symbol

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The compiler might optimize a call/ret combination by making it a jmp.
However the thread-stack does not presently cater for that, so that such
control flow is not visible in the call graph. Make it visible by
recording on the stack a branch to the start of a different symbol.
Note, that means when a ret pops the stack, all jmps must be popped off
first.

Example:

  $ cat jmp-to-fn.c
  __attribute__((noinline)) int bar(void)
  {
          return -1;
  }

  __attribute__((noinline)) int foo(void)
  {
          return bar() + 1;
  }

  int main()
  {
          return foo();
  }
  $ gcc -ggdb3 -Wall -Wextra -O2 -o jmp-to-fn jmp-to-fn.c
  $ objdump -d jmp-to-fn
  <SNIP>
  0000000000001040 <main>:
      1040:       31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
      1042:       e9 09 01 00 00          jmpq   1150 <foo>
  <SNIP>
  0000000000001140 <bar>:
      1140:       b8 ff ff ff ff          mov    $0xffffffff,%eax
      1145:       c3                      retq
  <SNIP>
  0000000000001150 <foo>:
      1150:       31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
      1152:       e8 e9 ff ff ff          callq  1140 <bar>
      1157:       83 c0 01                add    $0x1,%eax
      115a:       c3                      retq
  <SNIP>
  $ perf record -o jmp-to-fn.perf.data -e intel_pt/cyc/u ./jmp-to-fn
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0,017 MB jmp-to-fn.perf.data ]
  $ perf script -i jmp-to-fn.perf.data --itrace=be -s ~/libexec/perf-core/scripts/python/export-to-sqlite.py jmp-to-fn.db branches calls
  2019-01-08 13:24:58.783069 Creating database...
  2019-01-08 13:24:58.794650 Writing records...
  2019-01-08 13:24:59.008050 Adding indexes
  2019-01-08 13:24:59.015802 Done
  $  ~/libexec/perf-core/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py jmp-to-fn.db

Before:

    main
        -> bar

After:

    main
        -> foo
            -> bar

Committer testing:

Install the python2-pyside package, then select these menu options
on the GUI:

   "Reports"
      "Context sensitive callgraphs"

Then go on expanding the symbols, to get, full picture when doing this
on a fedora:29 with gcc version 8.2.1 20181215 (Red Hat 8.2.1-6) (GCC):

jmp-to-fn
  PID:TID
    _start                (ld-2.28.so)
      __libc_start_main
        main
          foo
            bar

To verify that indeed, this fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190109091835.5570-5-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Adrian Hunter 2019-01-09 11:18:33 +02:00 • committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 90c2cda705
commit f08046cb30
4 changed files with 33 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -35,10 +35,13 @@ struct call_path;
*
* CALL_RETURN_NO_CALL: 'return' but no matching 'call'
* CALL_RETURN_NO_RETURN: 'call' but no matching 'return'
* CALL_RETURN_NON_CALL: a branch but not a 'call' to the start of a different
* symbol
*/
enum {
CALL_RETURN_NO_CALL = 1 << 0,
CALL_RETURN_NO_RETURN = 1 << 1,
CALL_RETURN_NON_CALL = 1 << 2,
};
/**