The synthesized flow use 'tidq->packet' for instruction samples, comparing against the thread stack and the branch samples which are uses the 'tidp->prev_packet', thus the instruction samples result in using an packet ahead than thread stack and branch samples.
This leads to an instruction's callchain error as shows in below example:
main 1579 100 instructions: ffff000010214854 perf_event_update_userpage+0x4c ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffff000010214850 perf_event_update_userpage+0x48 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffff000010219360 perf_swevent_add+0x88 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffff0000102135f4 event_sched_in.isra.57+0xbc ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffff0000102137a0 group_sched_in+0x60 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffff000010213b84 flexible_sched_in+0xfc ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffff00001020c0b4 visit_groups_merge+0x12c ([kernel.kallsyms])
In the callchain log, for the two continuous lines the up line contains one child function info and the followed line contains the caller function info, and so forth. But the first two lines:
perf_event_update_userpage+0x4c => the sampled instruction perf_event_update_userpage+0x48 => the parent function's calling
The child function and parent function both are the same function perf_event_update_userpage(), but this isn't a recursive function, thus the sequence for perf_event_update_userpage() calling itself shouldn't never happen. This callchain error is caused by the instruction sample using an ahead packet than the thread stack, the thread stack is deferred to process this packet and missed to pop stack if this is a return packet.
To fix this issue, we can simply change to use 'tidq->prev_packet' to generate the instruction samples, this allows the thread stack to push and pop synchronously with instruction sample. Finally, the callchain is displayed as below:
main 1579 100 instructions: ffff000010214854 perf_event_update_userpage+0x4c ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffff000010219360 perf_swevent_add+0x88 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffff0000102135f4 event_sched_in.isra.57+0xbc ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffff0000102137a0 group_sched_in+0x60 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffff000010213b84 flexible_sched_in+0xfc ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffff00001020c0b4 visit_groups_merge+0x12c ([kernel.kallsyms])
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan leo.yan@linaro.org --- tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c index bd09254a7208..3f7edfd15124 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c @@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@ static int cs_etm__sample(struct cs_etm_queue *etmq, struct cs_etm_packet *tmp; int ret; u8 trace_chan_id = tidq->trace_chan_id; - u64 instrs_executed = tidq->packet->instr_count; + u64 instrs_executed = tidq->prev_packet->instr_count;
tidq->period_instructions += instrs_executed;
@@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@ static int cs_etm__sample(struct cs_etm_queue *etmq, */ u64 offset = (instrs_executed - instrs_over - 1); u64 addr = cs_etm__instr_addr(etmq, trace_chan_id, - tidq->packet, offset); + tidq->prev_packet, offset);
ret = cs_etm__synth_instruction_sample( etmq, tidq, addr, etm->instructions_sample_period);