Re: perf report for .ko files

[john smith <whalajam@yahoo.com>]

Problem1: 

> Well, you could reduce the number of samples collected by
> asking perf record to
> include only kernel samples by fiddling with these
> perf_event_attr fields:
> 
>  
>    exclude_user   :  1, /* don't count user      */
>    exclude_kernel :  1, /* ditto kernel          */
>    exclude_hv     :  1, /* ditto hypervisor      */
>    exclude_idle   :  1, /* don't count when idle */
> 
> I.e. setting exclude_user, exclude_hv and exclude_idle to
> 1, but this requires
> a patch for tools/perf/builtin-record.c as this is not
> exposed yet.

I did setup attr->exclude_hv, exclude_idle, exclude_user = 1 in create_counter() just before "try_again:" label, no difference in results,
on a 2.6.31 (too old? "perf buildid-list" is not available) kernel version:

# perf record -f -e cycles fio fio_script
(for more than a minute, I increased the sample frequency with different -c values, some locked the machine - expectedly)
and
# perf report --verbose --dso=/my_module_path/my_module.ko
(--verbose doesn't provide any more info)

return the same "# Samples: 0":

"
# dso: /my_module_path/my_module.ko
# Samples: 0
#...
"

> [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report --dsos '[e1000e]'
> # dso: [e1000e]
> # Samples: 110518812

'e1000e' module may be be sampled more often than the scsi modules but ...

> > not sure why that is, /proc/kallsyms does seem to
> > include some iwlagn symbols.

/proc/kallsyms includes all syms I need, so is a problem not finding the symbols, does this (Samples: 0) make sens?

"perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol" report has my module symbols.

Problem2: 

If I try "perf annotate -l -k /my_module_path/my_module.ko my_symbol" has all the percentages "0.00" where I would expect a % breakdown (considering the total function counter 100%), even if the function represents a small overall counter % compared to the others, any ideas?

John