From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8CABC04AB6 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2019 06:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B15DD26E66 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2019 06:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727170AbfFCGv6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jun 2019 02:51:58 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:39431 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726694AbfFCGv5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jun 2019 02:51:57 -0400 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga003.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.27]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 02 Jun 2019 23:51:56 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 Received: from yjin15-mobl.ccr.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.239.196.112]) ([10.239.196.112]) by orsmga003.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 Jun 2019 23:51:55 -0700 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] perf diff: diff cycles at basic block level To: acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@linux.intel.com, kan.liang@intel.com, yao.jin@intel.com References: <1559572577-25436-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com> From: "Jin, Yao" Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 14:51:54 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1559572577-25436-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/3/2019 10:36 PM, Jin Yao wrote: > In some cases small changes in hot loops can show big differences. > But it's difficult to identify these differences. > > perf diff currently can only diff symbols (functions). We can also expand > it to diff cycles of individual programs blocks as reported by timed LBR. > This would allow to identify changes in specific code accurately. > > With this patch set, for example, > > # perf record -b ./div > # perf record -b ./div > # perf diff -s cycles > Sorry, the command line should be perf diff -c cycles. Thanks Jin Yao > # Event 'cycles' > # > # Baseline Block cycles diff [start:end] Shared Object Symbol > # ........ .................................... ................ .................................... > # > 49.03% -9 [ 4ef: 520] div [.] main > 49.03% 0 [ 4e8: 4ea] div [.] main > 49.03% 0 [ 4ef: 500] div [.] main > 49.03% 0 [ 4ef: 51c] div [.] main > 49.03% 0 [ 4ef: 535] div [.] main > 18.82% 0 [ 3ac40: 3ac4d] libc-2.23.so [.] __random_r > 18.82% 0 [ 3ac40: 3ac5c] libc-2.23.so [.] __random_r > 18.82% 0 [ 3ac40: 3ac76] libc-2.23.so [.] __random_r > 18.82% 0 [ 3ac40: 3ac88] libc-2.23.so [.] __random_r > 18.82% 0 [ 3ac90: 3ac9c] libc-2.23.so [.] __random_r > 16.29% -8 [ 3aac0: 3aac0] libc-2.23.so [.] __random > 16.29% 0 [ 3aac0: 3aad2] libc-2.23.so [.] __random > 16.29% 0 [ 3aae0: 3aae7] libc-2.23.so [.] __random > 16.29% 0 [ 3ab03: 3ab0f] libc-2.23.so [.] __random > 16.29% 0 [ 3ab14: 3ab1b] libc-2.23.so [.] __random > 16.29% 0 [ 3ab28: 3ab2e] libc-2.23.so [.] __random > 16.29% 0 [ 3ab4a: 3ab53] libc-2.23.so [.] __random > 8.11% 0 [ 640: 644] div [.] compute_flag > 8.11% 0 [ 649: 659] div [.] compute_flag > 5.46% 0 [ 3af60: 3af60] libc-2.23.so [.] rand > 5.46% 0 [ 3af60: 3af64] libc-2.23.so [.] rand > 2.25% 0 [ 490: 490] div [.] rand@plt > 0.01% 26 [ c00a27: c00a27] [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_irq_return_iret > 0.00% -157 [ 2bf9f2: 2bfa63] [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_blocked_averages > 0.00% -56 [ 2bf980: 2bf9d3] [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_blocked_averages > 0.00% 48 [ 2bf934: 2bf942] [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_blocked_averages > 0.00% 3 [ 2bfb38: 2bfb67] [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_blocked_averages > > The 'cycles' is a new perf-diff computation selection, which enables > the displaying of cycles difference of same program basic block amongst > two perf.data. The program basic block is the code block between two > branches in a function. > > v2: > --- > Keep standard perf diff format. > > Following is the v1 output. > > # perf diff --basic-block > > # Cycles diff Basic block (start:end) > # ........... ....................... > # > -208 hrtimer_interrupt (30b9e0:30ba42) > -157 update_blocked_averages (2bf9f2:2bfa63) > -126 interrupt_entry (c00880:c0093a) > -86 hrtimer_interrupt (30bb29:30bb32) > -74 hrtimer_interrupt (30ba65:30bac4) > -56 update_blocked_averages (2bf980:2bf9d3) > 48 update_blocked_averages (2bf934:2bf942) > -35 native_write_msr (267900:26790b) > 26 native_irq_return_iret (c00a27:c00a27) > 22 rcu_check_callbacks (2febb6:2febdc) > -21 __hrtimer_run_queues (30b220:30b2a3) > 19 pvclock_gtod_notify (14ba0:14c1b) > -18 task_tick_fair (2c5d29:2c5d41) > > Jin Yao (7): > perf util: Create block_info structure > perf util: Add block_info in hist_entry > perf diff: Check if all data files with branch stacks > perf diff: Use hists to manage basic blocks per symbol > perf diff: Link same basic blocks among different data files > perf diff: Print the basic block cycles diff > perf diff: Documentation -c cycles option > > tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt | 14 +- > tools/perf/builtin-diff.c | 373 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > tools/perf/ui/stdio/hist.c | 26 +++ > tools/perf/util/hist.c | 42 +++- > tools/perf/util/hist.h | 9 + > tools/perf/util/sort.h | 8 + > tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 22 ++ > tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 23 ++ > 8 files changed, 509 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) >