linux-stable/tools
Milian Wolff b38775cf76 perf report: Cache failed lookups of inlined frames
When no inlined frames could be found for a given address, we did not
store this information anywhere. That means we potentially do the costly
inliner lookup repeatedly for cases where we know it can never succeed.

This patch makes dso__parse_addr_inlines always return a valid
inline_node. It will be empty when no inliners are found. This enables
us to cache the empty list in the DSO, thereby improving the performance
when many addresses fail to find the inliners.

For my trivial example, the performance impact is already quite
significant:

Before:

~~~~~
 Performance counter stats for 'perf report --stdio --inline -g srcline -s srcline' (5 runs):

        594.804032      task-clock (msec)         #    0.998 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.07% )
                53      context-switches          #    0.089 K/sec                    ( +-  4.09% )
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +-100.00% )
             5,687      page-faults               #    0.010 M/sec                    ( +-  0.02% )
     2,300,918,213      cycles                    #    3.868 GHz                      ( +-  0.09% )
     4,395,839,080      instructions              #    1.91  insn per cycle           ( +-  0.00% )
       939,177,205      branches                  # 1578.969 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
        11,824,633      branch-misses             #    1.26% of all branches          ( +-  0.10% )

       0.596246531 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.07% )
~~~~~

After:

~~~~~
 Performance counter stats for 'perf report --stdio --inline -g srcline -s srcline' (5 runs):

        113.111405      task-clock (msec)         #    0.990 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.89% )
                29      context-switches          #    0.255 K/sec                    ( +- 54.25% )
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
             5,380      page-faults               #    0.048 M/sec                    ( +-  0.01% )
       432,378,779      cycles                    #    3.823 GHz                      ( +-  0.75% )
       670,057,633      instructions              #    1.55  insn per cycle           ( +-  0.01% )
       141,001,247      branches                  # 1246.570 M/sec                    ( +-  0.01% )
         2,346,845      branch-misses             #    1.66% of all branches          ( +-  0.19% )

       0.114222393 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  1.19% )
~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171019113836.5548-3-milian.wolff@kdab.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-25 10:50:45 -03:00
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accounting
arch tools include: Sync kernel ABI headers with tooling headers 2017-09-25 10:39:44 -03:00
build tools build tests: Don't hardcode gcc name 2017-08-28 16:44:44 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio
hv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-09-06 14:45:08 -07:00
iio iio: tools: add install section 2017-08-09 14:31:58 +01:00
include Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes 2017-10-20 11:02:05 +02:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: add '-f help' to get the available event list 2017-07-26 19:04:53 +02:00
laptop
leds
lib perf/urgent fixes: 2017-09-13 09:25:10 +02:00
net
nfsd
objtool objtool: Support unoptimized frame pointer setup 2017-09-28 07:25:54 +02:00
pci tools: PCI: Add a missing option help line 2017-08-29 16:03:34 -05:00
pcmcia
perf perf report: Cache failed lookups of inlined frames 2017-10-25 10:50:45 -03:00
power Revert "tools/power turbostat: stop migrating, unless '-m'" 2017-10-18 03:17:45 +02:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.14 2017-09-14 13:46:33 -07:00
spi spi: tools: add install section 2017-07-26 12:25:28 +01:00
testing userfaultfd: selftest: exercise -EEXIST only in background transfer 2017-10-13 16:18:32 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb usbip: auto retry for concurrent attach 2017-08-31 18:08:45 +02:00
virtio
vm
Makefile spi: Updates for v4.14 2017-09-05 11:40:38 -07:00