Trace events can be defined from a template using
DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS/DEFINE_EVENT or directly with TRACE_EVENT.
In both cases we have a template tracepoint handler, used to
record the trace, to which we pass our ftrace event instance.
In the function level, if the class is named "foo" and the event
is named "blah", we have the following chain of calls:
perf_trace_blah() -> perf_trace_templ_foo()
In the case we have several events sharing the class "blah",
we'll have multiple users of perf_trace_templ_foo(), and it
won't be inlined by the compiler. This is usually what happens
with the DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS/DEFINE_EVENT based definition.
But if perf_trace_blah() is the only caller of perf_trace_templ_foo()
there are fair chances that it will be inlined.
The problem is that we fetch the regs from perf_trace_templ_foo()
after we rewinded the frame pointer to the second caller, we want
to reach the caller of perf_trace_blah() to get the right source
of the event. And we do this by always assuming that
perf_trace_templ_foo() is not inlined. But as shown above this
is not always true. And if it is inlined we miss the first caller,
losing the most important level of precision.
We get:
61.31% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_softirq
|
--- do_softirq
irq_exit
do_IRQ
common_interrupt
|
|--25.00%-- tty_buffer_request_room
Instead of:
61.31% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __do_softirq
|
--- __do_softirq
do_softirq
irq_exit
do_IRQ
common_interrupt
|
|--25.00%-- tty_buffer_request_room
To fix this, we fetch the regs from perf_trace_blah() rather than
perf_trace_templ_foo() so that we don't have to deal with inlining
surprises.
That also bring us the advantage of having the true source of the
event even if we don't have frame pointers.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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