[PATCH v1 0/4] perf arm-spe: Allow synthesizing of branch
Leo Yan
leo.yan at arm.com
Fri Oct 25 10:33:30 PDT 2024
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 03:30:05PM +0100, Graham Woodward wrote:
>
> Currently the --itrace=b will only show branch-misses but this change
> allows perf to synthesize branches as well.
>
> The change also incorporates the ability to display the target
> addresses when specifying the addr field if the instruction is a branch.
Tested for this series:
# perf record -e arm_spe_0/branch_filter=1,load_filter=1/u \
-- ./false_sharing.exe 1
# perf script --itrace=i10ib -F,+addr,+flags
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389533: 1 branch: jmp ffff91beb224 ffff91beb220 __GI___tunables_init+0x40 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389538: 1 branch: jmp ffff91bec318 ffff91bec314 _dl_next_ld_env_entry+0x24 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389620: 1 branch: jmp ffff91be0f14 ffff91be0f10 _dl_new_object+0x168 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389802: 1 branch: jmp ffff91be2cf0 ffff91be2cec _dl_map_object_deps+0x3f4 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389802: 10 instructions: jmp ffff91be2cf0 ffff91be2cec _dl_map_object_deps+0x3f4 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389824: 1 branch: br miss ffff91bee4e4 ffff91bee4e0 strcmp+0xa0 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389849: 1 branch: jmp ffff91be1868 ffff91be1880 _dl_relocate_object+0x4a8 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389858: 1 branch: jmp ffff91be1868 ffff91be1880 _dl_relocate_object+0x4a8 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389861: 1 branch: jmp ffff91be1c20 ffff91be1bcc _dl_relocate_object+0x7f4 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389875: 10 instructions: 0 ffff91bdfe38 _dl_lookup_symbol_x+0x58 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389876: 1 branch: jmp ffff91bdf3a8 ffff91bdf434 do_lookup_x+0x114 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389879: 1 branch: jmp ffff91be18ec ffff91be18e8 _dl_relocate_object+0x510 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389886: 1 branch: jmp ffff91bee440 ffff91bdf2dc check_match+0x154 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389890: 1 branch: jmp ffff91bdfed4 ffff91bdfed0 _dl_lookup_symbol_x+0xf0 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389893: 10 instructions: 0 ffff91be1974 _dl_relocate_object+0x59c (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389894: 1 branch: jmp ffff91bdf3f4 ffff91bdf3f0 do_lookup_x+0xd0 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
false_sharing.e 880532 [005] 1852579.389906: 1 branch: jmp ffff91bdfea4 ffff91bdfe90 _dl_lookup_symbol_x+0xb0 (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so)
# perf test "Check Arm SPE"
114: Check Arm SPE trace data recording and synthesized samples : Ok
115: Check Arm SPE doesn't hang when there are forks : Ok
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
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