Skip to content
Commit a3366db0 authored by Jin Yao's avatar Jin Yao Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Browse files

perf report: Fix wrong iteration count in --branch-history

By calculating the removed loops, we can get the iteration count.

But the iteration count could be reported incorrectly, reporting
impossibly high counts.

That's because previous code uses the number of removed LBR entries for
the iteration count. That's not good. Fix this by increasing the
iteration count when a loop is detected.

When matching the chain, the iteration count would be added up, finally we need
to compute the average value when printing out.

For example,

  $ perf report --branch-history --stdio --no-children

Before:

  ---f2 +0
     |
     |--33.62%--f1 +9 (cycles:1)
     |          f1 +0
     |          main +22 (cycles:1)
     |          main +17
     |          main +38 (cycles:1)
     |          main +27
     |          f1 +26 (cycles:1)
     |          f1 +24
     |          f2 +27 (cycles:7)
     |          f2 +0
     |          f1 +19 (cycles:1)
     |          f1 +14
     |          f2 +27 (cycles:11)
     |          f2 +0
     |          f1 +9 (cycles:1 iter:2968 avg_cycles:3)
     |          f1 +0
     |          main +22 (cycles:1 iter:2968 avg_cycles:3)
     |          main +17
     |          main +38 (cycles:1 iter:2968 avg_cycles:3)

2968 is an impossible high iteration count and avg_cycles is too small.

After:

  ---f2 +0
     |
     |--33.62%--f1 +9 (cycles:1)
     |          f1 +0
     |          main +22 (cycles:1)
     |          main +17
     |          main +38 (cycles:1)
     |          main +27
     |          f1 +26 (cycles:1)
     |          f1 +24
     |          f2 +27 (cycles:7)
     |          f2 +0
     |          f1 +19 (cycles:1)
     |          f1 +14
     |          f2 +27 (cycles:11)
     |          f2 +0
     |          f1 +9 (cycles:1 iter:1 avg_cycles:23)
     |          f1 +0
     |          main +22 (cycles:1 iter:1 avg_cycles:23)
     |          main +17
     |          main +38 (cycles:1 iter:1 avg_cycles:23)

avg_cycles:23 is the average cycles of this iteration.

Fixes: c4ee0625

 ("perf report: Calculate the average cycles of iterations")

Signed-off-by: default avatarJin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1546582230-17507-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 86c22ab7
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment