perf trace: Exclude the kernel part of the callchain leading to a syscall

Commit-ID:  44621819ddc9d5d0bfd0b0616c6cf33c94189b67
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/44621819ddc9d5d0bfd0b0616c6cf33c94189b67
Author:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:49:11 -0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 22:18:19 -0300

perf trace: Exclude the kernel part of the callchain leading to a syscall

The kernel parts are not that useful:

  # trace -m 512 -e nanosleep --call dwarf  usleep 1
     0.065 ( 0.065 ms): usleep/18732 nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffc4ee4e200) = 0
                                       syscall_slow_exit_work ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       return_from_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       __nanosleep (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so)
                                       usleep (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so)
                                       main (/usr/bin/usleep)
                                       __libc_start_main (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so)
                                       _start (/usr/bin/usleep)
  #

So lets just use perf_event_attr.exclude_callchain_kernel to avoid collecting it in the ring buffer:

  # trace -m 512 -e nanosleep --call dwarf  usleep 1
     0.063 ( 0.063 ms): usleep/19212 nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffc3df10fb0) = 0
                                       __nanosleep (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so)
                                       usleep (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so)
                                       main (/usr/bin/usleep)
                                       __libc_start_main (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so)
                                       _start (/usr/bin/usleep)
  #

---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt |  3 +++
 tools/perf/builtin-trace.c              | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

index ed485df..1bbcf30 100644
@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
         man pages for details. The ones that are most useful in 'perf trace'
         are 'dwarf' and 'lbr', where available, try: 'perf trace --call-graph dwarf'.
 
+--kernel-syscall-graph::
+	 Show the kernel callchains on the syscall exit path.
+
 --event::
 	Trace other events, see 'perf list' for a complete list.
 

index 63a3cc9..cfa5ce8 100644
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ struct trace {
 	bool			show_comm;
 	bool			show_tool_stats;
 	bool			trace_syscalls;
+	bool			kernel_syscallchains;
 	bool			force;
 	bool			vfs_getname;
 	int			trace_pgfaults;

@@ -2661,6 +2662,15 @@ static int trace__add_syscall_newtp(struct trace *trace)
 	perf_evlist__add(evlist, sys_enter);
 	perf_evlist__add(evlist, sys_exit);
 
+	if (trace->opts.callgraph_set && !trace->kernel_syscallchains) {
+		/*
+		 * We're interested only in the user space callchain
+		 * leading to the syscall, allow overriding that for
+		 * debugging reasons using --kernel_syscall_callchains
+		 */
+		sys_exit->attr.exclude_callchain_kernel = 1;
+	}
+
 	trace->syscalls.events.sys_enter = sys_enter;
 	trace->syscalls.events.sys_exit  = sys_exit;
 

@@ -3221,6 +3231,7 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 		.output = stderr,
 		.show_comm = true,
 		.trace_syscalls = true,
+		.kernel_syscallchains = false,
 	};
 	const char *output_name = NULL;
 	const char *ev_qualifier_str = NULL;

@@ -3269,6 +3280,8 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 	OPT_CALLBACK(0, "call-graph", &trace.opts,
 		     "record_mode[,record_size]", record_callchain_help,
 		     &record_parse_callchain_opt),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "kernel-syscall-graph", &trace.kernel_syscallchains,
+		    "Show the kernel callchains on the syscall exit path"),
 	OPT_UINTEGER(0, "proc-map-timeout", &trace.opts.proc_map_timeout,
 			"per thread proc mmap processing timeout in ms"),
 	OPT_END()