Re: [Xen-devel] Oprofile Report

[Michael Petlan <mpetlan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, dhara buch wrote:
> Hello,
> I am doing profiling with command, 
>
> operf ./test --events=BR_INST_RETIRED
> where test.c is a simple c language file. 
>
> then, I am trying to collect information with command
>  
> opreport --symbols --debug-info
>
> From the documents of Oprofile, I assume that the above command lists profiling 
> result as per the symbols i.e. I can get result showing samples, linear info, 
> image name and symbol name.
>
> As per my command I expect my file name (test.c) to be in the linear info and 
> image name, but shows [no location information] in linear info. The filename 
> does not get listed in image
> name also. 
>
> What is lacking?
Hi, I think you need to rebuild the test with '-g' switch.
If the test binary does not have debuginfo, opreport cannot
resolve that.

Me trying with debuginfo:

samples  %        linenr info                 image name               symbol 
name
10       66.6667  (no location information)   no-vmlinux               
/no-vmlinux
2        13.3333  exact_counts.c:13           exact_counts             main
1         6.6667  exact_counts.c:10           exact_counts             f_65535x
1         6.6667  exact_counts.c:9            exact_counts             f_997x
1         6.6667  (no location information)   ld-2.17.so               _dl_fini

And without:

samples  %        linenr info                 image name               symbol 
name
10       55.5556  (no location information)   no-vmlinux               
/no-vmlinux
3        16.6667  (no location information)   exact_counts             f_65535x
2        11.1111  (no location information)   exact_counts             main
1         5.5556  (no location information)   ld-2.17.so               
_dl_add_to_slotinfo
1         5.5556  (no location information)   ld-2.17.so               
_dl_next_tls_modid
1         5.5556  (no location information)   ld-2.17.so               
_dl_relocate_object

Is this the problem you are asking about?

> I tried to set vmlinux with operf --vmlinux option also where vmlinux file in 
> in /usr/lib/debug/lib/4*/vmlinux, still the above commands do not list test 
> file entries.
The "--vmlinux" option is there for enabling this for samples
obtained in kernelspace.

By default (assuming you have no kernel debuginfo available),
operf marks all the samples taken in kernel (e.g. your program
called a syscall and the sample was taken when the syscall was
being executed or you profile systemwide) as "no-vmlinux".

This is sufficient if you care about userspace only and not about
the "time" spent in kernel.

If you care about kernelspace, you need the '--vmlinux' option
with correct path specified.

> What is lacking?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Dhara buch
Has this helped?

Cheers,
Michael

>
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