linux/arch/x86
Frederic Weisbecker 0406ca6d8e perf_counter: Ignore the nmi call frames in the x86-64 backtraces
About every callchains recorded with perf record are filled up
including the internal perfcounter nmi frame:

 perf_callchain
 perf_counter_overflow
 intel_pmu_handle_irq
 perf_counter_nmi_handler
 notifier_call_chain
 atomic_notifier_call_chain
 notify_die
 do_nmi
 nmi

We want ignore this frame as it's not interesting for
instrumentation. To solve this, we simply ignore every frames
from nmi context.

New example of "perf report -s sym -c" after this patch:

9.59%  [k] search_by_key
             4.88%
                search_by_key
                reiserfs_read_locked_inode
                reiserfs_iget
                reiserfs_lookup
                do_lookup
                __link_path_walk
                path_walk
                do_path_lookup
                user_path_at
                vfs_fstatat
                vfs_lstat
                sys_newlstat
                system_call_fastpath
                __lxstat
                0x406fb1

             3.19%
                search_by_key
                search_by_entry_key
                reiserfs_find_entry
                reiserfs_lookup
                do_lookup
                __link_path_walk
                path_walk
                do_path_lookup
                user_path_at
                vfs_fstatat
                vfs_lstat
                sys_newlstat
                system_call_fastpath
                __lxstat
                0x406fb1
[...]

For now this patch only solves the problem in x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246474930-6088-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 22:37:23 +02:00
..
boot Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-20 10:49:48 -07:00
configs Merge branch 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-10 15:30:41 -07:00
crypto crypto: aes-ni - Remove CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP from fpu template 2009-06-18 19:44:01 +08:00
ia32 Merge branch 'core/signal' into perfcounters/core 2009-04-30 21:16:49 +02:00
include/asm perf_counter: Ignore the nmi call frames in the x86-64 backtraces 2009-07-01 22:37:23 +02:00
kernel perf_counter: Ignore the nmi call frames in the x86-64 backtraces 2009-07-01 22:37:23 +02:00
kvm KVM: shut up uninit compiler warning in paging_tmpl.h 2009-06-28 14:10:32 +03:00
lguest lguest: PAE support 2009-06-12 22:27:08 +09:30
lib x86, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier 2009-06-25 16:47:40 -07:00
math-emu Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
mm x86: only clear node_states for 64bit 2009-06-30 18:56:01 -07:00
oprofile Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core 2009-06-11 17:55:42 +02:00
pci Revert "PCI: use ACPI _CRS data by default" 2009-06-24 16:23:03 -07:00
power x86, mce: Fix mce resume on 32bit 2009-06-23 13:36:17 -07:00
vdso gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64 2009-06-18 13:03:58 -07:00
video
xen Merge branch 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-10 16:16:27 -07:00
Kbuild x86: standardize Kbuild rules 2009-04-16 18:09:02 +02:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-20 10:56:46 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support" 2009-06-11 00:32:00 +02:00
Kconfig.debug kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures 2009-06-15 15:49:17 +02:00
Makefile kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck core 2009-06-13 15:37:30 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu