Re: Wrong Perf Backtraces

Em Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:40:36PM +0430, ahmadkhorrami escreveu:
> Thanks. But should I attach the files to the e-mail?

Which files?

I want just that you run the commands and send us the output from them,
like I'll do here:

[acme@seventh perf]$ perf -vv
perf version 5.6.rc6.g0d33b3435253
                 dwarf: [ on  ]  # HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT
    dwarf_getlocations: [ on  ]  # HAVE_DWARF_GETLOCATIONS_SUPPORT
                 glibc: [ on  ]  # HAVE_GLIBC_SUPPORT
                  gtk2: [ on  ]  # HAVE_GTK2_SUPPORT
         syscall_table: [ on  ]  # HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE_SUPPORT
                libbfd: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT
                libelf: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
               libnuma: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
               libperl: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBPERL_SUPPORT
             libpython: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBPYTHON_SUPPORT
              libslang: [ on  ]  # HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT
             libcrypto: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBCRYPTO_SUPPORT
             libunwind: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT
    libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on  ]  # HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT
                  zlib: [ on  ]  # HAVE_ZLIB_SUPPORT
                  lzma: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LZMA_SUPPORT
             get_cpuid: [ on  ]  # HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT
                   bpf: [ on  ]  # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT
                   aio: [ on  ]  # HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT
                  zstd: [ on  ]  # HAVE_ZSTD_SUPPORT
[acme@seventh perf]$ ldd ~/bin/perf
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffcb9cc000)
	libunwind-x86_64.so.8 => /lib64/libunwind-x86_64.so.8 (0x00007f7c58d94000)
	libunwind.so.8 => /lib64/libunwind.so.8 (0x00007f7c58d7a000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib64/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f7c58d51000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f7c58d30000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007f7c58d26000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7c58be0000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f7c58bd8000)
	libelf.so.1 => /lib64/libelf.so.1 (0x00007f7c58bbd000)
	libdw.so.1 => /lib64/libdw.so.1 (0x00007f7c58b1e000)
	libslang.so.2 => /lib64/libslang.so.2 (0x00007f7c58846000)
	libperl.so.5.28 => /lib64/libperl.so.5.28 (0x00007f7c5851e000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7c58358000)
	libpython2.7.so.1.0 => /lib64/libpython2.7.so.1.0 (0x00007f7c580ee000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f7c580d4000)
	libzstd.so.1 => /lib64/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f7c58029000)
	libcap.so.2 => /lib64/libcap.so.2 (0x00007f7c58022000)
	libnuma.so.1 => /lib64/libnuma.so.1 (0x00007f7c58014000)
	libbabeltrace-ctf.so.1 => /lib64/libbabeltrace-ctf.so.1 (0x00007f7c57fbe000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f7c57fa2000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7c58dd3000)
	libbz2.so.1 => /lib64/libbz2.so.1 (0x00007f7c57f8e000)
	libcrypt.so.2 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.2 (0x00007f7c57f53000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f7c57f4e000)
	libbabeltrace.so.1 => /lib64/libbabeltrace.so.1 (0x00007f7c57f3e000)
	libpopt.so.0 => /lib64/libpopt.so.0 (0x00007f7c57f2e000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib64/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f7c57f24000)
	libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7c57f1e000)
	libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7c57dfa000)
	libpcre.so.1 => /lib64/libpcre.so.1 (0x00007f7c57d86000)
[acme@seventh perf]$

Just like a did, no attachments please.

- Arnaldo
 
> On 2020-03-25 23:28, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 
> >Em Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 04:46:43PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu: On
> >Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 07:48:39PM +0430, ahmadkhorrami wrote: Hi,
> >
> >Could you give me some hints about where the actual problem takes
> >place? Is
> >the problem with "Perf" or the hardware part (i.e., "Hardware
> >Performance
> >Counters")? Can I revise the problem by simply modifying the code?
> >How much
> >work is needed?
> >heya,
> >might be some callchain processing bug, but I can't reproduce it
> >on my setup..
> >would you have/make some simple example that would reproduce the issue?
> >
> >Another option is that you'd send perf.data together with 'perf
> >archive' data.
> >
> >Also.. we support 2 dwarf unwinders (libunwind/libdw).. not sure
> >which one you
> >have compiled in, but would be helpful to see if the other shows
> >the same.
> 
> perf -vv
> 
> +
> 
> ldd `which perf`
> 
> Output will help us find out which unwinder is being used, as well as
> the version of perf being used.
> 
> - Arnaldo