v6 url: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2229396
Currently, perf script uses host unwind methods(local unwind) to parse perf.data callchain info regardless of the target architecture. So we get wrong result and no promotion when do remote unwind on other platforms/machines. This patchset checks whether a dso is 32-bit or 64-bit according to elf class info for each thread to let perf use the correct remote unwind methods instead. Only x86 and aarch64 is added in this patchset to show the work flow, other platforms can be added easily. We can see the right result for unwind info on different machines, for example: perf.data recorded on i686 qemu with '-g' option and parsed on x86_64 machine. before this patchset: hello 1219 [001] 72190.667975: probe:sys_close: (c1169d60) c1169d61 sys_close ([kernel.kallsyms]) c189c0d7 sysenter_past_esp ([kernel.kallsyms]) b777aba9 [unknown] ([vdso32]) after: (Add vdso into buildid-cache first by 'perf buildid-cache -a' and libraries are provided in symfs dir) hello 1219 [001] 72190.667975: probe:sys_close: (c1169d60) c1169d61 sys_close ([kernel.kallsyms]) c189c0d7 sysenter_past_esp ([kernel.kallsyms]) b777aba9 __kernel_vsyscall ([vdso32]) b76971cc close (/lib/libc-2.22.so) 804842e fib (/tmp/hello) 804849d main (/tmp/hello) b75d746e __libc_start_main (/lib/libc-2.22.so) 8048341 _start (/tmp/hello) For using remote libunwind libraries, reference this: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2224430 and now we can use LIBUNWIND_DIR to specific custom dirctories containing libunwind libs. v7: By following the advises from Jiri Olsa: - Move unwind ops struct to unwind.h - Add return value to function thread__insert_map() - Split "Separate local/remote libunwind config" into two patches, make commit message consistent with patch content. - Move not supported warnings to "Support x86 target platform" - Export $(ARCH)_unwind_libunwind_ops variables instead of functions. - Move arch/$(ARCH)/util/unwind-libunwind-$(ARCH).c into util/libunwind/ folder. Thanks. He Kuang (14): perf tools: Use LIBUNWIND_DIR for remote libunwind feature check perf tools: Decouple thread->address_space on libunwind perf tools: Introducing struct unwind_libunwind_ops for local unwind perf tools: Move unwind__prepare_access from thread_new into thread__insert_map perf tools: Don't mix LIBUNWIND_LIBS into LIBUNWIND_LDFLAGS perf tools: Separate local/remote libunwind config perf tools: Rename unwind-libunwind.c to unwind-libunwind-local.c perf tools: Extract common API out of unwind-libunwind-local.c perf tools: Export normalize_arch() function perf tools: Check the target platform before assigning unwind methods perf tools: Change fixed name of libunwind__arch_reg_id to macro perf tools: Introduce flag to separate local/remote unwind compilation perf callchain: Support x86 target platform perf callchain: Support aarch64 cross-platform tools/perf/arch/arm/util/Build | 2 +- tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build | 2 +- tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/unwind-libunwind.c | 4 +- tools/perf/arch/common.c | 2 +- tools/perf/arch/common.h | 1 + tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build | 2 +- tools/perf/arch/x86/util/unwind-libunwind.c | 6 +- tools/perf/config/Makefile | 53 +- tools/perf/util/Build | 3 + tools/perf/util/libunwind/arm64.c | 18 + tools/perf/util/libunwind/x86_32.c | 18 + tools/perf/util/machine.c | 10 +- tools/perf/util/thread.c | 7 +- tools/perf/util/thread.h | 9 +- tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c | 697 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c | 694 ++----------------------- tools/perf/util/unwind.h | 27 +- 17 files changed, 880 insertions(+), 675 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind/arm64.c create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind/x86_32.c create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c -- 1.8.5.2