It would be useful for perf to support a mode to query the inline stack for callgraph addresses. This would simplify finding the right code in code that does a lot of inlining.
For example, the c code: static inline void f3(void) { int i; for (i = 0; i < 1000;) { if(i%2) i++; else i++; } printf("hello f3\n"); /* D */ } /* < CALLCHAIN: f2 <- f1 > */ static inline void f2(void) { int i; for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) { f3(); /* C */ } } /* < CALLCHAIN: f1 <- main > */ static inline void f1(void) { int i; for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) { f2(); /* B */ } } /* < CALLCHAIN: main <- TOP > */ int main() { struct timeval tv; time_t start, end; gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); start = end = tv.tv_sec; while((end - start) < 5) { f1(); /* A */ gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); end = tv.tv_sec; } return 0; } The printed inline stack is: 0.05% test2 test2 [.] main | ---/home/perf-dev/lck-2867/test/test2.c:27 (inline) /home/perf-dev/lck-2867/test/test2.c:35 (inline) /home/perf-dev/lck-2867/test/test2.c:45 (inline) /home/perf-dev/lck-2867/test/test2.c:61 (inline) I tag A/B/C/D in above c code to indicate the source line, actually the inline stack is equal to: 0.05% test2 test2 [.] main | ---D C B A Jin Yao (4): perf report: Find the inline stack for a given address perf report: Create a new option "--inline" perf report: Show inline stack in stdio mode perf report: Show inline stack in browser mode tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 4 + tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 2 + tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 98 ++++++++++++++- tools/perf/ui/stdio/hist.c | 56 ++++++++- tools/perf/util/hist.c | 5 + tools/perf/util/sort.h | 1 + tools/perf/util/srcline.c | 206 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 3 +- tools/perf/util/util.h | 15 +++ 9 files changed, 356 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4