trace: Support output of a flamegraph

It is useful to see how many times each function is called, particularly
in the context of its callers. A flamegraph is a way of showing this.

Support output in this format which can be used by the flamegraph.pl
script, to generate an SVG image for browsing.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This commit is contained in:
Simon Glass
2023-02-11 12:22:35 -05:00
committed by Tom Rini
parent b54d8cf0b5
commit 47b89d61f2
+271 -1
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
/*
* Decode and dump U-Boot trace information into formats that can be used
* by trace-cmd or kernelshark
* by trace-cmd, kernelshark or flamegraph.pl
*
* See doc/develop/trace.rst for more information
*/
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
#include <trace.h>
#include <abuf.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
/* Set to 1 to emit version 7 file (currently this doesn't work) */
#define VERSION7 0
@@ -37,6 +39,18 @@
#define __ALIGN_MASK(x, mask) (((x) + (mask)) & ~(mask))
#define ALIGN(x, a) __ALIGN_MASK((x), (typeof(x))(a) - 1)
/**
* container_of - cast a member of a structure out to the containing structure
* @ptr: the pointer to the member.
* @type: the type of the container struct this is embedded in.
* @member: the name of the member within the struct.
*
* (this is needed by list.h)
*/
#define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({ \
const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__mptr = (ptr); \
(type *)( (char *)__mptr - offsetof(type,member) );})
enum {
FUNCF_TRACE = 1 << 0, /* Include this function in trace */
TRACE_PAGE_SIZE = 4096, /* Assumed page size for trace */
@@ -101,6 +115,38 @@ enum trace_type {
TRACE_GRAPH_ENT,
};
/**
* struct flame_node - a node in the call-stack tree
*
* Each stack frame detected in the trace is given a node corresponding to a
* function call in the call stack. Functions can appear multiple times when
* they are called by a different set of parent functions.
*
* @parent: Parent node (the call stack for the function that called this one)
* @child_head: List of children of this node (functions called from here)
* @sibling: Next node in the list of children
* @func: Function this node refers to (NULL for root node)
* @count: Number of times this call-stack occurred
*/
struct flame_node {
struct flame_node *parent;
struct list_head child_head;
struct list_head sibling_node;
struct func_info *func;
int count;
};
/**
* struct flame_state - state information for building the flame graph
*
* @node: Current node being processed (corresponds to a function call)
* @nodes: Number of nodes created (running count)
*/
struct flame_state {
struct flame_node *node;
int nodes;
};
/**
* struct func_info - information recorded for each function
*
@@ -221,6 +267,7 @@ static void usage(void)
"\n"
"Commands\n"
" dump-ftrace\t\tDump out records in ftrace format for use by trace-cmd\n"
" dump-flamegraph\tWrite a file for use with flamegraph.pl\n"
"\n"
"Options:\n"
" -c <cfg>\tSpecify config file\n"
@@ -1517,6 +1564,218 @@ static int make_ftrace(FILE *fout, enum out_format_t out_format)
return 0;
}
/**
* create_node() - Create a new node in the flamegraph tree
*
* @msg: Message to use for debugging if something goes wrong
* Returns: Pointer to newly created node, or NULL on error
*/
static struct flame_node *create_node(const char *msg)
{
struct flame_node *node;
node = calloc(1, sizeof(*node));
if (!node) {
fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory for %s\n", msg);
return NULL;
}
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->child_head);
return node;
}
/**
* process_call(): Add a call to the flamegraph info
*
* For function calls, if this call stack has been seen before, this increments
* the call count, creating a new node if needed.
*
* For function returns, it adds up the time spent in this call stack,
* subtracting the time spent by child functions.
*
* @state: Current flamegraph state
* @entry: true if this is a function entry, false if a function exit
* @timestamp: Timestamp from the trace file (in microseconds)
* @func: Function that was called/returned from
*
* Returns: 0 on success, -ve on error
*/
static int process_call(struct flame_state *state, bool entry, ulong timestamp,
struct func_info *func)
{
struct flame_node *node = state->node;
if (entry) {
struct flame_node *child, *chd;
/* see if we have this as a child node already */
child = NULL;
list_for_each_entry(chd, &node->child_head, sibling_node) {
if (chd->func == func) {
child = chd;
break;
}
}
if (!child) {
/* create a new node */
child = create_node("child");
if (!child)
return -1;
list_add_tail(&child->sibling_node, &node->child_head);
child->func = func;
child->parent = node;
state->nodes++;
}
debug("entry %s: move from %s to %s\n", func->name,
node->func ? node->func->name : "(root)",
child->func->name);
child->count++;
node = child;
} else if (node->parent) {
debug("exit %s: move from %s to %s\n", func->name,
node->func->name, node->parent->func ?
node->parent->func->name : "(root)");
node = node->parent;
}
state->node = node;
return 0;
}
/**
* make_flame_tree() - Create a tree of stack traces
*
* Set up a tree, with the root node having the top-level functions as children
* and the leaf nodes being leaf functions. Each node has a count of how many
* times this function appears in the trace
*
* @treep: Returns the resulting flamegraph tree
* Returns: 0 on success, -ve on error
*/
static int make_flame_tree(struct flame_node **treep)
{
struct flame_state state;
struct flame_node *tree;
struct trace_call *call;
int missing_count = 0;
int i, depth;
/*
* The first thing in the trace may not be the top-level function, so
* set the initial depth so that no function goes below depth 0
*/
depth = -calc_min_depth();
tree = create_node("tree");
if (!tree)
return -1;
state.node = tree;
state.nodes = 0;
for (i = 0, call = call_list; i < call_count; i++, call++) {
bool entry = TRACE_CALL_TYPE(call) == FUNCF_ENTRY;
ulong timestamp = call->flags & FUNCF_TIMESTAMP_MASK;
struct func_info *func;
if (entry)
depth++;
else
depth--;
func = find_func_by_offset(call->func);
if (!func) {
warn("Cannot find function at %lx\n",
text_offset + call->func);
missing_count++;
continue;
}
if (process_call(&state, entry, timestamp, func))
return -1;
}
fprintf(stderr, "%d nodes\n", state.nodes);
*treep = tree;
return 0;
}
/**
* output_tree() - Output a flamegraph tree
*
* Writes the tree out to a file in a format suitable for flamegraph.pl
*
* This works by maintaining a string shared across all recursive calls. The
* function name for this node is added to the existing string, to make up the
* full call-stack description. For example, on entry, @str might contain:
*
* "initf_bootstage;bootstage_mark_name"
* ^ @base
*
* with @base pointing to the \0 at the end of the string. This function adds
* a ';' following by the name of the current function, e.g. "timer_get_boot_us"
* as well as the output value, to get the full line:
*
* initf_bootstage;bootstage_mark_name;timer_get_boot_us 123
*
* @fout: Output file
* @node: Node to output (pass the whole tree at first)
* @str: String to use to build the output line (e.g. 500 charas long)
* @maxlen: Maximum length of string
* @base: Current base position in the string
* @treep: Returns the resulting flamegraph tree
* Returns 0 if OK, -1 on error
*/
static int output_tree(FILE *fout, const struct flame_node *node,
char *str, int maxlen, int base)
{
const struct flame_node *child;
int pos;
if (node->count)
fprintf(fout, "%s %d\n", str, node->count);
pos = base;
if (pos)
str[pos++] = ';';
list_for_each_entry(child, &node->child_head, sibling_node) {
int len;
len = strlen(child->func->name);
if (pos + len + 1 >= maxlen) {
fprintf(stderr, "String too short (%d chars)\n",
maxlen);
return -1;
}
strcpy(str + pos, child->func->name);
if (output_tree(fout, child, str, maxlen, pos + len))
return -1;
}
return 0;
}
/**
* make_flamegraph() - Write out a flame graph
*
* @fout: Output file
* Returns 0 if OK, -1 on error
*/
static int make_flamegraph(FILE *fout)
{
struct flame_node *tree;
char str[500];
if (make_flame_tree(&tree))
return -1;
*str = '\0';
if (output_tree(fout, tree, str, sizeof(str), 0))
return -1;
return 0;
}
/**
* prof_tool() - Performs requested action
*
@@ -1560,6 +1819,17 @@ static int prof_tool(int argc, char *const argv[],
}
err = make_ftrace(fout, out_format);
fclose(fout);
} else if (!strcmp(cmd, "dump-flamegraph")) {
FILE *fout;
fout = fopen(out_fname, "w");
if (!fout) {
fprintf(stderr, "Cannot write file '%s'\n",
out_fname);
return -1;
}
err = make_flamegraph(fout);
fclose(fout);
} else {
warn("Unknown command '%s'\n", cmd);
}