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ding the branch we increment the taken counter, as well as the pred counter if flags.predicted. Using these number we can find if an instruction: - had coverage; given by: br->coverage / br->sym->max_coverage This metric ensures each symbol has a 100% spot, which reflects the observation that each symbol must have a most covered/hottest block. - is a branch target: br->is_target && br->start == add - for targets, how much of a branch's coverages comes from it: target->entry / branch->coverage - is a branch: br->is_branch && br->end == addr - for branches, how often it was taken: br->taken / br->coverage after all, all execution that didn't take the branch would have incremented the coverage and continued onward to a later branch. - for branches, how often it was predicted: br->pred / br->taken The coverage percentage is used to color the address and asm sections; for low (<1%) coverage we use NORMAL (uncolored), indicating that these instructions are not 'important'. For high coverage (>75%) we color the address RED. For each branch, we add an asm comment after the instruction with information on how often it was taken and predicted. Output looks like (sans color, which does loose a lot of the information :/) $ perf record --branch-filter u,any -e cycles:p ./branches 27 $ perf annotate branches Percent | Source code & Disassembly of branches for cycles:pu (217 samples) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : branches(): 0.00 : 40057a: push %rbp 0.00 : 40057b: mov %rsp,%rbp 0.00 : 40057e: sub $0x20,%rsp 0.00 : 400582: mov %rdi,-0x18(%rbp) 0.00 : 400586: mov %rsi,-0x20(%rbp) 0.00 : 40058a: mov -0x18(%rbp),%rax 0.00 : 40058e: mov %rax,-0x10(%rbp) 0.00 : 400592: movq $0x0,-0x8(%rbp) 0.00 : 40059a: jmpq 400656 <branches+0xdc> 1.84 : 40059f: mov -0x10(%rbp),%rax # +100.00% 3.23 : 4005a3: and $0x1,%eax 1.84 : 4005a6: test %rax,%rax 0.00 : 4005a9: je 4005bf <branches+0x45> # -54.50% (p:42.00%) 0.46 : 4005ab: mov 0x200bbe(%rip),%rax # 601170 <acc> 12.90 : 4005b2: add $0x1,%rax 2.30 : 4005b6: mov %rax,0x200bb3(%rip) # 601170 <acc> 0.46 : 4005bd: jmp 4005d1 <branches+0x57> # -100.00% (p:100.00%) 0.92 : 4005bf: mov 0x200baa(%rip),%rax # 601170 <acc> # +49.54% 13.82 : 4005c6: sub $0x1,%rax 0.46 : 4005ca: mov %rax,0x200b9f(%rip) # 601170 <acc> 2.30 : 4005d1: mov -0x10(%rbp),%rax # +50.46% 0.46 : 4005d5: mov %rax,%rdi 0.46 : 4005d8: callq 400526 <lfsr> # -100.00% (p:100.00%) 0.00 : 4005dd: mov %rax,-0x10(%rbp) # +100.00% 0.92 : 4005e1: mov -0x18(%rbp),%rax 0.00 : 4005e5: and $0x1,%eax 0.00 : 4005e8: test %rax,%rax 0.00 : 4005eb: je 4005ff <branches+0x85> # -100.00% (p:100.00%) 0.00 : 4005ed: mov 0x200b7c(%rip),%rax # 601170 <acc> 0.00 : 4005f4: shr $0x2,%rax 0.00 : 4005f8: mov %rax,0x200b71(%rip) # 601170 <acc> 0.00 : 4005ff: mov -0x10(%rbp),%rax # +100.00% 7.37 : 400603: and $0x1,%eax 3.69 : 400606: test %rax,%rax 0.00 : 400609: jne 400612 <branches+0x98> # -59.25% (p:42.99%) 1.84 : 40060b: mov $0x1,%eax 14.29 : 400610: jmp 400617 <branches+0x9d> # -100.00% (p:100.00%) 1.38 : 400612: mov $0x0,%eax # +57.65% 10.14 : 400617: test %al,%al # +42.35% 0.00 : 400619: je 40062f <branches+0xb5> # -57.65% (p:100.00%) 0.46 : 40061b: mov 0x200b4e(%rip),%rax # 601170 <acc> 2.76 : 400622: sub $0x1,%rax 0.00 : 400626: mov %rax,0x200b43(%rip) # 601170 <acc> 0.46 : 40062d: jmp 400641 <branches+0xc7> # -100.00% (p:100.00%) 0.92 : 40062f: mov 0x200b3a(%rip),%rax # 601170 <acc> # +56.13% 2.30 : 400636: add $0x1,%rax 0.92 : 40063a: mov %rax,0x200b2f(%rip) # 601170 <acc> 0.92 : 400641: mov -0x10(%rbp),%rax # +43.87% 2.30 : 400645: mov %rax,%rdi 0.00 : 400648: callq 400526 <lfsr> # -100.00% (p:100.00%) 0.00 : 40064d: mov %rax,-0x10(%rbp) # +100.00% 1.84 : 400651: addq $0x1,-0x8(%rbp) 0.92 : 400656: mov -0x8(%rbp),%rax 5.07 : 40065a: cmp -0x20(%rbp),%rax 0.00 : 40065e: jb 40059f <branches+0x25> # -100.00% (p:100.00%) 0.00 : 400664: nop 0.00 : 400665: leaveq 0.00 : 400666: retq (Note: the --branch-filter u,any was used to avoid spurious target and branch points due to interrupts/faults, they show up as very small -/+ annotations on 'weird' locations) Committer note: Please take a look at: http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/perf/annotate_basic_blocks.png To see the colors. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ Moved sym->max_coverage to 'struct annotate', aka symbol__annotate(sym) ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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