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authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>2026-01-16 21:28:48 -0800
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2026-01-20 15:43:56 -0300
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perf unwind-libdw: Don't discard loaded ELF/DWARF after every unwind
The unwind-libdw dwfl has ELF binaries associated with mmap addresses. Experimenting with using the per dso dwfl it is required to alter the address to be 0 based variant. Unfortunately libdwfl doesn't allow a single unwind and then an update to the return address to be 0 based as there are assertions that registers aren't updated once an unwind has started, etc. As removing the dwfl didn't prove possible, an alternative is to just not discard the dwfl when the unwind ends. The dwfl is valid for a process unless a dso is loaded at the same address as a previous one. So keep the dwfl with the maps, invalidate it if a map is removed (in case a new map replaces it) and recycle the dwfl in the unwinding code. A wrinkly in the implementation of this is that the attached thread argument is remembered by the dwfl and so it needs to be a pointer to memory that also persists with the dwfl (struct dwfl_ui_thread_info in the code). Recording 10 seconds of system wide data with --call-graph=dwarf and then processing with perf report shows a total runtime improvement from 41.583s to 2.279s (an 18x speedup). Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Aditya Bodkhe <aditya.b1@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Haibo Xu <haibo1.xu@intel.com> Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Krzysztof Ɓopatowski <krzysztof.m.lopatowski@gmail.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com> Cc: Shimin Guo <shimin.guo@skydio.com> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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