Re: [tracecompass-dev] Generic callstacks / callgraphs / flamegraphs

[Matthew Khouzam <matthew.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So just to remind me, if we have say non tid stuff, like a xeon phi with
1 process per core, this could show the callstack for these in a more
meaningful way, right?


On 16-09-08 09:52 PM, Geneviève Bastien wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Callgraphs and flamegraphs were added recently to Trace Compass. This is
> such a great news that I want it for all my analyses!!
>
> Some use cases: sql queries and functions calls for a web request,
> execution stacks of threads used by the views of Trace Compass, a
> user-defined callstack from a ust-trace.
>
> So in the next weeks, I'll be working on making callstacks and
> callgraphs and their associated views more generic. I have a few patches
> on gerrit under the topic "for_jul_analyses callstack" [1] but they are
> not quite ready for review. Here is the plan:
>
> 1) Add a ICallStackProvider interface, implemented by the current
> CallStackAnalysis class that will provide CallStack objects that will
> describe where to get the callstack from [in the state system for now]
> 2) Make the CallGraphAnalysis use those ICallStackProvider and their
> CallStack(s) instead of the CallStackAnalysis directly and make sure all
> the views still work.
> 3) The current call stack analysis has a hierarchy process ID -> thread
> ID -> callstack where process IDs and thread IDs are conveniently
> integers. But that does not cover all the use cases. So instead there
> will be levels of grouping where a callstack can have as many levels as
> it wishes. The current case would have 2 levels (Process and threads)
> along with the final callstack level that has to be there. The current
> callstack will still work as it does now with the symbol resolution.
> 4) Add support of XML-defined callstacks, where an XML analysis will
> fill a state system with callstack-like data and will provide it as
> callstack to the views.
> 5) Fix the flame graph so that there is more than one level of grouping
> that can be shown (now is only threads, we don't have the process level)
> 6) Make it possible for callgraph to use any of the levels for
> aggregation, as requested by the user (right now, statistics are
> aggregated per thread only)
>
> 1 and 2 are done, as well as 4, but it lacks 3 to be entirely
> satisfactory. Any thoughts? Comments? Additional requirements?
>
> Best regards,
> Geneviève
>
> [1]
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:tracecompass/org.eclipse.tracecompass+branch:master+topic:%22for_jul_analyses+callstack%22
>
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