perf_counter: Ignore the nmi call frames in the x86-64 backtraces

About every callchains recorded with perf record are filled up
including the internal perfcounter nmi frame:

 perf_callchain
 perf_counter_overflow
 intel_pmu_handle_irq
 perf_counter_nmi_handler
 notifier_call_chain
 atomic_notifier_call_chain
 notify_die
 do_nmi
 nmi

We want ignore this frame as it's not interesting for
instrumentation. To solve this, we simply ignore every frames
from nmi context.

New example of "perf report -s sym -c" after this patch:

9.59%  [k] search_by_key
             4.88%
                search_by_key
                reiserfs_read_locked_inode
                reiserfs_iget
                reiserfs_lookup
                do_lookup
                __link_path_walk
                path_walk
                do_path_lookup
                user_path_at
                vfs_fstatat
                vfs_lstat
                sys_newlstat
                system_call_fastpath
                __lxstat
                0x406fb1

             3.19%
                search_by_key
                search_by_entry_key
                reiserfs_find_entry
                reiserfs_lookup
                do_lookup
                __link_path_walk
                path_walk
                do_path_lookup
                user_path_at
                vfs_fstatat
                vfs_lstat
                sys_newlstat
                system_call_fastpath
                __lxstat
                0x406fb1
[...]

For now this patch only solves the problem in x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246474930-6088-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
index f517944b2b17..cf86a5e73815 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 extern int kstack_depth_to_print;
 
+int x86_is_stack_id(int id, char *name);
+
 /* Generic stack tracer with callbacks */
 
 struct stacktrace_ops {