llvm dev - Mar 2021 - How to generate the perfscript file for llvm-profgen

Hi,
  I'm really interested in the new CSSPGO tool, can anyone give me some
more detailed instructions about how to generate the perfscript file it
needs, I tried to first use "perf record -e xxx -b ..." to generate a
perf.data file and then use "perf script" to dump all the text into a
perfscript file, but it seems to be different from the perfscript under the
llvm/test/tools/llvm-profgen/Inputs directory.

Lanzhiguan
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Thanks for trying it out!

To get context-sensitive profile, you will need to collect perf data with both
LBR and stack sample enabled. We use something like this:

perf record -g --call-graph fp -e br_inst_retired.near_taken:uppp -c 16009 -b -o
<perf_data_output> <command_to_profile>

Here’s the perf script command to extract both LBR and stack sample:

perf script -F ip,brstack -i <perf_data_output>  --show-mmap-event
&> <perf_script_output>

Let us know how it works.

Thanks,
Wenlei

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Lanzhiguan Huang via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
Date: Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 11:32 PM
To: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
Subject: [llvm-dev] How to generate the perfscript file for llvm-profgen
Hi,
  I'm really interested in the new CSSPGO tool, can anyone give me some more
detailed instructions about how to generate the perfscript file it needs, I
tried to first use "perf record -e xxx -b ..." to generate a perf.data
file and then use "perf script" to dump all the text into a perfscript
file, but it seems to be different from the perfscript under the
llvm/test/tools/llvm-profgen/Inputs directory.

Lanzhiguan
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