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    perf: Fix orphan callchain branches · 301fde27
    Frederic Weisbecker authored
    Callchains have markers inside their capture to tell we
    enter a context (kernel, user, ...).
    
    Those are not displayed in the callchains but they are
    incidentally an active part of the radix tree where
    callchains are stored, just like any other address.
    
    If we have the two following callchains:
    
    addr1 -> addr2 -> user context -> addr3
    addr1 -> addr2 -> user context -> addr4
    addr1 -> addr2 -> addr 5
    
    This is pretty common if addr1 and addr2 are part of an
    interrupt path, addr3 and addr4 are user addresses and
    addr5 is a kernel non interrupt path.
    
    This will be stored as follows in the tree:
    
                       addr1
                       addr2
                       /   \
                      /     addr5
                user context
                   /    \
                 addr3  addr4
    
    But we ignore the context markers in the report, hence
    the addr3 and addr4 will appear as orphan branches:
    
        |--28.30%-- hrtimer_interrupt
        |          smp_apic_timer_interrupt
        |          apic_timer_interrupt
        |          |           <------------- here, no parent!
        |          |          |
        |          |          |--11.11%-- 0x7fae7bccb875
        |          |          |
        |          |          |--11.11%-- 0xffffffffff60013b
        |          |          |
        |          |          |--11.11%-- __pthread_mutex_lock_internal
        |          |          |
        |          |          |--11.11%-- __errno_location
    
    Fix this by removing the context markers when we process the
    callchains to the tree.
    Reported-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    LKML-Reference: <1269274173-20328-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    301fde27
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