perf tools powerpc: Cache the DWARF debug info
Cache the DWARF debug info for DSO so we don't have to rebuild it for each
address in the DSO.
Note that dso__new() uses calloc() so don't need to set dso->dwfl to NULL.
$ /tmp/perf.orig --version
perf version 3.18.rc1.gc2661b8
$ /tmp/perf.new --version
perf version 3.18.rc1.g402d62
$ perf stat -e cycles,instructions /tmp/perf.orig report -g > orig
Performance counter stats for '/tmp/perf.orig report -g':
6,428,177,183 cycles # 0.000 GHz
4,176,288,391 instructions # 0.65 insns per cycle
1.
840666132 seconds time elapsed
$ perf stat -e cycles,instructions /tmp/perf.new report -g > new
Performance counter stats for '/tmp/perf.new report -g':
305,773,142 cycles # 0.000 GHz
276,048,272 instructions # 0.90 insns per cycle
0.
087693543 seconds time elapsed
$ diff orig new
$
Changelog[v2]:
[Arnaldo Carvalho] Cache in existing global objects rather than create
new static/globals in functions.
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141022000958.GB2228@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>