dolphin-emu/dolphin — pull request #1432 by randomstuff (2014-10-28 21:30:31+00:00)
Title: (wip) Add Linux perf JIT support (/tmp/perf-$pid.map)

'perf' is the standard builtin tool for performance analysis on recent
Linux kernel. Its source code is shipped within the kernel repository.

'perf' has basic support for JIT. For each process, it can read a file
named /tmp/perf-$PID.map. This file contains mapping from address
range to function name in the format:

41187e2a 1a JIT_PPC_b804a33fc

with the following entries:

1. address of the start of the range (hexadecimal);
2. size of the range (hexadecimal);
3. name of the function.

Currently, we supply the address of the basic block instead of a
function name.

Usage:

DOLPHIN_PERF=1 dolphin-emu &
perf record -F99 - $(pgrep dolphin-emu)
perf script | stackcollapse-perf.pl | grep JIT_PPC_ | flamegraph.pl > profile.svg

Issues:

* perf does not have support for region invalidation. It reads the
file in preprocessing. It does not work very well if a JIT region
is reused for another basic block. Can we avoid this?

To be fixed:

* Add a GUI option.

Long term evolutions:

* add the function name as well in the file;
* add support for DSP JIT as well;
* stack unwinding for JIT functions.