Simplify backtracing.

Simplify backtracing to not ignore any frames, and compensate for this
in pprof in order to increase flexibility with respect to function-based
refactoring even in the presence of non-deterministic inlining.  Modify
pprof to blacklist all jemalloc allocation entry points including
non-standard ones like mallocx(), and ignore all allocator-internal
frames.  Prior to this change, pprof excluded the specifically
blacklisted functions from backtraces, but it left allocator-internal
frames intact.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/pprof b/bin/pprof
index a309943..328138c 100755
--- a/bin/pprof
+++ b/bin/pprof
@@ -2811,9 +2811,14 @@ sub RemoveUninterestingFrames {
                       'free',
                       'memalign',
                       'posix_memalign',
+                      'aligned_alloc',
                       'pvalloc',
                       'valloc',
                       'realloc',
+                      'mallocx', # jemalloc
+                      'rallocx', # jemalloc
+                      'xallocx', # jemalloc
+                      'dallocx', # jemalloc
                       'tc_calloc',
                       'tc_cfree',
                       'tc_malloc',
@@ -2923,6 +2928,10 @@ sub RemoveUninterestingFrames {
       if (exists($symbols->{$a})) {
         my $func = $symbols->{$a}->[0];
         if ($skip{$func} || ($func =~ m/$skip_regexp/)) {
+          # Throw away the portion of the backtrace seen so far, under the
+          # assumption that previous frames were for functions internal to the
+          # allocator.
+          @path = ();
           next;
         }
       }