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The perf tools annotation code used for a long time parsing the output of binutils's objdump (or its reimplementations, like llvm's) to then parse and augment it with samples, allow navigation, etc. More recently disassemblers from the capstone and llvm (libraries, not parsing the output of tools using those libraries to mimic binutils's objdump output) were introduced. So when all those methods are available, there is a static preference for a series of attempts of disassembling a binary, with the 'llvm, capstone, objdump' sequence being hard coded. This patch allows users to change that sequence, specifying via a 'perf config' 'annotate.disassemblers' entry which and in what order disassemblers should be attempted. As alluded to in the comments in the source code of this series, this flexibility is useful for users and developers alike, elliminating the requirement to rebuild the tool with some specific set of libraries to see how the output of disassembling would be for one of these methods. root@x1:~# rm -f ~/.perfconfig root@x1:~# perf annotate -v --stdio2 update_load_avg <SNIP> symbol__disassemble: filename=/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64/vmlinux, sym=update_load_avg, start=0xffffffffb6148fe0, en> annotating [0x6ff7170] /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64/vmlinux : [0x7407ca0] update_load_avg Disassembled with llvm annotate.disassemblers=llvm,capstone,objdump Samples: 66 of event 'cpu_atom/cycles/P', 10000 Hz, Event count (approx.): 5185444, [percent: local period] update_load_avg() /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64/vmlinux Percent 0xffffffff81148fe0 <update_load_avg>: 1.61 pushq %r15 pushq %r14 1.00 pushq %r13 movl %edx,%r13d 1.90 pushq %r12 pushq %rbp movq %rsi,%rbp pushq %rbx movq %rdi,%rbx subq $0x18,%rsp 15.14 movl 0x1a4(%rdi),%eax root@x1:~# perf config annotate.disassemblers=capstone root@x1:~# cat ~/.perfconfig # this file is auto-generated. [annotate] disassemblers = capstone root@x1:~# root@x1:~# perf annotate -v --stdio2 update_load_avg <SNIP> Disassembled with capstone annotate.disassemblers=capstone Samples: 66 of event 'cpu_atom/cycles/P', 10000 Hz, Event count (approx.): 5185444, [percent: local period] update_load_avg() /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64/vmlinux Percent 0xffffffff81148fe0 <update_load_avg>: 1.61 pushq %r15 pushq %r14 1.00 pushq %r13 movl %edx,%r13d 1.90 pushq %r12 pushq %rbp movq %rsi,%rbp pushq %rbx movq %rdi,%rbx subq $0x18,%rsp 15.14 movl 0x1a4(%rdi),%eax root@x1:~# perf config annotate.disassemblers=objdump,capstone root@x1:~# perf config annotate.disassemblers annotate.disassemblers=objdump,capstone root@x1:~# cat ~/.perfconfig # this file is auto-generated. [annotate] disassemblers = objdump,capstone root@x1:~# perf annotate -v --stdio2 update_load_avg Executing: objdump --start-address=0xffffffff81148fe0 \ --stop-address=0xffffffff811497aa \ -d --no-show-raw-insn -S -C "$1" Disassembled with objdump annotate.disassemblers=objdump,capstone Samples: 66 of event 'cpu_atom/cycles/P', 10000 Hz, Event count (approx.): 5185444, [percent: local period] update_load_avg() /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64/vmlinux Percent Disassembly of section .text: ffffffff81148fe0 <update_load_avg>: #define DO_ATTACH 0x4 ffffffff81148fe0 <update_load_avg>: #define DO_ATTACH 0x4 #define DO_DETACH 0x8 /* Update task and its cfs_rq load average */ static inline void update_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags) { 1.61 push %r15 push %r14 1.00 push %r13 mov %edx,%r13d 1.90 push %r12 push %rbp mov %rsi,%rbp push %rbx mov %rdi,%rbx sub $0x18,%rsp } /* rq->task_clock normalized against any time this cfs_rq has spent throttled */ static inline u64 cfs_rq_clock_pelt(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq) { if (unlikely(cfs_rq->throttle_count)) 15.14 mov 0x1a4(%rdi),%eax root@x1:~# After adding a way to select the disassembler from the command line a 'perf test' comparing the output of the various diassemblers should be introduced, to test these codebases. Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241111151734.1018476-4-acme@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
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arch | ||
bench | ||
check-header_ignore_hunks/lib | ||
dlfilters | ||
Documentation | ||
include/perf | ||
jvmti | ||
pmu-events | ||
python | ||
scripts | ||
tests | ||
trace | ||
ui | ||
util | ||
.gitignore | ||
Build | ||
builtin-annotate.c | ||
builtin-bench.c | ||
builtin-buildid-cache.c | ||
builtin-buildid-list.c | ||
builtin-c2c.c | ||
builtin-check.c | ||
builtin-config.c | ||
builtin-daemon.c | ||
builtin-data.c | ||
builtin-diff.c | ||
builtin-evlist.c | ||
builtin-ftrace.c | ||
builtin-help.c | ||
builtin-inject.c | ||
builtin-kallsyms.c | ||
builtin-kmem.c | ||
builtin-kvm.c | ||
builtin-kwork.c | ||
builtin-list.c | ||
builtin-lock.c | ||
builtin-mem.c | ||
builtin-probe.c | ||
builtin-record.c | ||
builtin-report.c | ||
builtin-sched.c | ||
builtin-script.c | ||
builtin-stat.c | ||
builtin-timechart.c | ||
builtin-top.c | ||
builtin-trace.c | ||
builtin-version.c | ||
builtin.h | ||
check-headers.sh | ||
command-list.txt | ||
CREDITS | ||
design.txt | ||
Makefile | ||
Makefile.config | ||
Makefile.perf | ||
MANIFEST | ||
perf-archive.sh | ||
perf-completion.sh | ||
perf-iostat.sh | ||
perf-read-vdso.c | ||
perf-sys.h | ||
perf.c | ||
perf.h |