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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	jolsa@kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	alexander.shishkin@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf, tools, script: Add support for printing assembler
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:35:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160229173528.GP5083@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160229145625.GB32719@kernel.org>

> What kernel have you used for testing this? 4.5-rc? I'm having trouble
> with intel_pt with 4.5.0-rc4 :-\

Works for me (on -rc5). What problem do you see?

> 
> And while this looks like a great feature to have, have you considered
> using what is in tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/ somehow, so that we
> don't end up adding one more dependency on another external library?

This needs a text disassembler.

The PT decoder doesn't have a disassembler unfortunately. The kernel 
instruction decoder is also not a text disassembler. Changing it to do
that would be a quite large project. 

> It would be great if we could, if done that way, perhaps at some point
> we could stop using objdump somehow :-\

objdump does a lot of work to line up the source code correctly.
Reproducing it would be a lot of work in perf too, and need
large scales changes. Perhaps at some time, but not any time
soon.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-29 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-27  0:32 [PATCH 1/2] perf, tools: Add support for skipping itrace instructions Andi Kleen
2016-02-27  0:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf, tools, script: Add support for printing assembler Andi Kleen
2016-02-29 10:27   ` Jiri Olsa
2016-02-29 14:56   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-29 17:35     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2016-02-29 19:25       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-03-01 15:35         ` Intel PT not work on 4.5-rc6 as well after suspend/resume assembler Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-03-01 23:49           ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-02 12:02             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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