[PATCH v1 0/2] perf annotate: Fix source option behavior and

[PATCH v1 0/2] perf annotate: Fix source option behavior and

[Kohei Enju]

Source annotation has been disabled by default since e201757f7a0a ("perf
annotate: Fix source code annotate with objdump"), but the documentation
still describes the old default. Also, an explicit --source does not
currently override annotate.hide_src_code.

Update the documentation and make explicit --source/--no-source take
precedence over the configuration.

Kohei Enju (2):
  perf config: Fix annotate.hide_src_code documentation
  perf annotate: Honor explicit --source option

 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt  | 4 ++--
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt    | 6 +++---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt    | 4 ++--
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt       | 4 ++--
 tools/perf/Documentation/perfconfig.example | 2 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c               | 7 +++++--
 tools/perf/builtin-report.c                 | 7 +++++--
 tools/perf/builtin-top.c                    | 7 +++++--
 8 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

-- 
2.53.0

[PATCH v1 1/2] perf config: Fix annotate.hide_src_code documentation

[Kohei Enju]

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annotate.hide_src_code defaults to true since commit e201757f7a0a ("perf
annotate: Fix source code annotate with objdump"), but the perf config
documentation still describes the default as false in a few places.

Update the documented default and the example.

Signed-off-by: Kohei Enju <kohei@enjuk.jp>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt    | 6 +++---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perfconfig.example | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
index 9b223f892829..589bc7f36012 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Given a $HOME/.perfconfig like this:
 
 	[annotate]
 		# Defaults
-		hide_src_code = false
+		hide_src_code = true
 		use_offset = true
 		jump_arrows = true
 		show_nr_jumps = false
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Given a $HOME/.perfconfig like this:
 		skip-empty = true
 
 
-You can hide source code of annotate feature setting the config to false with
+You can hide source code of annotate feature setting the config to true with
 
 	% perf config annotate.hide_src_code=true
 
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ annotate.*::
 		│        mov    (%rdi),%rdx
 
 		But if this option is 'false', source code of the part
-		can be also printed as below. Default is 'false'.
+		can be also printed as below. Default is 'true'.
 
 		│      struct rb_node *rb_next(const struct rb_node *node)
 		│      {
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perfconfig.example b/tools/perf/Documentation/perfconfig.example
index 2b477c1d1efe..f9c202a25fa0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perfconfig.example
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perfconfig.example
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 [annotate]
 
 	# Defaults
-	hide_src_code = false
+	hide_src_code = true
 	use_offset = true
 	jump_arrows = true
 	show_nr_jumps = false
-- 
2.53.0

Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] perf config: Fix annotate.hide_src_code documentation

[sashiko-bot]

> annotate.hide_src_code defaults to true since commit e201757f7a0a ("perf
> annotate: Fix source code annotate with objdump"), but the perf config
> documentation still describes the default as false in a few places.
> 
> Update the documented default and the example.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kohei Enju <kohei@enjuk.jp>

Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!

-- 
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[PATCH v1 2/2] perf annotate: Honor explicit --source option

[Kohei Enju]

Source annotation is hidden by default to avoid forcing objdump -S, but
currently an explicit --source doesn't override annotate.hide_src_code.

In TUI mode, source code can be shown later with the 's' hotkey, which
re-runs annotation with hide_src_code cleared. In --stdio/--stdio2 mode,
there is no such interactive fallback, so --source did not show source
code unless users also set annotate.hide_src_code=false globally in
advance.

Track whether --source/--no-source was specified and synchronize
hide_src_code only in that case.

Fixes: e201757f7a0a ("perf annotate: Fix source code annotate with objdump")
Signed-off-by: Kohei Enju <kohei@enjuk.jp>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt | 4 ++--
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt   | 4 ++--
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt      | 4 ++--
 tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c              | 7 +++++--
 tools/perf/builtin-report.c                | 7 +++++--
 tools/perf/builtin-top.c                   | 7 +++++--
 6 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
index a688738809c4..dc5866cf6666 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ include::itrace.txt[]
 --show-total-period:: Show a column with the sum of periods.
 
 --source::
-	Interleave source code with assembly code. Enabled by default,
-	disable with --no-source.
+	Interleave source code with assembly code. This may use objdump and be
+	slower than the default disassembly. Disable with --no-source.
 
 --symfs=<directory[,layout]>::
         Look for files with symbols relative to this directory. The optional
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 22f87eaa3279..d494b9a37663 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -388,8 +388,8 @@ OPTIONS
 --disassembler-style=:: Set disassembler style for objdump.
 
 --source::
-	Interleave source code with assembly code. Enabled by default,
-	disable with --no-source.
+	Interleave source code with assembly code. This may use objdump and be
+	slower than the default disassembly. Disable with --no-source.
 
 --asm-raw::
 	Show raw instruction encoding of assembly instructions.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
index af3e4230c72f..0e5372988a1f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
@@ -178,8 +178,8 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
         with different file system layout.
 
 --source::
-	Interleave source code with assembly code. Enabled by default,
-	disable with --no-source.
+	Interleave source code with assembly code. This may use objdump and be
+	slower than the default disassembly. Disable with --no-source.
 
 --asm-raw::
 	Show raw instruction encoding of assembly instructions.
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
index 8a0eb30eac24..cb8ce851a81e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
@@ -692,6 +692,7 @@ static const char * const annotate_usage[] = {
 int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
 	struct perf_annotate annotate = {};
+	bool source_set = false;
 	struct perf_data data = {
 		.mode  = PERF_DATA_MODE_READ,
 	};
@@ -738,8 +739,8 @@ int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv)
 	OPT_STRING('C', "cpu", &annotate.cpu_list, "cpu", "list of cpus to profile"),
 	OPT_CALLBACK(0, "symfs", NULL, "directory[,layout]", SYMFS_HELP,
 		     symbol__config_symfs),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "source", &annotate_opts.annotate_src,
-		    "Interleave source code with assembly code (default)"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN_SET(0, "source", &annotate_opts.annotate_src, &source_set,
+			"Interleave source code with assembly code"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "asm-raw", &annotate_opts.show_asm_raw,
 		    "Display raw encoding of assembly instructions (default)"),
 	OPT_STRING('M', "disassembler-style", &disassembler_style, "disassembler style",
@@ -798,6 +799,8 @@ int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv)
 	annotation_config__init();
 
 	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, annotate_usage, 0);
+	if (source_set)
+		annotate_opts.hide_src_code = !annotate_opts.annotate_src;
 	if (argc) {
 		/*
 		 * Special case: if there's an argument left then assume that
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index dd1309c32094..cfd611ca6ffe 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -1306,6 +1306,7 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv)
 	struct itrace_synth_opts itrace_synth_opts = { .set = 0, };
 	struct stat st;
 	bool has_br_stack = false;
+	bool source_set = false;
 	int branch_mode = -1;
 	int last_key = 0;
 	bool branch_call_mode = false;
@@ -1420,8 +1421,8 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv)
 		   "only consider these parallelism levels (cpu set format)"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('I', "show-info", &report.show_full_info,
 		    "Display extended information about perf.data file"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "source", &annotate_opts.annotate_src,
-		    "Interleave source code with assembly code (default)"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN_SET(0, "source", &annotate_opts.annotate_src, &source_set,
+			"Interleave source code with assembly code"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "asm-raw", &annotate_opts.show_asm_raw,
 		    "Display raw encoding of assembly instructions (default)"),
 	OPT_STRING('M', "disassembler-style", &disassembler_style, "disassembler style",
@@ -1853,6 +1854,8 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv)
 			symbol_conf.priv_size += sizeof(u32);
 		}
 		annotation_config__init();
+		if (source_set)
+			annotate_opts.hide_src_code = !annotate_opts.annotate_src;
 	}
 
 	if (symbol__init(perf_session__env(session)) < 0)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 1211401616ee..cc06e7332e47 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -1483,6 +1483,7 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv)
 		.evlistp = &top.evlist,
 	};
 	bool branch_call_mode = false;
+	bool source_set = false;
 	struct record_opts *opts = &top.record_opts;
 	struct target *target = &opts->target;
 	const char *disassembler_style = NULL, *objdump_path = NULL, *addr2line_path = NULL;
@@ -1566,8 +1567,8 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv)
 		   "only consider symbols in these comms"),
 	OPT_STRING(0, "symbols", &symbol_conf.sym_list_str, "symbol[,symbol...]",
 		   "only consider these symbols"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "source", &annotate_opts.annotate_src,
-		    "Interleave source code with assembly code (default)"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN_SET(0, "source", &annotate_opts.annotate_src, &source_set,
+			"Interleave source code with assembly code"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "asm-raw", &annotate_opts.show_asm_raw,
 		    "Display raw encoding of assembly instructions (default)"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "demangle-kernel", &symbol_conf.demangle_kernel,
@@ -1851,6 +1852,8 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv)
 		goto out_delete_evlist;
 
 	annotation_config__init();
+	if (source_set)
+		annotate_opts.hide_src_code = !annotate_opts.annotate_src;
 
 	symbol_conf.try_vmlinux_path = (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name == NULL);
 	status = symbol__init(NULL);
-- 
2.53.0

Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] perf annotate: Honor explicit --source option

[sashiko-bot]

> Source annotation is hidden by default to avoid forcing objdump -S, but
> currently an explicit --source doesn't override annotate.hide_src_code.
> 
> In TUI mode, source code can be shown later with the 's' hotkey, which
> re-runs annotation with hide_src_code cleared. In --stdio/--stdio2 mode,
> there is no such interactive fallback, so --source did not show source
> code unless users also set annotate.hide_src_code=false globally in
> advance.
> 
> Track whether --source/--no-source was specified and synchronize
> hide_src_code only in that case.
> 
> Fixes: e201757f7a0a ("perf annotate: Fix source code annotate with objdump")
> Signed-off-by: Kohei Enju <kohei@enjuk.jp>

Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!

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Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] perf annotate: Fix source option behavior and

[Namhyung Kim]

Hello,

On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 02:40:11PM +0000, Kohei Enju wrote:
> Source annotation has been disabled by default since e201757f7a0a ("perf
> annotate: Fix source code annotate with objdump"), but the documentation
> still describes the old default. Also, an explicit --source does not
> currently override annotate.hide_src_code.
> 
> Update the documentation and make explicit --source/--no-source take
> precedence over the configuration.
> 
> Kohei Enju (2):
>   perf config: Fix annotate.hide_src_code documentation
>   perf annotate: Honor explicit --source option

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Thanks,
Namhyung

> 
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt  | 4 ++--
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt    | 6 +++---
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt    | 4 ++--
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt       | 4 ++--
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perfconfig.example | 2 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c               | 7 +++++--
>  tools/perf/builtin-report.c                 | 7 +++++--
>  tools/perf/builtin-top.c                    | 7 +++++--
>  8 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 

Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] perf annotate: Fix source option behavior and

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 03:12:19PM -0700, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 02:40:11PM +0000, Kohei Enju wrote:
> > Source annotation has been disabled by default since e201757f7a0a ("perf
> > annotate: Fix source code annotate with objdump"), but the documentation
> > still describes the old default. Also, an explicit --source does not
> > currently override annotate.hide_src_code.
> > 
> > Update the documentation and make explicit --source/--no-source take
> > precedence over the configuration.
> > 
> > Kohei Enju (2):
> >   perf config: Fix annotate.hide_src_code documentation
> >   perf annotate: Honor explicit --source option
> 
> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Please rebase, I'll push the patches I have locally later today after
the usual build tests on many distro containers:

⬢ [acme@toolbx perf-tools-next]$        git am ./20260818_kohei_perf_annotate_fix_source_option_behavior_and.mbx
Applying: perf config: Fix annotate.hide_src_code documentation
Applying: perf annotate: Honor explicit --source option
error: patch failed: tools/perf/builtin-top.c:1851
error: tools/perf/builtin-top.c: patch does not apply
Patch failed at 0002 perf annotate: Honor explicit --source option
hint: Use 'git am --show-current-patch=diff' to see the failed patch
hint: When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue".
hint: If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead.
hint: To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
hint: Disable this message with "git config set advice.mergeConflict false"
⬢ [acme@toolbx perf-tools-next]$