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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] perf annotate: Add config option for additional objdump arguments
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:40:22 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110416164022.4ee0f8aa@kryten> (raw)


We sometimes need to pass arguments to objdump, for example to
specify a particular machine type. In the case below I am profiling
on POWER7 and perf annotate is unable to decode a POWER7 specific
instruction:

c000000000008ff0:       7f 45 26 98     .long 0x7f452698

With the patch below and the following in ~/.perfconfig:

[objdump]
	options = -Mpower7

perf annotate successfully decodes the instruction:

c000000000008ff0:       7f 45 26 98     lxvd2x  vs26,r5,r4

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
---

What do people think of objdump.options? Would annotate.objdump_options be
better?

Also we only look at the first occurance of the option, do we want to
parse everything found and concatenate them together?

Index: linux.trees.git/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
===================================================================
--- linux.trees.git.orig/tools/perf/util/annotate.c	2011-04-16 16:00:31.000000000 +1000
+++ linux.trees.git/tools/perf/util/annotate.c	2011-04-16 16:26:46.000000000 +1000
@@ -16,10 +16,33 @@
 #include "annotate.h"
 #include <pthread.h>
 
+static char *objdump_options;
+
+static int perf_objdump_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
+{
+	if (objdump_options == NULL && !strcmp(var, "objdump.options")) {
+		size_t len = strlen(value);
+
+		objdump_options = zalloc(len + 1);
+		strncpy(objdump_options, value, len);
+
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	return perf_default_config(var, value, cb);
+}
+
 int symbol__annotate_init(struct map *map __used, struct symbol *sym)
 {
 	struct annotation *notes = symbol__annotation(sym);
 	pthread_mutex_init(&notes->lock, NULL);
+
+	if (objdump_options == NULL) {
+		perf_config(perf_objdump_config, NULL);
+		if (objdump_options == NULL)
+			objdump_options = zalloc(1);
+	}
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -324,9 +347,11 @@ fallback:
 
 	snprintf(command, sizeof(command),
 		 "objdump --start-address=0x%016" PRIx64
-		 " --stop-address=0x%016" PRIx64 " -dS -C %s|grep -v %s|expand",
+		 " --stop-address=0x%016" PRIx64 " %s -dS -C %s|"
+		 "grep -v %s|expand",
 		 map__rip_2objdump(map, sym->start),
 		 map__rip_2objdump(map, sym->end),
+		 objdump_options,
 		 symfs_filename, filename);
 
 	pr_debug("Executing: %s\n", command);

             reply	other threads:[~2011-04-16  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-16  6:40 Anton Blanchard [this message]
2011-04-16  7:54 ` [PATCH] perf annotate: Add config option for additional objdump arguments Ingo Molnar
2011-04-24  1:49   ` Anton Blanchard

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