Re: [PATCH 6/9] perf sort: Add 'addr' sort key

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 11:15:23AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 22:40:23 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 08:35:22PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> >> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
> >> 
> >> New addr sort key provides a way to sort the entries by the symbol
> >> addresses.  It can be helpful to figure out symbol resolution problem
> >> when a dso cannot do it properly as well as finding hotpath in a dso
> >> and/or a function.
> >
> > maybe it's just the recent mem profiling patches, but wouldn't
> > it be better to use 'ip' instead of 'addr'?
> >
> > also it's following code getting the data:
> > ...
> >         if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_IP)
> >                 data->ip = perf_instruction_pointer(regs);
> > ...
> >
> > same for the "perf sort: Add 'addr_to/from' sort key" patch
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean exactly.
> 
> I used hist_entry->ip but it was set by al->addr which was converted
> from the original sample ip to a relative ip by map->map_ip().
> 
> I can change it to use ->unmap_ip() before printing.  Is that your
> concern?

what I meant was the 'addr' name itself for -s option, like use:
  '-s ip' instead of '-s addr'

I'm fine with the implementation

jirka

> 
> And it seems that addr in branch info is original ip, Stephane?
> 
> Thanks,
> Namhyung