Re: [PATCH v1 03/10] tools, perf, script: Add --insn-trace for instruction decoding

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-09-19T20:38:46Z

Em Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 01:02:04PM -0700, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 03:12:47PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:18:27AM -0700, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> > > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> > >
> > > Add a --insn-trace short hand option for decoding and disassembling
> > > instruction streams for intel_pt. This automatically pipes the
> > > output into the xed disassembler to generate disassembled instructions.
> > > This just makes this use model much nicer to use
> >
> > Would be nice to provide at least an URL to where to find xed, I tried
> > this:
> >
> > [root@seventh ~]# dnf search xed
> > Last metadata expiration check: 0:25:39 ago on Wed 19 Sep 2018 02:42:36 PM -03.
> > =================================================================================== Name Exactly Matched: xed ====================================================================================
> > xed.i686 : X-Apps [Text] Editor (Cross-DE, backward-compatible, GTK3, traditional UI)
> > xed.x86_64 : X-Apps [Text] Editor (Cross-DE, backward-compatible, GTK3, traditional UI)
> >
> > https://github.com/intelxed
> >
> > So I have to install a build system and then install it to then build
> > intelxed?
>
> Yes that's right.

Sure, so please add this extra info you provided here there, please, to
help speed up testing of your work.

I think this should go in the documentation section as well.

> I think some distros have it already packaged.

>
> git clone https://github.com/intelxed/mbuild.git mbuild
> git clone https://github.com/intelxed/xed
> cd xed
> mkdir obj
> cd obj
> ../mfile.py
> sudo ../mfile.py --prefix=/usr/local install
>
> -Andi