Re: [PATCH v1 4/4] perf script: enable printing of branch stack

[Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:38:26AM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> This patch improves perf script by enabling printing of the
> branch stack via the 'brstack' argument to the field selection
> option -F. The option is off by default and operates only if the
> perf.data file has branch stack content.

Thanks that's very useful. I wanted that several times.
> 
> +static void print_sample_brstack(union perf_event *event __maybe_unused,
> +			  struct perf_sample *sample,
> +			  struct thread *thread __maybe_unused,
> +			  struct perf_event_attr *attr __maybe_unused)
> +{
> +	struct branch_stack *br = sample->branch_stack;
> +	u64 i;
> +
> +	if (!(br && br->nr))
> +		return;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < br->nr; i++) {
> +		printf(" 0x%"PRIx64"/0x%"PRIx64" ", br->entries[i].from, br->entries[i].to);

Should print the various flags too. Also tip just added cycles information.

Also it would be good to resolve the addresses to symbol + offset 
(and perhaps have support for srcline too).


-Andi
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