From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
adrian.hunter@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] perf, tools, script: Add support for printing assembler
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:05:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160327110501.GA4015@krava.sund.root.ku.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458946958-27570-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 04:02:37PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> When dumping PT traces with perf script it is very useful to see the
> assembler for each sample, so that it is easily possible to follow
> the control flow.
>
> As using objdump is difficult and inefficient from perf script this
> patch uses the udis86 library to implement assembler output.
> The library can be downloaded from http://udis86.sourceforge.net/
>
> The library is probed as an external dependency in the usual way. Then perf
> script calls into it when needed, and handles callbacks to resolve
> symbols.
>
> % perf record -e intel_pt//u true
> % perf script -F sym,symoff,ip,asm --itrace=i0ns | head
> 7fc7188b4190 _start+0x0 mov %rsp, %rdi
> 7fc7188b4193 _start+0x3 call _dl_start
> 7fc7188b7710 _dl_start+0x0 push %rbp
> 7fc7188b7711 _dl_start+0x1 mov %rsp, %rbp
> 7fc7188b7714 _dl_start+0x4 push %r15
> 7fc7188b7716 _dl_start+0x6 push %r14
> 7fc7188b7718 _dl_start+0x8 push %r13
> 7fc7188b771a _dl_start+0xa push %r12
> 7fc7188b771c _dl_start+0xc mov %rdi, %r12
> 7fc7188b771f _dl_start+0xf push %rbx
>
> Current issues:
> - Some jump references do not get resolved to symbols.
> - udis86 release does not support STAC/CLAC, which are used in the kernel,
> but there is a pending patch for it.
can't apply this on latest Arnaldo's tree:
patching file Documentation/perf-script.txt
patching file builtin-script.c
Hunk #5 succeeded at 431 (offset -2 lines).
Hunk #6 succeeded at 832 with fuzz 2 (offset -10 lines).
Hunk #7 FAILED at 871.
Hunk #8 succeeded at 890 with fuzz 2 (offset -10 lines).
Hunk #9 succeeded at 899 (offset -10 lines).
Hunk #10 FAILED at 1018.
Hunk #11 succeeded at 2108 (offset -10 lines).
2 out of 11 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file builtin-script.c.rej
jirka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-27 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-25 23:02 [PATCH 1/4] perf, tools: Add support for skipping itrace instructions Andi Kleen
2016-03-25 23:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] perf, tools: Add probing for udev86 Andi Kleen
2016-03-27 11:26 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-03-25 23:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf, tools, script: Add support for printing assembler Andi Kleen
2016-03-27 11:05 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2016-03-27 15:35 ` Andi Kleen
2016-03-25 23:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] perf, tools, script: Add brstackasm output for branch stacks Andi Kleen
2017-01-03 9:00 New attempt at adding an disassembler to perf Andi Kleen
2017-01-03 9:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf, tools, script: Add support for printing assembler Andi Kleen
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