linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] perf annotate: Introduce the new source code view

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Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2017 15:08:33 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:     Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] perf annotate: Introduce the new source code view

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 10:58:05PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 04:59:52AM +0900, Taeung Song wrote:
> > The current source code view using 'objdump -S'
> > has several limitations regarding line numbers of each soure
> > code line and confusing mixed soure code & diassembly view.
> > 
> > So not use the '-S' option any more and
> > add the new reable source code view with
> > correct line numbers and source code per each symbol(function)
> > using new struct source_code.
> 
> I like this "source-only" annotation, but some people still might want
> to see the "mixed" annotation.  So I think you need to keep it and
> provide another option for the source-only mode.  And then we can
> change the default later.

What's the point of source-only? You can't even see what it is that is
expensive.