linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf: make annotate more readable

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Message-ID: <1305647163.2466.5917.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 17 May 2011 17:46:03 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, acme@...hat.com, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: make annotate more readable

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 17:32 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> This patch adds two new options to perf annotate:
> 	- -R, --no-asm-raw : do not display raw instruction encodings
> 	- -S, --no-source  : do not interleave source code with assembly code
> 
> We believe those options make the output of annotate more readable.
> Systematically displaying source can make it hard to follow code and
> especially optimized code.

Agreed, asm->C maps from optimized code are a mess.

> Raw encodings are not useful in most cases.

Also true.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
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