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Message-ID: <20150520130515.GB2955@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 10:05:15 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To: Martin Liška <mliska@...e.cz>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
paulus@...ba.org, mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: introduce new two options for objdump.
Em Wed, May 20, 2015 at 03:02:01PM +0200, Martin Liška escreveu:
> On 05/19/2015 04:33 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >Em Tue, May 19, 2015 at 08:29:58AM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
> >>On 5/19/15 8:08 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >>>Em Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 02:03:46PM +0100, Martin Liška escreveu:
> >>>>Newly introduced options usedfull for off-box usage:
> >
> >>> New useful options for off-box usage:
> >
> >>>> --objdump-prefix: specify prefix to add to the absolute paths
> >>>> where objdump looks for source files.
> >>>> --objdump-prefix-strip: indicate how many initial directory names
> >>>> to strip off the hardwired absolute paths, passed to objdump.
> >>>> It has no effect without --objdump-prefix.
> >
> >>>Does this, for instance, allows one looking at source code + assembly
> >>>with debuginfo packages? Is that a usecase you tested this against?
> >
> >>>Anyway, sorry for the delay in processing this, fell thru the cracks ;-\
> >
> >>>Can you please respin this on top of my current perf/core, at:
> >
> >>>git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git
> >
> >>Perhaps it should be generalized a bit? Right now we have symfs for the
> >>location of the tree for binaries. What about a srcfs for a source tree?
> >
> >That is a good idea indeed.
> >
> >- Arnaldo
> >
>
> Hello.
>
> I was motivated to be able to annotate source code, realized out-of-box. More precisely, on a machine A
> I run perf record, I moved the report file to machine B and I use these options to annotate source code.
>
> Let's consider source code location
>
> Machine A:
> P1=/a/b/c/d/source-files
>
> Machine B:
> P2=/x/y/z/source-files
>
> Using just a single option (--objdump-prefix) works, but one how to place source code on machine B to:
> /a/b/c/d/x/y/z/source-files
>
> That's quite cumbersome, thus adding second option, one can strip '/a/b/c/d', with --objdump-prefix-strip=4.
> Still, no ideal, but it's quite flexible. A new 'srcfs' can used as --objdump-prefix, am I right?
I guess so, and yeah, the feature implemented in your patch has value,
thanks for collaborating! It is just that it may fit better as a
complement to the --symfs stuff, that is also for off-box analysis:
--symfs=<directory>::
Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
> Respun version of patch is attached.
Thanks, will wait for further discussion before applying,
- Arnaldo
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
> index e9cd39a..4d2a5be 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
> +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
> @@ -90,6 +90,12 @@ OPTIONS
> --objdump=<path>::
> Path to objdump binary.
>
> +--objdump-prefix=<path>::
> + Specify prefix to add to the absolute paths where objdump looks for source files.
> +
> +--objdump-prefix-strip=<level>::
> + Indicate how many initial directory names to strip off the hardwired absolute paths, passed to objdump. It has no effect without --objdump-prefix.
> +
> --skip-missing::
> Skip symbols that cannot be annotated.
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
> index c33b69f..2b3cb21 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
> +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
> @@ -286,6 +286,12 @@ OPTIONS
> --objdump=<path>::
> Path to objdump binary.
>
> +--objdump-prefix=<path>::
> + Specify prefix to add to the absolute paths where objdump looks for source files.
> +
> +--objdump-prefix-strip=<level>::
> + Indicate how many initial directory names to strip off the hardwired absolute paths, passed to objdump. It has no effect without --objdump-prefix.
> +
> --group::
> Show event group information together.
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
> index 9e5b07eb..2f269e9 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
> +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
> @@ -157,6 +157,16 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
> --asm-raw::
> Show raw instruction encoding of assembly instructions.
>
> +--objdump=<path>::
> + Path to objdump binary.
> +
> +--objdump-prefix=<path>::
> + Specify prefix to add to the absolute paths where objdump looks for source files.
> +
> +--objdump-prefix-strip=<level>::
> + Indicate how many initial directory names to strip off the hardwired absolute paths, passed to objdump. It has no effect without --objdump-prefix.
> +
> +
> -g::
> Enables call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording.
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
> index b57a027..9f0690d 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
> @@ -324,6 +324,11 @@ int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
> "Specify disassembler style (e.g. -M intel for intel syntax)"),
> OPT_STRING(0, "objdump", &objdump_path, "path",
> "objdump binary to use for disassembly and annotations"),
> + OPT_STRING(0, "objdump-prefix", &objdump_prefix_path, "path",
> + "prefix to the absolute paths where objdump looks for source files"),
> + OPT_STRING(0, "objdump-prefix-strip", &objdump_prefix_strip, "level",
> + "Indicate how many initial directory names to strip off the hardwired "
> + "absolute paths, passed to objdump."),
> OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "group", &symbol_conf.event_group,
> "Show event group information together"),
> OPT_END()
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
> index 56025d9..3328fb8 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
> @@ -715,6 +715,11 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
> "add last branch records to call history"),
> OPT_STRING(0, "objdump", &objdump_path, "path",
> "objdump binary to use for disassembly and annotations"),
> + OPT_STRING(0, "objdump-prefix", &objdump_prefix_path, "path",
> + "prefix to the absolute paths where objdump looks for source files"),
> + OPT_STRING(0, "objdump-prefix-strip", &objdump_prefix_strip, "level",
> + "Indicate how many initial directory names to strip off the hardwired "
> + "absolute paths, passed to objdump."),
> OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "demangle", &symbol_conf.demangle,
> "Disable symbol demangling"),
> OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "demangle-kernel", &symbol_conf.demangle_kernel,
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
> index 6b98742..24bdb08 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
> @@ -1150,6 +1150,11 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
> "Enable kernel symbol demangling"),
> OPT_STRING(0, "objdump", &objdump_path, "path",
> "objdump binary to use for disassembly and annotations"),
> + OPT_STRING(0, "objdump-prefix", &objdump_prefix_path, "path",
> + "prefix to the absolute paths where objdump looks for source files"),
> + OPT_STRING(0, "objdump-prefix-strip", &objdump_prefix_strip, "level",
> + "Indicate how many initial directory names to strip off the hardwired "
> + "absolute paths, passed to objdump."),
> OPT_STRING('M', "disassembler-style", &disassembler_style, "disassembler style",
> "Specify disassembler style (e.g. -M intel for intel syntax)"),
> OPT_STRING('u', "uid", &target->uid_str, "user", "user to profile"),
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> index 7f5bdfc..c5373f4 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
>
> const char *disassembler_style;
> const char *objdump_path;
> +const char *objdump_prefix_path;
> +const char *objdump_prefix_strip;
> static regex_t file_lineno;
>
> static struct ins *ins__find(const char *name);
> @@ -1039,12 +1041,16 @@ fallback:
> }
>
> snprintf(command, sizeof(command),
> - "%s %s%s --start-address=0x%016" PRIx64
> + "%s %s%s %s%s %s%s --start-address=0x%016" PRIx64
> " --stop-address=0x%016" PRIx64
> " -l -d %s %s -C %s 2>/dev/null|grep -v %s|expand",
> objdump_path ? objdump_path : "objdump",
> disassembler_style ? "-M " : "",
> disassembler_style ? disassembler_style : "",
> + objdump_prefix_path ? "--prefix=" : "",
> + objdump_prefix_path ? objdump_prefix_path : "",
> + objdump_prefix_strip ? "--prefix-strip=" : "",
> + objdump_prefix_strip ? objdump_prefix_strip : "",
> map__rip_2objdump(map, sym->start),
> map__rip_2objdump(map, sym->end),
> symbol_conf.annotate_asm_raw ? "" : "--no-show-raw",
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.h b/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
> index cadbdc9..fd9782e 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
> @@ -168,5 +168,7 @@ static inline int symbol__tui_annotate(struct symbol *sym __maybe_unused,
> #endif
>
> extern const char *disassembler_style;
> +extern const char *objdump_prefix_path;
> +extern const char *objdump_prefix_strip;
>
> #endif /* __PERF_ANNOTATE_H */
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