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Message-ID: <20150819221147.GK4524@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:11:47 -0700
From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, acme@...hat.com,
peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...e.hu, jolsa@...hat.com,
namhyung@...nel.org, kan.liang@...el.com, dsahern@...il.com,
adrian.hunter@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/4] perf script: enable printing of branch stack
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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