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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 10:40:06 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
Jin Yao <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Martin Vuille <jpmv27@....com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>,
Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/44] perf/core improvements and fixes
* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org> wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> Mostly a 'perf annotate' refactoring to allow reusing the TUI
> formatting routines in a --stdio2 mode for 'perf annotate' that at some
> point should replace --stdio, leaving that old code deprecated for a
> while, then ditching it.
>
> That will take a while yet because there is some stuff in the
> --stdio code that needs to be done in the annotation UI agnostic core to
> then get used in --tui and --stdio2.
>
> There is also some improvements for issues Linus reported in the
> TUI annotation code for ASM functions.
>
> Please consider pulling,
>
> - Arnaldo
>
> Test results at the end of this message, as usual.
>
> The following changes since commit ecd380b8dead1bad67e3af87e2ddfe826c3da79d:
>
> Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.17-20180319' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (2018-03-19 20:37:48 +0100)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-core-for-mingo-4.17-20180323
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 980b68ec0694f250e967cb18c5705ef5de10fdd5:
>
> perf annotate: Use absolute addresses to calculate jump target offsets (2018-03-23 16:46:53 -0300)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/core improvements and fixes:
>
> - Move non-TUI specific annotation routines out of the TUI browser so
> that it can be used in other UIs, and to demonstrate that introduce
> a 'perf annotate --stdio2' option that will apply those formatting
> routines to provide a non-interactive annotation mode (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>
> - Add 'P' hotkey to the annotation TUI, so dump the current annotated
> symbol to a file, easing report thru e-mail, by getting rid of the
> spaces + right hand side scrollbar chars (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>
> - Support --ignore-vmlinux to 'perf report' and 'perf annotate', that
> was already present in 'perf top', to use /proc/{kcore,kallsyms},
> allowing to see what is in fact running (patched stuff, alternatives,
> ftrace, etc), not the initial state of the kernel (vmlinux) (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>
> - Support 'jump' instructions to a different function, treating them
> as 'call' instructions (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>
> - Fix some jump artifacts when using vmlinux + ASM functions, where
> the ELF symtab for instance, for entry_SYSCALL_64 includes that and
> what comes after the 'syscall_return_via_sysret' label, but the
> objdump -dS prints the jump targets + offsets using the
> syscall_return_via_sysret address, which was confusing 'perf annotate'.
> See the cset comments for further info (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
>
> - Report error from dwfl_attach_state() in the unwind code (Martin Vuille)
>
> - Reference Py_None before returning it in the python extension (Petr Machata)
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (42):
> perf annotate: Move annotation_options out of the TUI browser
> perf annotate: Move cycles/IPC formatting width constants outside TUI
> perf annotate tui: Use annotate_browser__cycles_width() mroe
> perf annotate tui: Move have_cycles to struct annotation
> perf annotate: Move annotation_line array from TUI to generic code
> perf annotate: Move compute_ipc() to annotation library
> perf annotate: Move nr_events from annotate_browser to annotation struct
> perf annotate: Stop using a global config struct
> perf annotate: Move pcnt_with() to the annotation library
> perf annotate tui: Add browser__annotation() helper
> perf annotate: Move max_jump_sources to struct annotation
> perf annotate: Move jumps_percent_color to ui_browser
> perf annotate: Move nr_jumps to struct annotation
> perf annotate: Move mark_jump_targets from the TUI to the annotation library
> perf annotate: Nuke struct browser_line
> perf annotate: Move 'start' to struct annotation
> perf annotate: Move nr_{asm_}entries to struct annotation
> perf annotate: Introduce set_offsets() method out of TUI code
> perf annotate: Move the column widths from the TUI to generic lib
> perf annotate: Move update_column_widths() to the generic lib
> perf annotate: Introduce init_column_widths() method out of TUI code
> perf annotate: Introduce symbol__annotate2 method
> perf annotate: Introduce annotation_line__max_percent()
> perf ui browser: Add vprintf() method
> perf annotate: Introduce annotation_line__print_start() out of TUI code
> perf annotate: Finish the generalization of annotate_browser__write()
> perf annotate: Use a ops table for annotation_line__write()
> perf annotate: Introduce annotation_line__filter()
> perf annotate: Introduce the --stdio2 output mode
> perf annotate: Move the default annotate options to the library
> perf annotate: Use the default annotation options for --stdio2
> perf annotate: Add function header to --stdio2
> perf annotate: Introduce --ignore-vmlinux command line option
> perf report: Introduce --ignore-vmlinux command line option
> perf annotate browser: Add 'P' hotkey to dump annotation to file
> perf annotate: No need to calculate notes->start twice
> perf annotate: Pass function descriptor to its instruction parsing routines
> perf annotate: Mark jumps to outher functions with the call arrow
> perf annotate: Add "_local" to jump/offset validation routines
> perf annotate: Support jumping from one function to another
> perf annotate: Defer searching for comma in raw line till it is needed
> perf annotate: Use absolute addresses to calculate jump target offsets
>
> Martin Vuille (1):
> perf unwind: Report error from dwfl_attach_state
>
> Petr Machata (1):
> perf python: Reference Py_None before returning it
>
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt | 5 +
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 3 +
> tools/perf/arch/s390/annotate/instructions.c | 5 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c | 27 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 3 +
> tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/ui/browser.c | 9 +-
> tools/perf/ui/browser.h | 3 +-
> tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c | 686 ++++++---------------------
> tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 679 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> tools/perf/util/annotate.h | 102 +++-
> tools/perf/util/python.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c | 3 +-
> 13 files changed, 944 insertions(+), 587 deletions(-)
Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!
Ingo
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