linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 03/10] tools, perf, script: Add --insn-trace for instruction decoding

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Message-ID: <20180919203840.GL31812@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:38:40 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:     jolsa@...nel.org, adrian.hunter@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 03/10] tools, perf, script: Add --insn-trace for
 instruction decoding

Em Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 01:02:04PM -0700, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 03:12:47PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:18:27AM -0700, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> > > From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Add a --insn-trace short hand option for decoding and disassembling
> > > instruction streams for intel_pt. This automatically pipes the
> > > output into the xed disassembler to generate disassembled instructions.
> > > This just makes this use model much nicer to use
> > 
> > Would be nice to provide at least an URL to where to find xed, I tried
> > this:
> > 
> > [root@...enth ~]# dnf search xed
> > Last metadata expiration check: 0:25:39 ago on Wed 19 Sep 2018 02:42:36 PM -03.
> > =================================================================================== Name Exactly Matched: xed ====================================================================================
> > xed.i686 : X-Apps [Text] Editor (Cross-DE, backward-compatible, GTK3, traditional UI)
> > xed.x86_64 : X-Apps [Text] Editor (Cross-DE, backward-compatible, GTK3, traditional UI)
> > 
> > https://github.com/intelxed
> > 
> > So I have to install a build system and then install it to then build
> > intelxed?
> 
> Yes that's right.

Sure, so please add this extra info you provided here there, please, to
help speed up testing of your work.

I think this should go in the documentation section as well.
 
> I think some distros have it already packaged.
 
> 
> git clone https://github.com/intelxed/mbuild.git mbuild
> git clone https://github.com/intelxed/xed
> cd xed
> mkdir obj
> cd obj
> ../mfile.py
> sudo ../mfile.py --prefix=/usr/local install
> 
> -Andi