linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add an "-m" option to "perf buildid-list".

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Date:   Tue, 10 May 2022 11:12:53 -0700
From:   Blake Jones <blakejones@...gle.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an "-m" option to "perf buildid-list".

Thanks for taking a look at this!

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 9:46 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@...nel.org> wrote:
> Em Tue, May 03, 2022 at 02:37:04PM -0700, Blake Jones escreveu:
> > +-m::
> > +--modules::
> > +     Show buildid, start/end text address, and path of kernel and modules.
>
> Hi,
>
>         Wouldn't it be better to have -m show just modules, name +
> buildid, then have -v show more verbose info, i.e. the start, end and
> switch from just the module name to its full path?
>
>         Then to get what your patch produces now one would use:
>
>         $ perf buildid-list -kmv
>
>         That would be more flexible, wdyt?

I'm open to using "-v" like this if you think it would be useful; is
there a use case you have in mind for the non-verbose mode? For doing
external symbolization of stack traces, the BuildID isn't useful without
also knowing the starting and ending addresses.

If "-m" only showed information about modules and not about the kernel,
then "perf buildid-list -km" (without "-v") would have different output
formats for the kernel and for the modules. So I'm inclined to have "-m"
include information about the kernel as well as the modules.

How does that sound?

Blake