linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf annotate: Handle x86 instruction suffix generally

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Message-ID: <b054012a-94ee-fb86-da35-d3359b8b4683@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 May 2023 09:11:23 +0300
From:   Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
To:     Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf annotate: Handle x86 instruction suffix
 generally

On 24/05/23 08:28, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Most of x86 instructions can have size suffix like b, w, l or q.

(AT&T mnemonics)

> Instead of adding all these instructions in the table, we can handle
> them in a general way.  For example, it can try to find an instruction
> as is.  If not found, it'd try again without the suffix if it's one of
> the allowed suffixes.

I guess it might be possible that xyz is in the table but xyz<suffix>
is a completely different instruction?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> index b708bbc49c9e..7f05f2a2aa83 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ struct arch {
>  	struct ins_ops  *(*associate_instruction_ops)(struct arch *arch, const char *name);
>  	bool		sorted_instructions;
>  	bool		initialized;
> +	const char	*insn_suffix;
>  	void		*priv;
>  	unsigned int	model;
>  	unsigned int	family;
> @@ -179,6 +180,7 @@ static struct arch architectures[] = {
>  		.init = x86__annotate_init,
>  		.instructions = x86__instructions,
>  		.nr_instructions = ARRAY_SIZE(x86__instructions),
> +		.insn_suffix = "bwlq",
>  		.objdump =  {
>  			.comment_char = '#',
>  		},
> @@ -720,6 +722,26 @@ static struct ins_ops *__ins__find(struct arch *arch, const char *name)
>  	}
>  
>  	ins = bsearch(name, arch->instructions, nmemb, sizeof(struct ins), ins__key_cmp);
> +	if (ins)
> +		return ins->ops;
> +
> +	if (arch->insn_suffix) {
> +		char tmp[32];
> +		char suffix;
> +		size_t len = strlen(name);
> +
> +		if (len == 0 || len >= sizeof(tmp))
> +			return NULL;
> +
> +		suffix = name[len - 1];
> +		if (strchr(arch->insn_suffix, suffix) == NULL)
> +			return NULL;
> +
> +		strcpy(tmp, name);
> +		tmp[len - 1] = '\0'; /* remove the suffix and check again */
> +
> +		ins = bsearch(tmp, arch->instructions, nmemb, sizeof(struct ins), ins__key_cmp);
> +	}
>  	return ins ? ins->ops : NULL;
>  }
>