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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/2] perf report: Support annotation of code without symbols
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On 2/27/2020 9:50 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:22:23AM +0800, Jin Yao escreveu:
>> For perf report on stripped binaries it is currently impossible to do
>> annotation. The annotation state is all tied to symbols, but there are
>> either no symbols, or symbols are not covering all the code.
>>
>> We should support the annotation functionality even without symbols.
>>
>> The first patch uses al_addr to print because it's easy to dump
>> the instructions from this address in binary for branch mode.
>>
>> The second patch supports the annotation on stripped binary.
>
> I'm considering this a new feature, so I'll leave this for perf/core,
> i.e. for the next release, ok?
>

Yes, it's a new feature, so perf/core branch is OK. Thanks! :)

BTW, v3 is old, I just post v5 according to Jiri's comments.

> I'm now going thru the pure fixes that should go to perf/urgent, please
> holler if something you think should go in now is not in my perf/urgent
> branch.
> > - Arnaldo
>

In summary, I have some patch series waiting but I think they can be in
perf/core.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/2/83
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/14/136
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/19/1274
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/26/1348

Following is a fix, maybe it can be in perf/urgent.

"perf stat: Align the output for interval aggregation mode"
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/20/321

Thanks
Jin Yao

>> v3:
>> ---
>> Keep just the ANNOTATION_DUMMY_LEN, and remove the
>> opts->annotate_dummy_len since it's the "maybe in future
>> we will provide" feature.
>>
>> v2:
>> ---
>> Fix a crash issue when annotating an address in "unknown" object.
>>
>> Jin Yao (2):
>> perf util: Print al_addr when symbol is not found
>> Support interactive annotation of code without symbols
>>
>> tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>> tools/perf/util/annotate.h | 1 +
>> tools/perf/util/sort.c | 6 +++--
>> 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>
>

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