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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-04-12 15:23:02 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-04-13 10:00:05 -0300
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perf annotate: Allow setting the offset level in .perfconfig
The default is 1 (jump_target): # perf annotate --ignore-vmlinux --stdio2 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave Samples: 3K of event 'cycles:ppp', 3000 Hz, Event count (approx.): 2766398574 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave() /proc/kcore 0.26 nop 4.61 push %rbx 19.33 pushfq 7.97 pop %rax 0.32 nop 0.06 mov %rax,%rbx 14.63 cli 0.06 nop xor %eax,%eax mov $0x1,%edx 49.94 lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi) 0.16 test %eax,%eax ↓ jne 2b 2.66 mov %rbx,%rax pop %rbx ← retq 2b: mov %eax,%esi → callq *ffffffffb30eaed0 mov %rbx,%rax pop %rbx ← retq # But one can ask for showing offsets for call instructions by setting this: # perf annotate --ignore-vmlinux --stdio2 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave Samples: 3K of event 'cycles:ppp', 3000 Hz, Event count (approx.): 2766398574 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave() /proc/kcore 0.26 nop 4.61 push %rbx 19.33 pushfq 7.97 pop %rax 0.32 nop 0.06 mov %rax,%rbx 14.63 cli 0.06 nop xor %eax,%eax mov $0x1,%edx 49.94 lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi) 0.16 test %eax,%eax ↓ jne 2b 2.66 mov %rbx,%rax pop %rbx ← retq 2b: mov %eax,%esi 2d: → callq *ffffffffb30eaed0 mov %rbx,%rax pop %rbx ← retq # Or using a big value to ask for all offsets to be shown: # cat ~/.perfconfig [annotate] offset_level = 100 hide_src_code = true # perf annotate --ignore-vmlinux --stdio2 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave Samples: 3K of event 'cycles:ppp', 3000 Hz, Event count (approx.): 2766398574 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave() /proc/kcore 0.26 0: nop 4.61 5: push %rbx 19.33 6: pushfq 7.97 7: pop %rax 0.32 8: nop 0.06 d: mov %rax,%rbx 14.63 10: cli 0.06 11: nop 17: xor %eax,%eax 19: mov $0x1,%edx 49.94 1e: lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi) 0.16 22: test %eax,%eax 24: ↓ jne 2b 2.66 26: mov %rbx,%rax 29: pop %rbx 2a: ← retq 2b: mov %eax,%esi 2d: → callq *ffffffffb30eaed0 32: mov %rbx,%rax 35: pop %rbx 36: ← retq # This also affects the TUI, i.e. the default 'perf annotate' and 'perf top/report' -> A hotkey -> annotate interfaces, when slang-devel is present in the build, i.e.: # perf version --build-options | grep slang libslang: [ on ] # HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT # Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-venm6x5zrt40eu8hxdsmqxz6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
index 5b4fff3adc4b..32f4a898e3f2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -334,6 +334,11 @@ annotate.*::
99.93 │ mov %eax,%eax
+ annotate.offset_level::
+ Default is '1', meaning just jump targets will have offsets show right beside
+ the instruction. When set to '2' 'call' instructions will also have its offsets
+ shown, 3 or higher will show offsets for all instructions.
+
hist.*::
hist.percentage::
This option control the way to calculate overhead of filtered entries -