Kim Phillips 4e67b2a5df perf annotate: Fix parsing aarch64 branch instructions after objdump update
Starting with binutils 2.28, aarch64 objdump adds comments to the
disassembly output to show the alternative names of a condition code
[1].

It is assumed that commas in objdump comments could occur in other
arches now or in the future, so this fix is arch-independent.

The fix could have been done with arm64 specific jump__parse and
jump__scnprintf functions, but the jump__scnprintf instruction would
have to have its comment character be a literal, since the scnprintf
functions cannot receive a struct arch easily.

This inconvenience also applies to the generic jump__scnprintf, which is
why we add a raw_comment pointer to struct ins_operands, so the __parse
function assigns it to be re-used by its corresponding __scnprintf
function.

Example differences in 'perf annotate --stdio2' output on an aarch64
perf.data file:

BEFORE: → b.cs   ffff200008133d1c <unwind_frame+0x18c>  // b.hs, dffff7ecc47b
AFTER : ↓ b.cs   18c

BEFORE: → b.cc   ffff200008d8d9cc <get_alloc_profile+0x31c>  // b.lo, b.ul, dffff727295b
AFTER : ↓ b.cc   31c

The branch target labels 18c and 31c also now appear in the output:

BEFORE:        add    x26, x29, #0x80
AFTER : 18c:   add    x26, x29, #0x80

BEFORE:        add    x21, x21, #0x8
AFTER : 31c:   add    x21, x21, #0x8

The Fixes: tag below is added so stable branches will get the update; it
doesn't necessarily mean that commit was broken at the time, rather it
didn't withstand the aarch64 objdump update.

Tested no difference in output for sample x86_64, power arch perf.data files.

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=bb7eff5206e4795ac79c177a80fe9f4630aaf730

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Fixes: b13bbeee5e ("perf annotate: Fix branch instruction with multiple operands")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180827125340.a2f7e291901d17cea05daba4@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-08-30 15:51:54 -03:00
2018-08-12 13:41:04 -07:00

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