Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 4 authors, 2016-07-13

Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] perf annotate: add powerpc support

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2016-06-30 06:23:53
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On Thu, 2016-06-30 at 11:44 +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
index 36a5825..b87eac7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
@@ -476,6 +481,125 @@ static int ins__cmp(const void *a, const void *b)
...
+
+static struct ins *ins__find_powerpc(const char *name)
+{
+	int i;
+	struct ins *ins;
+	struct ins_ops *ops;
+	static struct instructions_powerpc head;
+	static bool list_initialized;
+
+	/*
+	 * - Interested only if instruction starts with 'b'.
+	 * - Few start with 'b', but aren't branch instructions.
+	 * - Let's also ignore instructions involving 'ctr' and
+	 *   'tar' since target branch addresses for those can't
+	 *   be determined statically.
+	 */
+	if (name[0] != 'b'             ||
+	    !strncmp(name, "bcd", 3)   ||
+	    !strncmp(name, "brinc", 5) ||
+	    !strncmp(name, "bper", 4)  ||
+	    strstr(name, "ctr")        ||
+	    strstr(name, "tar"))
+		return NULL;
It would be good if 'bctr' was at least recognised as a branch, even if we
can't determine the target. They are very common.

It doesn't look like we have the opcode handy here? Could we get it somehow?
That would make this a *lot* more robust.

cheers
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