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authorChangbin Du2024-02-17 15:40:46 +0800
committerNamhyung Kim2024-02-20 18:07:34 -0800
commit659663f0bccce884059985d5e43e066419cda4e2 (patch)
tree261442a08f304cdea7bab77473229f16e20e715c /tools/perf
parent6750ba4b6442fa5ea4bf5c0e4b4ff8b0249ef71d (diff)
perf: script: prefer capstone to XED
Now perf can show assembly instructions with libcapstone for x86, and the capstone is better in general. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: changbin.du@gmail.com Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217074046.4100789-6-changbin.du@huawei.com
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt14
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/ui/browsers/res_sample.c2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c2
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt
index 2109690b0d5f..59ab1ff9d75f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt
@@ -115,9 +115,13 @@ toggle respectively.
perf script also supports higher level ways to dump instruction traces:
+ perf script --insn-trace=disasm
+
+or to use the xed disassembler, which requires installing the xed tool
+(see XED below):
+
perf script --insn-trace --xed
-Dump all instructions. This requires installing the xed tool (see XED below)
Dumping all instructions in a long trace can be fairly slow. It is usually better
to start with higher level decoding, like
@@ -130,12 +134,12 @@ or
and then select a time range of interest. The time range can then be examined
in detail with
- perf script --time starttime,stoptime --insn-trace --xed
+ perf script --time starttime,stoptime --insn-trace=disasm
While examining the trace it's also useful to filter on specific CPUs using
the -C option
- perf script --time starttime,stoptime --insn-trace --xed -C 1
+ perf script --time starttime,stoptime --insn-trace=disasm -C 1
Dump all instructions in time range on CPU 1.
@@ -1306,7 +1310,7 @@ Without timestamps, --per-thread must be specified to distinguish threads.
perf script can be used to provide an instruction trace
- $ perf script --guestkallsyms $KALLSYMS --insn-trace --xed -F+ipc | grep -C10 vmresume | head -21
+ $ perf script --guestkallsyms $KALLSYMS --insn-trace=disasm -F+ipc | grep -C10 vmresume | head -21
CPU 0/KVM 1440 ffffffff82133cdd __vmx_vcpu_run+0x3d ([kernel.kallsyms]) movq 0x48(%rax), %r9
CPU 0/KVM 1440 ffffffff82133ce1 __vmx_vcpu_run+0x41 ([kernel.kallsyms]) movq 0x50(%rax), %r10
CPU 0/KVM 1440 ffffffff82133ce5 __vmx_vcpu_run+0x45 ([kernel.kallsyms]) movq 0x58(%rax), %r11
@@ -1407,7 +1411,7 @@ There were none.
'perf script' can be used to provide an instruction trace showing timestamps
- $ perf script -i perf.data.kvm --guestkallsyms $KALLSYMS --insn-trace --xed -F+ipc | grep -C10 vmresume | head -21
+ $ perf script -i perf.data.kvm --guestkallsyms $KALLSYMS --insn-trace=disasm -F+ipc | grep -C10 vmresume | head -21
CPU 1/KVM 17006 [001] 11500.262865593: ffffffff82133cdd __vmx_vcpu_run+0x3d ([kernel.kallsyms]) movq 0x48(%rax), %r9
CPU 1/KVM 17006 [001] 11500.262865593: ffffffff82133ce1 __vmx_vcpu_run+0x41 ([kernel.kallsyms]) movq 0x50(%rax), %r10
CPU 1/KVM 17006 [001] 11500.262865593: ffffffff82133ce5 __vmx_vcpu_run+0x45 ([kernel.kallsyms]) movq 0x58(%rax), %r11
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/res_sample.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/res_sample.c
index 7cb2d6678039..5f60e515b12e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/res_sample.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/res_sample.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ int res_sample_browse(struct res_sample *res_samples, int num_res,
r->tid ? "--tid " : "",
r->tid ? (sprintf(tidbuf, "%d", r->tid), tidbuf) : "",
extra_format,
- rstype == A_ASM ? "-F +insn --xed" :
+ rstype == A_ASM ? "-F +disasm" :
rstype == A_SOURCE ? "-F +srcline,+srccode" : "",
symbol_conf.inline_name ? "--inline" : "",
"--show-lost-events ",
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c
index 50d45054ed6c..e437d7889de6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int list_scripts(char *script_name, bool *custom,
if (evsel)
attr_to_script(scriptc.extra_format, &evsel->core.attr);
add_script_option("Show individual samples", "", &scriptc);
- add_script_option("Show individual samples with assembler", "-F +insn --xed",
+ add_script_option("Show individual samples with assembler", "-F +disasm",
&scriptc);
add_script_option("Show individual samples with source", "-F +srcline,+srccode",
&scriptc);