Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] perf annotate: Cross arch support + few fixes

From: Ravi Bangoria <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 20:58:33 +0530

Hello,

Any updates?

Arnaldo, if patches looks good to you, can you please pickup them.

-Ravi

On Wednesday 21 September 2016 09:17 PM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> Currently Perf annotate support code navigation (branches and calls)
> only when run on the same architecture where perf.data was recorded.
> But, for example, record on powerpc server and annotate on client's
> x86 desktop is not supported.
>
> This patchset adds supports for that.
>
> Example:
>
>   Record on powerpc:
>   $ ./perf record -a
>
>   Report -> Annotate on x86:
>   $ ./perf report -i perf.data.powerpc --vmlinux vmlinux.powerpc
>
> Changes in v7:
>   - Using string for normalized arch names instread of macros.(i.e.
>     removed patch 1/7 of v6)
>   - In patch 1/6, make norm_arch as global var instead of passing them
>     to each parser.
>   - In patch 1/6 and 6/6, little bit change in initializing instruction
>     list.
>   - patch 4/7 of v6 is already accepted. Removed that in v7.
>   - Address other review comments.
>   - Added more examples in patch descriptions.
>
> v6 link:
>   https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/19/411
>
> Kim, I don't have arm test machine. Can you please help me to test
> this on arm.
>
>
> Kim Phillips (1):
>   perf annotate: cross arch annotate support fixes for ARM
>
> Naveen N. Rao (1):
>   perf annotate: Add support for powerpc
>
> Ravi Bangoria (4):
>   perf annotate: Add cross arch annotate support
>   perf annotate: Show raw form for jump instruction with indirect target
>   perf annotate: Support jump instruction with target as second operand
>   perf annotate: Fix jump target outside of function address range
>
>  tools/perf/builtin-top.c          |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c |   8 +-
>  tools/perf/ui/gtk/annotate.c      |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.c        | 259 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.h        |   8 +-
>  5 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
>