Re: how to use perf annotate on the kernel

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 09:20:39PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:18:04PM +0200, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> > perf annotate __lock_acquire -k /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/vmlinux
> > build id event received for [kernel.kallsyms]:
> > 5c110a704293a259fbe11158dc1b25107ad7a23e
> > build id event received for
> > /lib/modules/2.6.35-rc1-tip/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/mperf.ko:
> > cb5
> > build id event received for
> > /lib/modules/2.6.35-rc1-tip/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.ko:
> > cdb5
> > Using /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/vmlinux for symbols
> > hist_entry__inc_addr_samples: ip=0xffffffff81073b36
> > 0xffffffff81073b30 __lock_acquire: period++ [ip: 0xffffffff81073b36, 0x6] => 1
> > hist_entry__inc_addr_samples: ip=0xffffffff81073c94
> > 
> > But in the end I get:
> > objdump: '[kernel.kallsyms]': No such file
> 
> Reproduced, working on it now. I've been testing only with vmlinux in
> the path it searches for, not by directly specifying it, will get that
> fixed, thanks,

Should be fixed by this patch:

[root@emilia ~]# perf annotate -k /lib/modules/2.6.35-rc1/build/vmlinux.OFF n_tty_write | head -50


------------------------------------------------
 Percent |	Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux.OFF
------------------------------------------------
         :
         :
         :
         :	Disassembly of section .text:
         :
         :	ffffffff81288820 <n_tty_write>:
         :	 *                lock themselves)
         :	 */
         :
         :	static ssize_t n_tty_write(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
         :	                           const unsigned char *buf, size_t nr)
         :	{
    0.00 :	ffffffff81288820:       41 57                   push   %r15
         :
         :	DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, current_task);
         :
         :	static __always_inline struct task_struct *get_current(void)
         :	{
         :	        return percpu_read_stable(current_task);
    0.00 :	ffffffff81288822:       65 48 8b 04 25 40 cc    mov    %gs:0xcc40,%rax
    0.00 :	ffffffff81288829:       00 00 
    0.00 :	ffffffff8128882b:       41 56                   push   %r14
    0.00 :	ffffffff8128882d:       41 55                   push   %r13
    0.00 :	ffffffff8128882f:       49 89 cd                mov    %rcx,%r13
    0.00 :	ffffffff81288832:       41 54                   push   %r12
    0.00 :	ffffffff81288834:       49 89 d4                mov    %rdx,%r12
    0.00 :	ffffffff81288837:       55                      push   %rbp
    0.00 :	ffffffff81288838:       48 89 f5                mov    %rsi,%rbp
    0.00 :	ffffffff8128883b:       53                      push   %rbx
    0.00 :	ffffffff8128883c:       48 89 fb                mov    %rdi,%rbx
    0.00 :	ffffffff8128883f:       48 83 ec 58             sub    $0x58,%rsp
         :	        const unsigned char *b = buf;
         :	        DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
    0.00 :	ffffffff81288843:       48 c7 44 24 20 00 00    movq   $0x0,0x20(%rsp)
    0.00 :	ffffffff8128884a:       00 00 
    7.14 :	ffffffff8128884c:       48 c7 44 24 38 00 00    movq   $0x0,0x38(%rsp)
    0.00 :	ffffffff81288853:       00 00 
    0.00 :	ffffffff81288855:       48 c7 44 24 40 00 00    movq   $0x0,0x40(%rsp)
    0.00 :	ffffffff8128885c:       00 00 
    7.14 :	ffffffff8128885e:       48 89 44 24 28          mov    %rax,0x28(%rsp)
    0.00 :	ffffffff81288863:       48 c7 44 24 30 30 49    movq   $0xffffffff81044930,0x30(%rsp)
    0.00 :	ffffffff8128886a:       04 81 
         :	        int c;
         :	        ssize_t retval = 0;
         :
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