Re: [tip:perf/core] perf ui annotate browser: Allow toggling addroffset view

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Apr 14 2012 - 04:46:27 EST



* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Now, fancy arrows etc might be too hard to do (especially
> > without cluttering things up too much), but marking just the
> > targets would already be lovely. IOW, turn this mess:
> >
> >
> > : ffffffff810d7e80 <kmem_cache_free>:
> > 1.91 : ffffffff810d7e80: push %rbp
> > 0.05 : ffffffff810d7e81: mov %rsp,%rbp
> > 2.02 : ffffffff810d7e84: push %r12
> > 0.00 : ffffffff810d7e86: mov %rdi,%r12
> > 0.55 : ffffffff810d7e89: push %rbx
> > 0.00 : ffffffff810d7e8a: mov %rsi,%rdi
> > 1.20 : ffffffff810d7e8d: mov %rsi,%rbx
> > 1.64 : ffffffff810d7e90: callq ffffffff8102a730 <__phys_addr>
> > 0.05 : ffffffff810d7e95: movabs $0xffffea0000000000,%rdi
> > 0.22 : ffffffff810d7e9f: shr $0xc,%rax
> > 0.11 : ffffffff810d7ea3: shl $0x6,%rax
> > 1.64 : ffffffff810d7ea7: lea (%rax,%rdi,1),%rdi
> > 42.80 : ffffffff810d7eab: mov (%rdi),%rax
> > 2.02 : ffffffff810d7eae: test $0x80,%ah
> > 0.00 : ffffffff810d7eb1: jne ffffffff810d7ef6
> > <kmem_cache_free+0x76>
> > 0.22 : ffffffff810d7eb3: mov 0x8(%rbp),%r9
> > 7.14 : ffffffff810d7eb7: mov (%r12),%rax
> > 0.65 : ffffffff810d7ebb: add %gs:0xcb88,%rax
> > 4.58 : ffffffff810d7ec4: mov 0x8(%rax),%rdx
> >
> > (which has tons of unnecessary white-space too - shades of G+) into
>
> Grin ;-)
>
> Yeah, even the : column isn't needed I think.

Such delineators are sometimes useful visually, it emulates a
vertical line and makes it easier for the brain to ignore the
left or right side. We'll fine-tune it.

The occasional color highlighting is useful too, as long as it
is used sparingly.

> > Sure, leave some magic keycombination to get the "full
> > information", but ..
>
> Yeah, we have o to toggle offset view + s to toggle source
> code view, etc.

I suspect the default view should be the 'most intelligent' mode
of assembly output we can offer - with easy toggles for the rare
cases where someone would like to do something special, plus
.perfconfig overrides for those with weird workflows and those
with a taste different from ours.

Thanks,

Ingo
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