Re: [PATCH] scripts/faddr2line: show the code context

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue May 29 2018 - 12:03:45 EST


On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 03:23:25PM +0800, changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Inspired by gdb command 'list', show the code context of target lines.
> Here is a example:
>
> $ scripts/faddr2line vmlinux native_write_msr+0x6
> native_write_msr+0x6/0x20:
> arch_static_branch at arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:105
> 100 return EAX_EDX_VAL(val, low, high);
> 101 }
> 102
> 103 static inline void notrace __wrmsr(unsigned int msr, u32 low, u32 high)
> 104 {
> 105 asm volatile("1: wrmsr\n"
> 106 "2:\n"
> 107 _ASM_EXTABLE_HANDLE(1b, 2b, ex_handler_wrmsr_unsafe)
> 108 : : "c" (msr), "a"(low), "d" (high) : "memory");
> 109 }
> 110
> (inlined by) static_key_false at include/linux/jump_label.h:142
> 137 #define JUMP_TYPE_LINKED 2UL
> 138 #define JUMP_TYPE_MASK 3UL
> 139
> 140 static __always_inline bool static_key_false(struct static_key *key)
> 141 {
> 142 return arch_static_branch(key, false);
> 143 }
> 144
> 145 static __always_inline bool static_key_true(struct static_key *key)
> 146 {
> 147 return !arch_static_branch(key, true);
> (inlined by) native_write_msr at arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:150
> 145 static inline void notrace
> 146 native_write_msr(unsigned int msr, u32 low, u32 high)
> 147 {
> 148 __wrmsr(msr, low, high);
> 149
> 150 if (msr_tracepoint_active(__tracepoint_write_msr))
> 151 do_trace_write_msr(msr, ((u64)high << 32 | low), 0);
> 152 }
> 153
> 154 /* Can be uninlined because referenced by paravirt */
> 155 static inline int notrace

Not a fan of this :-/ And you didn't even make it optional. Nor did you
Cc the original author of the tool.