Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] perf annotate: Fix fused instr logic for assembly functions

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Sep 13 2021 - 15:53:39 EST


Em Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 09:54:00AM +0800, Jin, Yao escreveu:
> Hi Arnaldo, Ravi
>
> On 9/12/2021 3:03 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 10:08:53AM +0530, Ravi Bangoria escreveu:
> > > Some x86 microarchitectures fuse a subset of cmp/test/ALU instructions
> > > with branch instructions, and thus perf annotate highlight such valid
> > > pairs as fused.
> >
> > Jin, are you ok with this? Can I have your reviewed-by?
> >
> > - Arnaldo
>
> Oh, my original patch could only handle the case like:
>
> cmp xxx
> je aaa
>
> But it didn't consider Ravi's case something like:
>
> cmp xxx
> cmp yyy
> je aaa
> je bbb
>
> Thanks for Ravi fixing this issue! Backward searching is probably a better solution.
>
> Frankly I can't reproduce Ravi's case, but for my test suite, Ravi's patch works as well.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo