Re: [PATCH 00/21] perf, c2c: Add new tool to analyze cacheline contention on NUMA systems

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Feb 11 2014 - 05:52:32 EST


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:35:45AM +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > That blows; how much is missing?
>
> They need to annotate load and stores. I asked for that feature a while ago.
> It will come.

And there is no way to deduce the information? We have type information
for all arguments and local variables, right? So we can follow that.

struct foo {
int ponies;
int moar_ponies;
};

struct bar {
int my_ponies;
struct foo *foo;
};

int moo(struct bar *bar)
{
return bar->foo->moar_ponies;
}

Since we have the argument type, we can find the type for both loads,
the first load:

*bar+8, we know is: struct foo * bar::foo
*foo+4, we know is: int foo::moar_ponies

Or am I missing something?
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