[RFC 0/6] perf annotate: Enable cross arch annotate

From: Ravi Bangoria
Date: Fri Jun 24 2016 - 07:54:22 EST


Perf can currently only support code navigation (branches and calls) in
annotate when run on the same architecture where perf.data was recorded.
But cross arch annotate is not supported.

This patchset enables cross arch annotate. Currently I've used x86
and arm instructions which are already available and adding support
for powerpc as well. Adding support for other arch will be easy.

I've created this patch on top of acme/perf/core. And tested it with
x86 and powerpc only.

Example:

Record on powerpc:
$ ./perf record -a

Report -> Annotate on x86:
$ ./perf report -i perf.data.powerpc --vmlinux vmlinux.powerpc

Naveen N. Rao (2):
perf annotate: generalize handling of ret instructions
perf annotate: add powerpc support

Ravi Bangoria (4):
perf: Remove unused hist_entry__annotate function
perf annotate: Define macro for arch names
perf annotate: Enable cross arch annotate
perf: add more triplets

tools/perf/arch/common.c | 53 ++++++----
tools/perf/arch/common.h | 10 ++
tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 2 +-
tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c | 25 ++---
tools/perf/ui/gtk/annotate.c | 6 +-
tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
tools/perf/util/annotate.h | 6 +-
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 7 ++
tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 2 +
tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c | 5 +-
10 files changed, 240 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)

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