Re: [PATCH v2] perf report: distinguish between inliners in the same function

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri May 12 2017 - 10:55:30 EST


Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> I think I'm missing something, but isn't this what this function provides? The
> function above is now being used by the match_chain_inliner function below.
>
> Ah, or do you mean for code such as this:
>
> ~~~~~
> inline_func_1(); inline_func_2();

This could be handled by looking at columns or discriminators too (which
some compilers generate in dwarf). srcline.c would need to be changed
to also call bfd_get_nearest_discriminator() and pass that extra
information everywhere.

-Andi