Re: [PATCH v2] perf annotate: Add itrace options support

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Jun 11 2021 - 11:52:56 EST


Em Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 10:59:18AM +0800, Yang Jihong escreveu:
> The "auxtrace_info" and "auxtrace" functions are not set in "tool" member of
> "annotate". As a result, perf annotate does not support parsing itrace data.
>
> A simple example is as follows:
>
> # perf record -e arm_spe_0/branch_filter=1/ -a sleep 1
> [ perf record: Woken up 9 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 20.874 MB perf.data ]
> # perf annotate --stdio
> Error:
> The perf.data data has no samples!
>
> Solution:
> 1.Add itrace options in help,
> 2.Set hook functions of "auxtrace_info" and "auxtrace" in perf_tool.

So, while we wait for someone to ack/review this, please send a v2
updating tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt to have references
to these new 'perf annotate' options.

It all looks ok, so if nobody chimes in, I'll process v2 on my own.

Thanks,

- Arnaldo

> Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Adjust spaces to maintain alignment in "tool".
>
> tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
> index 49627a7bed7c..8f87658eff31 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
> @@ -474,6 +474,8 @@ int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv)
> .attr = perf_event__process_attr,
> .build_id = perf_event__process_build_id,
> .tracing_data = perf_event__process_tracing_data,
> + .auxtrace_info = perf_event__process_auxtrace_info,
> + .auxtrace = perf_event__process_auxtrace,
> .feature = process_feature_event,
> .ordered_events = true,
> .ordering_requires_timestamps = true,
> @@ -483,6 +485,9 @@ int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv)
> struct perf_data data = {
> .mode = PERF_DATA_MODE_READ,
> };
> + struct itrace_synth_opts itrace_synth_opts = {
> + .set = 0,
> + };
> struct option options[] = {
> OPT_STRING('i', "input", &input_name, "file",
> "input file name"),
> @@ -547,6 +552,9 @@ int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv)
> OPT_CALLBACK(0, "percent-type", &annotate.opts, "local-period",
> "Set percent type local/global-period/hits",
> annotate_parse_percent_type),
> + OPT_CALLBACK_OPTARG(0, "itrace", &itrace_synth_opts, NULL, "opts",
> + "Instruction Tracing options\n" ITRACE_HELP,
> + itrace_parse_synth_opts),
>
> OPT_END()
> };
> @@ -591,6 +599,8 @@ int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv)
> if (IS_ERR(annotate.session))
> return PTR_ERR(annotate.session);
>
> + annotate.session->itrace_synth_opts = &itrace_synth_opts;
> +
> annotate.has_br_stack = perf_header__has_feat(&annotate.session->header,
> HEADER_BRANCH_STACK);
>
> --
> 2.30.GIT
>

--

- Arnaldo