Re: [PATCH v1 4/4] perf script: enable printing of branch stack

[Stephane Eranian]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:38:26AM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> This patch improves perf script by enabling printing of the
>> branch stack via the 'brstack' argument to the field selection
>> option -F. The option is off by default and operates only if the
>> perf.data file has branch stack content.
>
> Thanks that's very useful. I wanted that several times.
>>
>> +static void print_sample_brstack(union perf_event *event __maybe_unused,
>> +                       struct perf_sample *sample,
>> +                       struct thread *thread __maybe_unused,
>> +                       struct perf_event_attr *attr __maybe_unused)
>> +{
>> +     struct branch_stack *br = sample->branch_stack;
>> +     u64 i;
>> +
>> +     if (!(br && br->nr))
>> +             return;
>> +
>> +     for (i = 0; i < br->nr; i++) {
>> +             printf(" 0x%"PRIx64"/0x%"PRIx64" ", br->entries[i].from, br->entries[i].to);
>
> Should print the various flags too. Also tip just added cycles information.
>
Ok, I will add that in v2.

> Also it would be good to resolve the addresses to symbol + offset

But then, that becomes harder to post-process or even read with long
C++ signatures.

> (and perhaps have support for srcline too).
>
>
> -Andi
> --
> ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only
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