[PATCH 3/3] perf: script: Deprecate the '--xed' option

From: Changbin Du
Date: Fri Sep 09 2022 - 04:57:32 EST


Now perf can show assembly instructions with libcapstone for both x86 and
Arm. So the old '--xed' option should not be used.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/build-xed.txt | 19 -------------------
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt | 17 +++++------------
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt | 5 ++---
tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt | 2 +-
tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 7 ++-----
tools/perf/ui/browsers/res_sample.c | 2 +-
tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c | 4 ++--
7 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/build-xed.txt

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/build-xed.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/build-xed.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6222c1e7231f..000000000000
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/build-xed.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-
-For --xed the xed tool is needed. Here is how to install it:
-
- $ git clone https://github.com/intelxed/mbuild.git mbuild
- $ git clone https://github.com/intelxed/xed
- $ cd xed
- $ ./mfile.py --share
- $ ./mfile.py examples
- $ sudo ./mfile.py --prefix=/usr/local install
- $ sudo ldconfig
- $ sudo cp obj/examples/xed /usr/local/bin
-
-Basic xed testing:
-
- $ xed | head -3
- ERROR: required argument(s) were missing
- Copyright (C) 2017, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
- XED version: [v10.0-328-g7d62c8c49b7b]
- $
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt
index 3dc3f0ccbd51..2a598927f36c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt
@@ -115,9 +115,8 @@ toggle respectively.

perf script also supports higher level ways to dump instruction traces:

- perf script --insn-trace --xed
+ perf script --insn-trace

-Dump all instructions. This requires installing the xed tool (see XED below)
Dumping all instructions in a long trace can be fairly slow. It is usually better
to start with higher level decoding, like

@@ -130,12 +129,12 @@ or
and then select a time range of interest. The time range can then be examined
in detail with

- perf script --time starttime,stoptime --insn-trace --xed
+ perf script --time starttime,stoptime --insn-trace

While examining the trace it's also useful to filter on specific CPUs using
the -C option

- perf script --time starttime,stoptime --insn-trace --xed -C 1
+ perf script --time starttime,stoptime --insn-trace -C 1

Dump all instructions in time range on CPU 1.

@@ -1212,12 +1211,6 @@ To display PEBS events from the Intel PT trace, use the itrace 'o' option e.g.

perf script --itrace=oe

-XED
----
-
-include::build-xed.txt[]
-
-
Tracing Virtual Machines (kernel only)
--------------------------------------

@@ -1275,7 +1268,7 @@ Without timestamps, --per-thread must be specified to distinguish threads.

perf script can be used to provide an instruction trace

- $ perf script --guestkallsyms $KALLSYMS --insn-trace --xed -F+ipc | grep -C10 vmresume | head -21
+ $ perf script --guestkallsyms $KALLSYMS --insn-trace -F+ipc | grep -C10 vmresume | head -21
CPU 0/KVM 1440 ffffffff82133cdd __vmx_vcpu_run+0x3d ([kernel.kallsyms]) movq 0x48(%rax), %r9
CPU 0/KVM 1440 ffffffff82133ce1 __vmx_vcpu_run+0x41 ([kernel.kallsyms]) movq 0x50(%rax), %r10
CPU 0/KVM 1440 ffffffff82133ce5 __vmx_vcpu_run+0x45 ([kernel.kallsyms]) movq 0x58(%rax), %r11
@@ -1376,7 +1369,7 @@ There were none.

'perf script' can be used to provide an instruction trace showing timestamps

- $ perf script -i perf.data.kvm --guestkallsyms $KALLSYMS --insn-trace --xed -F+ipc | grep -C10 vmresume | head -21
+ $ perf script -i perf.data.kvm --guestkallsyms $KALLSYMS --insn-trace -F+ipc | grep -C10 vmresume | head -21
CPU 1/KVM 17006 [001] 11500.262865593: ffffffff82133cdd __vmx_vcpu_run+0x3d ([kernel.kallsyms]) movq 0x48(%rax), %r9
CPU 1/KVM 17006 [001] 11500.262865593: ffffffff82133ce1 __vmx_vcpu_run+0x41 ([kernel.kallsyms]) movq 0x50(%rax), %r10
CPU 1/KVM 17006 [001] 11500.262865593: ffffffff82133ce5 __vmx_vcpu_run+0x45 ([kernel.kallsyms]) movq 0x58(%rax), %r11
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
index 68e37de5fae4..5929f44d24fc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
@@ -439,11 +439,10 @@ include::itrace.txt[]
default, disable with --no-inline.

--insn-trace::
- Show instruction stream for intel_pt traces. Combine with --xed to
- show disassembly.
+ Show instruction stream for intel_pt traces.

--xed::
- Run xed disassembler on output. Requires installing the xed disassembler.
+ Run xed disassembler on output. (deprecated)

-S::
--symbols=symbol[,symbol...]::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt
index 825745a645c1..5e1182514730 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ To see callchains in a more compact form: perf report -g folded
Show individual samples with: perf script
Limit to show entries above 5% only: perf report --percent-limit 5
Profiling branch (mis)predictions with: perf record -b / perf report
-To show assembler sample contexts use perf record -b / perf script -F +brstackinsn --xed
+To show assembler sample contexts use perf record -b / perf script -F +brstackinsn
Treat branches as callchains: perf report --branch-history
To count events in every 1000 msec: perf stat -I 1000
Print event counts in CSV format with: perf stat -x,
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
index 2c7b4631f1d7..dcc4bab9ff36 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
@@ -3721,10 +3721,7 @@ static int parse_xed(const struct option *opt __maybe_unused,
const char *str __maybe_unused,
int unset __maybe_unused)
{
- if (isatty(1))
- force_pager("xed -F insn: -A -64 | less");
- else
- force_pager("xed -F insn: -A -64");
+ pr_warning("xed option is deprecated\n");
return 0;
}

@@ -3857,7 +3854,7 @@ int cmd_script(int argc, const char **argv)
OPT_CALLBACK_OPTARG(0, "insn-trace", &itrace_synth_opts, NULL, NULL,
"Decode instructions from itrace", parse_insn_trace),
OPT_CALLBACK_OPTARG(0, "xed", NULL, NULL, NULL,
- "Run xed disassembler on output", parse_xed),
+ "Run xed disassembler on output (deprecated)", parse_xed),
OPT_CALLBACK_OPTARG(0, "call-trace", &itrace_synth_opts, NULL, NULL,
"Decode calls from itrace", parse_call_trace),
OPT_CALLBACK_OPTARG(0, "call-ret-trace", &itrace_synth_opts, NULL, NULL,
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/res_sample.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/res_sample.c
index 7cb2d6678039..382f1fb07a73 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/res_sample.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/res_sample.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ int res_sample_browse(struct res_sample *res_samples, int num_res,
r->tid ? "--tid " : "",
r->tid ? (sprintf(tidbuf, "%d", r->tid), tidbuf) : "",
extra_format,
- rstype == A_ASM ? "-F +insn --xed" :
+ rstype == A_ASM ? "-F +insn" :
rstype == A_SOURCE ? "-F +srcline,+srccode" : "",
symbol_conf.inline_name ? "--inline" : "",
"--show-lost-events ",
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c
index 47d2c7a8cbe1..056c51a95712 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ void attr_to_script(char *extra_format, struct perf_event_attr *attr)
if (attr->read_format & PERF_FORMAT_GROUP)
strcat(extra_format, " -F +metric");
if (attr->sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK)
- strcat(extra_format, " -F +brstackinsn --xed");
+ strcat(extra_format, " -F +brstackinsn");
if (attr->sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR)
strcat(extra_format, " -F +iregs");
if (attr->sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER)
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int list_scripts(char *script_name, bool *custom,
if (evsel)
attr_to_script(scriptc.extra_format, &evsel->core.attr);
add_script_option("Show individual samples", "", &scriptc);
- add_script_option("Show individual samples with assembler", "-F +insn --xed",
+ add_script_option("Show individual samples with assembler", "-F +insn",
&scriptc);
add_script_option("Show individual samples with source", "-F +srcline,+srccode",
&scriptc);
--
2.17.1