Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Dump callchain context marker names
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Jan 13 2026 - 15:33:48 EST
On Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 04:18:37AM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2026 at 4:16 AM James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > These are hard to interpret in the raw output because they are printed
> > as hex but are defined in perf_event.h as decimal. Make it much easier
> > to read the raw callchains by just printing their names.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > $ perf report -D
> >
> > 1798195372321 0x4638 [0xb0]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4002): 44922/44922: 0x7c8046dd3400 period: 120218 addr: 0
> > ... FP chain: nr:12
> > ..... 0: fffffffffffffe00 (PERF_CONTEXT_USER)
> > ..... 1: 00007c8046dd3400
> > ..... 2: 00007c8046db86d3
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks, applied to perf-tools-next,
- Arnaldo