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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>2013-03-05 14:53:22 +0900
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-03-15 13:06:04 -0300
commit3aec150af3de6c00570bdacf45bf5a999ab9cf1d (patch)
tree099309e8a56a39fca45d7e466e49d198f7d7fbbe /tools/perf/util/annotate.c
parentdb8fd07a541fc2d5e8076f0151286e19591465b3 (diff)
perf annotate: Add a comment on the symbol__parse_objdump_line()
The symbol__parse_objdump_line() parses result of the objdump run but it's hard to follow if one doesn't know the output format of the objdump. Add a head comment on the function to help her. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362462812-30885-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/annotate.c')
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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
index 7eac5f0895ee..fa347b169e27 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
@@ -689,6 +689,26 @@ static int disasm_line__print(struct disasm_line *dl, struct symbol *sym, u64 st
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * symbol__parse_objdump_line() parses objdump output (with -d --no-show-raw)
+ * which looks like following
+ *
+ * 0000000000415500 <_init>:
+ * 415500: sub $0x8,%rsp
+ * 415504: mov 0x2f5ad5(%rip),%rax # 70afe0 <_DYNAMIC+0x2f8>
+ * 41550b: test %rax,%rax
+ * 41550e: je 415515 <_init+0x15>
+ * 415510: callq 416e70 <__gmon_start__@plt>
+ * 415515: add $0x8,%rsp
+ * 415519: retq
+ *
+ * it will be parsed and saved into struct disasm_line as
+ * <offset> <name> <ops.raw>
+ *
+ * The offset will be a relative offset from the start of the symbol and -1
+ * means that it's not a disassembly line so should be treated differently.
+ * The ops.raw part will be parsed further according to type of the instruction.
+ */
static int symbol__parse_objdump_line(struct symbol *sym, struct map *map,
FILE *file, size_t privsize)
{