Hello, Any update on this?
-Ravi On Friday 19 August 2016 06:29 PM, Ravi Bangoria wrote: > Currently Perf annotate support code navigation (branches and calls) > only when run on the same architecture where perf.data was recorded. > But, for example, record on powerpc server and annotate on client's > x86 desktop is not supported. > > This patchset enables cross arch annotate. Currently I've used x86 > and arm instructions which are already available and added support > for powerpc. > > Additionally this patch series also contains few other related fixes. > > Patches are prepared on top of acme/perf/core and tested it with x86 > and powerpc only. > > Note for arm: > I don't have arm test machine. As suggested by Russell in one of the > review comment, I've copied all instructions from default table to > arm table. This way it want break tool on arm but cleanup is needed > for x86 specific instructions added in arm table. > > Example: > > Record on powerpc: > $ ./perf record -a > > Report -> Annotate on x86: > $ ./perf report -i perf.data.powerpc --vmlinux vmlinux.powerpc > > Changes in v6: > - Instead of adding only those instructions defined in #ifdef __arm__, > add all instructions from default table to arm table. > > v5 link: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/19/35 > > Naveen N. Rao (1): > perf annotate: Add support for powerpc > > Ravi Bangoria (6): > perf: Define macro for normalized arch names > perf annotate: Add cross arch annotate support > perf annotate: Do not ignore call instruction with indirect target > perf annotate: Show raw form for jump instruction with indirect target > perf annotate: Support jump instruction with target as second operand > perf annotate: Fix jump target outside of function address range > > tools/perf/arch/common.c | 36 ++-- > tools/perf/arch/common.h | 11 ++ > tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 2 +- > tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c | 8 +- > tools/perf/ui/gtk/annotate.c | 2 +- > tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 330 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ > tools/perf/util/annotate.h | 10 +- > tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c | 4 +- > 8 files changed, 327 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-) >