perf annotate: Do not ignore call instruction with indirect target
authorRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:59:35 +0000 (18:29 +0530)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:28:29 +0000 (12:28 -0300)
Do not ignore call instruction with indirect target when its already
identified as a call. This is an extension of commit e8ea1561952b ("perf
annotate: Use raw form for register indirect call instructions") to
generalize annotation for all instructions with indirect calls.

This is needed for certain powerpc call instructions that use address in
a register (such as bctrl, btarl, ...).

Apart from that, when kcore is used to disassemble function, all call
instructions were ignored. This patch will fix it as a side effect by
not ignoring them. For example,

Before (with kcore):
       mov    %r13,%rdi
       callq  0xffffffff811a7e70
     ^ jmpq   64
       mov    %gs:0x7ef41a6e(%rip),%al

After (with kcore):
       mov    %r13,%rdi
     > callq  0xffffffff811a7e70
     ^ jmpq   64
       mov    %gs:0x7ef41a6e(%rip),%al

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
[Suggested about 'bctrl' instruction]
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chris Riyder <chris.ryder@arm.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471611578-11255-5-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/annotate.c

index 7a80c73..60e915f 100644 (file)
@@ -82,16 +82,12 @@ static int call__parse(struct ins_operands *ops)
        return ops->target.name == NULL ? -1 : 0;
 
 indirect_call:
-       tok = strchr(endptr, '(');
-       if (tok != NULL) {
+       tok = strchr(endptr, '*');
+       if (tok == NULL) {
                ops->target.addr = 0;
                return 0;
        }
 
-       tok = strchr(endptr, '*');
-       if (tok == NULL)
-               return -1;
-
        ops->target.addr = strtoull(tok + 1, NULL, 16);
        return 0;
 }