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SubjectRe: [PATCH -tip v3 3/6] perf branch trace: print pid and command
On 03/28/11 04:34, Akihiro Nagai wrote:
>> from is sample->ip? to is sample->addr? In the above example
>> 0x39d3015260 is the value from sample->addr, 1526f is sample->ip which
>> resolves to _dl_next_ld_env_entry from /lib64/ld-2.13.so.
> Yes.
> In this example, resolved address is only sample->ip (branch from).
> We need the resolved address of sample->addr (branch to) too, because
> both of them are addresses of execution code.

Ok, now I understand. In that case add conversion of sample->addr to
symbols to perf-script.

>>
>>>
>>> Can perf-script do it by writing scripts?
>>
>> If you are pulling the data from a perf sample then you can accomplish
>> the same goal within perf-script.
> It seems that perf-script doesn't have the interface of converting
> sample->addr to symbol, pid, comm and others. Of course, we can add
> the interface to perf-script, and it could be another way to implement
> this function using perf-script.
> However, since BTS output usually becomes huge, it would be very slow
> to convert all the data by python/perl.

Custom fields are not run through python/perl; they are generated from
C-code. Take a look at tools/perf/builtin-script.c


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