[PATCH v5 3/7] perf annotate: Add support for powerpc

Ravi Bangoria ravi.bangoria at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Aug 19 15:29:02 AEST 2016


From: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Current perf can disassemble annotated function but it does not have
parsing logic for powerpc instructions. So all navigation options are
not available for powerpc.

Apart from that, Powerpc has long list of branch instructions and
hardcoding them in table appears to be error-prone. So, add function
to find instruction instead of creating table. This function dynamically
create table (list of 'struct ins'), and instead of creating object
every time, first check if list already contain object for that
instruction.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Changes in v5:
  - Removed hacks for instructions like bctr and bctrl from this patch.

 tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 116 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
index deb9af0..0b64841 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
@@ -459,6 +459,11 @@ static struct ins instructions_arm[] = {
 	{ .name = "bne",   .ops  = &jump_ops, },
 };
 
+struct instructions_powerpc {
+	struct ins *ins;
+	struct list_head list;
+};
+
 static int ins__key_cmp(const void *name, const void *insp)
 {
 	const struct ins *ins = insp;
@@ -474,6 +479,115 @@ static int ins__cmp(const void *a, const void *b)
 	return strcmp(ia->name, ib->name);
 }
 
+static struct ins *list_add__ins_powerpc(struct instructions_powerpc *head,
+					 const char *name, struct ins_ops *ops)
+{
+	struct instructions_powerpc *ins_powerpc;
+	struct ins *ins;
+
+	ins = zalloc(sizeof(struct ins));
+	if (!ins)
+		return NULL;
+
+	ins_powerpc = zalloc(sizeof(struct instructions_powerpc));
+	if (!ins_powerpc)
+		goto out_free_ins;
+
+	ins->name = strdup(name);
+	if (!ins->name)
+		goto out_free_ins_power;
+
+	ins->ops = ops;
+	ins_powerpc->ins = ins;
+	list_add_tail(&(ins_powerpc->list), &(head->list));
+
+	return ins;
+
+out_free_ins_power:
+	zfree(&ins_powerpc);
+out_free_ins:
+	zfree(&ins);
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static struct ins *list_search__ins_powerpc(struct instructions_powerpc *head,
+					    const char *name)
+{
+	struct instructions_powerpc *pos;
+
+	list_for_each_entry(pos, &head->list, list) {
+		if (!strcmp(pos->ins->name, name))
+			return pos->ins;
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static struct ins *ins__find_powerpc(const char *name)
+{
+	int i;
+	struct ins *ins;
+	struct ins_ops *ops;
+	static struct instructions_powerpc head;
+	static bool list_initialized;
+
+	/*
+	 * - Interested only if instruction starts with 'b'.
+	 * - Few start with 'b', but aren't branch instructions.
+	 */
+	if (name[0] != 'b'             ||
+	    !strncmp(name, "bcd", 3)   ||
+	    !strncmp(name, "brinc", 5) ||
+	    !strncmp(name, "bper", 4))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (!list_initialized) {
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&head.list);
+		list_initialized = true;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Return if we already have object of 'struct ins' for this instruction
+	 */
+	ins = list_search__ins_powerpc(&head, name);
+	if (ins)
+		return ins;
+
+	ops = &jump_ops;
+
+	i = strlen(name) - 1;
+	if (i < 0)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* ignore optional hints at the end of the instructions */
+	if (name[i] == '+' || name[i] == '-')
+		i--;
+
+	if (name[i] == 'l' || (name[i] == 'a' && name[i-1] == 'l')) {
+		/*
+		 * if the instruction ends up with 'l' or 'la', then
+		 * those are considered 'calls' since they update LR.
+		 * ... except for 'bnl' which is branch if not less than
+		 * and the absolute form of the same.
+		 */
+		if (strcmp(name, "bnl") && strcmp(name, "bnl+") &&
+		    strcmp(name, "bnl-") && strcmp(name, "bnla") &&
+		    strcmp(name, "bnla+") && strcmp(name, "bnla-"))
+			ops = &call_ops;
+	}
+	if (name[i] == 'r' && name[i-1] == 'l')
+		/*
+		 * instructions ending with 'lr' are considered to be
+		 * return instructions
+		 */
+		ops = &ret_ops;
+
+	/*
+	 * Add instruction to list so next time no need to
+	 * allocate memory for it.
+	 */
+	return list_add__ins_powerpc(&head, name, ops);
+}
+
 static void ins__sort(struct ins *instructions, int nmemb)
 {
 	qsort(instructions, nmemb, sizeof(struct ins), ins__cmp);
@@ -509,6 +623,8 @@ static struct ins *ins__find(const char *name, const char *norm_arch)
 	} else if (!strcmp(norm_arch, NORM_ARM)) {
 		instructions = instructions_arm;
 		nmemb = ARRAY_SIZE(instructions_arm);
+	} else if (!strcmp(norm_arch, NORM_POWERPC)) {
+		return ins__find_powerpc(name);
 	} else {
 		pr_err("perf annotate not supported by %s arch\n", norm_arch);
 		return NULL;
-- 
2.5.5



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