Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755854Ab1DALFi (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:05:38 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:58687 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755746Ab1DALFh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:05:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] perf report: add sort by file lines From: Peter Zijlstra To: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Lin Ming , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Frederic Weisbecker , LKML , "2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp" <2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <4D95AC94.1080303@hitachi.com> References: <1301391136.14111.98.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com> <1301392457.4859.74.camel@twins> <1301417155.3620.8.camel@localhost> <1301418183.2250.416.camel@laptop> <1301418404.2250.417.camel@laptop> <1301418533.2250.419.camel@laptop> <20110329174556.GC24129@ghostprotocols.net> <4D92818A.8020405@hitachi.com> <1301561155.14111.288.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com> <1301580117.4859.286.camel@twins> <1301582056.2271.15.camel@localhost> <1301588922.2250.498.camel@laptop> <4D95AC94.1080303@hitachi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:05:03 +0200 Message-ID: <1301655903.4859.494.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 706 Lines: 14 On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 19:44 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > E.g. an indirect jump makes it hard to find where it jumps to. Yes indirect jumps are 'interesting', is there anything in the debug info that will help us out with the possible target sites? Also what generates indirect jumps, switch() stmts? Indirect function call that get optimized might also be, but hopefully DWARF would tell us about that and allow us to know the state right after the jump. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/