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When analyzing with 'perf script', it's useful to understand the
captured instruction and the next sequential instruction.
To calculate the address of the next sequential instruction, the length
of the captured instruction is required.
For example, you can’t know the next sequential instruction after an
unconditional branch unless you calculate that based on its length.
For branch stacks, 'perf script' only prints the instruction bytes with
'brstackinsn', but lacks the instruction length.
Add 'brstackinsnlen' to print the instruction length.
$ perf script -F ip,brstackinsn,brstackinsnlen --xed
7fa555be8f75
_start:
00007fa555be8090 mov %rsp, %rdi ilen: 3
00007fa555be8093 callq 0x7fa555be8ea0 ilen: 5 # PRED 102 cycles [102] 0.02 IPC
_dl_start+38:
00007fa555be8ec6 movq %rdx,0x227853(%rip) ilen: 7
00007fa555be8ecd leaq 0x227f94(%rip),%rdx ilen: 7
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ahmad Yasin <ahmad.yasin@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1647871212-184070-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
[ Added the new field to tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.