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perf annotate browser: Add visual cues on jump lines

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Commit-ID:  51a0d455b5f44cb4680e0a89f99860b669e40d0f
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/51a0d455b5f44cb4680e0a89f99860b669e40d0f
Author:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:40:20 -0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:40:20 -0300

perf annotate browser: Add visual cues on jump lines

Using up/down arrows just before the instruction, replacing the actual chars with approximations to avoid mail encoding snafus:

avtab_search_node

    0.00 |      push   %rbp
    0.00 |      mov    %rsp,%rbp
    0.00 |      callq  mcount
    0.00 |      movzwl 0x6(%rsi),%edx
    0.00 |      and    $0x7fff,%dx
    0.00 |      test   %rdi,%rdi
    0.00 |    v jne    20
    0.00 | 17:  xor    %eax,%eax
    0.00 | 19:  leaveq
    0.00 |      retq
    0.00 |      nopl   0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
    0.00 | 20:  mov    (%rdi),%rax
    0.00 |      test   %rax,%rax
    0.00 |    ^ je     17
    0.00 |      movzwl (%rsi),%ecx
    0.00 |      movzwl 0x2(%rsi),%r9d
    0.00 |      movzwl 0x4(%rsi),%r8d
    0.00 |      movzwl %cx,%esi
    0.00 |      movzwl %r9w,%r10d
    0.00 |      shl    $0x9,%esi
    0.00 |      lea    (%rsi,%r10,4),%esi
    0.00 |      lea    (%r8,%rsi,1),%esi
    0.00 |      and    0x10(%rdi),%si
    0.00 |      movzwl %si,%esi
    0.00 |      mov    (%rax,%rsi,8),%rax
    0.00 |      test   %rax,%rax
    0.00 |    ^ je     19
    0.00 |      nopw   0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
    0.00 | 60:  cmp    %cx,(%rax)
    0.00 |    v jne    7e
    0.00 |      cmp    %r9w,0x2(%rax)
    0.00 |    v jne    7e
    0.00 |      cmp    %r8w,0x4(%rax)
    0.00 |    v jne    79
    0.00 |      test   %dx,0x6(%rax)
    0.00 |    ^ jne    19
    0.00 | 79:  cmp    %r8w,0x4(%rax)
   93.04 | 7e:^ ja     17
    2.53 |      mov    0x10(%rax),%rax
    4.43 |      test   %rax,%rax
    0.00 |    ^ jne    60
    0.00 |      leaveq
    0.00 |      retq

Next low hanging fruit is to use left arrow for retqs, then work on clearling marking loops.

Cc David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
---
 tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c +12 -1
index c2bbfc7..63206ca 100644
@@ -113,9 +113,20 @@ static void annotate_browser__write(struct ui_browser *self, void *entry, int ro
 		if (change_color)
 			ui_browser__set_color(self, color);
 		if (dl->ins && dl->ins->ops->scnprintf) {
+			if (ins__is_jump(dl->ins)) {
+				bool fwd = dl->ops.target > (u64)dl->offset;
+
+				SLsmg_set_char_set(1);
+				SLsmg_write_char(fwd ? SLSMG_DARROW_CHAR :
+						       SLSMG_UARROW_CHAR);
+				SLsmg_set_char_set(0);
+				SLsmg_write_char(' ');
+			} else {
+				slsmg_write_nstring(" ", 2);
+			}
+
 			dl->ins->ops->scnprintf(dl->ins, bf, sizeof(bf), &dl->ops,
 						!ab->use_offset);
-			slsmg_write_nstring(" ", 2);
 			printed += 2;
 		} else
 			scnprintf(bf, sizeof(bf), "  %-6.6s %s", dl->name, dl->ops.raw);