From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754129AbeE1IqP (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2018 04:46:15 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:37109 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933163AbeE1IqE (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2018 04:46:04 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADUXVKI/oJvmhuQeXDePS2DJpGOqu1mYn+QEBfauRn/+x8XDKDOI84f9DbCi8VDrEfljgKf1s/eNWA== From: Leo Yan To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Mathieu Poirier , Jonathan Corbet , Robert Walker , mike.leach@linaro.org, kim.phillips@arm.co, Tor Jeremiassen Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, coresight@lists.linaro.org, Leo Yan Subject: [RFT v3 4/4] coresight: Document for CoreSight trace disassembler Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 16:45:03 +0800 Message-Id: <1527497103-3593-5-git-send-email-leo.yan@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1527497103-3593-1-git-send-email-leo.yan@linaro.org> References: <1527497103-3593-1-git-send-email-leo.yan@linaro.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This commit documents CoreSight trace disassembler usage and gives example for it. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan --- Documentation/trace/coresight.txt | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt b/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt index 6f0120c..b8f2359 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt @@ -381,3 +381,55 @@ sort example is from the AutoFDO tutorial (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/AutoFDO/Tuto $ taskset -c 2 ./sort_autofdo Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements 5806 ms + + +Tracing data disassembler +------------------------- + +'perf script' supports to use script to parse tracing packet and rely on +'objdump' for disassembled lines, this can convert tracing data to readable +program execution flow for easily reviewing tracing data. + +The CoreSight trace disassembler is located in the folder: +tools/perf/scripts/python/arm-cs-trace-disasm.py. This script support below +options: + + -d, --objdump: Set path to objdump executable, this option is + mandatory. + -k, --vmlinux: Set path to vmlinux file. + -v, --verbose: Enable debugging log, after enable this option the + script dumps every event data. + +Below is one example for using python script to dump CoreSight trace +disassembler: + + $ perf script -s arm-cs-trace-disasm.py -i perf.data \ + -F cpu,event,ip,addr,sym -- -d objdump -k ./vmlinux > cs-disasm.log + +Below is one example for the disassembler log: + +ARM CoreSight Trace Data Assembler Dump + ffff000008a5f2dc : + ffff000008a5f2dc: 340000a0 cbz w0, ffff000008a5f2f0 + ffff000008a5f2f0 : + ffff000008a5f2f0: f9400260 ldr x0, [x19] + ffff000008a5f2f4: d5033f9f dsb sy + ffff000008a5f2f8: 913ec000 add x0, x0, #0xfb0 + ffff000008a5f2fc: b900001f str wzr, [x0] + ffff000008a5f300: f9400bf3 ldr x19, [sp, #16] + ffff000008a5f304: a8c27bfd ldp x29, x30, [sp], #32 + ffff000008a5f308: d65f03c0 ret + ffff000008a5fa18 : + ffff000008a5fa18: 14000025 b ffff000008a5faac + ffff000008a5faac : + ffff000008a5faac: b9406261 ldr w1, [x19, #96] + ffff000008a5fab0: 52800015 mov w21, #0x0 // #0 + ffff000008a5fab4: f901ca61 str x1, [x19, #912] + ffff000008a5fab8: 2a1503e0 mov w0, w21 + ffff000008a5fabc: 3940e261 ldrb w1, [x19, #56] + ffff000008a5fac0: f901ce61 str x1, [x19, #920] + ffff000008a5fac4: a94153f3 ldp x19, x20, [sp, #16] + ffff000008a5fac8: a9425bf5 ldp x21, x22, [sp, #32] + ffff000008a5facc: a94363f7 ldp x23, x24, [sp, #48] + ffff000008a5fad0: a8c47bfd ldp x29, x30, [sp], #64 + ffff000008a5fad4: d65f03c0 ret -- 2.7.4