Just like we have in the histograms browser used as the main screen for
'perf top --tui' and 'perf report --tui', to print the current
annotation to a file with a named composed by the symbol name and the
".annotation" suffix.
Here is one example of pressing 'A' on 'perf top' to live annotate a
kernel function and then press 'P' to dump that annotation, the
resulting file:
# cat _raw_spin_lock_irqsave.annotation
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave() /proc/kcore
Event: cycles:ppp
7.14 nop
21.43 push %rbx
7.14 pushfq
pop %rax
nop
mov %rax,%rbx
cli
nop
xor %eax,%eax
mov $0x1,%edx
64.29 lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi)
test %eax,%eax
↓ jne 2b
mov %rbx,%rax
pop %rbx
← retq
2b: mov %eax,%esi
→ callq queued_spin_lock_slowpath
mov %rbx,%rax
pop %rbx
← retq
#
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zzmnrwugb5vtk7bvg0rbx150@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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