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Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf annotate: Remove needless regular expression for filename:linenr

From Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf annotate: Remove needless regular expression for filename:linenr
Date 2017-02-22 17:20 +0100
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Hi Namhyung,

On 02/22/2017 07:47 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Taeung,
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The commit e592488c01d5 ("perf annotate: Support source line
>> numbers in annotate") support source line numbers in annotate.
>>
>> But we can get filename:line number by symbol__get_source_line()
>> Furthermore, the way can't exactly match source code lines
>> to actual line numbers.
>>
>> For example,
>> Actual source code is as below
>>
>> ...
>>   21 };
>>   22
>>   23 unsigned int limited_wgt;
>>   24
>>   25 unsigned int get_cond_maxprice(int wgt)
>>   26 {
>> ...
>>
>> However, the output of annotate with the way about regmatch
>> is as below.
>>
>>   4   Disassembly of section .text:
>>
>>   6   0000000000400966 <get_cond_maxprice>:
>>   7   get_cond_maxprice():
>>   26  };
>>
>>   28  unsigned int limited_wgt;
>>
>>   30  unsigned int get_cond_maxprice(int wgt)
>>   31  {
>>
>> The root cause is from objdump -S.
>> Because the source code of objdump used to print more code lines
>> than actual one code line according to a particular line number.
>> In the near future, I'll fix the problem about line numbers.
>
> So what's the purpose of this patch?  You just removed the line
> number from the output, it changed behavior for what?  If you want
> to fix a problem of line number, please do it here..
>
> Thanks,
> Namhyung
>
>

The purpose of this patch was to remove needless code about line number.
To avoid big size of commit, I made several patches as parts..

But as you said I also think it is better to remake this patch
preferentially centering important points of the patchset!

Thanks
Taeung

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[PATCH 0/4] perf annotate: Fixes for line numbers and Introduce source_code Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2017-02-22 11:10 +0100
  [PATCH 1/4] perf annotate: Remove needless regular expression for filename:linenr Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2017-02-22 11:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf annotate: Remove needless regular expression for filename:linenr Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2017-02-22 11:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf annotate: Remove needless regular expression for  filename:linenr Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2017-02-22 17:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4/4] perf annotate: Introduce source_code to collect actual code Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2017-02-22 11:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf annotate: Introduce source_code to collect  actual code Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2017-02-22 12:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf annotate: Introduce source_code to collect  actual code Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2017-02-22 17:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf annotate: Introduce source_code to collect  actual code Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-24 07:00 +0100

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