perf script: Add 'brstackinsnlen' for branch stacks
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>
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