Jolsa Docs Annotations
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ANNOTATIONS
TODO: description & examples
The perf annotations is based on objdump tool from binutils package.
BINUTILS RESTRICTIONS
Annotations are based on debuginfo, which on most (Fedora) distributions come in separated *-debuginfo packages. Unfortunately objdump does not connect binaries with its debuginfo counterparts.
The result is that for binaries with separated debuginfo you'll not see annotations in perf.
WORKAROUND
There's a following workaround, that merges debuginfo back to the binary. Such binary will display proper annotations in perf.
The binary we want to annotate properly is ls.
- find out the debuginfo holder:
$ rpm -ql coreutils-debuginfo | grep ls.debug /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/ls.debug
- OPTIONAL if your distribution uses prelink, you need to undo it:
$ cp /bin/ls . $ prelink -u ls
- create the ls-di binary with debuginfo merged:
$ eu-unstrip -o ls-di ./ls /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/ls.debug $ file ls-di ls-di: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV) [SNIP] not stripped
- clean the build-id cache, since the ls share same build-id with ls-di:
$ perf buildid-cache -r ls # or more efectively: $ rm -rf ~/.debug/
- enjoy your annotations via:
$ perf record ./ls-di [SNIP] $ perf annotate [FUNC] $ perf report