perf annotate: add Alpha instruction support

Teach perf annotate about the Alpha control-transfer instructions, so that
an Alpha perf.data gets call and jump arrows and resolved call targets,
whether it is read on Alpha or on another host.

Add tools/perf/util/annotate-arch/annotate-alpha.c with arch__new_alpha()
and an associate_instruction_ops() that classifies:

  call:   bsr, plus jsr and jcr as indirect calls
  ret:    ret
  jump:   br, the conditional branches beq/bne/blt/ble/bgt/bge/blbc/blbs
          and fbeq/fbne/fblt/fble/fbgt/fbge, plus jmp as an indirect jump
  mov:    mov, fmov (objdump pseudos)

That is every mnemonic binutils can print for the branch and JSR formats.
jcr rather than jsr_coroutine, because both name the same MBR(0x1a,3)
encoding and print_insn_alpha() takes the first match in the table, where
the jcr alias has come first since the sources were imported in 1999.

bsr needs an Alpha-specific parse routine.  The generic call__parse()
expects the operand string to begin with the target address, but a bsr
prints its return-address register first:

  bsr     t0,fffffc0001031dc0 <cserve_ena>

strtoull() then stops on the leading register name, leaving the target
address as 0, which makes call__scnprintf() fall back to printing the raw
operands and leaves target.sym unresolved so the browser cannot follow the
call.  alpha_call__parse() takes the address from after the comma instead,
as s390_call__parse() does for the same reason.  The PC-relative branches
need no such handling, as jump__parse() already skips up to two operands.

jsr and jmp get ins_ops that resolve no target at all.  They transfer
control to a register, and their trailing operand is only a branch
prediction hint:

  jsr     ra,(t12),fffffc0001014ee8 <_printk>

binutils extracts that hint as a 14-bit signed field scaled by four and
prints it relative to the next instruction (extract_jhint() in alpha-opc.c,
print_insn_alpha() in alpha-dis.c), so it can name the callee only when the
callee lies within the resulting +-32KB.  It also defaults to zero, which
prints as the next instruction.  Of the 213750 jsr in a vmlinux built from
this tree, only 23093 hints land on a symbol; 157204 point into the middle
of an unrelated function and 33453 are that default.  Parsing the hint
would therefore invent a call target for the majority of calls, so these
keep their operands, as an indirect call does elsewhere.

EM_ALPHA is 0x9026, far too large to index the e_machine-keyed
arch_new_fn[] table in arch__find(), so select arch__new_alpha explicitly
before the table lookup.  Declare it in disasm.h and add the object to the
annotate-arch Build.

Disassembly itself comes from objdump/binutils, which already supports
Alpha; this provides perf's instruction-class metadata for annotation.

Tested on an EV7 Marvel, both natively and by annotating its perf.data on
an x86_64 host, over bsr to a local function, jsr through the PLT and
kernel-mode jsr; the two hosts produce identical output.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Matt Turner 2026-09-05 18:54:12 -04:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 15917a3a1c
commit c749aacf73
4 changed files with 200 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
perf-util-y += annotate-alpha.o
perf-util-y += annotate-arc.o
perf-util-y += annotate-arm.o
perf-util-y += annotate-arm64.o

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@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/zalloc.h>
#include "../../util/disasm.h"
#include "../../util/map.h"
#include "../../util/maps.h"
#include "../../util/symbol.h"
#include "../../util/thread.h"
/*
* Alpha control-transfer instructions, as printed by objdump:
*
* PC-relative (opcode group 0x30-0x3f), 21-bit displacement:
* br, bsr unconditional / to-subroutine
* beq bne blt ble bgt bge blbc blbs integer conditional
* fbeq fbne fblt fble fbgt fbge floating conditional
*
* Register-indirect (JSR group, opcode 0x1a):
* jmp, jsr, ret, jcr
*
* bsr/jsr (and jcr, the coroutine form, which binutils prints in preference to
* the jsr_coroutine spelling) save a return address, so they are calls; ret
* returns; everything else that transfers control is a jump.
*
* Alpha has no machine "mov"; objdump prints "mov"/"fmov" as pseudos for
* bis/cpys, so map them to mov_ops when present. The no-ops are deliberately
* left alone: nop_ops would let delete_last_nop() trim the padding gcc leaves
* at the end of a function, but its scnprintf() prints the literal "nop", and
* Alpha pads with unop (ldq_u $31) rather than nop.
*/
/*
* The generic call__parse() expects the target address to be the first thing
* in the operand string, but a bsr prints its return-address register first:
*
* bsr t0,fffffc0001031dc0 <cserve_ena>
*
* so take the address from after the comma. Without this the address comes
* out as 0, and neither the callee symbol nor the annotation browser's
* "go to target" work.
*/
static int alpha_call__parse(const struct arch *arch, struct ins_operands *ops,
struct map_symbol *ms,
struct disasm_line *dl __maybe_unused)
{
char *endptr, *tok, *name;
struct map *map = ms->map;
struct addr_map_symbol target;
tok = strchr(ops->raw, ',');
if (tok == NULL)
return -1;
ops->target.addr = strtoull(tok + 1, &endptr, 16);
if (endptr == tok + 1)
return -1;
/* A stripped object has no "<symbol>" to name the target with. */
name = strchr(endptr, '<');
if (name == NULL)
goto find_target;
name++;
if (arch->objdump.skip_functions_char &&
strchr(name, arch->objdump.skip_functions_char))
return -1;
tok = strchr(name, '>');
if (tok == NULL)
return -1;
*tok = '\0';
ops->target.name = strdup(name);
*tok = '>';
if (ops->target.name == NULL)
return -1;
find_target:
target = (struct addr_map_symbol) {
.ms = { .map = map__get(map), },
.addr = map__objdump_2mem(map, ops->target.addr),
};
if (maps__find_ams(thread__maps(ms->thread), &target) == 0 &&
map__rip_2objdump(target.ms.map,
map__map_ip(target.ms.map, target.addr)) == ops->target.addr)
ops->target.sym = target.ms.sym;
addr_map_symbol__exit(&target);
return 0;
}
static const struct ins_ops alpha_call_ops = {
.parse = alpha_call__parse,
.scnprintf = call__scnprintf,
.is_call = true,
};
/*
* jsr and jmp transfer control to a register, and their trailing operand is
* only a branch prediction hint:
*
* jsr ra,(t12),fffffc0001014ee8 <_printk>
*
* binutils extracts that hint as a 14-bit signed field scaled by four and
* prints it relative to the next instruction (extract_jhint() in alpha-opc.c,
* print_insn_alpha() in alpha-dis.c), so it can name the callee only when the
* callee lies within the resulting +-32KB. It also defaults to zero, which
* prints as the next instruction. Most hints are therefore not the callee at
* all, and parsing one would invent a call target, so these resolve no target
* and keep their operands, as an indirect call does elsewhere. The hint on
* jcr is not even an address.
*/
static const struct ins_ops alpha_indirect_call_ops = {
.scnprintf = ins__raw_scnprintf,
.is_call = true,
};
static const struct ins_ops alpha_indirect_jump_ops = {
.scnprintf = ins__raw_scnprintf,
.is_jump = true,
};
static int is_alpha_cond_branch(const char *name)
{
static const char *const branches[] = {
"beq", "bne", "blt", "ble", "bgt", "bge", "blbc", "blbs",
"fbeq", "fbne", "fblt", "fble", "fbgt", "fbge",
};
unsigned int i;
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(branches); i++) {
if (!strcmp(name, branches[i]))
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
static const struct ins_ops *alpha__associate_instruction_ops(struct arch *arch, const char *name)
{
const struct ins_ops *ops = NULL;
if (!strcmp(name, "bsr")) {
ops = &alpha_call_ops;
} else if (!strcmp(name, "jsr") ||
!strcmp(name, "jcr")) {
ops = &alpha_indirect_call_ops;
} else if (!strcmp(name, "ret")) {
ops = &ret_ops;
} else if (!strcmp(name, "jmp")) {
ops = &alpha_indirect_jump_ops;
} else if (!strcmp(name, "br") ||
is_alpha_cond_branch(name)) {
ops = &jump_ops;
} else if (!strcmp(name, "mov") ||
!strcmp(name, "fmov")) {
ops = &mov_ops;
}
if (ops)
arch__associate_ins_ops(arch, name, ops);
return ops;
}
const struct arch *arch__new_alpha(const struct e_machine_and_e_flags *id,
const char *cpuid __maybe_unused)
{
struct arch *arch = zalloc(sizeof(*arch));
if (!arch)
return NULL;
arch->name = "alpha";
arch->id = *id;
arch->associate_instruction_ops = alpha__associate_instruction_ops;
/* objdump emits no comments for Alpha; '#' is what the assembler uses. */
arch->objdump.comment_char = '#';
return arch;
}

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@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ const struct arch *arch__find(uint16_t e_machine, uint32_t e_flags, const char *
.e_flags = e_flags,
};
const struct arch *result = NULL, **tmp;
const struct arch *(*new_fn)(const struct e_machine_and_e_flags *id,
const char *cpuid) = NULL;
if (num_archs > 0) {
tmp = bsearch(&key, archs, num_archs, sizeof(*archs), arch__key_cmp);
@ -171,7 +173,16 @@ const struct arch *arch__find(uint16_t e_machine, uint32_t e_flags, const char *
if (result)
return result;
if (e_machine >= ARRAY_SIZE(arch_new_fn) || arch_new_fn[e_machine] == NULL) {
/*
* EM_ALPHA (0x9026) is far too large to index arch_new_fn[], so it is
* selected explicitly; everything else uses the e_machine-indexed table.
*/
if (e_machine == EM_ALPHA)
new_fn = arch__new_alpha;
else if (e_machine < ARRAY_SIZE(arch_new_fn))
new_fn = arch_new_fn[e_machine];
if (new_fn == NULL) {
errno = ENOTSUP;
return NULL;
}
@ -182,7 +193,7 @@ const struct arch *arch__find(uint16_t e_machine, uint32_t e_flags, const char *
archs = tmp;
result = arch_new_fn[e_machine](&key, cpuid);
result = new_fn(&key, cpuid);
if (!result) {
pr_err("%s: failed to initialize %u arch priv area\n",
__func__, e_machine);

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@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ extern const struct ins_ops ret_ops;
int arch__associate_ins_ops(struct arch *arch, const char *name, const struct ins_ops *ops);
const struct arch *arch__new_alpha(const struct e_machine_and_e_flags *id, const char *cpuid);
const struct arch *arch__new_arc(const struct e_machine_and_e_flags *id, const char *cpuid);
const struct arch *arch__new_arm(const struct e_machine_and_e_flags *id, const char *cpuid);
const struct arch *arch__new_arm64(const struct e_machine_and_e_flags *id, const char *cpuid);