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authorNamhyung Kim <[email protected]>2024-09-09 14:42:50 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>2024-09-10 17:32:47 -0300
commitc8b9358778a82534251dc93ebc4601246d5ae04e (patch)
tree4c0e0c5e242c3ff9554bebb9b79e514d28a622ea
parent332f60ac052f5d7bfc646502f377c600986f10c2 (diff)
perf annotate: Treat 'call' instruction as stack operation
I found some portion of mem-store events sampled on CALL instruction which has no memory access. But it actually saves a return address into stack. It should be considered as a stack operation like RET instruction. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/annotate.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
index 4990c70b1794..1a347a711dcf 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
@@ -2474,6 +2474,7 @@ static bool is_stack_operation(struct arch *arch, struct disasm_line *dl)
if (arch__is(arch, "x86")) {
if (!strncmp(dl->ins.name, "push", 4) ||
!strncmp(dl->ins.name, "pop", 3) ||
+ !strncmp(dl->ins.name, "call", 4) ||
!strncmp(dl->ins.name, "ret", 3))
return true;
}