Re: [PATCH 8/8] perf symbol: Don't demangle parameters and such by default

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Sat Aug 02 2014 - 09:35:18 EST


Em Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:47:42PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Some C++ symbols have very long name and they make column length
> longer. Most of them are about parameters including templates and we
> can ignore such info most of time IMHO.
>
> This patch passes DMGL_NO_OPTS by default when calling bfd_demangle().
> One can still see full symbols with -v/--verbose option.
>
> before:
> JS_CallFunctionValue(JSContext*, JSObject*, JS::Value, unsigned int, JS::Value*, JS::Value*)
>
> after:
> JS_CallFunctionValue

Are you sure we want that?

With this we'll end up having different instantiations having the same
name, since the way to differentiate them is exactly by a different
parameter list, no?

- Arnaldo

> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 7 +++++--
> tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
> index d75349979e65..ec5ec1c9d9b5 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
> @@ -939,8 +939,11 @@ new_symbol:
> * to it...
> */
> if (symbol_conf.demangle) {
> - demangled = bfd_demangle(NULL, elf_name,
> - DMGL_PARAMS | DMGL_ANSI);
> + int demangle_flags = DMGL_NO_OPTS;
> + if (verbose)
> + demangle_flags = DMGL_PARAMS | DMGL_ANSI;
> +
> + demangled = bfd_demangle(NULL, elf_name, demangle_flags);
> if (demangled != NULL)
> elf_name = demangled;
> }
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
> index e7295e93cff9..c16dc16f83d5 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ extern Elf_Scn *elf_section_by_name(Elf *elf, GElf_Ehdr *ep,
> #endif
>
> #ifndef DMGL_PARAMS
> +#define DMGL_NO_OPTS 0 /* For readability... */
> #define DMGL_PARAMS (1 << 0) /* Include function args */
> #define DMGL_ANSI (1 << 1) /* Include const, volatile, etc */
> #endif
> --
> 2.0.0
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