perf annotate: Display the branch counter histogram
Display the branch counter histogram in the annotation view.
Press 'B' to display the branch counter's abbreviation list as well.
Samples: 1M of events 'anon group { branch-instructions:ppp, branch-misses }',
4000 Hz, Event count (approx.):
f3 /home/sdp/test/tchain_edit [Percent: local period]
Percent │ IPC Cycle Branch Counter (Average IPC: 1.39, IPC Coverage: 29.4%)
│
0000000000401755 <f3>:
0.00 0.00 │ endbr64
│ push %rbp
│ mov %rsp,%rbp
│ movl $0x0,-0x4(%rbp)
0.00 0.00 │1.33 3 |A |- | ↓ jmp 25
11.03 11.03 │ 11: mov -0x4(%rbp),%eax
│ and $0x1,%eax
│ test %eax,%eax
17.13 17.13 │2.41 1 |A |- | ↓ je 21
│ addl $0x1,-0x4(%rbp)
21.84 21.84 │2.22 2 |AA |- | ↓ jmp 25
17.13 17.13 │ 21: addl $0x1,-0x4(%rbp)
21.84 21.84 │ 25: cmpl $0x270f,-0x4(%rbp)
11.03 11.03 │0.61 3 |A |- | ↑ jle 11
│ nop
│ pop %rbp
0.00 0.00 │0.24 20 |AA |B | ← ret
Originally-by: Tinghao Zhang <tinghao.zhang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240813160208.2493643-8-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>