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| author | Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> | 2021-11-11 19:51:22 -0800 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2021-11-13 18:11:51 -0300 |
| commit | bd9acd9cc6d71262d06847241f2b341787b40e15 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ad1a0ea0263a50da066c906422b174709495145 /tools/perf | |
| parent | 7380aa89904f3e243e2f339c022e597bf3a77191 (diff) | |
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perf symbols: Add documentation to 'struct symbol'
Refactor some existing comments and then infer the rest.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211112035124.94327-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h index 166196686f2e..3586fa549f44 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h @@ -40,22 +40,33 @@ Elf_Scn *elf_section_by_name(Elf *elf, GElf_Ehdr *ep, GElf_Shdr *shp, const char *name, size_t *idx); #endif -/** struct symbol - symtab entry - * - * @ignore - resolvable but tools ignore it (e.g. idle routines) +/** + * A symtab entry. When allocated this may be preceded by an annotation (see + * symbol__annotation), a browser_index (see symbol__browser_index) and rb_node + * to sort by name (see struct symbol_name_rb_node). */ struct symbol { struct rb_node rb_node; + /** Range of symbol [start, end). */ u64 start; u64 end; + /** Length of the string name. */ u16 namelen; + /** ELF symbol type as defined for st_info. E.g STT_OBJECT or STT_FUNC. */ u8 type:4; + /** ELF binding type as defined for st_info. E.g. STB_WEAK or STB_GLOBAL. */ u8 binding:4; + /** Set true for kernel symbols of idle routines. */ u8 idle:1; + /** Resolvable but tools ignore it (e.g. idle routines). */ u8 ignore:1; + /** Symbol for an inlined function. */ u8 inlined:1; + /** Architecture specific. Unused except on PPC where it holds st_other. */ u8 arch_sym; + /** Has symbol__annotate2 been performed. */ bool annotate2; + /** The name of length namelen associated with the symbol. */ char name[]; }; |