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Currently, the instructions of samples are shown as raw hex strings which are hard to read. x86 has a special option '--xed' to disassemble the hex string via intel XED tool. Here we use capstone as our disassembler engine to give more friendly instructions. We select libcapstone because capstone can provide more insn details. Perf will fallback to raw instructions if libcapstone is not available. The advantages compared to XED tool: * Support arm, arm64, x86-32, x86_64 (more could be supported), xed only for x86_64. * Immediate address operands are shown as symbol+offs. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: changbin.du@gmail.com Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217074046.4100789-3-changbin.du@huawei.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.