Some OCaml developers reported that this bit of information is sometimes
useful for disambiguating functions for which the OCaml compiler assigns
the same name, e.g. nested or inlined functions.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Hemmer <copy@copy.sh>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210226075223.p3s5oz4jbxwnqjtv@nyu
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Detect symbols generated by the OCaml compiler based on their prefix.
Demangle OCaml symbols, returning a newly allocated string (like the
existing Java demangling functionality).
Move a helper function (hex) from tests/code-reading.c to util/string.c
To test:
echo 'Printf.printf "%d\n" (Random.int 42)' > test.ml
perf record ocamlopt.opt test.ml
perf report -d ocamlopt.opt
Signed-off-by: Fabian Hemmer <copy@copy.sh>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LPU-Reference: 20210203211537.b25ytjb6dq5jfbwx@nyu
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
