perf annotate: Add comment clarifying how the source code line is parsed

The source code line number (lineno) needs to be kept in accross calls
to symbol__parse_objdump_line() when parsing the output of 'objdump -l
-dS', so that it can associate it with the instructions till the next
line.

See disasm_line__new() and struct disasm_line::line_nr.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7hpx8f8ybdpiujceysaj229w@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
index 4d325cdcb732..22cd1dbe724b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
@@ -1482,6 +1482,12 @@ int symbol__disassemble(struct symbol *sym, struct map *map, const char *arch_na
 
         nline = 0;
         while (!feof(file)) {
+                /*
+                 * The source code line number (lineno) needs to be kept in
+                 * accross calls to symbol__parse_objdump_line(), so that it
+                 * can associate it with the instructions till the next one.
+                 * See disasm_line__new() and struct disasm_line::line_nr.
+                 */
                 if (symbol__parse_objdump_line(sym, map, arch, file, privsize,
                             &lineno) < 0)
                         break;