tools/perf/util/dump-insn.h

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

tools/perf/util/dump-insn.h

Extension

.h

Size

535 bytes

Lines

27

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

tools

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: implementation source

Status

source implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

• Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
• Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

• linux/types.h

Detected Declarations

• struct thread
• struct perf_insn

Annotated Snippet

struct perf_insn {
	/* Initialized by callers: */
	struct thread *thread;
	struct machine *machine;
	u8	      cpumode;
	bool	      is64bit;
	int	      cpu;
	/* Temporary */
	char	      out[256];
};

const char *dump_insn(struct perf_insn *x, u64 ip,
		      u8 *inbuf, int inlen, int *lenp);
int arch_is_uncond_branch(const unsigned char *buf, size_t len, int x86_64);

#endif

Annotation

• Immediate include surface: `linux/types.h`.
• Detected declarations: `struct thread`, `struct perf_insn`.
• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
• Implementation status: source implementation candidate.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.