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perf capstone: Move capstone functionality into its own file
authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:07:52 +0000 (12:07 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Thu, 2 Oct 2025 18:36:59 +0000 (15:36 -0300)
commitbbb99668b5b1c2411de2683e89f018be60a75dff
treecf53c672523dc128b0c871024408b888763e4e32
parentc0b8a55a1180274247f6081260cd854c2a309379
perf capstone: Move capstone functionality into its own file

Capstone disassembly support was split between disasm.c and
print_insn.c. Move support out of these files into capstone.[ch] and
remove include capstone/capstone.h from those files. As disassembly
routines can fail, make failure the only option without
HAVE_LIBCAPSTONE_SUPPORT. For simplicity's sake, duplicate the
read_symbol utility function.

The intent with moving capstone support into a single file is that
dynamic support, using dlopen for libcapstone, can be added in later
patches. This can potentially always succeed or fail, so relying on
ifdefs isn't sufficient. Using dlopen is a useful option to minimize
the perf tools dependencies and potentially size.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Haibo Xu <haibo1.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Li Huafei <lihuafei1@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-script.c
tools/perf/util/Build
tools/perf/util/capstone.c [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/perf/util/capstone.h [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/perf/util/disasm.c
tools/perf/util/print_insn.c