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perf annotate: Treat 'call' instruction as stack operation

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I found some portion of mem-store events sampled on CALL instruction
which has no memory access.  But it actually saves a return address
into stack.  It should be considered as a stack operation like RET
instruction.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240909214251.3033827-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Namhyung Kim 2024-09-09 14:42:50 -07:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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@ -2474,6 +2474,7 @@ static bool is_stack_operation(struct arch *arch, struct disasm_line *dl)
if (arch__is(arch, "x86")) {
if (!strncmp(dl->ins.name, "push", 4) ||
!strncmp(dl->ins.name, "pop", 3) ||
!strncmp(dl->ins.name, "call", 4) ||
!strncmp(dl->ins.name, "ret", 3))
return true;
}