Without this patch we get this for need_resched:

[root@mica ~]# perf annotate need_resched

------------------------------------------------
 Percent |      Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux
------------------------------------------------
         :
         :
         :      Disassembly of section .text:
         :
         :      ffffffff810095ed <need_resched>:
         :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
         :      }
         :
         :      static inline int need_resched(void)
         :      {
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095ed:       55                      push   %rbp
         :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095ee:       be 03 00 00 00          mov    $0x3,%esi
         :
         :      static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
         :      {
         :              struct thread_info *ti;
         :              ti = (void *)(percpu_read_stable(kernel_stack) +
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095f3:       65 48 8b 3c 25 48 b5    mov    %gs:0xb548,%rdi
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095fa:       00 00
         :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
         :      }
         :
         :      static inline int need_resched(void)
         :      {
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095fc:       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
         :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095ff:       48 81 ef d8 1f 00 00    sub    $0x1fd8,%rdi
    0.00 :      ffffffff81009606:       e8 9d ff ff ff          callq  ffffffff810095a8 <test_ti_thread_flag>
         :      }
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960b:       c9                      leaveq
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960c:       85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960e:       0f 95 c0                setne  %al
    0.00 :      ffffffff81009611:       0f b6 c0                movzbl %al,%eax
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_0:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_fn:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_1:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_2:
         :      Disassembly of section .init.text:
         :      Disassembly of section .altinstr_replacement:
         :      Disassembly of section .exit.text:
[root@mica ~]#

But from the 'perf report' result we know that there are hits
for need_resched on a 4 way machine mostly doing nothing, so
after adding code to show what is in each hist offset and
collapsing IP hits for what happens between objdump lines we
get, for the same perf.data file:

[root@mica ~]# perf annotate -v need_resched

------------------------------------------------
 Percent |      Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux
------------------------------------------------
         :
         :
         :      Disassembly of section .text:
         :
         :      ffffffff810095ed <need_resched>:
         :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
         :      }
         :
         :      static inline int need_resched(void)
         :      {
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095ed:       55                      push   %rbp
         :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
   52.78 :      ffffffff810095ee:       be 03 00 00 00          mov    $0x3,%esi
         :
         :      static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
         :      {
         :              struct thread_info *ti;
         :              ti = (void *)(percpu_read_stable(kernel_stack) +
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095f3:       65 48 8b 3c 25 48 b5    mov    %gs:0xb548,%rdi
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095fa:       00 00
         :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
         :      }
         :
         :      static inline int need_resched(void)
         :      {
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095fc:       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
         :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
    9.72 :      ffffffff810095ff:       48 81 ef d8 1f 00 00    sub    $0x1fd8,%rdi
    0.00 :      ffffffff81009606:       e8 9d ff ff ff          callq  ffffffff810095a8 <test_ti_thread_flag>
         :      }
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960b:       c9                      leaveq
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960c:       85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
   37.50 :      ffffffff8100960e:       0f 95 c0                setne  %al
    0.00 :      ffffffff81009611:       0f b6 c0                movzbl %al,%eax
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_0:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_fn:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_1:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_2:
         :      Disassembly of section .init.text:
         :      Disassembly of section .altinstr_replacement:
         :      Disassembly of section .exit.text:
[root@mica ~]#

And now 'perf annotate -v', verbose mode, will show the hits per
precise IP, so that one can make sense of the attribution to
each objdumop line:

[root@mica ~]# perf annotate -v need_resched
Looking at the vmlinux_path (5 entries long)
Using /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-tip-00784-g3471df5-dirty/build/vmlinux
for symbols annotate_sym: filename=/lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-tip-00784-g3471df5-dirty/build/vmlinux, sym=need_resched, start=0xffffffff810095ed, end=0xffffffff81009614

------------------------------------------------
 Percent |      Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux
------------------------------------------------
                ffffffff810095f1: 152
                ffffffff81009603: 28
                ffffffff8100960f: 55
                ffffffff81009610: 53
                          h->sum: 288
<SNIP same annotation>

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1267194194-15670-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>