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samply is happy to show the assembly of the code sampled, but the "source" tab stays empty for .net apps, which is a pity.

Now it would be tempting to add a proper source reference, but JIT doesn't know about the real source, so that's a headache. On the other hand, JIT does know about the IL it compiles, so we can pretend IR is the source, et voila:

Screenshot 2026-08-30 at 12 42 43

The empty lines where IL instruction is longer are either clumsy or cute, depending on how you look at those.

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When jitdump is enabled and DOTNET_PerfMapIlSourcePath is set, emit a
JIT_CODE_DEBUG_INFO record before each JIT_CODE_LOAD, mapping native
offsets to synthetic IL source files (contract: IL instruction at
offset K is on line K + 2 of <dir>/<assembly>/m_<token>.il; the files
themselves are produced by external tooling from assembly metadata).

This completes the existing ToDo in perfjitdump.cpp LogMethod. perf
inject --jit converts the records to DWARF .debug_line in the emitted
jitted-*.so files, giving perf annotate, addr2line and samply
IL-level source attribution for JIT-compiled managed code.

Disabled by default; no additional work on the JIT path unless the
config is set. IL-to-native boundaries are obtained via
WalkILOffsets/ILToNativeMapArrays, the same helpers used by the ETW
MethodILToNativeMap event.
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JIT doesn't know about the real source, so that's a headache

I have seen other profilers display the C# source code; how do they do that?

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JIT doesn't know about the real source, so that's a headache

I have seen other profilers display the C# source code; how do they do that?

Postprocessing I believe: if between getting samples and firing up the UI you replace IL references to source code references (external tools have all that), it'll just work. But I haven't got there yet.

Was any of those profilers perf-based? I'd love to see how they do that: memory addresses only exist for the life time of the running process; jitdump explicitly doesn't save the debug info (as per this PR's base, PAL_PerfJitDump_LogMethod((void*)pCode, codeSize, name.GetUTF8(), nullptr, nullptr); in perfmap.cpp)

The postprocessing approach:

dotnet-trace can emit MethodILToNativeMap events; combine with PDB reading (System.Reflection.Metadata) and rewrite the jitted-*.so files that perf inject produces, adding proper DWARF line tables. True source lines, works against the stock runtime, could grow into a standalone tool. More plumbing, no fork.

I'll see if it's practical, and update. On the CLA, will need to double check at the office, so Tuesday. Apologies for a cheeky draft PR—I thought it would be a cheap, low-visibility CI run :)

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On a related note: I integrated Samply into EgorBot for macos-arm64 target (on Linux I use perf), but mostly for flamegraphs and annotated asm, didn't do any source mapping:

@EgorBot -macos_arm -profiler

using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
using BenchmarkDotNet.Running;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;

BenchmarkSwitcher.FromAssembly(typeof(MyBench).Assembly).Run(args);

public class MyBench
{
    object _fld;

    [Benchmark] public void Foo() => Bar();

    [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.NoInlining)]
    public void Bar() => _fld = new object();
}

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