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Date:	Wed, 4 Nov 2015 10:48:33 +0530
From:	Anju T <anju@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	maddy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, acme@...hat.com, dsahern@...il.com,
	jolsa@...hat.com, hemant@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/3] perf/powerpc :add support for sampling intr
 machine state

Hi Michael,
On Tuesday 03 November 2015 02:46 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 11:40 +0530, Anju T wrote:
>
>> The perf infrastructure uses a bit mask to find out
>> valid registers to display. Define a register mask
>> for supported registers defined in asm/perf_regs.h.
>> The bit positions also correspond to register IDs
>> which is used by perf infrastructure to fetch the register
>> values.CONFIG_HAVE_PERF_REGS enables
>> sampling of the interrupted machine state.
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/perf_regs.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/perf_regs.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..0520492
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/perf_regs.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
>> +#include <linux/errno.h>
>> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
>> +#include <linux/sched.h>
>> +#include <linux/perf_event.h>
>> +#include <linux/bug.h>
>> +#include <linux/stddef.h>
>> +#include <asm/ptrace.h>
>> +#include <asm/perf_regs.h>
>> +
>> +#define PT_REGS_OFFSET(id, r) [id] = offsetof(struct pt_regs, r)
>> +
>> +#define REG_RESERVED (~((1ULL << PERF_REG_POWERPC_MAX) - 1))
>> +
>> +static unsigned int pt_regs_offset[PERF_REG_POWERPC_MAX] = {
>> +	PT_REGS_OFFSET(PERF_REG_POWERPC_GPR0, gpr[0]),
>> +	PT_REGS_OFFSET(PERF_REG_POWERPC_GPR1, gpr[1]),
>> +	PT_REGS_OFFSET(PERF_REG_POWERPC_GPR2, gpr[2]),
> <snip>
>
> I realise you're following the example of other architectures, but we have
> almost this exact same structure in ptrace.c, see regoffset_table.
>
> It would be really nice if we could share them between ptrace and perf.
>
> cheers
>


Thank you for reviewing the patch.

That is a great suggestion.

In ptrace.c the structure doesn't include ORIG_R3. So,in that case what 
should we do?



Thanks and Regards

Anju


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