linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/17] perf: Add ability to attach user level registers dump to sample

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Message-ID: <20120725161302.GC1173@somewhere.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:13:06 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:	acme@...hat.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, mingo@...e.hu,
	paulus@...ba.org, cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, eranian@...gle.com,
	gorcunov@...nvz.org, tzanussi@...il.com, mhiramat@...hat.com,
	robert.richter@....com, fche@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com,
	drepper@...il.com, asharma@...com, benjamin.redelings@...cent.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/17] perf: Add ability to attach user level registers
 dump to sample

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:14:25PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> Introducing PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER sample type bit to trigger
> the dump of user level registers on sample. Registers we want
> to dump are specified by sample_regs_user bitmask.
> 
> Only user level registers are dumped at the moment. Meaning the
> register values of the user space context as it was before the
> user entered the kernel for whatever reason (syscall, irq,
> exception, or a PMI happening in userspace).
> 
> The layout of the sample_regs_user bitmap is described in
> asm/perf_regs.h for archs that support register dump.
> 
> This is going to be useful to bring Dwarf CFI based stack
> unwinding on top of samples.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
> Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
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