linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] perf: Add support for hardware breakpoint address masks

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Message-ID: <20130415172803.GA18406@jshin-Toonie>
Date:	Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:28:03 -0500
From:	Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, <x86@...nel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] perf: Add support for hardware breakpoint address
 masks

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:21:48PM -0500, Jacob Shin wrote:
> The following patchset adds address masks to existing perf hardware
> breakpoint mechanism to allow trapping on an address range (currently
> only single address) on supported architectures.
> 
> perf uapi is updated, x86 AMD implementation (for AMD Family 16h and
> beyond) is provided, and perf tool has been extended to do:
> 
>   $ perf stat -e mem:0x1000:w:0xf a.out
>                               ^^^
>                               "don't care" bit mask
> 
>   which will count writes to [0x1000 ~ 0x1010)

Ping .. Ingo?

> 
> Jacob Shin (2):
>   perf: Add hardware breakpoint address mask
>   perf, x86: AMD implementation for hardware breakpoint address mask
> 
> Suravee Suthikulpanit (3):
>   perf tools: Add breakpoint address mask to the mem event parser
>   perf tools: Add breakpoint address mask syntax to perf list and
>     documentation
>   perf tools: Add breakpoint address mask test case to
>     tests/parse-events
> 
>  arch/Kconfig                             |    4 ++++
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                         |    1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h        |    2 ++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/debugreg.h          |    7 ++++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h     |    6 ++++++
>  arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/msr-index.h    |    6 ++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c                |   19 +++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c          |    5 +++++
>  include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h            |    6 ++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h          |    5 ++++-
>  kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c            |    3 +++
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt |   14 ++++++++----
>  tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c          |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c           |    5 +++--
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.h           |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.y           |   14 ++++++++++--
>  16 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 

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