linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM64: perf: add support for perf registers API

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Message-ID: <20131025131441.GC9999@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:14:41 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@...aro.org>
Cc:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Arnaldo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"patches@...aro.org" <patches@...aro.org>,
	Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@...oldbits.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM64: perf: add support for perf registers API

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 03:54:37PM +0100, Jean Pihet wrote:
> From: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@...oldbits.com>
> 
> This patch implements the functions required for the perf registers API,
> allowing the perf tool to interface kernel register dumps with libunwind
> in order to provide userspace backtracing.
> Only the general purpose user space registers are exported, i.e.:
>  PERF_REG_ARM_X0,
>  ...
>  PERF_REG_ARM_X28,
>  PERF_REG_ARM_FP,
>  PERF_REG_ARM_LR,
>  PERF_REG_ARM_SP,
>  PERF_REG_ARM_PC
> and not the PERF_REG_ARM_V* registers.

[...]

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_regs.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..bbcf63c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_regs.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
> +#include <linux/errno.h>
> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/perf_event.h>
> +#include <linux/bug.h>
> +#include <asm/perf_regs.h>
> +#include <asm/ptrace.h>
> +
> +u64 perf_reg_value(struct pt_regs *regs, int idx)
> +{
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE((u32)idx >= PERF_REG_ARM_MAX))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	return regs->regs[idx];
> +}
> +
> +#define REG_RESERVED (~((1ULL << PERF_REG_ARM_MAX) - 1))
> +
> +int perf_reg_validate(u64 mask)
> +{
> +	if (!mask || mask & REG_RESERVED)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +u64 perf_reg_abi(struct task_struct *task)
> +{
> +	return PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI_64;
> +}

You need to deal with compat (AArch32) tasks here too, which means providing
something compatible with what we do on arch/arm/ depending on the thread
flags.

Will
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