linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3]perf/core: extend perf_reg and perf_sample_regs

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Message-ID: <20151105130716.GC3604@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Thu, 5 Nov 2015 14:07:16 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, x86@...nel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH  0/3]perf/core: extend perf_reg and
 perf_sample_regs_intr

On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 02:16:15AM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
> Second patch updates struct arch_misc_reg for arch/powerpc with pmu registers
> and adds offsetof macro for the same. It extends perf_reg_value()
> to use reg idx to decide on struct to return value from.

Why; what's in those regs?
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