From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "jean.pihet@linaro.org" <jean.pihet@linaro.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org" <linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org>,
Arnaldo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
"patches@linaro.org" <patches@linaro.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ARM64: add perf support
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:01:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131217110154.GA7602@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131217104534.GA27383@gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:45:34AM +0000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * jean.pihet@linaro.org <jean.pihet@linaro.org> wrote:
> > From: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
> >
> > Add perf support for the AARCH64 architecture. This includes the
> > support for:
> > - AARCH64 perf registers definition and hooks,
> > - compat mode registers use, i.e. profiling a 32-bit binary on
> > a 64-bit system,
> > - unwinding using the dwarf information from the .debug_frame
> > section of the ELF binary; only in 64-bit mode,
> > - unwinding using the frame pointer information; in 64-bit and
> > compat modes.
> >
> > ToDo:
> > - add support for unwinding using the dwarf information in compat
> > mode. This requires some changes to the libunwind code.
> >
> > Tested on ARMv7 and ARMv8 platforms. The compat mode has been tested
> > on ARMv8 using statically built 32-bit binaries.
> >
> >
> > Jean Pihet (3):
> > ARM64: perf: add support for perf registers API
> > ARM64: perf: wire up perf_regs and unwind support
> > ARM64: perf: add support for frame pointer unwinding in compat mode
> >
> > arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +
> > arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h | 1 +
> > arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> > arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/perf_regs.h | 40 ++++++++++++++
> > arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
> > arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > arch/arm64/kernel/perf_regs.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++
> > tools/perf/arch/arm64/Makefile | 7 +++
> > tools/perf/arch/arm64/include/perf_regs.h | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/dwarf-regs.c | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/unwind.c | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > tools/perf/config/Makefile | 8 ++-
> > 12 files changed, 423 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/perf_regs.h
> > create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_regs.c
> > create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm64/Makefile
> > create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm64/include/perf_regs.h
> > create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/dwarf-regs.c
> > create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/unwind.c
>
> Arnaldo, AFAICS the main merging complexity will probably be on the
> perf tooling side, so if you are happy with these bits, mind picking
> them up into your tree?
Hold your horses! I've got a few review comments on the series...
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-17 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-16 16:49 [PATCH 0/3] ARM64: add perf support jean.pihet
2013-12-17 10:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-12-17 11:01 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2013-12-17 11:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-12-30 16:28 ` Jean Pihet
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