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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1]: perf/x86: store user space frame-pointer value on a sample
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 12:53:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180406195310.GB9010@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df5f38d8-9b35-0309-527a-c7b7b35c635b@linux.intel.com>

On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 10:06:26PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> On 06.04.2018 18:31, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c
> >> index e47b2dbbdef3..9284048cf5b0 100644
> >> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c
> >> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c
> >> @@ -157,6 +157,15 @@ void perf_get_regs_user(struct perf_regs *regs_user,
> >>  	 */
> >>  	regs_user_copy->bx = -1;
> >>  	regs_user_copy->bp = -1;
> >> +	if (user_64bit_mode(user_regs)) {
> > 
> > Why is it 64bit only? Should work on 32bit too.
> 
> bp register is a part of i386 syscall ABI 
> (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html) 
> so not sure if it will make any sense for 32bit processes. 

Both 32bit and 64bit use the same frame pointer, if they
use frame pointer.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-06 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-06 12:49 [PATCH v1]: perf/x86: store user space frame-pointer value on a sample Alexey Budankov
2018-04-06 15:31 ` Andi Kleen
2018-04-06 19:06   ` Alexey Budankov
2018-04-06 19:53     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2018-04-07  6:18       ` Alexey Budankov
2018-04-09  5:23         ` Alexey Budankov
2018-04-10 14:41           ` Alexey Budankov

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