Re: [PATCH 02/16] perf: Add ability to attach registers dump tosample

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu May 24 2012 - 05:57:22 EST


On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 21:32 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:

> --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -130,8 +130,9 @@ enum perf_event_sample_format {
> PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID = 1U << 9,
> PERF_SAMPLE_RAW = 1U << 10,
> PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK = 1U << 11,
> + PERF_SAMPLE_REGS = 1U << 12,
>
> - PERF_SAMPLE_MAX = 1U << 12, /* non-ABI */
> + PERF_SAMPLE_MAX = 1U << 13, /* non-ABI */
> };

There's a comment update missing for PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE that describes
the output this bit generates.

> @@ -4011,6 +4042,30 @@ void perf_output_sample(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
> perf_output_put(handle, nr);
> }
> }
> +
> + if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_REGS) {
> + u64 mode = event->attr.sample_regs;
> +
> + if (mode & PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER) {
> + u64 id = PERF_REGS_ABI_NONE;
> +
> + /*
> + * If there are no regs to dump, notice it through
> + * PERF_REGS_ABI_NONE id.
> + */
> + if (data->regs_user)
> + id = perf_reg_version();

OK, so I don't like this.. why does this exists at all? Why not use a
length field instead?

> + perf_output_put(handle, id);
> +
> + if (id) {
> + u64 mask = event->attr.sample_regs_user;
> + perf_output_sample_regs(handle,
> + data->regs_user,
> + mask);
> + }
> + }
> + }
> }




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