On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:52:35AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > The series is not yet mergeable because it would break PowerPc > (hot regs snapshot API has been changed, and I don't know how > to update PowerPc for that). > > But if you're fine with the ideas, I can integrate the necessary > changes to fix this, and also separate fixes and updates. The patch below adds the necessary stuff for powerpc. You could fold it into your "perf: Move perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs into a macro" patch, or keep it as a separate patch in the series (though that would make preserving bisectability more difficult). There is a little difficulty in that you first create a 3-argument form of perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs and then remove one argument in a later patch, whereas my patch below just creates the 2-argument form. I'm sure you can resolve that one way or another. The patch to add the old-style perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs for powerpc is sitting in the tip/perf/urgent branch but hasn't gone anywhere. I suppose we need to get Ingo to pull that branch into tip/perf/core and then include a revert patch in the series that switches to the new interface. Alternatively, if the urgent branch isn't append-only then we could disappear it (the urgent branch would need to be rewound by one commit). Paul. ---------- [PATCH] perf/powerpc: Implement perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs for powerpc This adds the ability to get a hot register snapshot for powerpc, enabling us to get meaningful call chains for tracepoints and context switch events. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event.h index e6d4ce6..5c16b89 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event.h @@ -21,3 +21,15 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_FSL_EMB_PERF_EVENT #include <asm/perf_event_fsl_emb.h> #endif + +#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS +#include <asm/ptrace.h> +#include <asm/reg.h> + +#define perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs(regs, __ip) \ + do { \ + (regs)->nip = __ip; \ + (regs)->gpr[1] = *(unsigned long *)__get_SP(); \ + asm volatile("mfmsr %0" : "=r" ((regs)->msr)); \ + } while (0) +#endif -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html