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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-03-04 21:15:56 +0100
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-03-10 14:39:35 +0100
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perf: Introduce new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for hot regs snapshot
Events that trigger overflows by interrupting a context can use get_irq_regs() or task_pt_regs() to retrieve the state when the event triggered. But this is not the case for some other class of events like trace events as tracepoints are executed in the same context than the code that triggered the event. It means we need a different api to capture the regs there, namely we need a hot snapshot to get the most important informations for perf: the instruction pointer to get the event origin, the frame pointer for the callchain, the code segment for user_mode() tests (we always use __KERNEL_CS as trace events always occur from the kernel) and the eflags for further purposes. v2: rename perf_save_regs to perf_fetch_caller_regs as per Masami's suggestion. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_event.h42
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 80acbf3d5de1..70cffd052c04 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -452,6 +452,7 @@ enum perf_callchain_context {
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
+#include <linux/ftrace.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
#define PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH 255
@@ -847,6 +848,44 @@ perf_sw_event(u32 event_id, u64 nr, int nmi, struct pt_regs *regs, u64 addr)
__perf_sw_event(event_id, nr, nmi, regs, addr);
}
+extern void
+perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long ip, int skip);
+
+/*
+ * Take a snapshot of the regs. Skip ip and frame pointer to
+ * the nth caller. We only need a few of the regs:
+ * - ip for PERF_SAMPLE_IP
+ * - cs for user_mode() tests
+ * - bp for callchains
+ * - eflags, for future purposes, just in case
+ */
+static inline void perf_fetch_caller_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, int skip)
+{
+ unsigned long ip;
+
+ memset(regs, 0, sizeof(*regs));
+
+ switch (skip) {
+ case 1 :
+ ip = CALLER_ADDR0;
+ break;
+ case 2 :
+ ip = CALLER_ADDR1;
+ break;
+ case 3 :
+ ip = CALLER_ADDR2;
+ break;
+ case 4:
+ ip = CALLER_ADDR3;
+ break;
+ /* No need to support further for now */
+ default:
+ ip = 0;
+ }
+
+ return perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs(regs, ip, skip);
+}
+
extern void __perf_event_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
static inline void perf_event_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
@@ -880,7 +919,8 @@ static inline bool perf_paranoid_kernel(void)
}
extern void perf_event_init(void);
-extern void perf_tp_event(int event_id, u64 addr, u64 count, void *record, int entry_size);
+extern void perf_tp_event(int event_id, u64 addr, u64 count, void *record,
+ int entry_size, struct pt_regs *regs);
extern void perf_bp_event(struct perf_event *event, void *data);
#ifndef perf_misc_flags