perf: Add ability to attach user level registers dump to sample

Introducing PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER sample type bit to trigger the dump of
user level registers on sample. Registers we want to dump are specified
by sample_regs_user bitmask.

Only user level registers are dumped at the moment. Meaning the register
values of the user space context as it was before the user entered the
kernel for whatever reason (syscall, irq, exception, or a PMI happening
in userspace).

The layout of the sample_regs_user bitmap is described in
asm/perf_regs.h for archs that support register dump.

This is going to be useful to bring Dwarf CFI based stack unwinding on
top of samples.

Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
[ Dump registers ABI specification. ]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_regs.h b/include/linux/perf_regs.h
index a2f1a98f7839..3c73d5fe18be 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_regs.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_regs.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <asm/perf_regs.h>
 u64 perf_reg_value(struct pt_regs *regs, int idx);
 int perf_reg_validate(u64 mask);
+u64 perf_reg_abi(struct task_struct *task);
 #else
 static inline u64 perf_reg_value(struct pt_regs *regs, int idx)
 {
@@ -15,5 +16,10 @@ static inline int perf_reg_validate(u64 mask)
 {
 	return mask ? -ENOSYS : 0;
 }
+
+static inline u64 perf_reg_abi(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+	return PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI_NONE;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_PERF_REGS */
 #endif /* _LINUX_PERF_REGS_H */