perf tests: Introduce perf_regs_load function on ARM

Introducing perf_regs_load function, which is going
to be used for dwarf unwind test in following patches.

It takes single argument as a pointer to the regs dump
buffer and populates it with current registers values.

Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400229672-16104-2-git-send-email-jean.pihet@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm/tests/regs_load.S b/tools/perf/arch/arm/tests/regs_load.S
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e09e983946fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm/tests/regs_load.S
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
+
+#define R0 0x00
+#define R1 0x08
+#define R2 0x10
+#define R3 0x18
+#define R4 0x20
+#define R5 0x28
+#define R6 0x30
+#define R7 0x38
+#define R8 0x40
+#define R9 0x48
+#define SL 0x50
+#define FP 0x58
+#define IP 0x60
+#define SP 0x68
+#define LR 0x70
+#define PC 0x78
+
+/*
+ * Implementation of void perf_regs_load(u64 *regs);
+ *
+ * This functions fills in the 'regs' buffer from the actual registers values,
+ * in the way the perf built-in unwinding test expects them:
+ * - the PC at the time at the call to this function. Since this function
+ *   is called using a bl instruction, the PC value is taken from LR.
+ * The built-in unwinding test then unwinds the call stack from the dwarf
+ * information in unwind__get_entries.
+ *
+ * Notes:
+ * - the 8 bytes stride in the registers offsets comes from the fact
+ * that the registers are stored in an u64 array (u64 *regs),
+ * - the regs buffer needs to be zeroed before the call to this function,
+ * in this case using a calloc in dwarf-unwind.c.
+ */
+
+.text
+.type perf_regs_load,%function
+ENTRY(perf_regs_load)
+	str r0, [r0, #R0]
+	str r1, [r0, #R1]
+	str r2, [r0, #R2]
+	str r3, [r0, #R3]
+	str r4, [r0, #R4]
+	str r5, [r0, #R5]
+	str r6, [r0, #R6]
+	str r7, [r0, #R7]
+	str r8, [r0, #R8]
+	str r9, [r0, #R9]
+	str sl, [r0, #SL]
+	str fp, [r0, #FP]
+	str ip, [r0, #IP]
+	str sp, [r0, #SP]
+	str lr, [r0, #LR]
+	str lr, [r0, #PC]	// store pc as lr in order to skip the call
+	                        //  to this function
+	mov pc, lr
+ENDPROC(perf_regs_load)