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authorAlexandre Truong <alexandre.truong@arm.com>2021-12-17 15:45:15 +0000
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2021-12-21 18:35:23 -0300
commit7248e308a57587615431b83689cd57e957815bfc (patch)
tree943b275facb4d7467ff220a4cdbdfa3e48664367 /tools/perf/builtin-record.c
parentperf test: Use 3 digits for test numbering now we can have more tests (diff)
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perf tools: Record ARM64 LR register automatically
On ARM64, automatically record the link register if the frame pointer mode is on. It will be used to do a dwarf unwind to find the caller of the leaf frame if the frame pointer was omitted. Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Truong <alexandre.truong@arm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211217154521.80603-2-german.gomez@arm.com Signed-off-by: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-record.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 0338b813585a..6ac2160913ea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -2267,6 +2267,10 @@ out_free:
return ret;
}
+void __weak arch__add_leaf_frame_record_opts(struct record_opts *opts __maybe_unused)
+{
+}
+
static int parse_control_option(const struct option *opt,
const char *str,
int unset __maybe_unused)
@@ -2898,6 +2902,10 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
}
rec->opts.target.hybrid = perf_pmu__has_hybrid();
+
+ if (callchain_param.enabled && callchain_param.record_mode == CALLCHAIN_FP)
+ arch__add_leaf_frame_record_opts(&rec->opts);
+
err = -ENOMEM;
if (evlist__create_maps(rec->evlist, &rec->opts.target) < 0)
usage_with_options(record_usage, record_options);