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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
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')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/machine.c7
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c8
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/callchain.h2
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/machine.c
index 7e7714290a87..d2ce31e28cd7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/machine.c
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
#include <string.h>
#include "debug.h"
#include "symbol.h"
+#include "callchain.h"
+#include "record.h"
/* On arm64, kernel text segment starts at high memory address,
* for example 0xffff 0000 8xxx xxxx. Modules start at a low memory
@@ -26,3 +28,8 @@ void arch__symbols__fixup_end(struct symbol *p, struct symbol *c)
p->end = c->start;
pr_debug4("%s sym:%s end:%#" PRIx64 "\n", __func__, p->name, p->end);
}
+
+void arch__add_leaf_frame_record_opts(struct record_opts *opts)
+{
+ opts->sample_user_regs |= sample_reg_masks[PERF_REG_ARM64_LR].mask;
+}
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);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/callchain.h b/tools/perf/util/callchain.h
index 5824134f983b..77fba053c677 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/callchain.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/callchain.h
@@ -280,6 +280,8 @@ static inline int arch_skip_callchain_idx(struct thread *thread __maybe_unused,
}
#endif
+void arch__add_leaf_frame_record_opts(struct record_opts *opts);
+
char *callchain_list__sym_name(struct callchain_list *cl,
char *bf, size_t bfsize, bool show_dso);
char *callchain_node__scnprintf_value(struct callchain_node *node,