[PATCH] perf: arm64: Record the user-mode PC in the call chain.

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Jun 20 05:11:37 EDT 2013


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 09:33:28AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Jed Davis <jld at mozilla.com> wrote:
> 
> > With this change, we no longer lose the innermost entry in the user-mode
> > part of the call chain.  See also the x86 port, which includes the ip,
> > and the corresponding change in arch/arm.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jed Davis <jld at mozilla.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c |    1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
> > index 1e49e5eb..9ba33c4 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
> > @@ -1336,6 +1336,7 @@ void perf_callchain_user(struct perf_callchain_entry *entry,
> >  		return;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	perf_callchain_store(entry, regs->pc);
> >  	tail = (struct frame_tail __user *)regs->regs[29];
> >  
> >  	while (entry->nr < PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH &&
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
> 
> I suspect this goes to v3.10 via the ARM64 tree?

Yup, we'll take this via the arm64 tree, thanks.

Catalin, you can add:

	Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

to this.

Cheers,

Will



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