[PATCH 0/2] ARM64: perf: add support for the perf registers and dwarf unwinding

[Sandeepa Prabhu]

On 15 November 2013 22:12, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:04:04AM +0000, Sandeepa Prabhu wrote:
>> Hi Jean,
>>
>> I have applied this patchset on aarch64 upstream branch,cross-compiled
>> for arm64 and try running some tests for hardware breakpoints.
>>
>> I cross-compiled perf using linaro toolchain
>> "gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.7-2013.04-20130415_linux" as
>>  $ cd tools/perf/
>>  $ make LDFLAGS=-static ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
>>
>> Copied the static binary to my initrd image and tried running tests to
>> place hw_breakpoint on an kernel symbol as:
>>
>>  # perf record -e "mem:0xffffffc00013f640:x"
>
> Right, but that's not a valid invocation of perf. You have to give it
> something to record. Something like:
>
> # perf record -e mem:0xffffffc00013f640:x -a -- sleep 10
Hi Will,

Thanks for correcting me, now I see perf record working :)

~Sandeepa
>
> for example.
>
> Will