[PATCH v2 2/4] perf tools: Use dynamic register set for Dwarf unwind

Leo Yan leo.yan at linaro.org
Tue May 17 04:03:22 PDT 2022


On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 11:20:03AM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> Architectures can detect availability of extra registers at
> runtime so use this more complete set for unwinding. This
> will include the VG register on arm64 in a later commit.
> 
> If the function isn't implemented then PERF_REGS_MASK is
> returned and there is no change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>

This patch looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>

Just curious, do you think should update the test (e.g.
arch/arm64/tests/dwarf-unwind.c) to use arch__user_reg_mask()?

Thanks,
Leo

> ---
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> index 5fd7924f8eb3..787bbcbcd2ae 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> @@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ static void __evsel__config_callchain(struct evsel *evsel, struct record_opts *o
>  					   "specifying a subset with --user-regs may render DWARF unwinding unreliable, "
>  					   "so the minimal registers set (IP, SP) is explicitly forced.\n");
>  			} else {
> -				attr->sample_regs_user |= PERF_REGS_MASK;
> +				attr->sample_regs_user |= arch__user_reg_mask();
>  			}
>  			attr->sample_stack_user = param->dump_size;
>  			attr->exclude_callchain_user = 1;
> -- 
> 2.28.0
> 



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