[PATCH 1/2] ARM64: perf: add support for perf registers API

Jean Pihet jean.pihet at linaro.org
Fri Oct 18 10:54:37 EDT 2013


From: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet at newoldbits.com>

This patch implements the functions required for the perf registers API,
allowing the perf tool to interface kernel register dumps with libunwind
in order to provide userspace backtracing.
Only the general purpose user space registers are exported, i.e.:
 PERF_REG_ARM_X0,
 ...
 PERF_REG_ARM_X28,
 PERF_REG_ARM_FP,
 PERF_REG_ARM_LR,
 PERF_REG_ARM_SP,
 PERF_REG_ARM_PC
and not the PERF_REG_ARM_V* registers.

Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet at linaro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                      |  2 ++
 arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild      |  1 +
 arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/perf_regs.h | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile              |  1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_regs.c           | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 73 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/perf_regs.h
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_regs.c

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index c044548..9bb5bc0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ config ARM64
 	select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if PERF_EVENTS
 	select HAVE_MEMBLOCK
 	select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
+	select HAVE_PERF_REGS
+	select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
 	select IRQ_DOMAIN
 	select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
 	select NO_BOOTMEM
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild
index e4b78bd..942376d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ header-y += byteorder.h
 header-y += fcntl.h
 header-y += hwcap.h
 header-y += kvm_para.h
+header-y += perf_regs.h
 header-y += param.h
 header-y += ptrace.h
 header-y += setup.h
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/perf_regs.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/perf_regs.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..06bf360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/perf_regs.h
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_ARM_PERF_REGS_H
+#define _ASM_ARM_PERF_REGS_H
+
+enum perf_event_arm_regs {
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X0,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X1,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X2,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X3,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X4,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X5,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X6,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X7,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X8,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X9,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X10,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X11,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X12,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X13,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X14,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X15,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X16,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X17,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X18,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X19,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X20,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X21,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X22,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X23,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X24,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X25,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X26,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X27,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_X28,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_FP,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_LR,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_SP,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_PC,
+	PERF_REG_ARM_MAX,
+};
+#endif /* _ASM_ARM_PERF_REGS_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
index 7b4b564..c42df09 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_COMPAT)		+= sys32.o kuser32.o signal32.o 	\
 					   sys_compat.o
 arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_MODULES)		+= arm64ksyms.o module.o
 arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_SMP)			+= smp.o smp_spin_table.o smp_psci.o
+arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS)		+= perf_regs.o
 arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS)	+= perf_event.o
 arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT)+= hw_breakpoint.o
 arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK)	+= early_printk.o
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_regs.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bbcf63c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_regs.c
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/perf_event.h>
+#include <linux/bug.h>
+#include <asm/perf_regs.h>
+#include <asm/ptrace.h>
+
+u64 perf_reg_value(struct pt_regs *regs, int idx)
+{
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE((u32)idx >= PERF_REG_ARM_MAX))
+		return 0;
+
+	return regs->regs[idx];
+}
+
+#define REG_RESERVED (~((1ULL << PERF_REG_ARM_MAX) - 1))
+
+int perf_reg_validate(u64 mask)
+{
+	if (!mask || mask & REG_RESERVED)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+u64 perf_reg_abi(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+	return PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI_64;
+}
-- 
1.7.11.7




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