Skip to content
  • Paul Mackerras's avatar
    powerpc/perf_events: Fix call-graph recording, add perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs · 9eff26ea
    Paul Mackerras authored
    
    
    This implements a powerpc version of perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
    to get correct call-graphs.
    
    It's implemented in assembly because that way we can be sure there isn't
    a stack frame for perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs.  If it was in C, gcc might
    or might not create a stack frame for it, which would affect the number
    of levels we have to skip.
    
    With this, we see results from perf record -e lock:lock_acquire like
    this:
    
     # Samples: 24878
     #
     # Overhead         Command      Shared Object  Symbol
     # ........  ..............  .................  ......
     #
        14.99%            perf  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ._raw_spin_lock
                          |
                          --- ._raw_spin_lock
                             |
                             |--25.00%-- .alloc_fd
                             |          (nil)
                             |          |
                             |          |--50.00%-- .anon_inode_getfd
                             |          |          .sys_perf_event_open
                             |          |          syscall_exit
                             |          |          syscall
                             |          |          create_counter
                             |          |          __cmd_record
                             |          |          run_builtin
                             |          |          main
                             |          |          0xfd2e704
                             |          |          0xfd2e8c0
                             |          |          (nil)
    
    ... etc.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: anton@samba.org
    Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    LKML-Reference: <20100318050513.GA6575@drongo>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    9eff26ea