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<title>perf: Move task_pt_regs sampling into arch code</title>
<updated>2015-01-09T10:12:28+00:00</updated>
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<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
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<published>2015-01-04T18:36:19+00:00</published>
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On x86_64, at least, task_pt_regs may be only partially initialized
in many contexts, so x86_64 should not use it without extra care
from interrupt context, let alone NMI context.

This will allow x86_64 to override the logic and will supply some
scratch space to use to make a cleaner copy of user regs.

Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: chenggang.qcg@taobao.com
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jean Pihet &lt;jean.pihet@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e431cd4c18c2e1c44c774f10758527fb2d1025c4.1420396372.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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On x86_64, at least, task_pt_regs may be only partially initialized
in many contexts, so x86_64 should not use it without extra care
from interrupt context, let alone NMI context.

This will allow x86_64 to override the logic and will supply some
scratch space to use to make a cleaner copy of user regs.

Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: chenggang.qcg@taobao.com
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jean Pihet &lt;jean.pihet@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e431cd4c18c2e1c44c774f10758527fb2d1025c4.1420396372.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: perf: add support for perf registers API</title>
<updated>2013-09-30T15:41:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-26T11:36:35+00:00</published>
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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.

Cc: Jean Pihet &lt;jean.pihet@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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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.

Cc: Jean Pihet &lt;jean.pihet@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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