linux/arch/powerpc
Paul Mackerras 9eff26ea48 powerpc/perf_events: Fix call-graph recording, add perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-18 06:48:29 +01:00
..
boot Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2010-02-28 19:23:06 -08:00
configs Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2010-02-28 19:23:06 -08:00
include/asm powerpc/perf_events: Fix call-graph recording, add perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs 2010-03-18 06:48:29 +01:00
kernel powerpc/perf_events: Fix call-graph recording, add perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs 2010-03-18 06:48:29 +01:00
kvm Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2010-03-05 13:12:34 -08:00
lib powerpc: Fix lwsync feature fixup vs. modules on 64-bit 2010-02-26 18:29:17 +11:00
math-emu powerpc/math-emu: Fix efp dependence 2009-03-11 06:00:08 -05:00
mm nodemask.h: remove macro any_online_node 2010-03-06 11:26:31 -08:00
oprofile tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
platforms [WATCHDOG] watchdog_info constify 2010-03-07 10:30:57 +00:00
sysdev Merge commit 'origin/master' into next 2010-02-26 14:41:00 +11:00
xmon powerpc: Mark some variables in the page fault path __read_mostly 2010-02-03 17:39:48 +11:00
Kconfig Merge commit 'origin/master' into next 2010-02-26 14:41:00 +11:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2009-12-16 13:26:53 -08:00
Makefile powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE 2009-09-24 15:31:40 +10:00
relocs_check.pl powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE 2009-09-24 15:31:40 +10:00