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Author SHA1 Message Date
Masami Hiramatsu
293d5b4394 perf probe: Support probing on offline cross-arch binary
Support probing on offline cross-architecture binary by adding getting
the target machine arch from ELF and choose correct register string for
the machine.

Here is an example:
  -----
  $ perf probe --vmlinux=./vmlinux-arm --definition 'do_sys_open $params'
  p:probe/do_sys_open do_sys_open+0 dfd=%r5:s32 filename=%r1:u32 flags=%r6:s32 mode=%r3:u16
  -----

Here, we can get probe/do_sys_open from above and append it to to the target
machine's tracing/kprobe_events file in the tracefs mountput, usually
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events (or /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events).

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147214229717.23638.6440579792548044658.stgit@devbox
[ Add definition for EM_AARCH64 to fix the build on at least centos 6, debian 7 & ubuntu 12.04.5 ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-01 12:41:09 -03:00
Wang Nan
3237f28188 perf tools: Add ARM64 perf_regs_load to support libunwind and enable testing
Newest libunwind does support ARM64, and perf is able to utilize it
also.

This patch enables the perf test dwarf unwind for arm64.

 Test result:
  # ./perf test unwind
  25: Test dwarf unwind                                      : Ok

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427461681-72971-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-29 12:43:40 -03:00
Mark Salter
7d885749b6 perf tools: Fix arm64 build error
I'm seeing the following build error on arm64:

  In file included from util/event.c:3:0:
  util/event.h:95:17: error: 'PERF_REGS_MAX' undeclared here (not in a function)
    u64 cache_regs[PERF_REGS_MAX];
                 ^

This patch adds a PERF_REGS_MAX definition for arm64.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406325766-8085-1-git-send-email-msalter@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-07-30 12:37:55 -03:00
Jean Pihet
21a8b756b8 perf tools: Consolidate types.h for ARM and ARM64
Prevents a build breakage since commit d944c4eebc
'tools: Consolidate types.h'

Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400229672-16104-1-git-send-email-jean.pihet@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-05-16 11:38:57 +02:00
Jean Pihet
8ab596afb9 perf tools ARM64: Wire up perf_regs and unwind support
This patch hooks in the perf_regs and libunwind code for ARM64.
The tools/perf/arch/arm64 is created; it contains the arch specific
code for DWARF unwinding.

Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398688353-3737-1-git-send-email-jean.pihet@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-04-29 15:31:19 +02:00