[PATCH v2] perf: libdw support for powerpc

Jiri Olsa jolsa at redhat.com
Thu Jun 15 22:13:55 AEST 2017


On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 12:24:41PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Porting PPC to libdw only needs an architecture-specific hook to move
> the register state from perf to libdw.
> 
> The ARM and x86 architectures already use libdw, and it is useful to
> have as much common code for the unwinder as possible.  Mark Wielaard
> has contributed a frame-based unwinder to libdw, so that unwinding works
> even for binaries that do not have CFI information.  In addition,
> libunwind is always preferred to libdw by the build machinery so this
> cannot introduce regressions on machines that have both libunwind and
> libdw installed.
> 
> Cc: acme at kernel.org
> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>

looks good and got possitive feedback from our QE testing this

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at kernel.org>

thanks,
jirka


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