[PATCH V5 0/4] powerpc/perf: Add support for perf extended regs in powerpc

Jiri Olsa jolsa at redhat.com
Fri Jul 31 05:50:48 AEST 2020


On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 01:24:40PM +0530, Athira Rajeev wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 27-Jul-2020, at 10:46 PM, Athira Rajeev <atrajeev at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Patch set to add support for perf extended register capability in
> > powerpc. The capability flag PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_REGS, is used to
> > indicate the PMU which support extended registers. The generic code
> > define the mask of extended registers as 0 for non supported architectures.
> > 
> > Patches 1 and 2 are the kernel side changes needed to include
> > base support for extended regs in powerpc and in power10.
> > Patches 3 and 4 are the perf tools side changes needed to support the
> > extended registers.
> > 
> 
> Hi Arnaldo, Jiri
> 
> please let me know if you have any comments/suggestions on this patch series to add support for perf extended regs.

hi,
can't really tell for powerpc, but in general
perf tool changes look ok

jirka



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