[PATCH 0/2] powerpc/perf: Add instruction and data address registers to extended regs

Nageswara Sastry rnsastry at linux.ibm.com
Mon Jun 21 14:09:55 AEST 2021



On 20/06/21 8:15 pm, Athira Rajeev wrote:
> Patch set adds PMU registers namely Sampled Instruction Address Register
> (SIAR) and Sampled Data Address Register (SDAR) as part of extended regs
> in PowerPC. These registers provides the instruction/data address and
> adding these to extended regs helps in debug purposes.
> 
> Patch 1/2 adds SIAR and SDAR as part of the extended regs mask.
> Patch 2/2 includes perf tools side changes to add the SPRs to
> sample_reg_mask to use with -I? option.
> 
> Athira Rajeev (2):
>    powerpc/perf: Expose instruction and data address registers as part of
>      extended regs
>    tools/perf: Add perf tools support to expose instruction and data
>      address registers as part of extended regs


Tested with the following scenarios on P9, P10 - PowerVM environment
1. perf record -I? - shows added - sdar, siar
2. perf record -I <workload> and perf report -D - shows added - sdar, 
siar with and with out counts.

Tested-by: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry at linux.ibm.com>


>   arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/perf_regs.h       | 12 +++++++-----
>   arch/powerpc/perf/perf_regs.c                   |  4 ++++
>   tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/perf_regs.h | 12 +++++++-----
>   tools/perf/arch/powerpc/include/perf_regs.h     |  2 ++
>   tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/perf_regs.c        |  2 ++
>   5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 

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Thanks and Regards
R.Nageswara Sastry


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