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Frederic Weisbecker 5331d7b846 perf: Introduce new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for hot regs snapshot
Events that trigger overflows by interrupting a context can
use get_irq_regs() or task_pt_regs() to retrieve the state
when the event triggered. But this is not the case for some
other class of events like trace events as tracepoints are
executed in the same context than the code that triggered
the event.

It means we need a different api to capture the regs there,
namely we need a hot snapshot to get the most important
informations for perf: the instruction pointer to get the
event origin, the frame pointer for the callchain, the code
segment for user_mode() tests (we always use __KERNEL_CS as
trace events always occur from the kernel) and the eflags
for further purposes.

v2: rename perf_save_regs to perf_fetch_caller_regs as per
Masami's suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
2010-03-10 14:39:35 +01:00
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alpha alpha: PTR_ERR overwrites -EINVAL in syscall osf_mount 2010-03-06 11:26:27 -08:00
arm perf: Provide generic perf_sample_data initialization 2010-03-10 13:22:23 +01:00
avr32 USB: atmel uaba: Adding invert vbus_pin 2010-03-02 14:54:57 -08:00
blackfin
cris cris v32: typo in crisv32_arbiter_unwatch()? 2010-03-06 11:26:28 -08:00
frv frv: remove pci_dma_sync_single() and pci_dma_sync_sg() 2010-03-06 11:26:27 -08:00
h8300 m68k{,nommu}/h8300: Remove obsolete comment about map_chunk 2010-02-27 18:27:14 +01:00
ia64 Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type 2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
m32r Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2010-03-03 07:34:18 -08:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2010-03-01 09:15:15 -08:00
m68knommu m68knommu: NPTL support for uClinux 2010-02-27 18:35:22 +01:00
microblaze Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2010-03-03 07:34:18 -08:00
mips sysdev: Pass attribute in sysdev_class attributes show/store 2010-03-07 17:04:47 -08:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2010-03-01 09:15:15 -08:00
parisc parisc: use __ratelimit in unaligned.c 2010-03-06 22:54:59 +00:00
powerpc perf: Rework and fix the arch CPU-hotplug hooks 2010-03-10 13:22:24 +01:00
s390 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 2010-03-08 10:17:20 -08:00
score Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2010-03-01 09:15:15 -08:00
sh perf: Rework and fix the arch CPU-hotplug hooks 2010-03-10 13:22:24 +01:00
sparc perf: Provide generic perf_sample_data initialization 2010-03-10 13:22:23 +01:00
um elf coredump: add extended numbering support 2010-03-06 11:26:46 -08:00
x86 perf: Introduce new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for hot regs snapshot 2010-03-10 14:39:35 +01:00
xtensa Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2010-03-02 07:55:08 -08:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'perf-probes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-05 10:50:22 -08:00