perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:20:40 +0000 (15:20 +0200)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:17:58 +0000 (12:17 -0300)
commitc5ebcedb566ef17bda7b02686e0d658a7bb42ee7
tree46619f5d62f0fbe9a6389ce20fd5ed92c25755e3
parent5685e0ff45f5df67e79e9b052b6ffd501ff38c11
perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample

Introducing PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER sample type bit to trigger the dump
of the user level stack on sample. The size of the dump is specified by
sample_stack_user value.

Being able to dump parts of the user stack, starting from the stack
pointer, will be useful to make a post mortem dwarf CFI based stack
unwinding.

Added HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP config option to determine if the
architecture provides user stack dump on perf event samples.  This needs
access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
architectures. Enabling this for x86 architecture.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
arch/Kconfig
arch/x86/Kconfig
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/events/core.c
kernel/events/internal.h