Re: [PATCH 08/31] perf, x86: Report PEBS event in a raw format

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 21:31 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Left over are the general registers. We need them for some analysis
> too: for example for loop trip count and string instruction trip
> count sampling.
> 
> There isn't really any good way to generalize general registers.
> Obviously they are different for every architecture.

You missed the whole PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER stuff?
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