[PATCH 2/4] perf tests: Introduce perf_regs_load function on ARM

From: Jean Pihet
Date: Fri May 16 2014 - 04:41:40 EST


Introducing perf_regs_load function, which is going
to be used for dwarf unwind test in following patches.

It takes single argument as a pointer to the regs dump
buffer and populates it with current registers values.

Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/arch/arm/Makefile | 1 +
tools/perf/arch/arm/include/perf_regs.h | 2 ++
tools/perf/arch/arm/tests/regs_load.S | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 61 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm/tests/regs_load.S

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm/Makefile b/tools/perf/arch/arm/Makefile
index 67e9b3d..9b8f87e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)arch/$(ARCH)/util/dwarf-regs.o
endif
ifndef NO_LIBUNWIND
LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)arch/$(ARCH)/util/unwind-libunwind.o
+LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)arch/$(ARCH)/tests/regs_load.o
endif
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm/include/perf_regs.h b/tools/perf/arch/arm/include/perf_regs.h
index bcca511..33abcfa 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/arm/include/perf_regs.h
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm/include/perf_regs.h
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <asm/perf_regs.h>

+void perf_regs_load(u64 *regs);
+
#define PERF_REGS_MASK ((1ULL << PERF_REG_ARM_MAX) - 1)
#define PERF_REG_IP PERF_REG_ARM_PC
#define PERF_REG_SP PERF_REG_ARM_SP
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm/tests/regs_load.S b/tools/perf/arch/arm/tests/regs_load.S
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e09e983
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm/tests/regs_load.S
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
+
+#define R0 0x00
+#define R1 0x08
+#define R2 0x10
+#define R3 0x18
+#define R4 0x20
+#define R5 0x28
+#define R6 0x30
+#define R7 0x38
+#define R8 0x40
+#define R9 0x48
+#define SL 0x50
+#define FP 0x58
+#define IP 0x60
+#define SP 0x68
+#define LR 0x70
+#define PC 0x78
+
+/*
+ * Implementation of void perf_regs_load(u64 *regs);
+ *
+ * This functions fills in the 'regs' buffer from the actual registers values,
+ * in the way the perf built-in unwinding test expects them:
+ * - the PC at the time at the call to this function. Since this function
+ * is called using a bl instruction, the PC value is taken from LR.
+ * The built-in unwinding test then unwinds the call stack from the dwarf
+ * information in unwind__get_entries.
+ *
+ * Notes:
+ * - the 8 bytes stride in the registers offsets comes from the fact
+ * that the registers are stored in an u64 array (u64 *regs),
+ * - the regs buffer needs to be zeroed before the call to this function,
+ * in this case using a calloc in dwarf-unwind.c.
+ */
+
+.text
+.type perf_regs_load,%function
+ENTRY(perf_regs_load)
+ str r0, [r0, #R0]
+ str r1, [r0, #R1]
+ str r2, [r0, #R2]
+ str r3, [r0, #R3]
+ str r4, [r0, #R4]
+ str r5, [r0, #R5]
+ str r6, [r0, #R6]
+ str r7, [r0, #R7]
+ str r8, [r0, #R8]
+ str r9, [r0, #R9]
+ str sl, [r0, #SL]
+ str fp, [r0, #FP]
+ str ip, [r0, #IP]
+ str sp, [r0, #SP]
+ str lr, [r0, #LR]
+ str lr, [r0, #PC] // store pc as lr in order to skip the call
+ // to this function
+ mov pc, lr
+ENDPROC(perf_regs_load)
--
1.7.11.7

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