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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	hpa@zytor.com, eranian@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	fweisbec@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Fix USER/KERNEL tagging of samples
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:48:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120710094845.GB14821@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341910954.3462.102.camel@twins>


* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 10:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > However, it is worth pointing out that sp/bp have exactly the same
> > segment base issue. So if you do stack tracing into user mode, you
> > should really do the same thing for those. And quite frankly, at that
> > point vm86 mode and the stack segment matters in other ways than just
> > the base pointer: a 16-bit stack segment acts fundamentally
> > differently from a 32-bit one. So at that point it may well make much
> > more sense to take the approach Ingo suggests, and simply not follow
> > stack frames at all. 
> 
> Right, so I amended the patch to ignore vm86 stacks and added 
> {cs,ss}_base magic to ia32 stacks.
> 
> Ingo, do you want me to do a version where I simply bail on 
> everything if regs->{cs,ss} != {__USER_CS, __USER32_CS} || 
> regs->flags & VM ?

Only if it's really simple to do - out of morbid curiosity, to 
compare the two diffstats and such.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-10  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-06  6:20 [tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Fix USER/KERNEL tagging of samples tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-06 16:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-06 18:12   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-06 18:16     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-06 18:34       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-06 20:48         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-06 20:59           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-09 11:23         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-09 17:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-10  9:02             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-10  9:48               ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-07-10  9:50               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-10  9:52                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-10  9:55                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-31 17:57               ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86: Fix USER/ KERNEL tagging of samples properly tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-09 18:41           ` [tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Fix USER/KERNEL tagging of samples Ingo Molnar
2012-07-10  7:54             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-10  8:02               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-10  8:21               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-10  8:52                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-10  9:48                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-31 18:11                     ` H. Peter Anvin

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