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From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	kan.liang@linux.intel.com, mingo@redhat.com, acme@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, jolsa@redhat.com,
	eranian@google.com, ak@linux.intel.com, dave.hansen@intel.com,
	kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V9 1/4] perf/core: Add PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_PAGE_SIZE
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:49:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201020024925.GB13630@leoy-ThinkPad-X240s> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201009095300.GI2628@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 11:53:00AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 10:37:51AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 11:09:27AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > > Patch 4 makes it all far worse by exposing it to pretty much everybody.
> > > 
> > > Now, I think we can fix at least the user mappings with the below delta,
> > > but if archs are using non-page-table MMU sizes we'll need arch helpers.
> > > 
> > > ARM64 is in that last boat.
> > > 
> > > Will, can you live with the below, if not, what would you like to do,
> > > make the entire function __weak so that you can override it, or hook
> > > into it somewhere?
> > 
> > Hmm, so I don't think we currently have any PMUs that set 'data->addr'
> > on arm64, in which case maybe none of this currently matters for us.
> > 
> > However, I must admit that I couldn't figure out exactly what gets exposed
> > to userspace when the backend drivers don't look at the sample_type or
> > do anything with the addr field.
> 
> Patch 4:
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201001135749.2804-5-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
> 
> is the one that exposes this to everybody with perf support. It will
> then report the page-size for the code address (SAMPLE_IP).

I can see there have another potentail customer to use page-size is
Arm SPE, but Arm SPE is hardware trace based sample but not interrupt
based sample.  For this case, I think this patch set cannot be
directly applied to the AUX trace data.

Thanks,
Leo

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-20  2:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-01 13:57 [PATCH V9 0/4] Add the page size in the perf record (kernel) kan.liang
2020-10-01 13:57 ` [PATCH V9 1/4] perf/core: Add PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_PAGE_SIZE kan.liang
2020-10-09  9:09   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-09  9:16     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-09  9:37     ` Will Deacon
2020-10-09  9:53       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-20  2:49         ` Leo Yan [this message]
2020-10-20  7:19           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-20  8:16             ` Leo Yan
2020-10-09 12:29     ` Liang, Kan
2020-10-09 12:57       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-09 13:28     ` Michael Ellerman
2020-10-12  8:48       ` Will Deacon
2020-10-13 14:57         ` Liang, Kan
2020-10-13 15:46           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-13 16:34             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-04 17:11               ` Liang, Kan
2020-11-10 15:20                 ` Liang, Kan
2020-11-11  9:57                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-11 11:22                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-11 12:43                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-11 15:30                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-11 15:52                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-11 15:57                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-11 16:38                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-11 17:22                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-11 18:26                               ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-11 20:00                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-11 22:33                                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-12  9:53                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-12 11:36                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-12 14:01                                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-10-29 10:51   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-10-01 13:57 ` [PATCH V9 2/4] perf/x86/intel: Support PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_PAGE_SIZE kan.liang
2020-10-29 10:51   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-10-01 13:57 ` [PATCH V9 3/4] powerpc/perf: " kan.liang
2020-10-29 10:51   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Kan Liang
2020-10-01 13:57 ` [PATCH V9 4/4] perf/core: Add support for PERF_SAMPLE_CODE_PAGE_SIZE kan.liang
2020-10-29 10:51   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Stephane Eranian

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