[PATCH 1/2] perf: Pass appropriate frame pointer to dump_trace()

* [PATCH 1/2] perf: Pass appropriate frame pointer to dump_trace()
@ 2009-12-31  4:53 Frederic Weisbecker
  2009-12-31  4:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf: Drop useless check for ignored frame Frederic Weisbecker
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From: Frederic Weisbecker @ 2009-12-31  4:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar
  Cc: LKML, Frederic Weisbecker, Peter Zijlstra,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Paul Mackerras

Pass the frame pointer from the regs of the interrupted path
to dump_trace() while processing the stack trace.

Currently, dump_trace() takes the current bp and starts the
callchain from dump_trace() itself. This is wasteful because
we need to walk through the entire NMI/DEBUG stack before
retrieving the interrupted point.

We can fix that by just using the frame pointer from the captured
regs. It points exactly where we want to start.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index c223b7e..d616c06 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -2347,7 +2347,7 @@ perf_callchain_kernel(struct pt_regs *regs, struct perf_callchain_entry *entry)
 	callchain_store(entry, PERF_CONTEXT_KERNEL);
 	callchain_store(entry, regs->ip);
 
-	dump_trace(NULL, regs, NULL, 0, &backtrace_ops, entry);
+	dump_trace(NULL, regs, NULL, regs->bp, &backtrace_ops, entry);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.6.2.3


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