perf tools: Record ARM64 LR register automatically
authorAlexandre Truong <alexandre.truong@arm.com>
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:45:15 +0000 (15:45 +0000)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 21 Dec 2021 21:35:23 +0000 (18:35 -0300)
commit7248e308a57587615431b83689cd57e957815bfc
tree943b275facb4d7467ff220a4cdbdfa3e48664367
parentf8464e084dd3c4cf37bdbeb06fea0afbd2e0f4e8
perf tools: Record ARM64 LR register automatically

On ARM64, automatically record the link register if the frame pointer
mode is on. It will be used to do a dwarf unwind to find the caller of
the leaf frame if the frame pointer was omitted.

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Truong <alexandre.truong@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211217154521.80603-2-german.gomez@arm.com
Signed-off-by: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/machine.c
tools/perf/builtin-record.c
tools/perf/util/callchain.h