Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] perf tools: Use offset instead of dwarfnum in register table.

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon Feb 06 2017 - 08:02:34 EST


On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 05:03:20PM +0800, Hekuang wrote:
> hi
>
> å 2017/2/3 21:00, Will Deacon åé:
> >On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 11:06:05AM +0000, He Kuang wrote:
> >>This patch changes the 'dwarfnum' to 'offset' in register table, so
> >>the index of array becomes the dwarfnum (the index of each register
> >>defined by DWARF) and the "offset" member means the byte-offset of the
> >>register in (user_)pt_regs. This change makes the code consistent with
> >>x86.
> >>
> >>Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>---
> >> tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/dwarf-regs.c | 107 ++++++++++++++++----------------
> >> 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
> >Thanks for splitting this up. Comment below.
> >
> >>diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/dwarf-regs.c b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/dwarf-regs.c
> >>index d49efeb..090f36b 100644
> >>--- a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/dwarf-regs.c
> >>+++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/dwarf-regs.c
> >>@@ -9,72 +9,69 @@
> >> */
> >> #include <stddef.h>
> >>+#include <linux/ptrace.h> /* for struct user_pt_regs */
> >> #include <dwarf-regs.h>
> >>-struct pt_regs_dwarfnum {
> >>+struct pt_regs_offset {
> >> const char *name;
> >>- unsigned int dwarfnum;
> >>+ int offset;
> >> };
> >>-#define STR(s) #s
> >>-#define REG_DWARFNUM_NAME(r, num) {.name = r, .dwarfnum = num}
> >>-#define GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(num) \
> >>- {.name = STR(%x##num), .dwarfnum = num}
> >>-#define REG_DWARFNUM_END {.name = NULL, .dwarfnum = 0}
> >>-
> >> /*
> >> * Reference:
> >> * http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0057b/IHI0057B_aadwarf64.pdf
> >> */
> >>-static const struct pt_regs_dwarfnum regdwarfnum_table[] = {
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(0),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(1),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(2),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(3),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(4),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(5),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(6),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(7),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(8),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(9),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(10),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(11),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(12),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(13),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(14),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(15),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(16),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(17),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(18),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(19),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(20),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(21),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(22),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(23),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(24),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(25),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(26),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(27),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(28),
> >>- GPR_DWARFNUM_NAME(29),
> >>- REG_DWARFNUM_NAME("%lr", 30),
> >>- REG_DWARFNUM_NAME("%sp", 31),
> >>- REG_DWARFNUM_END,
> >>-};
> >>+#define REG_OFFSET_NAME(r, num) {.name = "%" #r, \
> >>+ .offset = offsetof(struct user_pt_regs, regs[num])}
> >Whilst this works in practice, this is undefined behaviour for "sp", since
> >you'll go off the end of the regs array.
>
> It's not undefined behaviour here,
> struct user_pt_regs {
> __u64 regs[31];
> __u64 sp;
> __u64 pc;
> __u64 pstate;
> };
> user_pt_regs->regs[31] is user_pt_regs->sp and the offset value is correct.

I think it's undefined from the C standard perspective.

> >
> >I still think you're better off sticking with the dwarfnum, then just having
> >a dwarfnum2offset macro that multiplies by the size of a register.
> >
> >Will
> I think add a ptregs_offset field is more suitable and makes the code
> indepent
> to struct user_pt_regs layout, for example if the structure changed to this:
>
> struct user_pt_regs {
> __u64 sp;
> __u64 pc;
> __u64 pstate;
> __u64 regs[31];
> };

We won't reorder a uapi structure because that would binary compatibility.

Just send a patch using the dwarfnum as the index for the offset calculation,
like I've been saying since you posted the first version.

Will