Re: [PATCH 3/5] perf/sdt/x86: Move OP parser to tools/perf/arch/x86/

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Mar 22 2017 - 07:22:41 EST


Em Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 08:00:18AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:10:49 -0300
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Em Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 10:52:17AM +0530, Ravi Bangoria escreveu:
> > > Thanks Masami for the review.
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 07 February 2017 08:41 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 16:41:41 +0530
> > > > Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> SDT marker argument is in N@OP format. N is the size of argument and
> > > >> OP is the actual assembly operand. OP is arch dependent component and
> > > >> hence it's parsing logic also should be placed under tools/perf/arch/.
> > > >>
> > > > Ok, I have one question. Is there any possibility that N is different
> > > > size of OP? e.g. 8@dil, in this case we will record whole rdi.
> > > > is that OK?
> > >
> > > By looking at list of markers on my x86 Fedora25 box, yes, it's possible
> > > for case when register size used in OP is more than size specified by N.
> > > For example, -4@68(%rbx). But I don't see any argument which specifies
> > > higher size in N compared to size of register in OP, like you mentioned
> > > in your example.
> >
> > Masami, can I have your Acked-by for 3-5/5 in this series?
>
> Arnaldo, as I reviewed, this patch still have some discussion points.
> Others are good to me.

That is ok, waiting for the next steps then.

Thanks for the update,

- Arnaldo