Re: [PATCH 01/17] perf: Unified API to record selective sets of archregisters

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:14:24PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> This brings a new API to help the selective dump of registers on
> event sampling, and its implementation for x86 arch.
> 
> Added HAVE_PERF_REGS config option to determine if the architecture
> provides perf registers ABI.
> 
> The information about desired registers will be passed in u64 mask.
> It's up to the architecture to map the registers into the mask bits.
> 
> For the x86 arch implementation, both 32 and 64 bit registers
> bits are defined within single enum to ensure 64 bit system can
> provide register dump for compat task if needed in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
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