Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fixes on remote unwind

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Tue Jun 21 2016 - 03:33:28 EST


On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:15:35AM +0000, He Kuang wrote:
> The remote unwind can supported scenario where we collect on a x86_64
> machine and want to do analysis on a ARM64 or x86-32 machine. Though
> this is not tested, after Arnaldo questioned the above issue, I tested
> and found a bug.
>
> In util/unwind-libunwind-local.c, PERF_REG_SP/IP is used, but those
> macros are assigned to the host platform, we should redefine them in
> the wrapper file, for example in "util/libunwind/x86_32.c".
>
> After fixing this problem, i686 perf.data can be parsed on aarch64
> machine.
>
> To Arnaldo, I noticed that this patch
> "perf tools: Find vdso supporting cross-platform analysis"
> is not on "origin/perf/unwind" branch, this patch was applied, please
> check if it was missed, the above test needs this patch.
>
> Thank you.
>
> He Kuang (3):
> perf unwind: Change macro names of perf register
> perf unwind: Fix wrongly used regs for x86_32 unwind
> perf unwind: Fix wrongly used regs for aarch64 unwind

for the patchset:

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
jirka