Re: [PATCH v2]: perf/x86: store user space frame-pointer value on a sample

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 7:37 AM Alexey Budankov <
alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,

> On 23.05.2018 16:09, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 01:06:58PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> >
> >> Is the patch ready to be up streamed now?
> >
> > Please post a new one where you modify the comment about the syscalls
> > not saving registers and ideally find the commit that made it so.

> Sent v3 with adjusted comment.
> As far comments become outdated quickly tried to be terse.

> >
> > Also; I think Andy would appreciate a comment near the syscall code that
> > refers back to this code and states what registers we rely upon being
> > there (+BP for this patch).

> Not sure if I can find all proper places to put comments there.
> However there is PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS macro that is employed at system
> call implementation so it is possible to put something like this there:

> .macro PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS rdx=%rdx rax=%rax save_ret=0
>          /*
>           ...
>           * perf/core subsystem relies on bp register value stored
>           * at pt_regs->bp; see arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c:
perf_get_regs_user()
>           * for more details;
>           ...
>           */


Near the top of entry_SYSCALL_64 would be reasonable, as would no comment
at all, I think.

> Thanks,
> Alexey
> >
> >