Re: [PATCH 2/3] riscv: Add support for perf registers sampling

From: Mao Han
Date: Mon Apr 29 2019 - 04:43:00 EST


On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 02:11:02PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:53:49 PDT (-0700), han_mao@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >+ PERF_REG_RISCV_S10,
> >+ PERF_REG_RISCV_S11,
> >+ PERF_REG_RISCV_T3,
> >+ PERF_REG_RISCV_T4,
> >+ PERF_REG_RISCV_T5,
> >+ PERF_REG_RISCV_T6,
> >+ PERF_REG_RISCV_MAX,
> >+};
>
> Is it expected this eventually supports floating-point and vector registers?
> If so, how do we make this extensible?
>

It seems none of current architecture put their fp/vfp registers into this
file, gpr is normally enough for backtrace and context restoration. I'm not
quite understand the problem of extensible. All modification to this file
should be synchronzied as the perf tool is released with the kernel.

Thanks,
Mao Han