Re: [PATCH V6 03/16] perf/core: Add support for PERF_SAMPLE_CODE_PAGE_SIZE

From: Liang, Kan
Date: Mon Aug 10 2020 - 18:37:14 EST




On 8/10/2020 5:41 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 02:24:23PM -0700, Kan Liang wrote:
From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>

When studying code layout, it is useful to capture the page size of the
sampled code address.

Add a new sample type for code page size.
The new sample type requires collecting the ip. The code page size can
be calculated from the IRQ-safe perf_get_page_size().

Only the generic support is covered. The large PEBS will be disabled
with this sample type.

-ENOREASON

I think the reason is similar to PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_PAGE_SIZE. For large PEBS, the mapping could be gone for the earlier PEBS records. Invalid page size may be retrieved. I will update the commit message.

Thanks,
Kan