[PATCH 0/3] perf arm-spe: Track pid/tid for Arm SPE samples

From: German Gomez
Date: Tue Nov 02 2021 - 14:08:01 EST


The following patchset is an iteration on RFC [1] where pid/tid info is
assigned to the Arm SPE synthesized samples. Two methods of tracking
pids are considered: hardware-based (using Arm SPE CONTEXT packets), and
context-switch events (from perf) as fallback.

- Patch #1 enables pid tracking using RECORD_SWITCH* events from perf.
- Patch #2 saves the value of SPE CONTEXT packet to the arm_spe_record
struct (patch from [2]).
- Patch #3 enables hardware-based pid tracking using SPE CONTEXT packets.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210916001748.1525291-1-namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-perf-users/msg12543.html

German Gomez (3):
perf arm-spe: Track task context switch for cpu-mode events
perf arm-spe: Save context ID in record
perf arm-spe: Support hardware-based PID tracing

tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c | 6 +-
.../util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-decoder.c | 2 +
.../util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-decoder.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c | 144 ++++++++++++++----
4 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

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