[PATCH v4 0/6] Fix missing leaf-function callers when recording

From: German Gomez
Date: Wed Dec 15 2021 - 10:11:59 EST


(This cset applies on top of [1])

Call-graphs on ARM64 using the option "--call-grah fp" are missing the
callers of the leaf functions. See [PATCH 6/6] for a before and after
after example using this cset.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211207180653.1147374-1-german.gomez@xxxxxxx/

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Changes since v3
- Only record LR register instead of all registers in [PATCH 1/6].
- Introduce [PATCH 5/6] to refactor the SAMPL_REG macro.
- Fix compilation issues on different platforms.

Alexandre Truong (5):
perf tools: record ARM64 LR register automatically
perf tools: add a mechanism to inject stack frames
perf tools: Refactor script__setup_sample_type()
perf tools: enable dwarf_callchain_users on arm64
perf tools: determine if LR is the return address

German Gomez (1):
perf tools: Refactor SMPL_REG macro in perf_regs.h

tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/machine.c | 7 +++
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 8 +++
tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 4 +-
tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 13 +---
tools/perf/util/Build | 1 +
.../util/arm64-frame-pointer-unwind-support.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++
.../util/arm64-frame-pointer-unwind-support.h | 10 +++
tools/perf/util/callchain.c | 9 ++-
tools/perf/util/callchain.h | 4 +-
tools/perf/util/machine.c | 50 ++++++++++++++-
tools/perf/util/machine.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/perf_regs.h | 7 ++-
12 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/arm64-frame-pointer-unwind-support.c
create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/arm64-frame-pointer-unwind-support.h

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