Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] perf: arm64: Kernel support for Dwarf unwinding through SVE functions

From: James Clark
Date: Thu Sep 22 2022 - 10:31:37 EST




On 22/09/2022 15:04, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 02:26:56PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
>> I'm resubmitting this with a few of the changes suggested by Will on V2.
>>
>> I haven't made any changes regarding the open questions about the
>> discoverability or saving the new reg and passing to output_sample()
>> because I think it's best to be consistent with the implementations on
>> other platforms first. I have explained in more detail on v2 [1].
>>
>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5fcf1a6f-c8fb-c296-992e-18aae8874095@xxxxxxx/
>
> Fair enough, I can't argue against being consistent.
>
> Given that this exposes subtle new user ABI, do we have any coverage in
> the selftests? If not, please could you add something?
>

Thanks, I will do that. I assume you mean the self tests in
tools/perf/tests and not some non Perf tests?

> Thanks,
>
> Will