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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/17] perf: Add ability to attach user level registers dump to sample
    Em Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:13:06PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker escreveu:
    > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:14:25PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
    > > Introducing PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER sample type bit to trigger
    > > the dump of user level registers on sample. Registers we want
    > > to dump are specified by sample_regs_user bitmask.
    > >
    > > Only user level registers are dumped at the moment. Meaning the
    > > register values of the user space context as it was before the
    > > user entered the kernel for whatever reason (syscall, irq,
    > > exception, or a PMI happening in userspace).
    > >
    > > The layout of the sample_regs_user bitmap is described in
    > > asm/perf_regs.h for archs that support register dump.
    > >
    > > This is going to be useful to bring Dwarf CFI based stack
    > > unwinding on top of samples.
    > >
    > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    > > Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    >
    > Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

    Cool, Stephane, Peter, are you ok with it? Can I get your Acked-by or
    even Reviewed-by?

    - Arnaldo


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