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Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] perf tools: Enable bpf prologue for arm64

From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] perf tools: Enable bpf prologue for arm64
Date 2017-01-26 20:40 +0100
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Em Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 04:52:12PM +0000, Will Deacon escreveu:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:49:16AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:32:01 +0000
> > Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 07:23:11AM +0000, He Kuang wrote:
> > > > Since HAVE_KPROBES can be enabled in arm64, this patch introduces
> > > > regs_query_register_offset() to convert register name to offset for
> > > > arm64, so the BPF prologue feature is ready to use.
> > > > 
> > > > This patch also changes the 'dwarfnum' to 'offset' in register table,
> > > > so the related functions are consistent with x86.
> > > 
> > > Wouldn't it be an awful lot simpler just to leave the code as-is, and
> > > implement regs_query_register_offset in the same way that we implement
> > > get_arch_regstr but return the dwarfnum?
> > 
> > No, since the offset is not same as dwarfnum.
> > 
> > With this style, the index of array becomes the dwarfnum (the index of
> > each register defined by DWARF) and the "offset" member means the
> > byte-offset of the register in (user_)pt_regs. Those should be different.
> 
> Ok, then do it as two patches then, rather than introduce functionality
> along with the renaming.
> 
> > > I don't really see the point of all the refactoring.
> > 
> > Also, from the maintenance point of view, this rewrite work makes
> > the code simply similar to x86 implementation, that will be easier to
> > maintain :)
> 
> Right, apart from the two howling bugs in the version that was nearly merged
> initially :p. I tend to err on the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" side
> of the argument but if you really want the refactoring lets keep it as a
> separate change.

So, He, can you do that? How do we proceed?

- Arnaldo

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[PATCH 0/2] Support bpf prologue for arm64 He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> - 2017-01-24 11:40 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] perf tools: Introduce regs_query_register_offset() for arm64 He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> - 2017-01-24 11:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf tools: Introduce regs_query_register_offset()  for arm64 Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2017-01-24 19:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf tools: Introduce regs_query_register_offset()  for arm64 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-01-24 20:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf tools: Introduce regs_query_register_offset()  for arm64 Hekuang <hekuang@huawei.com> - 2017-01-25 08:30 +0100
        [PATCH 2/2 v2] perf tools: Enable bpf prologue for arm64 He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> - 2017-01-25 08:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] perf tools: Enable bpf prologue for arm64 Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2017-01-25 14:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] perf tools: Enable bpf prologue for arm64 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> - 2017-01-26 02:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] perf tools: Enable bpf prologue for arm64 Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2017-01-26 18:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] perf tools: Enable bpf prologue for arm64 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-01-26 20:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] perf tools: Enable bpf prologue for arm64 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> - 2017-01-26 03:00 +0100
  [PATCH 1/2] perf probe: Fix wrong register name for arm64 He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> - 2017-01-24 11:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf probe: Fix wrong register name for arm64 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-01-24 20:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf probe: Fix wrong register name for arm64 Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2017-01-25 10:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf probe: Fix wrong register name for arm64 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> - 2017-01-26 02:30 +0100
    [tip:perf/core] perf probe: Fix wrong register name for arm64 tip-bot for He Kuang <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-01-26 16:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] Support bpf prologue for arm64 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-01-24 17:00 +0100

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