From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753568Ab3AKNzU (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:55:20 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:12944 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753070Ab3AKNzT (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:55:19 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:54:49 +0100 From: Jiri Olsa To: Jacob Shin Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Paul Mackerras , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Stephane Eranian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/5] perf: Add support for hardware breakpoint address masks Message-ID: <20130111135449.GD2847@krava.brq.redhat.com> References: <1357848659-4786-1-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1357848659-4786-1-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:10:54PM -0600, Jacob Shin wrote: > The following patchset adds address masks to existing perf hardware > breakpoint mechanism to allow trapping on an address range (currently > only single address) on supported architectures. I haven't found any spec for that, could you please direct me? thanks, jirka > > perf uapi is updated, x86 AMD implementation (for AMD Family 16h and > beyond) is provided, and perf tool has been extended to do: > > $ perf stat -e mem:0x1000:w:0xf a.out > ^^^ > "don't care" bit mask > > which will count writes to [0x1000 ~ 0x1010) > > Jacob Shin (2): > perf: Add hardware breakpoint address mask > perf, x86: AMD implementation for hardware breakpoint address mask > > Suravee Suthikulpanit (3): > perf tools: Add breakpoint address mask to the mem event parser > perf tools: Add breakpoint address mask syntax to perf list and > documentation > perf tools: Add breakpoint address mask test case to > tests/parse-events > > arch/Kconfig | 4 ++++ > arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + > arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 2 ++ > arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h | 6 ++++++ > arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 7 ++++++ > arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/msr-index.h | 6 ++++++ > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++ > arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 5 +++++ > include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h | 6 ++++++ > include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 5 ++++- > kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 3 +++ > tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 14 ++++++++---- > tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 5 +++-- > tools/perf/util/parse-events.h | 2 +- > tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 14 ++++++++++-- > 16 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.7.9.5 > >