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Frederic Weisbecker e49a5bd381 perf: Use hot regs with software sched switch/migrate events
Scheduler's task migration events don't work because they always
pass NULL regs perf_sw_event(). The event hence gets filtered
in perf_swevent_add().

Scheduler's context switches events use task_pt_regs() to get
the context when the event occured which is a wrong thing to
do as this won't give us the place in the kernel where we went
to sleep but the place where we left userspace. The result is
even more wrong if we switch from a kernel thread.

Use the hot regs snapshot for both events as they belong to the
non-interrupt/exception based events family. Unlike page faults
or so that provide the regs matching the exact origin of the event,
we need to save the current context.

This makes the task migration event working and fix the context
switch callchains and origin ip.

Example: perf record -a -e cs

Before:

    10.91%      ksoftirqd/0                  0  [k] 0000000000000000
                |
                --- (nil)
                    perf_callchain
                    perf_prepare_sample
                    __perf_event_overflow
                    perf_swevent_overflow
                    perf_swevent_add
                    perf_swevent_ctx_event
                    do_perf_sw_event
                    __perf_sw_event
                    perf_event_task_sched_out
                    schedule
                    run_ksoftirqd
                    kthread
                    kernel_thread_helper

After:

    23.77%  hald-addon-stor  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] schedule
            |
            --- schedule
               |
               |--60.00%-- schedule_timeout
               |          wait_for_common
               |          wait_for_completion
               |          blk_execute_rq
               |          scsi_execute
               |          scsi_execute_req
               |          sr_test_unit_ready
               |          |
               |          |--66.67%-- sr_media_change
               |          |          media_changed
               |          |          cdrom_media_changed
               |          |          sr_block_media_changed
               |          |          check_disk_change
               |          |          cdrom_open

v2: Always build perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() now that software
events need that too. They don't need it from modules, unlike trace
events, so we keep the EXPORT_SYMBOL in trace_event_perf.c

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-01 08:26:31 +02:00
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acpi acpi: Support IBM SMBus CMI devices 2010-03-24 14:38:37 +01:00
asm-generic dma-mapping: pci: move pci_set_dma_mask and pci_set_consistent_dma_mask to pci-dma-compat.h 2010-03-12 15:52:42 -08:00
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linux perf: Use hot regs with software sched switch/migrate events 2010-04-01 08:26:31 +02:00
math-emu
media Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus 2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
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net Bluetooth: Convert debug files to actually use debugfs instead of sysfs 2010-03-21 05:49:35 +01:00
pcmcia pcmcia: use dev_pm_ops for class pcmcia_socket_class 2010-03-24 11:00:11 +01:00
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scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2010-03-18 16:54:31 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'topic/misc' into for-linus 2010-03-08 09:35:50 +01:00
trace Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-18 16:52:46 -07:00
video broadsheetfb: support storing waveform 2010-03-12 15:52:34 -08:00
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