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x86: Save rbp in pt_regs on irq entry
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Thu, 6 Jan 2011 14:22:47 +0000 (15:22 +0100)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:40:56 +0000 (17:40 +0100)
commit625dbc3b8acbefefefe27e1d7bbc6e53eb4f3f2d
treed27741bbc7397b6982ae5f0fd2cb06629c98ea1c
parent39a6eebda253aa34d659ca9436e3c32ef60473f1
x86: Save rbp in pt_regs on irq entry

From the x86_64 low level interrupt handlers, the frame pointer is
saved right after the partial pt_regs frame.

rbp is not supposed to be part of the irq partial saved registers,
but it only requires to extend the pt_regs frame by 8 bytes to
do so, plus a tiny stack offset fixup on irq exit.

This changes a bit the semantics or get_irq_entry() that is supposed
to provide only the value of caller saved registers and the cpu
saved frame. However it's a win for unwinders that can walk through
stack frames on top of get_irq_regs() snapshots.

A noticeable impact is that it makes perf events cpu-clock and
task-clock events based callchains working on x86_64.

Let's then save rbp into the irq pt_regs.

As a result with:

perf record -e cpu-clock perf bench sched messaging
perf report --stdio

Before:
    20.94%             perf  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] lock_acquire
                       |
                       --- lock_acquire
                          |
                          |--44.01%-- __write_nocancel
                          |
                          |--43.18%-- __read
                          |
                          |--6.08%-- fork
                          |          create_worker
                          |
                          |--0.88%-- _dl_fixup
                          |
                          |--0.65%-- do_lookup_x
                          |
                          |--0.53%-- __GI___libc_read
                           --4.67%-- [...]

After:
    19.23%         perf  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] __lock_acquire
                   |
                   --- __lock_acquire
                      |
                      |--97.74%-- lock_acquire
                      |          |
                      |          |--21.82%-- _raw_spin_lock
                      |          |          |
                      |          |          |--37.26%-- unix_stream_recvmsg
                      |          |          |          sock_aio_read
                      |          |          |          do_sync_read
                      |          |          |          vfs_read
                      |          |          |          sys_read
                      |          |          |          system_call
                      |          |          |          __read
                      |          |          |
                      |          |          |--24.09%-- unix_stream_sendmsg
                      |          |          |          sock_aio_write
                      |          |          |          do_sync_write
                      |          |          |          vfs_write
                      |          |          |          sys_write
                      |          |          |          system_call
                      |          |          |          __write_nocancel

v2: Fix cfi annotations.

Reported-by: Soeren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S