perf tools: allow user to specify hardware breakpoint bp_len
Currently bp_len is given a default value of 4. Allow user to override it:
$ perf stat -e mem:0x1000/8
^
bp_len
If no value is given, it will default to 4 as it did before.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.w.shin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: xiakaixu <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index c659a3c..efa1ff4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@
}
int parse_events_add_breakpoint(struct list_head *list, int *idx,
- void *ptr, char *type)
+ void *ptr, char *type, u64 len)
{
struct perf_event_attr attr;
@@ -536,14 +536,15 @@
if (parse_breakpoint_type(type, &attr))
return -EINVAL;
- /*
- * We should find a nice way to override the access length
- * Provide some defaults for now
- */
- if (attr.bp_type == HW_BREAKPOINT_X)
- attr.bp_len = sizeof(long);
- else
- attr.bp_len = HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_4;
+ /* Provide some defaults if len is not specified */
+ if (!len) {
+ if (attr.bp_type == HW_BREAKPOINT_X)
+ len = sizeof(long);
+ else
+ len = HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_4;
+ }
+
+ attr.bp_len = len;
attr.type = PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT;
attr.sample_period = 1;
@@ -1364,7 +1365,7 @@
printf("\n");
printf(" %-50s [%s]\n",
- "mem:<addr>[:access]",
+ "mem:<addr>[/len][:access]",
event_type_descriptors[PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT]);
printf("\n");
}