powerpc/perf_events: Fix call-graph recording, add perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs

This implements a powerpc version of perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
to get correct call-graphs.

It's implemented in assembly because that way we can be sure there isn't
a stack frame for perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs.  If it was in C, gcc might
or might not create a stack frame for it, which would affect the number
of levels we have to skip.

With this, we see results from perf record -e lock:lock_acquire like
this:

 # Samples: 24878
 #
 # Overhead         Command      Shared Object  Symbol
 # ........  ..............  .................  ......
 #
    14.99%            perf  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ._raw_spin_lock
                      |
                      --- ._raw_spin_lock
                         |
                         |--25.00%-- .alloc_fd
                         |          (nil)
                         |          |
                         |          |--50.00%-- .anon_inode_getfd
                         |          |          .sys_perf_event_open
                         |          |          syscall_exit
                         |          |          syscall
                         |          |          create_counter
                         |          |          __cmd_record
                         |          |          run_builtin
                         |          |          main
                         |          |          0xfd2e704
                         |          |          0xfd2e8c0
                         |          |          (nil)

... etc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100318050513.GA6575@drongo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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