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authorRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-10-04 13:27:45 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-10-05 14:14:22 +0300
commita1d9972e59e15538458c030affbfc298c32a47f8 (patch)
treed962bf5c549e92a8dabc06932fe0a55b8002a7a3 /tools/perf
parent8657355f5b5f657407efc12a2223e8a3a6d658de (diff)
downloadlinux-a1d9972e59e15538458c030affbfc298c32a47f8.tar.xz
perf uretprobe ppc64le: Fix probe location
Perf uretprobe probes on GEP(Global Entry Point) which fails to record all function calls via LEP(Local Entry Point). Fix that by probing on LEP. Objdump: 00000000100005f0 <doit>: 100005f0: 02 10 40 3c lis r2,4098 100005f4: 00 7f 42 38 addi r2,r2,32512 100005f8: a6 02 08 7c mflr r0 100005fc: 10 00 01 f8 std r0,16(r1) 10000600: f8 ff e1 fb std r31,-8(r1) Before applying patch: $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events r:probe_uprobe_test/doit /home/ravi/uprobe_test:0x00000000000005f0 After applying patch: $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events r:probe_uprobe_test/doit /home/ravi/uprobe_test:0x00000000000005f8 This is not the case with kretprobes because the kernel itself finds LEP and probes on it. Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475576865-6562-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c
index ed9d5d15d5b6..1030a6e504bb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ void arch__fix_tev_from_maps(struct perf_probe_event *pev,
*
* In addition, we shouldn't specify an offset for kretprobes.
*/
- if (pev->point.offset || pev->point.retprobe || !map || !sym)
+ if (pev->point.offset || (!pev->uprobes && pev->point.retprobe) ||
+ !map || !sym)
return;
lep_offset = PPC64_LOCAL_ENTRY_OFFSET(sym->arch_sym);