linux/tools
Naveen N. Rao d5c2e2c17a perf probe ppc64le: Prefer symbol table lookup over DWARF
Use symbol table lookups by default if DWARF is not necessary, since
powerpc ABIv2 encodes local entry points in the symbol table and the
function entry address in DWARF may not be appropriate for kprobes, as
described here:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17638

"The DWARF address ranges deliberately include the *whole* function,
both global and local entry points."
...
"If you want to set probes on a local entry point, you should look up
the symbol in the main symbol table (not DWARF), and check the st_other
bits; they will indicate whether the function has a local entry point,
and what its offset from the global entry point is.  Note that GDB does
the same when setting a breakpoint on a function entry."

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/88a10e22f4aaba2aef812824ca4b10d7beeea012.1430217967.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-04 12:43:46 -03:00
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build tools build: Add feature check for lzma library 2015-03-21 14:53:39 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
hv Tools: hv: do not add redundant '/' in hv_start_fcopy() 2015-01-25 09:17:57 -08:00
include tools: Remove bitops/hweight usage of bits in tools/perf 2015-01-16 17:49:29 -03:00
lguest tools/lguest: don't use legacy definitions for net device in example launcher. 2015-02-13 17:15:55 +10:30
lib tools lib traceevent: Add alias field to struct format_field 2015-04-29 10:37:45 -03:00
net tools: bpf_jit_disasm: increase image buffer size 2014-05-16 16:44:08 -04:00
nfsd
perf perf probe ppc64le: Prefer symbol table lookup over DWARF 2015-05-04 12:43:46 -03:00
power Revert "cpupower Makefile change to help run the tool without 'make install'" 2015-03-11 21:56:49 +01:00
scripts tools lib traceevent: Add global QUIET_CC_FPIC build output 2013-12-19 16:18:10 -03:00
testing selftests: Fix build failures when invoked from kselftest target 2015-03-19 09:54:55 -06:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: silence 'set but not used' warnings 2015-02-28 13:52:48 +08:00
time tools: add script to test udelay 2014-07-23 10:16:38 -07:00
usb tools: ffs-aio-example: use endpoint addresses from descriptors 2015-01-15 09:41:49 -06:00
virtio tools/virtio: add virtio 1.0 in vringh_test 2014-12-15 23:49:22 +02:00
vm mm:add KPF_ZERO_PAGE flag for /proc/kpageflags 2015-02-11 17:06:00 -08:00
Makefile tools build: Fix Makefile(s) to properly invoke tools build 2015-04-29 10:37:46 -03:00