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SubjectRe: [PATCH] basic perf support for sparc

* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:25:10 +0200
>
> > -#define NR_SYSCALLS 327
> > +#define NR_SYSCALLS 328
>
> When you increase this value, you have to add entries to all of
> the syscall tables. The syscall dispatch checks against this as a
> limit, so if you don't explicitly add an entry to all the tables,
> it's possible to deref garbage past the end of the table and try
> to jump to it as a syscall.
>
> And if you somehow arrange for adding a compat syscall entry here
> for this, and build the perf tools 32-bit, you can forego all of
> these rediculious issues with trying to get a 64-bit BFD library.
> If the perf tools are written portably and use types like u64 etc.
> for holding addresses and similar things, this should not be an
> issue.
>
> The 32-bit sparc BFD library has full support for all the 64-bit
> binary formats and whatnot.

That would work too. On x86 perf works all across the compatibility
spectrum, and we do use strict u32/u64 typing and ABIs.

Note that we'll also solve (remove) the binutils-devel dependency,
it creates a way too large set of external build constraints for
perf. But in any case both 32-bit and 64-bit perf should work just
fine.

Ingo


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