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Subject[tip:perf/core] perf probe: Fix failure to probe events on arm
Commit-ID:  7c31bb8c95ed269062ff7c7cc4a28b84a2b0f3a6
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/7c31bb8c95ed269062ff7c7cc4a28b84a2b0f3a6
Author: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 02:49:10 +0000
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:21:44 -0300

perf probe: Fix failure to probe events on arm

Fix failure to probe events on arm, the problem was introduced by commit
5a51fcd1f30c ("perf probe: Skip kernel symbols which is out of .text").

For some architectures, the '_etext' label is not in the .text section
(in the .notes section for arm/arm64). Labels out of the .text section
are not loaded as symbols and we get a zero value when looking up its
addresses, which causes all events to be wrongly skipped.

This patch skips checking the text address range when failing to get the
address of '_etext' and thus fixes the problem.

The problem can be reproduced on arm as follows:

# perf probe --add='generic_perform_write'
generic_perform_write+0 is out of .text, skip it.
Probe point 'generic_perform_write' not found.
Error: Failed to add events.

After this patch:

# perf probe --add='generic_perform_write'
Added new event:
probe:generic_perform_write (on generic_perform_write)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe:generic_perform_write -aR sleep 1

Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434595750-129791-1-git-send-email-hekuang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index 076527b..381f23a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -249,8 +249,12 @@ static void clear_probe_trace_events(struct probe_trace_event *tevs, int ntevs)
static bool kprobe_blacklist__listed(unsigned long address);
static bool kprobe_warn_out_range(const char *symbol, unsigned long address)
{
+ u64 etext_addr;
+
/* Get the address of _etext for checking non-probable text symbol */
- if (kernel_get_symbol_address_by_name("_etext", false) < address)
+ etext_addr = kernel_get_symbol_address_by_name("_etext", false);
+
+ if (etext_addr != 0 && etext_addr < address)
pr_warning("%s is out of .text, skip it.\n", symbol);
else if (kprobe_blacklist__listed(address))
pr_warning("%s is blacklisted function, skip it.\n", symbol);

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