Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Mar 2017 14:42:36 +0100 | From | Masami Hiramatsu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] perf/sdt: Argument support for x86 and powepc |
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 13:23:30 +0530 Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 07 February 2017 08:25 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 16:41:38 +0530 > > Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > >> The v5 patchset for sdt marker argument support for x86 [1] has > >> couple of issues. For example, it still has x86 specific code > >> in general code. It lacks support for rNN (with size postfix > >> b/w/d), %rsp, %esp, %sil etc. registers and such sdt markers > >> are failing at 'perf probe'. It also fails to convert arguments > >> having no offset but still surrounds register with parenthesis > >> for ex. 8@(%rdi) is converted to +(%di):u64 which is rejected > >> by uprobe_events. It's causing failure at 'perf probe' for all > >> SDT events on all archs except x86. With this patchset, I've > >> solved these issues. (patch 2,3) > >> > >> Also, existing perf shows misleading message when user tries to > >> record sdt event without probing it. I've prepared patch for > >> the same. (patch 1) > >> > >> Apart from that, I've also added logic to support arguments with > >> sdt marker on powerpc. (patch 4) > >> > >> There are cases where uprobe definition of sdt event goes beyond > >> current limit MAX_CMDLEN (256) and in such case perf fails with > >> seg fault. I've solve this issue. (patch 5) > >> > >> Note: This patchset is prepared on top of Alexis' v5 series.[1] > >> > >> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1292251.html > > Hmm, I must missed it. I'll check it... > > > > Hi Masami, > > Can you please review this.
Thanks for kicking me :)
-- Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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