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From: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
To: <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, <mingo@redhat.com>, <acme@kernel.org>,
	<masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>, <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: <wangnan0@huawei.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] perf probe: Fix failure to probe events on arm
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 08:06:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1434355613-110216-1-git-send-email-hekuang@huawei.com> (raw)

Fix failure to probe events on arm, problem is introduced by commit
5a51fcd1f30c ("perf probe: Skip kernel symbols which is out of
.text"). For some architectures, label '_etext' is not in the .text
section(in .notes section for arm/arm64). Label out of .text section is
not loaded as symbols and we got a zero value when look up its address,
which causes all events be wrongly skiped.

This patch uses kernel map->end when failed to get the address of
'_etext' and fixes the problem.

Problem can be reproduced on arm as following:

  # 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. Reason: No such file or directory (Code: -2)

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>
---
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index daa24a2..ee26961 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -575,8 +575,22 @@ static int post_process_probe_trace_events(struct probe_trace_event *tevs,
 		pr_warning("Relocated base symbol is not found!\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-	/* Get the address of _etext for checking non-probable text symbol */
+	/* Get the address of _etext for checking non-probable text symbol,
+	   for some architectures (e.g. arm, arm64), _etext is out of .text
+	   section and not loaded as symbols, use kernel map->end instead.
+	 */
 	etext_addr = kernel_get_symbol_address_by_name("_etext", false);
+	if (etext_addr == 0) {
+		struct map *map;
+
+		map = kernel_get_module_map(NULL);
+		if (!map) {
+			pr_err("Failed to get a map for kernel\n");
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+
+		etext_addr = map->end;
+	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ntevs; i++) {
 		if (tevs[i].point.address && !tevs[i].point.retprobe) {
-- 
1.8.5.2


             reply	other threads:[~2015-06-15  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-15  8:06 He Kuang [this message]
2015-06-15 14:49 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-16  6:05   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-06-16 13:39     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-16 15:26   ` hekuang
2015-06-17  8:52     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-06-17  9:43       ` He Kuang
2015-06-17 11:18         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-06-18  2:49           ` [PATCH v2] " He Kuang
2015-06-19 21:08             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-23  3:07               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-06-23  3:07             ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-06-25  7:57             ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for He Kuang

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