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authorHe Kuang2015-06-18 04:49:10 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2015-06-23 23:21:44 +0200
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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>
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