[RFC PATCH 8/8] perf probe powerpc: Fixup function entry if using kallsyms lookup

Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli ananth at in.ibm.com
Wed Dec 10 15:11:45 AEDT 2014


On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 06:14:00PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:04:06PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao escreveu:
> > On powerpc ABIv2, if no debug-info is found and we use kallsyms,
> > we need to fixup the function entry to point to the local entry point.
> > Use offset of 8 since current toolchains always generate 2
> > instructions (8 bytes).
> 
> Hi Michael and Ananth, may I have your Acked-by or Reviewed-by for these
> patches?
> 
> The ones, like this, that are affects only ppc I'm can assume was tested
> and applying it won't break other arch users, but having a/rev-by from
> ppc developers should speed up this process.

Hi Arnaldo,

Yes, I have reviewed the patches. So, for all patches...

Reviewed-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in.ibm.com>



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