[RFC PATCH 0/8] Fix perf probe issues on powerpc

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme at kernel.org
Wed Jan 21 23:51:42 AEDT 2015


Em Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:03:58PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao escreveu:
> This patchset fixes various issues with perf probe on powerpc
> across ABIv1 and ABIv2:
> - in the presence of DWARF debug-info,
> - in the absence of DWARF, but with the symbol table, and
> - in the absence of debug-info, but with kallsyms.
> 
> Applies cleanly on v3.18 and on -tip with minor changes to patch 6.
> Tested on ppc64 BE and LE.
> 
> - Naveen
> 
> Naveen N. Rao (8):
>   kprobes: Fix kallsyms lookup across powerpc ABIv1 and ABIv2
>   perf probe powerpc: Fix symbol fixup issues due to ELF type
>   perf probe: Improve detection of file/function name in the probe
>     pattern
>   perf probe powerpc: Handle powerpc dot symbols
>   perf probe powerpc: Allow matching against dot symbols
>   perf tools powerpc: Fix PPC64 ELF ABIv2 symbol decoding
>   perf probe powerpc: Use DWARF info only if necessary
>   perf probe powerpc: Fixup function entry if using kallsyms lookup

Naveen,

	I saw several comments by Michael, have you tried to address
those comments and have you resubmitted this patchset?

Best regards,

- Arnaldo


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