I built a test kernel with a cherry pick of commit 1b29dfbba124be5077a24996a272205baec1c008. The test kernel can be downloaded from:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1671917/ Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug? ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Zesty) Assignee: (unassigned) => Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Zesty) Status: Triaged => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1671917 Title: perf probes on arm64 don't work with 4.10 kernel b/c of register name issue Status in linux package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in linux source package in Zesty: In Progress Bug description: perf probe doesn't work because the register names in the perf tool are incorrect. This was fixed upstream by https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9534823/. perf probe -x /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -a 'malloc bytes' Failed to write event: Invalid argument Error: Failed to add events. Rebuilding perf with the above mentioned change results in: ubuntu:/usr/src/linux-source-4.10.0/tools/perf# ./perf probe -x /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -a 'malloc bytes' Added new event: probe_libc:malloc (on malloc in /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc-2.24.so with bytes) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1671917/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
