On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 12:51:01 UTC, "Naveen N. Rao" wrote:
> commit 239aeba76409 ("perf powerpc: Fix kprobe and kretprobe handling
> with kallsyms on ppc64le") changed how we use the offset field in struct
> kprobe on ABIv2. perf now offsets from the GEP (Global entry point) if an
> offset is specified and otherwise chooses the LEP (Local entry point).
>
> Fix the same in kernel for kprobe API users. We do this by extending
> kprobe_lookup_name() to accept an additional parameter to indicate the
> offset specified with the kprobe registration. If offset is 0, we return
> the local function entry and return the global entry point otherwise.
>
> With:
> # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
> # echo "p _do_fork" >> kprobe_events
> # echo "p _do_fork+0x10" >> kprobe_events
>
> before this patch:
> # cat ../kprobes/list
> c0000000000d0748 k _do_fork+0x8 [DISABLED]
> c0000000000d0758 k _do_fork+0x18 [DISABLED]
> c0000000000412b0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED]
>
> and after:
> # cat ../kprobes/list
> c0000000000d04c8 k _do_fork+0x8 [DISABLED]
> c0000000000d04d0 k _do_fork+0x10 [DISABLED]
> c0000000000412b0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED]
>
> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ana...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n....@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/290e3070762ac80e5fc4087d8c4de7
cheers
