From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:39:26 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: perf report: Handle vDSO symbols properly
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc1~383^2~107
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ed966aac335a63083d3125198479447248637d9e;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git

perf report: Handle vDSO symbols properly

We were not looking up vDSO symbols properly, because they
are in the kallsyms but are user-mode entries.

Pass negative addresses to the kernel dso object, this
way we resolve them properly:

     0.05%  [kernel]: vread_tsc

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
index a8d390596d8..0f88d9ebb34 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
@@ -728,6 +728,8 @@ more:
 			event->ip.pid,
 			(void *)(long)ip);
 
+		dprintf(" ... thread: %s:%d\n", thread->comm, thread->pid);
+
 		if (thread == NULL) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "problem processing %d event, skipping it.\n",
 				event->header.type);
@@ -740,6 +742,8 @@ more:
 
 			dso = kernel_dso;
 
+			dprintf(" ...... dso: %s\n", dso->name);
+
 		} else if (event->header.misc & PERF_EVENT_MISC_USER) {
 
 			show = SHOW_USER;
@@ -749,11 +753,22 @@ more:
 			if (map != NULL) {
 				dso = map->dso;
 				ip -= map->start + map->pgoff;
+			} else {
+				/*
+				 * If this is outside of all known maps,
+				 * and is a negative address, try to look it
+				 * up in the kernel dso, as it might be a
+				 * vsyscall (which executes in user-mode):
+				 */
+				if ((long long)ip < 0)
+					dso = kernel_dso;
 			}
+			dprintf(" ...... dso: %s\n", dso ? dso->name : "<not found>");
 
 		} else {
 			show = SHOW_HV;
 			level = 'H';
+			dprintf(" ...... dso: [hypervisor]\n");
 		}
 
 		if (show & show_mask) {