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Commit cb402730 authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf probe: Trace a magic number if variable is not found



Trace a magic number as immediate value if the target variable is not
found at some probe points which is based on one probe event.

This feature is good for the case if you trace a source code line with
some local variables, which is compiled into several instructions and
some of the variables are optimized out on some instructions.

Even if so, with this feature, perf probe trace a magic number instead
of such disappeared variables and fold those probes on one event.

E.g. without this patch:

  # perf probe -D "pud_page_vaddr pud"
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  Failed to find 'pud' in this function.
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23480787 pud=%ax:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23808453 pud=%bp:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23558082 pud=%ax:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+328373 pud=%r8:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+348448 pud=%bx:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23816818 pud=%bx:x64

With this patch:

  # perf probe -D "pud_page_vaddr pud" | head
  spurious_kernel_fault is blacklisted function, skip it.
  vmalloc_fault is blacklisted function, skip it.
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23480787 pud=%ax:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+149051 pud=\deade12d:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23808453 pud=%bp:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+315926 pud=\deade12d:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23807209 pud=\deade12d:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+23557365 pud=%ax:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+314097 pud=%di:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+314015 pud=\deade12d:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+313893 pud=\deade12d:x64
  p:probe/pud_page_vaddr _text+324083 pud=\deade12d:x64

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/157406476931.24476.6261475888681844285.stgit@devnote2


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 66f69b21
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