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Commit 9b239a12 authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf probe: Show correct source lines of probes on kmodules



Perf probe always failed to find appropriate line numbers because of
failing to find .text start address offset from debuginfo.

e.g.
  ----
  # ./perf probe -m pcspkr pcspkr_event:5
  Added new events:
    probe:pcspkr_event   (on pcspkr_event:5 in pcspkr)
    probe:pcspkr_event_1 (on pcspkr_event:5 in pcspkr)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

          perf record -e probe:pcspkr_event_1 -aR sleep 1

  # ./perf probe -l
  Failed to find debug information for address ffffffffa031f006
  Failed to find debug information for address ffffffffa031f016
    probe:pcspkr_event   (on pcspkr_event+6 in pcspkr)
    probe:pcspkr_event_1 (on pcspkr_event+22 in pcspkr)
  ----

This fixes the above issue as below.
1. Get the relative address of the symbol in .text by using
   map->start.
2. Adjust the address by adding the offset of .text section
   in the kernel module binary.

With this fix, perf probe -l shows lines correctly.
  ----
  # ./perf probe -l
    probe:pcspkr_event   (on pcspkr_event:5@drivers/input/misc/pcspkr.c in pcspkr)
    probe:pcspkr_event_1 (on pcspkr_event:5@drivers/input/misc/pcspkr.c in pcspkr)
  ----

Reported-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150930164132.3733.24643.stgit@localhost.localdomain


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 9135949d
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