linux/tools
Stefano Sanfilippo 0284fecd13 perf jit: Add unwinding support
This record is intended to provide unwinding information in the
eh_frame format. This is required to unwind JITed code which
does not maintain the frame pointer register during function calls.

The eh_frame unwinding information can be emitted by V8 / Chromium
when the --perf_prof_unwinding_info is passed.

A record of type jr_code_unwinding_info comes before the jr_code_load
it referred to and contains both the .eh_frame and .eh_frame_hdr.

The fields in the header have the following meaning:

  * unwinding_size: size of the eh_frame and eh_frame_hdr, necessary
    for distinguishing the content from the padding.

  * eh_frame_hdr_size: as the name says.

  * mapped_size: size of the payload that was in memory at runtime.
    typically unwinding_size if the .eh_frame_hdr and .eh_frame were
    mapped, or 0 if they weren't. It should always be the former case,
    since the .eh_frame is guaranteed to be mapped in memory. However,
    certain JITs might want to inject an .eh_frame_hdr with an empty LUT
    to trigger fp-based unwinding fallback in libunwind. The only part
    of the .eh_frame_hdr that libunwind reads from remote memory is the
    LUT, and since there is none, mapping the unwinding info in memory
    is not necessary, and 0 in this field signifies that it wasn't.
    This practical hack allows to save bytes in code memory for those
    JIT compilers that might or might not maintain a valid frame pointer.

The payload that follows is assumed to contain first the .eh_frame and
then the .eh_header_hdr, with no padding between the two.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Sanfilippo <ssanfilippo@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ross McIlroy <rmcilroy@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476356383-30100-7-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-24 11:07:39 -03:00
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accounting tools: move accounting tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:15 -06:00
arch tools: Synchronize tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h 2016-10-05 19:18:34 -03:00
build tools build: Add feature detection for g++ 2016-10-05 19:59:35 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio
hv Drivers: hv: utils: Check VSS daemon is listening before a hot backup 2016-09-02 17:22:51 +02:00
iio Second set of iio new device support, features and cleanups for the 4.9 cycle. 2016-09-14 20:42:03 +02:00
include tools lib: Add for_each_clear_bit macro 2016-10-24 11:07:33 -03:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop tools: move laptops dslm tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:21 -06:00
lguest tools/lguest: Don't bork the terminal in case of wrong args 2016-09-08 08:05:24 +02:00
lib tools lib: Add for_each_clear_bit macro 2016-10-24 11:07:33 -03:00
net
nfsd
objtool objtool: Skip all "unreachable instruction" warnings for gcov kernels 2016-10-16 09:12:36 +02:00
pcmcia tools: move pcmcia crc32hash tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:27 -06:00
perf perf jit: Add unwinding support 2016-10-24 11:07:39 -03:00
power ACPICA: Cleanup for all string-to-integer conversions 2016-09-10 02:37:59 +02:00
scripts
spi Merge remote-tracking branches 'spi/topic/ti-qspi', 'spi/topic/tools', 'spi/topic/txx9' and 'spi/topic/xlp' into spi-next 2016-09-30 09:14:22 -07:00
testing linux-kselftest-4.9-rc1-update 2016-10-14 15:17:12 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb
virtio
vm
Makefile