linux/tools
Sandipan Das 9068533e4f perf powerpc: Fix callchain ip filtering when return address is in a register
For powerpc64, perf will filter out the second entry in the callchain,
i.e. the LR value, if the return address of the function corresponding
to the probed location has already been saved on its caller's stack.

The state of the return address is determined using debug information.
At any point within a function, if the return address is already saved
somewhere, a DWARF expression can tell us about its location. If the
return address in still in LR only, no DWARF expression would exist.

Typically, the instructions in a function's prologue first copy the LR
value to R0 and then pushes R0 on to the stack. If LR has already been
copied to R0 but R0 is yet to be pushed to the stack, we can still get a
DWARF expression that says that the return address is in R0. This is
indicating that getting a DWARF expression for the return address does
not guarantee the fact that it has already been saved on the stack.

This can be observed on a powerpc64le system running Fedora 27 as shown
below.

  # objdump -d /usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so | less
  ...
  000000000015af20 <inet_pton>:
    15af20:       0b 00 4c 3c     addis   r2,r12,11
    15af24:       e0 c1 42 38     addi    r2,r2,-15904
    15af28:       a6 02 08 7c     mflr    r0
    15af2c:       f0 ff c1 fb     std     r30,-16(r1)
    15af30:       f8 ff e1 fb     std     r31,-8(r1)
    15af34:       78 1b 7f 7c     mr      r31,r3
    15af38:       78 23 83 7c     mr      r3,r4
    15af3c:       78 2b be 7c     mr      r30,r5
    15af40:       10 00 01 f8     std     r0,16(r1)
    15af44:       c1 ff 21 f8     stdu    r1,-64(r1)
    15af48:       28 00 81 f8     std     r4,40(r1)
  ...

  # readelf --debug-dump=frames-interp /usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so | less
  ...
  00027024 0000000000000024 00027028 FDE cie=00000000 pc=000000000015af20..000000000015af88
     LOC           CFA      r30   r31   ra
  000000000015af20 r1+0     u     u     u
  000000000015af34 r1+0     c-16  c-8   r0
  000000000015af48 r1+64    c-16  c-8   c+16
  000000000015af5c r1+0     c-16  c-8   c+16
  000000000015af78 r1+0     u     u
  ...

  # perf probe -x /usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so -a inet_pton+0x18
  # perf record -e probe_libc:inet_pton -g ping -6 -c 1 ::1
  # perf script

Before:

  ping  2829 [005] 512917.460174: probe_libc:inet_pton: (7fff7e2baf38)
              7fff7e2baf38 __GI___inet_pton+0x18 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
              7fff7e2705b4 getaddrinfo+0x164 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                 12f152d70 _init+0xbfc (/usr/bin/ping)
              7fff7e1836a0 generic_start_main.isra.0+0x140 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
              7fff7e183898 __libc_start_main+0xb8 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                         0 [unknown] ([unknown])

After:

  ping  2829 [005] 512917.460174: probe_libc:inet_pton: (7fff7e2baf38)
              7fff7e2baf38 __GI___inet_pton+0x18 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
              7fff7e26fa54 gaih_inet.constprop.7+0xf44 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
              7fff7e2705b4 getaddrinfo+0x164 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                 12f152d70 _init+0xbfc (/usr/bin/ping)
              7fff7e1836a0 generic_start_main.isra.0+0x140 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
              7fff7e183898 __libc_start_main+0xb8 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                         0 [unknown] ([unknown])

Reported-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Maynard Johnson <maynard@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/66e848a7bdf2d43b39210a705ff6d828a0865661.1530724939.git.sandipan@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-07-24 14:50:44 -03:00
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accounting
arch tools/headers: Pick up latest kernel ABIs 2018-06-26 08:43:14 +02:00
bpf tools: bpftool: remember to close the libbpf object after prog load 2018-06-21 23:07:13 +02:00
build tools: build: Use HOSTLDFLAGS with fixdep 2018-07-13 00:48:18 +09:00
cgroup tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
firewire
gpio Linux 4.16-rc5 2018-03-18 17:48:59 +01:00
hv tools: hv: include string.h in hv_fcopy_daemon 2018-03-06 09:57:16 -08:00
iio tools: iio: iio_generic_buffer: allow continuous looping 2018-05-20 14:55:58 +01:00
include tools/headers: Pick up latest kernel ABIs 2018-06-26 08:43:14 +02:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: Remove unused function 2018-03-28 22:47:06 +02:00
laptop tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
leds tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
lib docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Add reference for 'Simplifying ARM concurrency' 2018-05-15 08:11:19 +02:00
nfsd
objtool objtool: Use '.strtab' if '.shstrtab' doesn't exist, to support ORC tables on Clang 2018-07-14 14:59:42 +02:00
pci
pcmcia
perf perf powerpc: Fix callchain ip filtering when return address is in a register 2018-07-24 14:50:44 -03:00
power Merge branch 'turbostat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2018-06-21 00:37:04 +02:00
scripts Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make 2018-04-11 00:03:02 +09:00
spi tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
testing Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-07-18 19:32:54 -07:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: fix for segfault 2018-03-27 09:51:23 +02:00
time
usb usbip: usbip_detach: fix to check for invalid ports 2018-05-31 12:44:39 +02:00
virtio sg: remove ->sg_magic member 2018-06-29 08:48:06 -06:00
vm mm: mark pages in use for page tables 2018-06-07 17:34:37 -07:00
wmi tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
Makefile platform-drivers-x86 for v4.15-1 2017-11-18 10:26:57 -08:00