On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:56:31PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:01:12AM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu: > > Hi Arnaldo, > > > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:42:28AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > > > Namhyung, > > > > > > Can you take a look and perhaps give me your Acked-by? > > > > The dso->kernel and event->cpumode is always confusing for modules.. > > Right, my idea is to delete dso->kernel, to remove this confusion.
I'm fine with that. :) > > Please see my tmp.perf/core branch, there are a few patches there using > alternative methods in places previously using the botched dso->kernel. > > > In this case, it seems that mmap events set kernel cpumode but > > build-id events don't. > > in the previous sentence you think build-id events don't set > perf_event_attr.misc bits related to cpumode... > > > So kernel cpumode in a bulid-id event > > indicates that it is a kernel (vmlinux) dso, right? > > While here you ask if it does? I mean that cpumode is not set for modules, so if you see cpumode set, it should be the kernel dso.. > > All these are synthesized, it is a matter of looking at the routines > synthesizing them :-) Right. > > > I'll test this tomorrow.. > > Thanks, over time there were areas where multiple people touched and > added different semantics that are biting now, I'm trying to, while > fixing a bug, the one Wang Nan reported, clarify those things. > > It is taking more time than I antecipated, as I'm stumbling in what look > like other bugs in the perf-probe codebase :-/ OK, after applying this patch, perf cannot find vmlinux anymore. It finds scsi_mod.ko.gz instead, resulting in no kernel symbols.. Before: $ perf report | grep -F '[k]' | head 0.44% cc1 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] clear_page_c 0.34% cc1 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] page_fault 0.22% cc1 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] get_page_from_freelist 0.22% cc1 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] handle_mm_fault 0.15% cc1 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __do_page_fault 0.13% cc1 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] unmap_single_vma 0.12% cc1 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __mem_cgroup_count_vm_event 0.11% cc1 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] mem_cgroup_try_charge 0.11% cc1 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __d_lookup_rcu 0.11% cc1 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] copy_user_generic_string After: (same data file but having no symbol affects the result) $ perf report | grep -F '[k]' | head 0.42% cc1 scsi_mod.ko.gz [k] 0xffffffff812b4077 0.33% cc1 scsi_mod.ko.gz [k] 0xffffffff8153f9d0 0.11% cc1 scsi_mod.ko.gz [k] 0xffffffff8117ec0c 0.10% cc1 scsi_mod.ko.gz [k] 0xffffffff812b443c 0.10% as scsi_mod.ko.gz [k] 0xffffffff812b4077 0.08% cc1 scsi_mod.ko.gz [k] 0xffffffff811bbd90 0.07% cc1 scsi_mod.ko.gz [k] 0xffffffff811bf188 0.07% as scsi_mod.ko.gz [k] 0xffffffff8153f9d0 0.06% sh scsi_mod.ko.gz [k] 0xffffffff8153f9d0 0.06% cc1 scsi_mod.ko.gz [k] 0xffffffff811e0838 Unfortunately, I don't have to time to look at it now. It's one of the biggest national holiday in Korea so maybe I can have a look later in next week. Thanks, Namhyung -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
