perf uretprobe ppc64le: Fix probe location
Perf uretprobe probes on GEP(Global Entry Point) which fails to record all function calls via LEP(Local Entry Point). Fix that by probing on LEP. Objdump: 00000000100005f0 <doit>: 100005f0: 02 10 40 3c lis r2,4098 100005f4: 00 7f 42 38 addi r2,r2,32512 100005f8: a6 02 08 7c mflr r0 100005fc: 10 00 01 f8 std r0,16(r1) 10000600: f8 ff e1 fb std r31,-8(r1) Before applying patch: $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events r:probe_uprobe_test/doit /home/ravi/uprobe_test:0x00000000000005f0 After applying patch: $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events r:probe_uprobe_test/doit /home/ravi/uprobe_test:0x00000000000005f8 This is not the case with kretprobes because the kernel itself finds LEP and probes on it. Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475576865-6562-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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