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[PATCH 1/1] perf symbols: Accept zero as the kernel base address

From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 1/1] perf symbols: Accept zero as the kernel base address
Date 2017-07-12 21:40 +0200
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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Which is the case in S/390, where symbols were not being resolved
because machine__get_kernel_start was only setting machine->kernel_start
when the just successfully loaded kernel symtab had its map->start set
to !0, when it was left at (1ULL << 63) assuming a partitioning of the
address space for user/kernel, which is not the case in S/390 nor in
Sparc.

So just check if map__load() was successfull and set
machine->kernel_start to zero, fixing kernel symbol resolution on S/390.

Test performed by Thomas:

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  I like this patch. I have done a new build and removed all my debug output to start
  from scratch. Without your patch I get this:

  # Samples: 4  of event 'cpu-clock'
  # Event count (approx.): 1000000
  #
  # Children      Self  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
  # ........  ........  .......  ................  ........................
      75.00%     0.00%  true     [unknown]         [k] 0x00000000004bedda
              |
              ---0x4bedda
                 |
                 |--50.00%--0x42693a
                 |          |
                 |           --25.00%--0x2a72e0
                 |                     0x2af0ca
                 |                     0x3d1003fe4c0
                 |
                  --25.00%--0x4272bc
                            0x26fa84

  and with your patch (I just rebuilt the perf tool, nothing else and used the same
  perf.data file as input):

  # Samples: 4  of event 'cpu-clock'
  # Event count (approx.): 1000000
  #
  # Children      Self  Command  Shared Object               Symbol
  # ........  ........  .......  ..........................  ..................................
      75.00%     0.00%  true     [kernel.vmlinux]            [k] pgm_check_handler
              |
              ---pgm_check_handler
                 do_dat_exception
                 handle_mm_fault
                 __handle_mm_fault
                 filemap_map_pages
                 |
                 |--25.00%--rcu_read_lock_held
                 |          rcu_lockdep_current_cpu_online
                 |          0x3d1003ff4c0
                 |
                  --25.00%--lock_release

  Looks good to me....
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Reported-and-Tested-by: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Zvonko Kosic <zvonko.kosic@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dk0n1uzmbe0tbthrpfqlx6bz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/machine.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index 5de2b86b9880..2e9eb6aa3ce2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -2209,7 +2209,7 @@ int machine__get_kernel_start(struct machine *machine)
 	machine->kernel_start = 1ULL << 63;
 	if (map) {
 		err = map__load(map);
-		if (map->start)
+		if (!err)
 			machine->kernel_start = map->start;
 	}
 	return err;
-- 
2.9.4

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[GIT PULL 0/1] perf/urgent fix for S/390 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-07-12 21:40 +0200
  [PATCH 1/1] perf symbols: Accept zero as the kernel base address Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-07-12 21:40 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL 0/1] perf/urgent fix for S/390 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-07-13 11:40 +0200

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