From: acme@ghostprotocols.net (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] fix perf Annotation of Thumb code
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:13:03 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110121171303.GB15066@ghostprotocols.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110121163922.GA31398@davesworkthinkpad>
Em Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:40:19PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert escreveu:
> Hi,
> In ARM's Thumb mode the bottom bit of the symbol address is set to mark
> the function as Thumb; the instructions are in reality 2 or 4 byte on 2
> byte alignments, and when the +1 address is used in annotate it causes
> objdump to disassemble invalid instructions.
>
> The patch removes that bottom bit during symbol loading.
> This patch is against current linus's git, (2b1caf.....).
> Many thinks to Dave Martin for comments on an initial version of the patch.
Thanks, adding it to perf/urgent.
- Arnaldo
>
> Dave
>
> (For reference this corresponds to this bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux-linaro/+bug/677547 )
>
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <david.gilbert@linaro.org>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> index 15ccfba..36e76c1 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> @@ -1161,6 +1161,13 @@ static int dso__load_sym(struct dso *self, struct map *map, const char *name,
>
> section_name = elf_sec__name(&shdr, secstrs);
>
> + /* On ARM, symbols for thumb functions have 1 added to
> + * the symbol address as a flag - remove it */
> + if ((ehdr.e_machine == EM_ARM) &&
> + (map->type == MAP__FUNCTION) &&
> + (sym.st_value & 1))
> + sym.st_value-=1;
> +
> if (self->kernel != DSO_TYPE_USER || kmodule) {
> char dso_name[PATH_MAX];
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-21 16:40 [PATCH] fix perf Annotation of Thumb code Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2011-01-21 17:13 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2011-01-21 17:17 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2011-01-21 17:40 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-01-21 17:50 ` David Gilbert
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