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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Martin Hicks <mort@bork.org>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: Perf not resolving all symbols, showing 0x7ffffxxx
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:53:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1381866837.17841.21.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJUS3XmN2WNJ1cnorb5vfas7mB6tdNLxuupFja=u_wYS=cxmdQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 14:44 -0400, Martin Hicks wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 09:59 -0400, Martin Hicks wrote:
> >> I've tracked the start of the strange instruction pointers in 'perf
> >> report' to a commit by Anton:
> >>
> >> commit 75382aa72f06823db7312ad069c3bae2eb3f8548
> >> Author: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> >> Date:   Tue Jun 26 01:01:36 2012 +0000
> >>
> >>     powerpc/perf: Move code to select SIAR or pt_regs into perf_read_regs
> >>
> >> I don't know enough about PPC to know what's going on, but reverting
> >> the changes to perf_instruction_pointer() gets me reasonable 'perf
> >> report' output with 3.11.
> >
> > This is an e300 core right ? (603...). Do that have an SIAR at all
> > (Scott ?)
> 
> Yes, e300c3.

Ok so I have a hard time figuring out how that patch can make a
difference since for all I can see, there is no perf backend upstream
for e300 at all :-(

I must certainly be missing something ... Scott, can you have a look ?

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-15 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-03 14:21 Perf not resolving all symbols, showing 0x7ffffxxx Martin Hicks
2013-10-15 13:59 ` Martin Hicks
2013-10-15 15:30   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-10-15 18:44     ` Martin Hicks
2013-10-15 19:53       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-10-15 20:22         ` Scott Wood
2013-10-15 20:39           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-10-16 15:05             ` Martin Hicks
2013-10-16 18:42               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-10-16 21:16                 ` Martin Hicks
2013-10-16 23:01                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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