Re: [PATCH v2] perf test powerpc: Fix 'Object code reading' test

From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Thu Aug 31 2017 - 05:22:09 EST


On 31/08/17 12:14, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> 'Object code reading' test always fails on powerpc guest. Two reasons
> for the failure are:
>
> 1. When elf section is too big (size beyond 'unsigned int' max value).
> objdump fails to disassemble from such section. This was fixed with
> commit 0f6329bd7fc ("binutils/objdump: Fix disassemble for huge elf
> sections") in binutils.
>
> 2. When the sample is from hypervisor. Hypervisor symbols can not
> be resolved within guest and thus thread__find_addr_map() fails for
> such symbols. Fix this by ignoring hypervisor symbols in the test.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Add pr_debug()
>
> tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c b/tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c
> index 761c5a4..466a462 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c
> @@ -237,6 +237,11 @@ static int read_object_code(u64 addr, size_t len, u8 cpumode,
>
> thread__find_addr_map(thread, cpumode, MAP__FUNCTION, addr, &al);
> if (!al.map || !al.map->dso) {
> + if (cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_HYPERVISOR) {
> + pr_debug("Hypervisor address can not be resolved - skipping\n");
> + return 0;
> + }
> +
> pr_debug("thread__find_addr_map failed\n");
> return -1;
> }
>