From 24b659a13866b935eca72748ce725279bd3c4466 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:18:50 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Use unstripped VDSO image for more accurate profiling data We are seeing a lot of hits in the VDSO that are not resolved by perf. A while(1) gettimeofday() loop shows the issue: 27.64% [vdso] [.] 0x000000000000060c 22.57% [vdso] [.] 0x0000000000000628 16.88% [vdso] [.] 0x0000000000000610 12.39% [vdso] [.] __kernel_gettimeofday 6.09% [vdso] [.] 0x00000000000005f8 3.58% test [.] 00000037.plt_call.gettimeofday@@GLIBC_2.18 2.94% [vdso] [.] __kernel_datapage_offset 2.90% test [.] main We are using a stripped VDSO image which means only symbols with relocation info can be resolved. There isn't a lot of point to stripping the VDSO, the debug info is only about 1kB: 4680 arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.so 5815 arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.so.dbg By using the unstripped image, we can resolve all the symbols in the VDSO and the perf profile data looks much better: 76.53% [vdso] [.] __do_get_tspec 12.20% [vdso] [.] __kernel_gettimeofday 5.05% [vdso] [.] __get_datapage 3.20% test [.] main 2.92% test [.] 00000037.plt_call.gettimeofday@@GLIBC_2.18 Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32_wrapper.S | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64_wrapper.S | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32_wrapper.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32_wrapper.S index 79683d0393f5..6ac107ac402a 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32_wrapper.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32_wrapper.S @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ .globl vdso32_start, vdso32_end .balign PAGE_SIZE vdso32_start: - .incbin "arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.so" + .incbin "arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.so.dbg" .balign PAGE_SIZE vdso32_end: diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64_wrapper.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64_wrapper.S index 8df9e2463007..df60fca6a13d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64_wrapper.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64_wrapper.S @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ .globl vdso64_start, vdso64_end .balign PAGE_SIZE vdso64_start: - .incbin "arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.so" + .incbin "arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.so.dbg" .balign PAGE_SIZE vdso64_end: -- 2.20.1