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Oleg Nesterov
65b2c8f0e5 uprobes/powerpc: Do not use arch_uprobe_*_step() helpers
No functional changes.

powerpc is the only user of arch_uprobe_enable/disable_step() helpers,
but they should die. They can not be used correctly, every arch needs
its own implementation (like x86 does). And they do not really help
even as initial-and-almost-working code, arch_uprobe_*_xol() hooks can
easily use user_enable/disable_single_step() directly.

Change arch_uprobe_*_step() to do nothing, and convert powerpc to use
ptrace helpers. This is equally wrong, powerpc needs the arch-specific
fixes.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-11-03 17:15:12 +01:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
8b7b80b9eb powerpc: Uprobes port to powerpc
This is the port of uprobes to powerpc. Usage is similar to x86.

[root@xxxx ~]# ./bin/perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc
Added new event:
  probe_libc:malloc    (on 0xb4860)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

	perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1

[root@xxxx ~]# ./bin/perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 20
[ perf record: Woken up 22 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 5.843 MB perf.data (~255302 samples) ]
[root@xxxx ~]# ./bin/perf report --stdio
...

    69.05%           tar  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
    28.57%            rm  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     1.32%  avahi-daemon  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.58%          bash  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.28%          sshd  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.08%    irqbalance  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.05%         bzip2  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.04%         sleep  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.03%    multipathd  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.01%      sendmail  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc
     0.01%     automount  libc-2.12.so   [.] malloc

The trap_nr addition patch is a prereq.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-09-05 15:35:19 +10:00