[PATCH] fix perf Annotation of Thumb code

Dr. David Alan Gilbert david.gilbert at linaro.org
Fri Jan 21 11:40:19 EST 2011


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.
  
 
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 at 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];
 



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