[PATCH] fix perf Annotation of Thumb code
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
acme at ghostprotocols.net
Fri Jan 21 12:13:03 EST 2011
Em Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:40:19PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert escreveu:
> 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.
Thanks, adding it to perf/urgent.
- Arnaldo
>
> 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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