Re: [PATCH v2] perf callchain: fix kernel symbol resolution by remembering the cpumode

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Mon Mar 30 2015 - 04:55:01 EST


On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:11:00AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Commit 2e77784bb7d8 ("perf callchain: Move cpumode resolve code to
> add_callchain_ip") promised "No change in behavior.".
>
> As this commit breaks callchains on s390x (symbols not getting resolved,

I think it's a generic problem not just s390x

the x86 archs were safe due to the (al->map == NULL) fallback
in thread__find_addr_map, where we rerun the lookup for kernel
maps.. I need to rethink this check :-\

perhaps s390x did not match the machine__kernel_ip condition?


> observed when profiling the kernel), this statement is wrong. The cpumode
> must be kept when iterating over all ips, otherwise the default
> (PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER) will be used by error.

anyway

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>


thanks,
jirka
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