powerpc: Use unstripped VDSO image for more accurate profiling data
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Wed, 12 Feb 2014 06:18:50 +0000 (17:18 +1100)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:19:37 +0000 (11:19 +1100)
commit24b659a13866b935eca72748ce725279bd3c4466
tree835ca5a6661974e9e160f921b54cf433f8b1733c
parenta0a4419e302fedb548d56129e02130347810f892
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 <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32_wrapper.S
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64_wrapper.S