From a0a4419e302fedb548d56129e02130347810f892 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:17:05 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Link VDSOs at 0x0 perf is failing to resolve symbols in the VDSO. A while (1) gettimeofday() loop shows: 93.99% [vdso] [.] 0x00000000000005e0 3.12% test [.] 00000037.plt_call.gettimeofday@@GLIBC_2.18 2.81% test [.] main The reason for this is that we are linking our VDSO shared libraries at 1MB, which is a little weird. Even though this is uncommon, Alan points out that it is valid and we should probably fix perf userspace. Regardless, I can't see a reason why we are doing this. The code is all position independent and we never rely on the VDSO ending up at 1M (and we never place it there on 64bit tasks). Changing our link address to 0x0 fixes perf VDSO symbol resolution: 73.18% [vdso] [.] 0x000000000000060c 12.39% [vdso] [.] __kernel_gettimeofday 3.58% test [.] 00000037.plt_call.gettimeofday@@GLIBC_2.18 2.94% [vdso] [.] __kernel_datapage_offset 2.90% test [.] main We still have some local symbol resolution issues that will be fixed in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso.h index 0d9cecd..c53f5f6 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso.h @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ #ifdef __KERNEL__ /* Default link addresses for the vDSOs */ -#define VDSO32_LBASE 0x100000 -#define VDSO64_LBASE 0x100000 +#define VDSO32_LBASE 0x0 +#define VDSO64_LBASE 0x0 /* Default map addresses for 32bit vDSO */ -#define VDSO32_MBASE VDSO32_LBASE +#define VDSO32_MBASE 0x100000 #define VDSO_VERSION_STRING LINUX_2.6.15 -- 2.7.4