Re: [PATCHv9 2.6.35-rc4-tip 0/13] Uprobes Patches:

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Jul 21 2010 - 10:23:24 EST


Em Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:12:00AM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju escreveu:
> > Em Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:08:05PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju escreveu:
> > > > A minor note on perf probe -S output: This seems to include a lot of
> > > > T.456 or similar labels, which from my recollection are gcc internal
> > > > things. It would be good to filter those out as they aren't quite
> > > > useful and just fill up the list.

> > > Okay .. will take a look. Offhand I dont know about the T.456
> > > labels, so I will google and see if its possible for us to identify if
> > > its a t.456 label. However if you know how to identify a t456 label
> > > from normal functions, then it would be great.

> > We may have some hint on the symtab, having access to one of those files
> > to look at its symtab will help.
>
> I tried searching for t.456 gcc labels in google. I dont think I found
> anything interesting. Are we looking at not listing symbols that end
> with @plt? Can you please list an example t.456 label. Also any pointers to
> where I can find more information on the same would be very useful.

I guess this is what he means:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ grep ' [TtWw] .\+\.' /proc/kallsyms | head -5
ffffffff81000646 t trace_kmalloc.clone.0
ffffffff810006ac t create_dev.clone.0
ffffffff81006ae4 t test_ti_thread_flag.clone.0
ffffffff8100a388 t trace_power_start.clone.0
ffffffff8100ad8d t user_regset_copyin.clone.0
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ readelf -s ../build/v2.6.35-rc5-tip+/vmlinux | grep ' FUNC .\+\.' | head -5
165: ffffffff81000646 101 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 1 trace_kmalloc.clone.0
180: ffffffff810006ac 44 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 1 create_dev.clone.0
438: ffffffff81006ae4 22 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 1 test_ti_thread_flag.clone
510: ffffffff81ae5c40 136 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 22 e820_end_pfn.clone.0
750: ffffffff8100a388 65 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 1 trace_power_start.clone.0
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

Or at least those are the ones with dots here.

- Arnaldo
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