perf probe: Support probes on init functions for offline kernel
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Fri, 4 Jun 2021 16:28:23 +0000 (01:28 +0900)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:50:05 +0000 (13:50 -0300)
commitf338de22192085a476dd1bc9eac5e074a48f34f9
tree8088c0a6538ea0ff0af25990055262dd62f0c429
parenta49ed2b4e2e5eed0b5082f7f5d36123c0070b9ab
perf probe: Support probes on init functions for offline kernel

'perf probe' internally checks the probe target is in the text area in
post-process (after analyzing debuginfo). But it fails if the probe
target is in the "inittext".

This is a good limitation for the online kernel because such functions
have gone after booting. However, for using it for boot-time tracing,
user may want to put a probe on init functions.

This skips the post checking process if the target is offline kenrel so
that user can get the probe definition on the init functions.

Without this patch:

  $ perf probe -k ./build-x86_64/vmlinux -D do_mount_root:10
  Probe point 'do_mount_root:10' not found.
    Error: Failed to add events.

With this patch:

  $ perf probe -k ./build-x86_64/vmlinux -D do_mount_root:10
  p:probe/do_mount_root_L10 mount_block_root+300

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/162282410293.452340.13347006295826431632.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/probe-event.c