On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 15:59 +0530, Hemant Kumar wrote:
PPC64 ELF ABI v2 has a Global entry point and a local entry point
for the functions. We need the Local entry point in order to probe
these functions. However, the DIE for these functions in debuginfo
return the function.entrypc which is same as the global entry point.
The local entry point is not encoded in the debuginfo of the ELFs. The
offset to local entry point is however encoded in the st_other field
of these symbols in the symbol table.
We need to use this field to adjust the sym.st_value to actually point
to the local entry point instead of the global entry point.
This patch is in relation to this bug :
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17638
So, while adding symbols to the sym_table, we add an offset of
PPC64_LOCAL_ENTRY_OFFSET(sym.st_other) to st_value.
And when the function address is queried in query_dwarf_func(), we give
priority to the cached sym_table, where we can retrieve the adjusted
entry address of the function. If we don't get any address from the
symbol table, then we proceed to get from the debuginfo.
Macro definition PPC64_LOCAL_ENTRY_OFFSET has been picked up from glibc.
It won't be defined if we are building systemtap on a machine having
older elf.h and hence, won't recognize PPC64_LOCAL_ENTRY_OFFSET.
Looks good. Pushed with one tiny change (in the commit message):
s/Priotirize/Prioritize/