linux-stable/tools
Adrian Hunter f6edb53c49 perf tools: Prefer to use a cpu-wide event for probing CLOEXEC
When doing a system-wide trace with Intel PT, the jump label set up as a
result of probing CLOEXEC gets reset while the trace is running.  That
causes an Intel PT decoding error because the object code (obtained from
/proc/kcore) does not match the running code at that point.  While we
can't expect there never to be jump label changes, we can avoid cases
that the perf tool itself creates.

The problem is avoided by first trying a cpu-wide event (pid = -1) for
probing the PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC flag and falling back to an event for
the current process (pid = 0).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407855871-15024-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-08-13 16:24:13 -03:00
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cgroup cgroups: fix cgroup_event_listener error handling 2013-01-08 10:00:44 -08:00
firewire tools/firewire: nosy-dump: check for allocation failure 2012-12-02 20:10:18 +01:00
hv Tools: hv: Handle the case when the target file exists correctly 2014-04-16 14:10:36 -07:00
include perf tools: Move ACCESS_ONCE from perf.h header 2014-05-05 17:49:07 +02:00
lguest tools/lguest: offer VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT for net device. 2013-07-15 11:18:32 +09:30
lib Linux 3.16-rc7 2014-07-28 10:00:33 +02:00
net tools: bpf_jit_disasm: increase image buffer size 2014-05-16 16:44:08 -04:00
nfsd
perf perf tools: Prefer to use a cpu-wide event for probing CLOEXEC 2014-08-13 16:24:13 -03:00
power Merge branches 'acpi-tools' and 'pm-tools' 2014-06-03 23:13:34 +02:00
scripts tools lib traceevent: Add global QUIET_CC_FPIC build output 2013-12-19 16:18:10 -03:00
testing Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-08-04 15:55:08 -07:00
thermal/tmon tmon: set umask to a reasonable value 2014-07-01 22:00:51 +08:00
usb tools: ffs-test: fix header values endianess 2014-06-30 13:23:58 -05:00
virtio tools: Consolidate types.h 2014-05-01 21:22:39 +02:00
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: catch sigbus if raced with truncate 2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
Makefile tools/liblockdep: Build liblockdep from tools/Makefile 2014-05-08 13:34:45 -04:00