Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751002Ab3IFIlt (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Sep 2013 04:41:49 -0400 Received: from e23smtp09.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.142]:38737 "EHLO e23smtp09.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750762Ab3IFIlr (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Sep 2013 04:41:47 -0400 Message-ID: <52299538.8040500@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 14:11:28 +0530 From: Hemant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Namhyung Kim CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, peterz@infradead.org, oleg@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com, anton@redhat.com, systemtap@sourceware.org, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] SDT markers listing by perf References: <20130903072944.4793.93584.stgit@hemant-fedora> <20130903073655.4793.20013.stgit@hemant-fedora> <87ioyht7e4.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> <52276FF5.9050808@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <87fvtisbej.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> In-Reply-To: <87fvtisbej.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: No X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13090619-3568-0000-0000-0000043353CA Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1784 Lines: 52 Hi Namhyung, On 09/06/2013 12:07 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote: > Hi Hemant, > > On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:07:57 +0530, Hemant wrote: >> On 09/04/2013 12:12 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote: >>> On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:06:55 +0530, Hemant Kumar wrote: >>>> + /* >>>> + * Look for Section type = SHT_NOTE, flags = no SHF_ALLOC >>>> + * and name = .note.stapsdt >>>> + */ >>>> + scn = elf_section_by_name(elf, &ehdr, &shdr, NOTE_SCN, NULL); >>>> + if (scn == NULL) { >>>> + pr_err("%s section not found!\n", NOTE_SCN); >>>> + goto out_end; >>>> + } >>>> + >>>> + if (!(shdr.sh_type == SHT_NOTE) || (shdr.sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC)) >>>> + goto out_end; >>>> + >>>> + data = elf_getdata(scn, NULL); >>>> + >>>> + /* Get the notes */ >>>> + for (offset = 0; (next = gelf_getnote(data, offset, &nhdr, &name_off, >>>> + &desc_off)) > 0; offset = next) { >>>> + tmp = populate_note(&elf, (const char *)((long)(data->d_buf) + >>>> + (long)desc_off), >>>> + nhdr.n_descsz, nhdr.n_type); >>> Shouldn't we check the name of note being "stapsdt" as well as version >>> (type) 3? >> Since, we are already fetching the section NOTE_SCN (".note.stapsdt") >> and then we check for the type being SHT_NOTE and SHF_ALLOC, is it >> required to do the same for the individual notes? > I don't know. Now it seems only includes SDT notes with name being > "stapsdt" and type being 3. But things can be changed in future.. > > Thanks, > Namhyung > Yeah that may be a case. Ok, will put a check on the individual markers for their type. Thanks Hemant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/