powerpc: Use unstripped VDSO image for more accurate profiling data
We are seeing a lot of hits in the VDSO that are not resolved by perf.
A while(1) gettimeofday() loop shows the issue:
27.64% [vdso] [.] 0x000000000000060c
22.57% [vdso] [.] 0x0000000000000628
16.88% [vdso] [.] 0x0000000000000610
12.39% [vdso] [.] __kernel_gettimeofday
6.09% [vdso] [.] 0x00000000000005f8
3.58% test [.] 00000037.plt_call.gettimeofday@@GLIBC_2.18
2.94% [vdso] [.] __kernel_datapage_offset
2.90% test [.] main
We are using a stripped VDSO image which means only symbols with
relocation info can be resolved. There isn't a lot of point to
stripping the VDSO, the debug info is only about 1kB:
4680 arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.so
5815 arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.so.dbg
By using the unstripped image, we can resolve all the symbols in the
VDSO and the perf profile data looks much better:
76.53% [vdso] [.] __do_get_tspec
12.20% [vdso] [.] __kernel_gettimeofday
5.05% [vdso] [.] __get_datapage
3.20% test [.] main
2.92% test [.] 00000037.plt_call.gettimeofday@@GLIBC_2.18
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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