The perf tool assumes that kernel symbols are never present at address zero. In fact it assumes if functions that map symbols to addresses return zero, that the symbol was not found. Given that s390's _text symbol historically is located at address zero this yields at least a couple of false errors and warnings in one of perf's test cases about not present symbols ("perf test 1"). To fix this simply move the _text symbol to address 0x200, just behind the initial psw and channel program located at the beginning of the kernel image. This is now hard coded within the linker script. I tried a nicer solution which moves the initial psw and channel program into an own section. However that would move the symbols within the "real" head.text section to different addresses, since the ".org" statements within head.S are relative to the head.text section. If there is a new section in front, everything else will be moved. Alternatively I could have adjusted all ".org" statements. But this current solution seems to be the easiest one, since nobody really cares where the _text symbol is actually located. Reported-by: Zvonko Kosic <zkosic@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.