perf annotate-data: Handle this-cpu variables in kernel
On x86, the kernel gets the current task using the current macro like below: #define current get_current() static __always_inline struct task_struct *get_current(void) { return this_cpu_read_stable(pcpu_hot.current_task); } So it returns the current_task field of struct pcpu_hot which is the first member. On my build, it's located at 0x32940. $ nm vmlinux | grep pcpu_hot 0000000000032940 D pcpu_hot And the current macro generates the instructions like below: mov %gs:0x32940, %rcx So the %gs segment register points to the beginning of the per-cpu region of this cpu and it points the variable with a constant. Let's update the instruction location info to have a segment register and handle %gs in kernel to look up a global variable. Pretend it as a global variable by changing the register number to DWARF_REG_PC. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240319055115.4063940-18-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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