perf probes on arm64 don't work with 4.10 kernel b/c of register name issue

[Ali]

perf probe doesn't work because the register names in the perf tool are incorrect. This was fixed upstream by https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9534823/.

perf probe -x /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -a 'malloc bytes'
Failed to write event: Invalid argument
  Error: Failed to add events.

Rebuilding perf with the above mentioned change results in:
ubuntu:/usr/src/linux-source-4.10.0/tools/perf# ./perf probe -x /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -a 'malloc bytes'
Added new event:
  probe_libc:malloc (on malloc in /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc-2.24.so with bytes)

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

I built a test kernel with a cherry pick of commit 1b29dfbba124be5077a24996a272205baec1c008. The test kernel can be downloaded from:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1671917/

Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug?

[Ali (asaidi)]

I don't see the linux-tools-4.10-11-13~lp1671917 in that directory.

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

Sorry about that. The tools .deb should be there now.

[Ali (asaidi)]

It looks like the amd64 version of the deb is there, but not the arm64 version.

[Seth Forshee (sforshee)]

This is a simple patch for perf and a clean cherry pick from upstream. I'm going ahead and applying it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.10.0-14.16

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linux (4.10.0-14.16) zesty; urgency=low

  [ Tim Gardner ]

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