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Commit 86767277 authored by Arnd Bergmann's avatar Arnd Bergmann Committed by Paul Mackerras
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[POWERPC] spufs: add infrastructure for finding elf objects



This adds an 'object-id' file that the spe library can
use to store a pointer to its ELF object. This was
originally meant for use by oprofile, but is now
also used by the GNU debugger, if available.

In order for oprofile to find the location in an spu-elf
binary where an event counter triggered, we need a way
to identify the binary in the first place.

Unfortunately, that binary itself can be embedded in a
powerpc ELF binary. Since we can assume it is mapped into
the effective address space of the running process,
have that one write the pointer value into a new spufs
file.

When a context switch occurs, pass the user value to
the profiler so that can look at the mapped file (with
some care).

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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