Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] perf probe powerpc: Fix symbol fixup issues due to ELF type

From: Naveen N. Rao
Date: Wed Dec 10 2014 - 04:36:13 EST


On 2014/12/09 06:07PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:04:00PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao escreveu:
> > If using the symbol table, symbol addresses are not being fixed up
> > properly, resulting in probes being placed at wrong addresses:
> >
> > # perf probe do_fork
> > Added new event:
> > probe:do_fork (on do_fork)
> >
> > You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
> >
> > perf record -e probe:do_fork -aR sleep 1
> >
> > # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
> > p:probe/do_fork _text+635952
> > # printf "%x" 635952
> > 9b430
> > # grep do_fork /boot/System.map
> > c0000000000ab430 T .do_fork
> >
> > Fix by checking for ELF type ET_DYN used by ppc64 kernels.
>
> Are you sure this doesn't need to be enclosed in ifdef PPC64?

I felt this change is architecture-independent, though I'm actually not
sure if there are other architectures using ET_DYN for their kernel. I
can restrict this to ppc64 if you think that would be better.

- Naveen

>
> - Arnaldo
>
> > Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
> > index 1e23a5b..67e4392 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
> > @@ -629,7 +629,8 @@ int symsrc__init(struct symsrc *ss, struct dso *dso, const char *name,
> > NULL) != NULL);
> > } else {
> > ss->adjust_symbols = ehdr.e_type == ET_EXEC ||
> > - ehdr.e_type == ET_REL;
> > + ehdr.e_type == ET_REL ||
> > + ehdr.e_type == ET_DYN;
> > }
> >
> > ss->name = strdup(name);
> > --
> > 2.1.3
>

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