Re: [PATCH perf/core v4 03/19] perf buildid-cache: Fall back to the old style build-id cache

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 10:47:49 -0300
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Em Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 06:02:33PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
> > Fall back to the old style build-id cache
> > (~/.debug/<path-to-bin>/<build-id>) if possible.
> > Because there is old build-id cache under ~/.debug, perf
> > has to check if the old entry is there instead of returning
> > an error. Or, user have to remove ~/.debug completely.
> 
> So, from the description this seems to address the issues I mentioned in
> the previous patch.

yes :)

> 
> Probably it is a good idea not to introduce the problem in the first
> place? I.e. combine this and the previous patch, so that we don't have
> this bisection break?

Yeah, I just try to keep original clean for review.
I'll combine this with 02/19.

Thanks!

> 
> - Arnaldo
>  
> > This patch introduces fallback code to try using old-style
> > buildid caches. To update the cached entry, you just need to
> > add a cache. It automatically removes old cache entry and
> > make a new one in new style
> > (~/.debug/<path-to-bin>/<build-id>/[elf|vdso|kallsyms]).
> > 
> > IOW, without this patch, "perf buildid-cache --add" always
> > gets errors when adding existing binaries.
> >   ----
> >   # perf buildid-cache -a /usr/lib64/libc-2.20.so,/usr/bin/gcc
> >   Couldn't add /usr/bin/gcc: Not a directory
> >   Couldn't add /usr/lib64/libc-2.20.so: Not a directory
> >   ----
> > Moreover, --update option removes only symlink, thus the
> > build-id cache is corrupted.
> > 
> > This fixes above issues.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/util/build-id.c |   17 ++++++++++++++++-
> >  tools/perf/util/symbol.c   |   13 +++++++++----
> >  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/build-id.c b/tools/perf/util/build-id.c
> > index 46a8bcc..b035483 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/build-id.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/build-id.c
> > @@ -155,6 +155,12 @@ static char *build_id_cache__linkname(const char *sbuild_id, char *bf,
> >  	return bf;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static bool __is_regular_file(const char *pathname)
> > +{
> > +	struct stat sb;
> > +	return stat(pathname, &sb) == 0 && S_ISREG(sb.st_mode);
> > +}
> > +
> >  static const char *build_id_cache__basename(bool is_kallsyms, bool is_vdso)
> >  {
> >  	return is_kallsyms ? "kallsyms" : (is_vdso ? "vdso" : "elf");
> > @@ -177,7 +183,11 @@ char *dso__build_id_filename(const struct dso *dso, char *bf, size_t size)
> >  	if (!linkname)
> >  		return NULL;
> >  
> > -	ret = asnprintf(&bf, size, "%s/%s", linkname,
> > +	/* Check if old style build_id cache */
> > +	if (__is_regular_file(linkname))
> > +		ret = asnprintf(&bf, size, "%s", linkname);
> > +	else
> > +		ret = asnprintf(&bf, size, "%s/%s", linkname,
> >  			 build_id_cache__basename(is_kallsyms, is_vdso));
> >  	if (ret < 0 || (!alloc && size < (unsigned int)ret))
> >  		bf = NULL;
> > @@ -445,6 +455,11 @@ int build_id_cache__add_s(const char *sbuild_id, const char *name,
> >  	if (!dir_name)
> >  		goto out_free;
> >  
> > +	/* Remove old style build-id cache */
> > +	if (__is_regular_file(dir_name))
> > +		if (unlink(dir_name))
> > +			goto out_free;
> > +
> >  	if (mkdir_p(dir_name, 0755))
> >  		goto out_free;
> >  
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> > index c57cb47..9463c7d 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> > @@ -1687,11 +1687,16 @@ static char *dso__find_kallsyms(struct dso *dso, struct map *map)
> >  
> >  	scnprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/[kernel.kallsyms]/%s/kallsyms",
> >  		  buildid_dir, sbuild_id);
> > -
> > +	/* Try old style kallsyms cache */
> >  	if (access(path, F_OK)) {
> > -		pr_err("No kallsyms or vmlinux with build-id %s was found\n",
> > -		       sbuild_id);
> > -		return NULL;
> > +		scnprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/[kernel.kallsyms]/%s",
> > +			  buildid_dir, sbuild_id);
> > +
> > +		if (access(path, F_OK)) {
> > +			pr_err("No kallsyms or vmlinux with build-id %s was found\n",
> > +			       sbuild_id);
> > +			return NULL;
> > +		}
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	return strdup(path);


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>