Re: [PATCH RFC RESEND] Perf: lookup dwarf unwind stack info in debug file pointed by .gnu_debuglink

[Jiri Olsa]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 07:09:18AM +0200, Matija Glavinic Pecotic wrote:
> On 22/08/16 17:19, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > should you also set following?
> > 
> > 	*offset = ofs
> > 	dso->debug_frame_offset = ofs;
> > 
> > I guess if we found the debuglink section with file having .debug_frame
> > section, we want to use it for this dso from now on..
> 
> I omitted this at first as I was thinking whether it is correct to do so. For
> our case, stripped dso, symbols in debug file, we are marking offset in other
> file, and not *this* dso. But I agree to you now, I have checked, and debug
> frame offset is not used anywhere, so it is a future problem. Someone might
> be surprised though that offset is marked, but for the other file.
> 
> > I'd think let's have read_unwind_spec_debug_frame to find .debug_frame
> > and provide that info under dso object for subsequent reads
> 
> Yes, that sounds.
> 
> > so in case we find debuglink-ed file, it has precedence over the file
> > we found symtab in? assuming thats what dso->symsrc_filename is..
> 
> Thanks for pointing that one out, I haven't seen before we could use it.
> It was introduced with 0058aef65eda9c9dde8253af702d542ba7eef697 and it is
> aimed to keep name of the file with debug symbols, similar as needed here.
> 
> I would then propose something like this below. This significantly changes
> dso__read_binary_type_filename, but I would say it wasn't proper before and
> it is not in sync with the rest of the cases in it. Idea of this function is
> to provide path to dso, and DSO_BINARY_TYPE__DEBUGLINK implies one location,
> which is not entirely correct.
> 
> gdb and objcopy docs give points what debug link might be, and where debug
> file might reside. Debug link might be absolute path, or just name, in which
> case debug file should be looked up in several places. Here is what gdb does:
> 
> So, for example, suppose you ask gdb to debug /usr/bin/ls, which has a debug
> link that specifies the file ls.debug, and a build ID whose value in hex is
> abcdef1234. If the list of the global debug directories includes
> /usr/lib/debug, then gdb will look for the following debug information files,
> in the indicated order:
> 
>  - /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/ab/cdef1234.debug
>  - /usr/bin/ls.debug
>  - /usr/bin/.debug/ls.debug
>  - /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/ls.debug.
> 
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Separate-Debug-Files.html
> https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/binutils/objcopy.html
> 
> Could you please tell me what are your thoughts on this kind of approach?
> 
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/dso.c                    | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.c b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
> index 774f6ec..ecc859e 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/dso.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
> @@ -46,11 +46,14 @@ int dso__read_binary_type_filename(const struct dso *dso,
>  	switch (type) {
>  	case DSO_BINARY_TYPE__DEBUGLINK: {
>  		char *debuglink;
> +		char *dir;
> +		char symfile[PATH_MAX];
>  
>  		len = __symbol__join_symfs(filename, size, dso->long_name);
>  		debuglink = filename + len;
>  		while (debuglink != filename && *debuglink != '/')
>  			debuglink--;
> +		dir = debuglink;
>  		if (*debuglink == '/')
>  			debuglink++;
>  
> @@ -60,8 +63,45 @@ int dso__read_binary_type_filename(const struct dso *dso,
>  
>  		ret = filename__read_debuglink(filename, debuglink,
>  					       size - (debuglink - filename));
> +		if (ret)
> +			break;
> +
> +		/* Check predefined locations where debug file might reside:
> +		 *  - if debuglink is absolute path, check only that one
> +		 *  If debuglink provides just name:
> +		 *  - in the same directory as dso
> +		 *  - in the .debug subdirectory of dso directory
> +		 *  - in the /usr/lib/debug/[path to dso directory]
> +		 *  */
> +		if (*debuglink == '/') {
> +			ret = is_regular_file(debuglink);
> +			break;
> +		}
> +
> +		snprintf(symfile, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s", dir, debuglink);
> +		ret = is_regular_file(symfile);
> +		if(!ret) {
> +			strncpy(debuglink, symfile, size);
> +			break;
> +		}
> +
> +		snprintf(symfile, PATH_MAX, "%s/.debug/%s", dir, debuglink);
> +		ret = is_regular_file(symfile);
> +		if(!ret) {
> +			strncpy(debuglink, symfile, size);
> +			break;
> +		}
> +
> +		snprintf(symfile, PATH_MAX, "/usr/bin/debug/%s/%s", dir, debuglink);
> +		ret = is_regular_file(symfile);
> +		if(!ret) {
> +			strncpy(debuglink, symfile, size);
> +			break;
> +		}
> +
>  		}
>  		break;
> +
>  	case DSO_BINARY_TYPE__BUILD_ID_CACHE:
>  		if (dso__build_id_filename(dso, filename, size) == NULL)
>  			ret = -1;
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c
> index 97c0f8f..a1d3c93 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
>  #include "util.h"
>  #include "debug.h"
>  #include "asm/bug.h"
> +#include "dso.h"
>  
>  extern int
>  UNW_OBJ(dwarf_search_unwind_table) (unw_addr_space_t as,
> @@ -296,6 +297,8 @@ static int read_unwind_spec_debug_frame(struct dso *dso,
>  {
>  	int fd;
>  	u64 ofs = dso->data.debug_frame_offset;
> +	char *debuglink = malloc(PATH_MAX);
> +	int ret = 0;
>  
>  	if (ofs == 0) {
>  		fd = dso__data_get_fd(dso, machine);
> @@ -304,8 +307,31 @@ static int read_unwind_spec_debug_frame(struct dso *dso,
>  
>  		/* Check the .debug_frame section for unwinding info */
>  		ofs = elf_section_offset(fd, ".debug_frame");
> -		dso->data.debug_frame_offset = ofs;
>  		dso__data_put_fd(dso);
> +
> +		if (!ofs) {
> +			/* If not found, try to lookup in debuglink */
> +			ret = dso__read_binary_type_filename(
> +				dso, DSO_BINARY_TYPE__DEBUGLINK,
> +				machine->root_dir, debuglink, PATH_MAX);
> +			if (!ret) {
> +				fd = open(debuglink, O_RDONLY);
> +				if (fd < 0)
> +					return -EINVAL;
> +
> +				ofs = elf_section_offset(fd, ".debug_frame");
> +				close(fd);
> +
> +				if (ofs) {
> +					dso->symsrc_filename = debuglink;

symsrc_filename is initialized with file that has symtab,
which I'm not sure is guaranteed in here as well..

Namhyung, Massami?

thanks,
jirka

> +				}
> +			}
> +		}
> +
> +		pr_debug("%s: dso: %s, ret: %d, debuglink: <%s>\n",
> +			__func__, dso->short_name, ret, debuglink);
> +
> +		dso->data.debug_frame_offset = ofs;
>  	}
>  
>  	*offset = ofs;
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 
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