Re: perf's handling of unfindable user symbols...

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:02:30PM -0700, David Miller escreveu:
> From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:45:06 -0300
> 
> > Exec summary: yeah, drop that hack, I agree, patch at the end of the
> > message.

> > So, I thought something had changed and in the past we would somehow
> > find that address in the kallsyms, but I couldn't find anything to back
> > that up, the patch introducing this is over a decade old, lots of things
> > changed, so I was just thinking I was missing something.

> > I tried a gtod busy loop to generate vdso activity and added a 'perf
> > probe' at that branch, on x86_64 to see if it ever gets hit:
 
> Good, thanks for doing the detailed checking!
 
> > In the process I noticed a bug, we're only have records for '[vdso]' for
> > pre-existing commands, i.e. ones that are running when we start 'perf top',
> > when we will generate the PERF_RECORD_MMAP by looking at /perf/PID/maps.
> 
> Hmmm.  vdso mappings are installed by __install_special_mapping()

Yeah, the kernel is ok, tooling seems b0rken, will check.

[root@jouet ~]# perf record ~acme/c/gtod
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.076 MB perf.data (1499 samples) ]

[root@jouet ~]# perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_MMAP2
71293612401913 0x11b48 [0x70]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 25484/25484: [0x400000(0x1000) @ 0 fd:02 1137 541179306]: r-xp /home/acme/c/gtod
71293612419012 0x11be0 [0x70]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 25484/25484: [0x7fa4a2783000(0x227000) @ 0 fd:00 3146370 854107250]: r-xp /usr/lib64/ld-2.26.so
71293612432110 0x11c50 [0x60]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 25484/25484: [0x7ffcdb53a000(0x2000) @ 0 00:00 0 0]: r-xp [vdso]
71293612509944 0x11cb0 [0x70]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 25484/25484: [0x7fa4a23cd000(0x3b6000) @ 0 fd:00 3149723 262067164]: r-xp /usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so
[root@jouet ~]#

And using tools/perf/python/twatch.py enabling mmap = 1:

<SNIP>
cpu: 1, pid: 25743, tid: 25743 { type: comm, pid: 25743, tid: 25743, comm: gtod }
cpu: 2, pid: 25742, tid: 25742 { type: mmap, pid: 25742, tid: 25742, start: 0x55d0a916e000, length: 0x219000, offset: 0, filename: /usr/bin/procmail }
cpu: 1, pid: 25743, tid: 25743 { type: mmap, pid: 25743, tid: 25743, start: 0x400000, length: 0x1000, offset: 0, filename: /home/acme/c/gtod
}
cpu: 2, pid: 25742, tid: 25742 { type: mmap, pid: 25742, tid: 25742, start: 0x7fa6d666e000, length: 0x227000, offset: 0, filename: /usr/lib64/ld-2.26.so }
cpu: 1, pid: 25743, tid: 25743 { type: mmap, pid: 25743, tid: 25743, start: 0x7f7774286000, length: 0x227000, offset: 0, filename: /usr/lib64/ld-2.26.so }
cpu: 2, pid: 25742, tid: 25742 { type: mmap, pid: 25742, tid: 25742, start: 0x7ffd673d6000, length: 0x2000, offset: 0, filename: [vdso] }
cpu: 1, pid: 25743, tid: 25743 { type: mmap, pid: 25743, tid: 25743, start: 0x7fff8f7ad000, length: 0x2000, offset: 0, filename: [vdso] }
<SNIP>

> which should be emitting proper mmap events by calling
> perf_event_mmap(vma).
> Maybe the event is emitted too early?  It doesn't look like it.  These
> are emitted after load_elf_binary() iterates over the PHDRs and
> mmap()'s those areas of the binary, and we definitely see those events
> properly.
> 
> > The kernel doesn't seem to be generating a PERF_RECORD_MMAP for vDSOs...  And
> > we can't do this in 'perf record' because we don't process event by event, just
> > dump things from the ring buffer to a file...
 
> It should be, see above.

Yeah, I'll check why is that the tooling side doesn't seem to be
catching those...

> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.c b/tools/perf/util/event.c
> > index 0988eb3b844b..bc646185f8d9 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/event.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/event.c
> > @@ -1561,26 +1561,9 @@ struct map *thread__find_map(struct thread *thread, u8 cpumode, u64 addr,
> >  
> >  		return NULL;
> >  	}
> > -try_again:
> > +
> >  	al->map = map_groups__find(mg, al->addr);
> > -	if (al->map == NULL) {
> > -		/*
> > -		 * If this is outside of all known maps, and is a negative
> > -		 * address, try to look it up in the kernel dso, as it might be
> > -		 * a vsyscall or vdso (which executes in user-mode).
> > -		 *
> > -		 * XXX This is nasty, we should have a symbol list in the
> > -		 * "[vdso]" dso, but for now lets use the old trick of looking
> > -		 * in the whole kernel symbol list.
> > -		 */
> > -		if (cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER && machine &&
> > -		    mg != &machine->kmaps &&
> > -		    machine__kernel_ip(machine, al->addr)) {
> > -			mg = &machine->kmaps;
> > -			load_map = true;
> > -			goto try_again;
> > -		}
> > -	} else {
> > +	if (al->map != NULL) {
> >  		/*
> >  		 * Kernel maps might be changed when loading symbols so loading
> >  		 * must be done prior to using kernel maps.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reported-by:
Suggested-by:

:-)

OK, will get this with a nice cover letter and stash into my perf/urgent
branch.

- Arnaldo