[PATCH] perf symbols: Consolidate symbol fixup issue

[Leo Yan]

After copying Arm64's perf archive with object files and perf.data file
to x86 laptop, the x86's perf kernel symbol resolution fails.  It
outputs 'unknown' for all symbols parsing.

This issue is root caused by the function elf__needs_adjust_symbols(),
x86 perf tool uses one weak version, Arm64 (and powerpc) has rewritten
their own version.  elf__needs_adjust_symbols() decides if need to parse
symbols with the relative offset address; but x86 building uses the weak
function which misses to check for the elf type 'ET_DYN', so that it
cannot parse symbols in Arm DSOs due to the wrong result from
elf__needs_adjust_symbols().

The DSO parsing should not depend on any specific architecture perf
building; e.g. x86 perf tool can parse Arm and Arm64 DSOs, vice versa.
So this patch changes elf__needs_adjust_symbols() as a common function
and removes the arch specific functions for Arm64 and powerpc.

In the common elf__needs_adjust_symbols(), it checks elf header and if
the machine type is one of Arm64/ppc/ppc64, it checks extra condition
for 'ET_DYN'.  Finally, the Arm64 DSO can be parsed properly with x86's
perf tool.

Before:

  # perf script
  main  3258          1          branches:                 0 [unknown] ([unknown]) => ffff800010c4665c [unknown] ([kernel.kallsyms])
  main  3258          1          branches:  ffff800010c46670 [unknown] ([kernel.kallsyms]) => ffff800010c4eaec [unknown] ([kernel.kallsyms])
  main  3258          1          branches:  ffff800010c4eaec [unknown] ([kernel.kallsyms]) => ffff800010c4eb00 [unknown] ([kernel.kallsyms])
  main  3258          1          branches:  ffff800010c4eb08 [unknown] ([kernel.kallsyms]) => ffff800010c4e780 [unknown] ([kernel.kallsyms])
  main  3258          1          branches:  ffff800010c4e7a0 [unknown] ([kernel.kallsyms]) => ffff800010c4eeac [unknown] ([kernel.kallsyms])
  main  3258          1          branches:  ffff800010c4eebc [unknown] ([kernel.kallsyms]) => ffff800010c4ed80 [unknown] ([kernel.kallsyms])

After:

  # perf script
  main  3258          1          branches:                 0 [unknown] ([unknown]) => ffff800010c4665c coresight_timeout+0x54 ([kernel.kallsyms])
  main  3258          1          branches:  ffff800010c46670 coresight_timeout+0x68 ([kernel.kallsyms]) => ffff800010c4eaec etm4_enable_hw+0x3cc ([kernel.kallsyms])
  main  3258          1          branches:  ffff800010c4eaec etm4_enable_hw+0x3cc ([kernel.kallsyms]) => ffff800010c4eb00 etm4_enable_hw+0x3e0 ([kernel.kallsyms])
  main  3258          1          branches:  ffff800010c4eb08 etm4_enable_hw+0x3e8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) => ffff800010c4e780 etm4_enable_hw+0x60 ([kernel.kallsyms])
  main  3258          1          branches:  ffff800010c4e7a0 etm4_enable_hw+0x80 ([kernel.kallsyms]) => ffff800010c4eeac etm4_enable+0x2d4 ([kernel.kallsyms])
  main  3258          1          branches:  ffff800010c4eebc etm4_enable+0x2e4 ([kernel.kallsyms]) => ffff800010c4ed80 etm4_enable+0x1a8 ([kernel.kallsyms])

Reported-by: Mike Leach <mike.leach@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/sym-handling.c   | 19 -------------------
 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c | 10 ----------
 tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c                |  8 +++++++-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/sym-handling.c

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/sym-handling.c b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/sym-handling.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 8dfa3e5229f1..000000000000
--- a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/sym-handling.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-/*
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2015 Naveen N. Rao, IBM Corporation
- */
-
-#include "symbol.h" // for the elf__needs_adjust_symbols() prototype
-#include <stdbool.h>
-
-#ifdef HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
-#include <gelf.h>
-
-bool elf__needs_adjust_symbols(GElf_Ehdr ehdr)
-{
-	return ehdr.e_type == ET_EXEC ||
-	       ehdr.e_type == ET_REL ||
-	       ehdr.e_type == ET_DYN;
-}
-#endif
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c
index abb7a12d8f93..0856b32f9e08 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c
@@ -10,16 +10,6 @@
 #include "probe-event.h"
 #include "probe-file.h"
 
-#ifdef HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
-bool elf__needs_adjust_symbols(GElf_Ehdr ehdr)
-{
-	return ehdr.e_type == ET_EXEC ||
-	       ehdr.e_type == ET_REL ||
-	       ehdr.e_type == ET_DYN;
-}
-
-#endif
-
 int arch__choose_best_symbol(struct symbol *syma,
 			     struct symbol *symb __maybe_unused)
 {
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
index 1965aefccb02..ee788ac67415 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
@@ -704,8 +704,14 @@ void symsrc__destroy(struct symsrc *ss)
 	close(ss->fd);
 }
 
-bool __weak elf__needs_adjust_symbols(GElf_Ehdr ehdr)
+bool elf__needs_adjust_symbols(GElf_Ehdr ehdr)
 {
+	if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_AARCH64 ||
+	    ehdr.e_machine == EM_PPC ||
+	    ehdr.e_machine == EM_PPC64)
+		return ehdr.e_type == ET_EXEC || ehdr.e_type == ET_REL ||
+		       ehdr.e_type == ET_DYN;
+
 	return ehdr.e_type == ET_EXEC || ehdr.e_type == ET_REL;
 }
 
-- 
2.17.1