Re: [PATCH perf/urgent] perf tools: Fix is_bpf_image function logic

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Tue May 12 2020 - 10:35:00 EST


On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:09:02AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, May 12, 2020 at 03:36:09PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:32:23AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > Em Tue, May 12, 2020 at 02:23:10PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > > > Adrian reported that is_bpf_image is not working the way it was
> > > > intended - passing on trampolines and dispatcher names. Instead
> > > > it returned true for all the bpf names.
> > > >
> > > > The reason even this logic worked properly is that all bpf objects,
> > > > even trampolines and dispatcher, were assigned DSO_BINARY_TYPE__BPF_IMAGE
> > > > binary_type.
> > > >
> > > > The later for bpf_prog objects, the binary_type was fixed in bpf load event
> > > > processing, which is executed after the ksymbol code.
> > > >
> > > > Fixing the is_bpf_image logic, so it properly recognizes trampoline
> > > > and dispatcher objects.
> > >
> > > This is not applying on top of torvalds/master, not tip/perf/urgent, and
> >
> > right.. it's on top of your's perf/core.. I can rebase on perf/urgent
>
> You don't need to, this hasn't hit torvalds/master, it'll be in the next
> merge window, the one for 5.8.
>

perfect, thanks

jirka