Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Tidy up symbol end fixup

[Namhyung Kim]

Hi Ian,

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 08:48:13AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> Fixing up more symbol ends as introduced in:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220317135536.805-1-mpetlan@xxxxxxxxxx/
> caused perf annotate to run into memory limits - every symbol holds
> all the disassembled code in the annotation, and so making symbols
> ends further away dramatically increased memory usage (40MB to
>  >1GB). Modify the symbol end logic so that special kernel cases aren't
> applied in the common case.
> 
> v2. Drops a merged patch. Fixes a build issue with libbfd enabled.

How about just like this?  We can get rid of arch functions as they
mostly do the same thing (kernel vs module boundary check).

Not tested. ;-)

Thanks,
Namhyung

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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index dea0fc495185..df41d7266d91 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include "path.h"
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/zalloc.h>
+#include <internal/lib.h>  // page_size
 
 #include <elf.h>
 #include <limits.h>
@@ -231,8 +226,16 @@ void symbols__fixup_end(struct rb_root_cached *symbols)
                prev = curr;
                curr = rb_entry(nd, struct symbol, rb_node);
 
-               if (prev->end == prev->start || prev->end != curr->start)
-                       arch__symbols__fixup_end(prev, curr);
+               if (prev->end == prev->start) {
+                       /* Last kernel symbol mapped to end of page */
+                       if (!strchr(prev->name, '[') != !strchr(curr->name, '['))
+                               prev->end = roundup(prev->end + 1, page_size);
+                       else
+                               prev->end = curr->start;
+
+                       pr_debug4("%s sym:%s end:%#" PRIx64 "\n",
+                                 __func__, prev->name, prev->end);
+               }
        }
 
        /* Last entry */