Re: [PATCH] perf symbols: Parse NOTE segments until the build id is found

[Ian Rogers]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 5:57 AM Chengen Du <chengen.du@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In the ELF file, multiple NOTE segments may exist.
> To locate the build id, the process shall persist
> in parsing NOTE segments until the build id is found.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chengen Du <chengen.du@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

For this code to be run then libelf needs to be disabled, I guess this
is why the problem has existed, out of curiosity why not use libelf?
If you look at tools/perf/Makefile.config, disabling libelf disables
libbpf, which means a whole heap of perf tool features are going to be
missing for you.

It may also be possible to add:
Fixes b691f64360ec ("perf symbols: Implement poor man's ELF parser")

Thanks,
Ian

> ---
>  tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
> index a81a14769bd1..1da8b713509c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
> @@ -159,9 +159,10 @@ int filename__read_build_id(const char *filename, struct build_id *bid)
>                                 goto out_free;
>
>                         ret = read_build_id(buf, buf_size, bid, need_swap);
> -                       if (ret == 0)
> +                       if (ret == 0) {
>                                 ret = bid->size;
> -                       break;
> +                               break;
> +                       }
>                 }
>         } else {
>                 Elf64_Ehdr ehdr;
> @@ -210,9 +211,10 @@ int filename__read_build_id(const char *filename, struct build_id *bid)
>                                 goto out_free;
>
>                         ret = read_build_id(buf, buf_size, bid, need_swap);
> -                       if (ret == 0)
> +                       if (ret == 0) {
>                                 ret = bid->size;
> -                       break;
> +                               break;
> +                       }
>                 }
>         }
>  out_free:
> --
> 2.40.1
>