[PATCH v2 0/3] Support .gnu_debugdata for symbols in perf

[Stephen Brennan]

Hello all,

This series adds the ability to read symbols from the ".gnu_debugdata" section,
an LZMA-compressed embedded ELF file which is supposed to contain additional ELF
symbols. This is something that Fedora implemented (as "MiniDebuginfo" [1]).
There are more details in v1. I've tested it with binaries that have
.gnu_debugdata, and I've also ensured that the build & runtime work when LZMA is
disabled.

[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo

Changes since v1:
* Reuses the existing LZMA decompression helpers, rather than implementing a
  new LZMA decompression loop. This does involve creating a temporary file, but
  I think that actually makes things cleaner, since now the symsrc has a file
  descriptor to close, rather than adding a new pointer that needs freeing.
* I did also remove the pr_debug() for the case where there is no
  ".gnu_debugdata" section. That's not really an error worth logging, that's
  just normal operation.
* I added a pr_debug() for the case where we successfully load .gnu_debugdata
  so that it's easier to determine whether it gets used in tests.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20250213190542.3249050-1-stephen.s.brennan@xxxxxxxxxx/

Stephen Brennan (3):
  tools: perf: add dummy functions for !HAVE_LZMA_SUPPORT
  tools: perf: add LZMA decompression from FILE
  tools: perf: support .gnu_debugdata for symbols

 tools/perf/util/compress.h   |  20 +++++++
 tools/perf/util/dso.c        |   2 +
 tools/perf/util/dso.h        |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/lzma.c       |  29 ++++++----
 tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 tools/perf/util/symbol.c     |   2 +
 6 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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