Re: [PATCH v5 09/11] perf syscalltbl: Use lookup table containing multiple architectures

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Mar 13 2025 - 15:21:51 EST


On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 04:32:07PM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> Switch to use the lookup table containing all architectures rather
> than tables matching the perf binary.
>
> This fixes perf trace when executed on a 32-bit i386 binary on an
> x86-64 machine. Note in the following the system call names of the
> 32-bit i386 binary as seen by an x86-64 perf.
>

Reproduced the results here:

root@number:/home/acme/c# file faccessat2
faccessat2: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=8dafcc1549658d57248dce883e8ec7eea3d6e8a5, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, not stripped
root@number:/home/acme/c#

root@number:/home/acme/c# strace ./faccessat2 |& head
execve("./faccessat2", ["./faccessat2"], 0x7ffce63265e0 /* 39 vars */) = 0
[ Process PID=2552445 runs in 32 bit mode. ]
brk(NULL) = 0x849a000
mmap2(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xf7fb3000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
statx(3, "", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT|AT_EMPTY_PATH, STATX_BASIC_STATS, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID|STATX_SUBVOL, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFREG|0644, stx_size=85091, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 85091, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xf7f9e000
close(3) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
root@number:/home/acme/c#

Before:

root@number:/home/acme/c# perf trace ./faccessat2 |& head
faccessat2(123, (null), X_OK, AT_EACCESS | AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1
? ( ): faccessat2/2552543 ... [continued]: munmap()) = 0
0.024 ( 0.002 ms): faccessat2/2552543 recvfrom(ubuf: 0x2, size: 4159848428, flags: DONTROUTE|CTRUNC|TRUNC|DONTWAIT|EOR|WAITALL|FIN|SYN|CONFIRM|RST|ERRQUEUE|SOCK_DEVMEM|ZEROCOPY|FASTOPEN|CMSG_CLOEXEC|0x91f20000, addr: 0xe30, addr_len: 0xffcda98c) = 138993664
0.047 ( 0.006 ms): faccessat2/2552543 lgetxattr(name: "", value: 0x3, size: 34) = 4159602688
0.063 ( 0.003 ms): faccessat2/2552543 dup2(oldfd: -135160188, newfd: 4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
0.071 ( 0.023 ms): faccessat2/2552543 preadv(fd: 4294967196, vec: 0xf7f16420, vlen: 557056, pos_h: 4159848428) = 3
0.098 ( 0.004 ms): faccessat2/2552543 lgetxattr(name: "", value: 0x1, size: 2) = 4159516672
0.104 ( 0.001 ms): faccessat2/2552543 lstat(filename: "", statbuf: 0x14c63) = 0
0.114 ( 0.004 ms): faccessat2/2552543 preadv(fd: 4294967196, vec: 0xf7ee8380, vlen: 557056, pos_h: 4159848428) = 3
0.118 ( 0.002 ms): faccessat2/2552543 close(fd: 3) = 512
root@number:/home/acme/c#

After:

root@number:/home/acme/c# perf trace ./faccessat2 |& head
faccessat2(123, (null), X_OK, AT_EACCESS | AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1
sh: line 1: perf-read-vdso32: command not found
? ( ): faccessat2/2556897 ... [continued]: execve()) = 0
0.028 ( 0.002 ms): faccessat2/2556897 brk() = 0x8fe4000
0.068 ( 0.003 ms): faccessat2/2556897 access(filename: 0xf7ff2e84, mode: R) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
0.080 ( 0.005 ms): faccessat2/2556897 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/etc/ld.so.cache", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC|LARGEFILE) = 3
0.094 ( 0.001 ms): faccessat2/2556897 close(fd: 3) = 0
0.103 ( 0.003 ms): faccessat2/2556897 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: "/lib/libc.so.6", flags: RDONLY|CLOEXEC|LARGEFILE) = 3
0.108 ( 0.002 ms): faccessat2/2556897 read(fd: 3, buf: 0xffdd84b0, count: 512) = 512
0.216 ( 0.001 ms): faccessat2/2556897 close(fd: 3) = 0
root@number:/home/acme/c#

And interestingly the openat syscall got its contents obtained via the
BPF augmenter... better to test this more thoroughly, but I think it
should come after this series lands.

- Arnaldo