[PATCH 5/5] perf symbol: Move Rust demangling into its own function

From: Michal Pluta

Date: Sun Sep 27 2026 - 21:03:30 EST


dso__demangle_sym() is the only place that implements demangling logic
inline. The other three are one call each to a helper. Move the Rust
parsing and buffer growth into rust_demangle_sym(), with the same
signature as the other three.

A Rust name that fails to demangle now falls through to the other
demanglers, matching how the other demanglers chain into each other.
A v0 name can't be misread by any of them, since none accepts its "_R"
prefix. A legacy name can only fail here on allocation failure or
hitting the output bound, neither of which is language-specific.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Michal Pluta <michalpl2003@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 858a14a91f79..89db9a670833 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -2740,47 +2740,56 @@ char *cxx_demangle_sym(const char *str __maybe_unused, bool params __maybe_unuse
/* Buffer limit for a demangled Rust symbol name. */
#define RUST_DEMANGLE_MAX_LEN (1024 * 1024)

-char *dso__demangle_sym(struct dso *dso, int kmodule, const char *elf_name)
+static char *rust_demangle_sym(const char *elf_name)
{
struct demangle rust_demangle = {
.style = DemangleStyleUnknown,
};
char *demangled = NULL;
size_t buf_len;

+ rust_demangle_demangle(elf_name, &rust_demangle);
+ if (!rust_demangle_is_known(&rust_demangle))
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (rust_demangle.mangled_len == 0)
+ return NULL;
+
+ for (buf_len = min_t(size_t, roundup_pow_of_two(rust_demangle.mangled_len * 2),
+ RUST_DEMANGLE_MAX_LEN);
+ buf_len <= RUST_DEMANGLE_MAX_LEN;
+ buf_len *= 2) {
+ char *tmp = realloc(demangled, buf_len);
+
+ if (!tmp)
+ break;
+ demangled = tmp;
+ if (rust_demangle_display_demangle(&rust_demangle, demangled, buf_len,
+ /*alternate=*/true) == OverflowOk) {
+ tmp = realloc(demangled, strlen(demangled) + 1);
+ return tmp ?: demangled;
+ }
+ }
+ /* Failure to grow output buffer or buffer exceeded sensible bounds. */
+ free(demangled);
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+char *dso__demangle_sym(struct dso *dso, int kmodule, const char *elf_name)
+{
+ char *demangled = NULL;
+
/*
* We need to figure out if the object was created from C++ sources
* DWARF DW_compile_unit has this, but we don't always have access
* to it...
*/
if (!want_demangle((dso && dso__kernel(dso)) || kmodule))
return demangled;

- rust_demangle_demangle(elf_name, &rust_demangle);
- if (rust_demangle_is_known(&rust_demangle)) {
- /* A rust mangled name. */
- if (rust_demangle.mangled_len == 0)
- return demangled;
-
- for (buf_len = min_t(size_t, roundup_pow_of_two(rust_demangle.mangled_len * 2),
- RUST_DEMANGLE_MAX_LEN);
- buf_len <= RUST_DEMANGLE_MAX_LEN;
- buf_len *= 2) {
- char *tmp = realloc(demangled, buf_len);
-
- if (!tmp)
- break;
- demangled = tmp;
- if (rust_demangle_display_demangle(&rust_demangle, demangled, buf_len,
- /*alternate=*/true) == OverflowOk) {
- tmp = realloc(demangled, strlen(demangled) + 1);
- return tmp ?: demangled;
- }
- }
- /* Failure to grow output buffer or buffer exceeded sensible bounds. */
- free(demangled);
- return NULL;
- }
+ demangled = rust_demangle_sym(elf_name);
+ if (demangled)
+ return demangled;

demangled = cxx_demangle_sym(elf_name, verbose > 0, verbose > 0);
if (demangled)
--
2.43.0