perf annotate-data: Check variables in every scope
Sometimes it matches a variable in the inner scope but it fails because the actual access can be on a different type. Let's try variables in every scope and choose the best one using is_better_type(). I have an example with update_blocked_averages(), at first it found a variable (__mptr) but it's a void pointer. So it moved on to the upper scope and found another variable (cfs_rq). $ perf --debug type-profile annotate --data-type --stdio ... ----------------------------------------------------------- find data type for 0x140(reg14) at update_blocked_averages+0x2db CU for kernel/sched/fair.c (die:0x12dd892) frame base: cfa=1 fbreg=7 found "__mptr" (die: 0x13022f1) in scope=4/4 (die: 0x13022e8) failed: no/void pointer variable location: base=reg14, offset=0x140 type='void*' size=0x8 (die:0x12dd8f9) found "cfs_rq" (die: 0x1301721) in scope=3/4 (die: 0x130171c) type_offset=0x140 variable location: reg14 type='struct cfs_rq' size=0x1c0 (die:0x12e37e5) final type: type='struct cfs_rq' size=0x1c0 (die:0x12e37e5) IIUC the scope is like below: 1: update_blocked_averages 2: __update_blocked_fair 3: for_each_leaf_cfs_rq_safe 4: list_entry -> (container_of) The container_of is implemented like: #define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({ \ void *__mptr = (void *)(ptr); \ static_assert(__same_type(*(ptr), ((type *)0)->member) || \ __same_type(*(ptr), void), \ "pointer type mismatch in container_of()"); \ ((type *)(__mptr - offsetof(type, member))); }) That's why we see the __mptr variable first but it failed since it has no type information. Then for_each_leaf_cfs_rq_safe() is defined as #define for_each_leaf_cfs_rq_safe(rq, cfs_rq, pos) \ list_for_each_entry_safe(cfs_rq, pos, &rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list, \ leaf_cfs_rq_list) Note that the access was 0x140(r14). And the cfs_rq has leaf_cfs_rq_list at the 0x140. So it converts the list_head pointer to a pointer to struct cfs_rq here. $ pahole --hex -C cfs_rq vmlinux | grep 140 struct cfs_rq struct list_head leaf_cfs_rq_list; /* 0x140 0x10 */ Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240816235840.2754937-9-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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