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  1. 02 May, 2017 2 commits
    • Paul Clarke's avatar
      perf symbols: Allow user probes on versioned symbols · d8040645
      Paul Clarke authored 
      Symbol versioning, as in glibc, results in symbols being defined as:

  <real symbol>@[@]<version>

(Note that "@@" identifies a default symbol, if the symbol name is
repeated.)

perf is currently unable to deal with this, and is unable to create user
probes at such symbols:

  --
  $ nm /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 | grep pthread_create
  0000000000008d30 t __pthread_create_2_1
  0000000000008d30 T pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.17
  $ /usr/bin/sudo perf probe -v -x /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 pthread_create
  probe-definition(0): pthread_create
  symbol:pthread_create file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null)
  0 arguments
  Open Debuginfo file: /usr/lib/debug/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.19.so
  Try to find probe point from debuginfo.
  Probe point 'pthread_create' not found.
     Error: Failed to add events. Reason: No such file or directory (Code: -2)
  --

One is not able to specify the fully versioned symbol, either, due to
syntactic conflicts with other uses of "@" by perf:

  --
  $ /usr/bin/sudo perf probe -v -x /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.17
  probe-definition(0): pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.17
  Semantic error :SRC@SRC is not allowed.
  0 arguments
     Error: Command Parse Error. Reason: Invalid argument (Code: -22)
  --

This patch ignores versioning for default symbols, thus allowing probes to be
created for these symbols:

  --
  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf probe -x /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 pthread_create
  Added new event:
     probe_libpthread:pthread_create (on pthread_create in /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.19.so)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

           perf record -e probe_libpthread:pthread_create -aR sleep 1

  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf record -e probe_libpthread:pthread_create -aR ./test 2
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.052 MB perf.data (2 samples) ]
  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf script
               test  2915 [000] 19124.260729: probe_libpthread:pthread_create: (3fff99248d38)
               test  2916 [000] 19124.260962: probe_libpthread:pthread_create: (3fff99248d38)
  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf probe --del=probe_libpthread:pthread_create
  Removed event: probe_libpthread:pthread_create
  --

Committer note:

Change the variable storing the result of strlen() to 'int', to fix the build
on debian:experimental-x-mipsel, fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc, ubuntu:16.04-x-arm,
etc:

  util/symbol.c: In function 'symbol__match_symbol_name':
  util/symbol.c:422:11: error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Werror=sign-compare]
     if (len < versioning - name)
             ^
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul A. Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c2b18d9c-17f8-9285-4868-f58b6359ccac@us.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      d8040645
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf symbols: Accept symbols starting at address 0 · b843f62a
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      That is the case of _text on s390, and we have some functions that return an
address, using address zero to report problems, oops.

This would lead the symbol loading routines to not use "_text" as the reference
relocation symbol, or the first symbol for the kernel, but use instead
"_stext", that is at the same address on x86_64 and others, but not on s390:

  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$ head -15 /proc/kallsyms
  0000000000000000 T _text
  0000000000000418 t iplstart
  0000000000000800 T start
  000000000000080a t .base
  000000000000082e t .sk8x8
  0000000000000834 t .gotr
  0000000000000842 t .cmd
  0000000000000846 t .parm
  000000000000084a t .lowcase
  0000000000010000 T startup
  0000000000010010 T startup_kdump
  0000000000010214 t startup_kdump_relocated
  0000000000011000 T startup_continue
  00000000000112a0 T _ehead
  0000000000100000 T _stext
  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$

Which in turn would make 'perf test vmlinux' to fail because it wouldn't find
the symbols before "_stext" in kallsyms.

Fix it by using the return value only for errors and storing the
address, when the symbol is successfully found, in a provided pointer
arg.

Before this patch:

After:

  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$ tools/perf/perf test -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms            :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 40693
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/3.10.0-654.el7.s390x/vmlinux for symbols
  ERR : 0: _text not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x418: iplstart not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x800: start not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x80a: .base not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x82e: .sk8x8 not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x834: .gotr not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x842: .cmd not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x846: .parm not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x84a: .lowcase not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x10000: startup not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x10010: startup_kdump not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x10214: startup_kdump_relocated not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x11000: startup_continue not on kallsyms
  ERR : 0x112a0: _ehead not on kallsyms
  <SNIP warnings>
  test child finished with -1
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: FAILED!
  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$

After:

  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$ tools/perf/perf test -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms            :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 47160
  <SNIP warnings>
  test child finished with 0
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
  [acme@localhost perf-4.11.0-rc6]$
Reported-by: default avatarMichael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9x9bwgd3btwdk1u51xie93fz@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      b843f62a
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