Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf:tools: figure out start address of kernel mapfrom /proc/kallsyms

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Nov 24 2010 - 09:11:46 EST


Em Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 07:35:33PM +0800, tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx escreveu:
> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> On ARM, module symbol start address is ahead of kernel symbol start
> address, so we can't suppose that the start address of kenerl map
> always is zero, otherwise may cause incorrect .start and .end of kernel map
> (caused by fixup) when there are modules loaded, then map_groups__find
> may return incorrect map for symbol query.
>
> This patch always figures out the start address of kernel map from
> /proc/kallsyms if the file is available, so fix the issues on ARM for
> module loaded case.
>
> This patch fixes the following issues on ARM when modules are loaded:
>
> - vmlinux symbol can't be found by kallsyms maps doing 'perf test'
> - module symbols are parsed mistakenlly when doing 'perf top'/'perf report'
>
> Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> index c5b4ccb..1a8895c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> @@ -2183,14 +2183,72 @@ static struct dso *machine__create_kernel(struct machine *self)
> return kernel;
> }
>
> +/*figure out the start address of kernel map from /proc/kallsyms*/
> +static u64 __machine_get_kernel_start_addr(struct machine *self)
> +{
> + char *line = NULL;
> + size_t n;
> + u64 start_addr = 0;
> + FILE *file;
> + const char *filename;
> + char path[PATH_MAX];
> +
> + if (machine__is_default_guest(self)) {
> + filename = symbol_conf.default_guest_kallsyms;
> + if (!filename)
> + goto out_failure;
> + } else {
> + sprintf(path, "%s/proc/kallsyms", self->root_dir);
> + filename = path;
> + }
> +
> + file = fopen(filename, "r");

Can you please use kallsyms__parse()? Please take a look at
event__synthesize_kernel_mmap as it also uses it.

> + if (file == NULL)
> + goto out_failure;
> +
> + while (!feof(file)) {
> + u64 start = 0;
> + int line_len, len;
> +
> + line_len = getline(&line, &n, file);
> + if (line_len < 0 || !line)
> + break;
> +
> + line[--line_len] = '\0'; /* \n */
> +
> + /*if the line is for module symbol, skip it*/
> + if (strchr(line, '['))
> + continue;
> +
> + len = hex2u64(line, &start);
> +
> + len++;
> + if (len + 2 >= line_len)
> + continue;
> +
> + start_addr = start;
> + break;
> + }
> +
> + free(line);
> + fclose(file);

Out failure could be here, avoiding one return case.

> + return start_addr;
> +
> +out_failure:
> + return start_addr;
> +}
> +
> int __machine__create_kernel_maps(struct machine *self, struct dso *kernel)
> {
> enum map_type type;
> + u64 start;
>
> + start = __machine_get_kernel_start_addr(self);
> for (type = 0; type < MAP__NR_TYPES; ++type) {
> struct kmap *kmap;
>
> - self->vmlinux_maps[type] = map__new2(0, kernel, type);
> + self->vmlinux_maps[type] = map__new2(start, kernel, type);
> if (self->vmlinux_maps[type] == NULL)
> return -1;
>
> --
> 1.7.3
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