Re: [PATCH] perf jit: Fix inaccurate DWARF line table

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Thu May 28 2020 - 03:45:11 EST


On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:19 PM Nick Gasson <nick.gasson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Fix an issue where addresses in the DWARF line table are offset by
> -0x40 (GEN_ELF_TEXT_OFFSET). This can be seen with `objdump -S` on the
> ELF files after perf inject.

Without too much knowledge this looks good to me. The original code
came from oprofile's jit support:
https://sourceforge.net/p/oprofile/oprofile/ci/master/tree/opjitconv/debug_line.c#l325

Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Nick Gasson <nick.gasson@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/genelf_debug.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/genelf_debug.c b/tools/perf/util/genelf_debug.c
> index 30e9f618f6cd..dd40683bd4c0 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/genelf_debug.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/genelf_debug.c
> @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ static void emit_lineno_info(struct buffer_ext *be,
> */
>
> /* start state of the state machine we take care of */
> - unsigned long last_vma = code_addr;
> + unsigned long last_vma = 0;
> char const *cur_filename = NULL;
> unsigned long cur_file_idx = 0;
> int last_line = 1;
> @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ jit_process_debug_info(uint64_t code_addr,
> ent = debug_entry_next(ent);
> }
> add_compilation_unit(di, buffer_ext_size(dl));
> - add_debug_line(dl, debug, nr_debug_entries, 0);
> + add_debug_line(dl, debug, nr_debug_entries, GEN_ELF_TEXT_OFFSET);
> add_debug_abbrev(da);
> if (0) buffer_ext_dump(da, "abbrev");
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>