Re: [PATCH] perf symbol: Fix kernel symbol address display

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>]

Em Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 08:01:22PM +0200, Thomas Richter escreveu:
> On 4/24/20 5:06 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 02:37:01PM +0200, Thomas Richter escreveu:
> >> On 4/20/20 10:46 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >>> Em Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 09:07:44AM +0200, Thomas Richter escreveu:
> >>>> Running commands
> >>>>
> >>>>    ./perf record -e rb0000 -- find .
> >>>>    ./perf report -v
> >>>
> >>> Or when pressing 'V' in the TUI.
> >>>  
> >>>> reveals symbol names and its addresses. There is a mismatch between
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, an address that at some point was put there to help with debugging
> >>> the symbol resolution, IIRC how it looked like when looking at
> >>>
> >>>   readelf -sW vmlinux
> >>>
> >>> Or any other DSO, for instance, for a glibc symbol here:
> >>>
> >>> Using 'perf report -s pid,dso,sym' then pressing 'V':
> >>>
> >>>    1.55%    20325:perf  /usr/lib64/libc-2.30.so   0x161825   B [.] __strlen_avx2
> >>>
> >>> [acme@five perf]$ readelf -sW /usr/lib64/libc-2.30.so | grep strlen_avx2
> >>>  24371: 0000000000161810   414 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT   15 __strlen_avx2
> >>> [acme@five perf]$ 
> >>>
> >>> Can you check if doing in /lib/modules/.../build/vmlinux produces what
> >>> appears when 'V' is in place?
> >>>
> >>> And perhaps we can also show the DSO offset and the rip as it gets laid
> >>> out in memory in the end? So we have all the informations?
> >>>
> >>> - Arnaldo
> >>>
> >>
> >> Arnaldo,
> >>
> >> having verified this also works in the TUI mode using 'V', are you going to pick
> >> this patch?
> > 
> > That would be a change in behaviour, the original intent was to show the
> > value one would get from the ELF symbol table, isn't that the case?
> > 
> 
> I think there is a misunderstanding.
> 
> Your example above refers to libc, which shows the addresses
> correctly (on x86 and s390). I was refering to the kernel dso.
> The issue only shows up on the kernel DSO (vmlinux and kallsyms)
> 
> When I use the -v option (or 'V' in TUI) I get this
> 
>   3.55%  find /lib/modules/.../build/vmlinux  0xf11ec  v [k] check_chain_key
>                                               ^^^^^^^
> This address is not correct as compared to readelf on vmlinux file:
> 
> [root@m35lp76 linux]# readelf -sW vmlinux| fgrep check_chain_key
>  20698: 00000000001f0c70   486 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT    1 check_chain_key
> [root@m35lp76 linux]# 
> 
> The problem are the mapping functions with are applied for the kernel DSO.
> In dso__process_kernel_symbol() the mapping is adjusted (around line 903)
> and  function hist_entry_iter_add() saves the modified address in the
> struct hist_entry->ip. This address is used from now on and printed.
> 
> Let me know and I will double check this and rework the commit message
> as it was not good enough.

Yeah, this may be me not understanding something right, I saw this was a
corner case, that only happens in debug mode (ok, better provide good
info here...), so I haven't devoted more than cursory attention to this
and may be making a bad judgement, so I thought that since this doesn't
seems urgent, better leave it to when I manage to have solid time to
devote to this or someone else looks at this.

Sorry, but these have been difficult time for everybody, and I fear, for
me, I have to prioritise all the time.

- Arnaldo
 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> > That is why I asked if you would think that providing the information
> > you want, which is matching to what is in kallsyms, would be
> > interesting, which I think it is, but how? showing the vmlinux offset
> > somehow?
> >  
> 
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- Arnaldo