From: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
To: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>,
dwarves@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: [PATCH dwarves v3 2/9] dwarf_loader: Handle signatures with dead arguments
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:09:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260320190927.1970829-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260320190917.1970524-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev>
For llvm dwarf, the dead argument may be in the middle of
DW_TAG_subprogram. So we introduce skip_idx in order to
match expected registers properly.
For example:
0x00042897: DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_name ("create_dev")
DW_AT_calling_convention (DW_CC_nocall)
DW_AT_type (0x0002429a "int")
...
0x000428ab: DW_TAG_formal_parameter
DW_AT_name ("name")
DW_AT_type (0x000242ed "char *")
...
0x000428b5: DW_TAG_formal_parameter
DW_AT_location (indexed (0x3f) loclist = 0x000027f8:
[0xffffffff87681370, 0xffffffff8768137a): DW_OP_reg5 RDI
[0xffffffff8768137a, 0xffffffff87681392): DW_OP_reg3 RBX
[0xffffffff87681392, 0xffffffff876813ae): DW_OP_entry_value(DW_OP_reg5 RDI), DW_OP_stack_value)
DW_AT_name ("dev")
DW_AT_type (0x00026859 "dev_t")
...
With skip_idx, we can identify that the second original argument
'dev' becomes the first one after optimization.
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
---
dwarf_loader.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/dwarf_loader.c b/dwarf_loader.c
index 21f8bf1..a6e6587 100644
--- a/dwarf_loader.c
+++ b/dwarf_loader.c
@@ -1192,6 +1192,7 @@ static ptrdiff_t __dwarf_getlocations(Dwarf_Attribute *attr,
struct func_info {
bool signature_changed;
+ int skip_idx;
};
/* For DW_AT_location 'attr':
@@ -1264,6 +1265,7 @@ static struct parameter *parameter__new(Dwarf_Die *die, struct cu *cu,
if (parm != NULL) {
bool has_const_value;
Dwarf_Attribute attr;
+ int reg_idx;
tag__init(&parm->tag, cu, die);
parm->name = attr_string(die, DW_AT_name, conf);
@@ -1273,7 +1275,18 @@ static struct parameter *parameter__new(Dwarf_Die *die, struct cu *cu,
if (!info->signature_changed) {
if (cu->producer_clang || param_idx >= cu->nr_register_params)
return parm;
+ } else {
+ /* if true_signature is not enabled, mark parameter as
+ * unexpected_reg since there is a skipped parameter before.
+ */
+ if (!conf->true_signature && info->skip_idx) {
+ parm->unexpected_reg = 1;
+ return parm;
+ }
}
+ reg_idx = param_idx - info->skip_idx;
+ if (reg_idx >= cu->nr_register_params)
+ return parm;
/* Parameters which use DW_AT_abstract_origin to point at
* the original parameter definition (with no name in the DIE)
* are the result of later DWARF generation during compilation
@@ -1311,7 +1324,7 @@ static struct parameter *parameter__new(Dwarf_Die *die, struct cu *cu,
parm->has_loc = dwarf_attr(die, DW_AT_location, &attr) != NULL;
if (parm->has_loc) {
- int expected_reg = cu->register_params[param_idx];
+ int expected_reg = cu->register_params[reg_idx];
int actual_reg = parameter__reg(&attr, expected_reg);
if (actual_reg < 0)
@@ -1324,8 +1337,10 @@ static struct parameter *parameter__new(Dwarf_Die *die, struct cu *cu,
* contents.
*/
parm->unexpected_reg = 1;
- } else if (has_const_value) {
+ } else if (has_const_value || info->signature_changed) {
parm->optimized = 1;
+ if (info->signature_changed)
+ info->skip_idx++;
}
}
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-20 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-20 19:09 [PATCH dwarves v3 0/9] pahole: Encode true signatures in kernel BTF Yonghong Song
2026-03-20 19:09 ` [PATCH dwarves v3 1/9] dwarf_loader: Reduce parameter checking with clang DW_AT_calling_convention attr Yonghong Song
2026-03-21 23:10 ` Jiri Olsa
2026-03-22 17:36 ` Yonghong Song
2026-03-23 12:56 ` Alan Maguire
2026-03-23 18:32 ` Yonghong Song
2026-03-20 19:09 ` Yonghong Song [this message]
2026-03-21 23:10 ` [PATCH dwarves v3 2/9] dwarf_loader: Handle signatures with dead arguments Jiri Olsa
2026-03-22 18:03 ` Yonghong Song
2026-03-20 19:09 ` [PATCH dwarves v3 3/9] dwarf_loader: Refactor initial ret -1 to be macro PARM_DEFAULT_FAIL Yonghong Song
2026-03-20 19:09 ` [PATCH dwarves v3 4/9] dwarf_laoder: Handle locations with DW_OP_fbreg Yonghong Song
2026-03-20 19:09 ` [PATCH dwarves v3 5/9] dwarf_loader: Change exprlen checking condition in parameter__reg() Yonghong Song
2026-03-20 19:09 ` [PATCH dwarves v3 6/9] dwarf_loader: Detect optimized parameters with locations having constant values Yonghong Song
2026-03-20 19:09 ` [PATCH dwarves v3 7/9] dwarf_loader: Handle expression lists Yonghong Song
2026-03-21 23:10 ` Jiri Olsa
2026-03-22 18:33 ` Yonghong Song
2026-03-20 19:09 ` [PATCH dwarves v3 8/9] btf_encoder: Handle optimized parameter properly Yonghong Song
2026-03-20 19:10 ` [PATCH dwarves v3 9/9] tests: Add a few clang true signature tests Yonghong Song
2026-03-23 15:41 ` Alan Maguire
2026-03-23 19:58 ` Yonghong Song
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