From: Tanushree Shah <tshah@linux.ibm.com>
To: acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, adrian.hunter@intel.com,
vmolnaro@redhat.com, mpetlan@redhat.com, tmricht@linux.ibm.com,
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Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
atrajeev@linux.ibm.com, hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
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Shivani.Nittor@ibm.com, Tanushree Shah <tshah@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf dso: Fix kallsyms DSO detection with fallback logic
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:42:26 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260410071225.708005-2-tshah@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
The current kallsyms detection in dso__is_kallsyms() uses the
dso_binary_type enum which fixes the issue of kallsyms being cached in
the build-id cache for out-of-tree modules.
However, during build-id injection in perf record/inject, dso_binary_type
has not been explicitly set yet,so dso__binary_type() returns
DSO_BINARY_TYPE__NOT_FOUND instead of DSO_BINARY_TYPE__KALLSYMS for the
kernel DSO. The current check then fails to identify it as kallsyms,
causing build-id symlinks to not be created in ~/.debug/.build-id/ and
perf archive to fail with "Cannot stat" errors.
Steps to reproduce the issue:
1. rm -rf ~/.debug/.build-id
2. perf record sleep 1
3. perf archive
Fix by falling back to matching long_name against the known kallsyms
strings explicitly when binary_type is not yet set
(== DSO_BINARY_TYPE__NOT_FOUND).
Fixes: ebf0b332732d ("perf dso: fix dso__is_kallsyms() check")
Signed-off-by: Tanushree Shah <tshah@linux.ibm.com>
---
tools/perf/util/dso.h | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.h b/tools/perf/util/dso.h
index ede691e9a249..e44071998c49 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/dso.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <string.h>
#include "build-id.h"
#include "debuginfo.h"
#include "mutex.h"
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ struct perf_env;
#define DSO__NAME_KALLSYMS "[kernel.kallsyms]"
#define DSO__NAME_KCORE "[kernel.kcore]"
+#define DSO__NAME_GUEST_KALLSYMS "[guest.kernel.kallsyms"
/**
* enum dso_binary_type - The kind of DSO generally associated with a memory
@@ -915,6 +917,14 @@ static inline bool dso__is_kallsyms(const struct dso *dso)
{
enum dso_binary_type bt = dso__binary_type(dso);
+ if (bt == DSO_BINARY_TYPE__NOT_FOUND) {
+ return RC_CHK_ACCESS(dso)->kernel &&
+ ((strncmp(RC_CHK_ACCESS(dso)->long_name, DSO__NAME_KALLSYMS,
+ strlen(DSO__NAME_KALLSYMS)) == 0) ||
+ (strncmp(RC_CHK_ACCESS(dso)->long_name, DSO__NAME_GUEST_KALLSYMS,
+ strlen(DSO__NAME_GUEST_KALLSYMS)) == 0));
+ }
+
return bt == DSO_BINARY_TYPE__KALLSYMS || bt == DSO_BINARY_TYPE__GUEST_KALLSYMS;
}
--
2.47.3
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2026-04-10 7:12 Tanushree Shah [this message]
2026-04-10 8:17 ` [PATCH] perf dso: Fix kallsyms DSO detection with fallback logic sashiko-bot
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