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Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:13:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Tanushree Shah To: acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, adrian.hunter@intel.com, vmolnaro@redhat.com, mpetlan@redhat.com, tmricht@linux.ibm.com, maddy@linux.ibm.com, irogers@google.com, namhyung@kernel.org Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, atrajeev@linux.ibm.com, hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Tejas.Manhas1@ibm.com, Tanushree.Shah@ibm.com, Shivani.Nittor@ibm.com, Tanushree Shah Subject: [PATCH] perf dso: Fix kallsyms DSO detection with fallback logic Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:42:26 +0530 Message-ID: <20260410071225.708005-2-tshah@linux.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-Reinject: loops=2 maxloops=12 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details-Enc: AW1haW4tMjYwNDEwMDA2MSBTYWx0ZWRfX9t9DgVmbIq3F HOzFSB35kqeFrB+vBN0TrsknWRXDYjFNt1KvedIHWRozZm+LKctWLoBkYahNLoFBSa0o73l828N NxN0jbovjzlz004/XOw8bmADLkaJn08gLCITiXP2wllvy5ZhXJBXbSQwq8urtRms4lfxsjmp+0u l+Yt9QIiN7CiwG0ybrcUC5dW1vjLNa44A5LJuFop03QeVVASvVxmjzdjMqWGwJd0Amt08r31wRN N00Exmf6n9xjUMy2/FEjBefrOqkG83HEAjnqXKNWVAFAZ7P/BzAe/93N6Mm4joRtM/MDhFaDmjL 19ckjdqW1KybGPCX9SO0TI4rqq0ygqBw6+haXODXGZi+JpDYKoJ93RBxue48pGWmgyZt/Phc316 NOYF0QkioP4/e5zZGedyQ0VbupNWTGC8FAVKPZDrHeNTj9e5SnaOKCxTO/WxP5G0NaZuIaJIvPT 02e8COshOGrc6EgsUjg== X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=FsY1OWrq c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=69d8a30b cx=c_pps a=AfN7/Ok6k8XGzOShvHwTGQ==:117 a=AfN7/Ok6k8XGzOShvHwTGQ==:17 a=A5OVakUREuEA:10 a=VkNPw1HP01LnGYTKEx00:22 a=RnoormkPH1_aCDwRdu11:22 a=U7nrCbtTmkRpXpFmAIza:22 a=VnNF1IyMAAAA:8 a=yWhZYjjtwySg7tuK4IQA:9 X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: D_Os4Ua60O8cnm12uEr9TYfrpFZdvEsQ X-Proofpoint-GUID: r1Kt42aomKu8hR3vRWt6m2xeZRQ1Kp3t X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=baseguard engine=ICAP:2.0.293,Aquarius:18.0.1143,Hydra:6.1.51,FMLib:17.12.100.49 definitions=2026-04-10_02,2026-04-09_02,2025-10-01_01 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 bulkscore=0 priorityscore=1501 impostorscore=0 spamscore=0 phishscore=0 lowpriorityscore=0 clxscore=1011 adultscore=0 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 classifier=typeunknown authscore=0 authtc= authcc= route=outbound adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.22.0-2604010000 definitions=main-2604100061 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 --- 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 #include #include +#include #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