From: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng1024@gmail.com>
To: namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: irogers@google.com, acme@kernel.org, changbin.du@huawei.com,
adrian.hunter@intel.com, jolsa@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
peterz@infradead.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
Subject: [PATCH v3] perf symbols: Apply the symfs flat layout to the composed filename
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:19:52 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922131952.2922816-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com> (raw)
--symfs=<dir>,flat documents itself as matching only the base name, so a
debuginfo lookup for /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 should land on
<dir>/libc.so.6.debug. It lands on
<dir>/debug/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6.debug instead, because the
layout is applied to a fixed prefix and the file name arrives afterwards:
len = __symbol__join_symfs(filename, size, "/usr/lib/debug");
snprintf(filename + len, size - len, "%s.debug", dso__long_name(dso));
perf_basename() only ever sees "/usr/lib/debug", so neither layout comes
out of it.
Compose the path as it would appear on the profiled system and join it
once, which puts the layout on the whole name. That covers
FEDORA_DEBUGINFO, UBUNTU_DEBUGINFO, MIXEDUP_UBUNTU_DEBUGINFO,
OPENEMBEDDED_DEBUGINFO and BUILDID_DEBUGINFO, plus the same composition in
build_id_cache__find_debug().
BUILDID_DEBUGINFO needs one more step: the build id cache splits the first
two characters of the build id off into a directory name, so the basename
of the hierarchy path is only part of the build id. Name the flat file
after the whole build id.
dso__disassemble_filename() passes a path from perf's own build id cache
rather than one on the profiled system, and every entry there is named
"elf" or "debug". Use path__join() so the layout does not apply.
With --symfs /s,flat the lookups are now /s/libc.so.6, /s/libc.so.6.debug,
/s/sleep and /s/<build id>.debug. hierarchy is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
---
v2->v3: different approach. v1 and v2 took the four sites out of the
layout; Namhyung asked for the layout to be made to work instead, so v3
composes the filename first and joins once.
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260819094621.844115-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
Traced openat()/newfstatat() under --symfs /s,flat and /s,hierarchy with
perf record -- sleep 0.3 before and after: flat goes from 21 paths to 15,
hierarchy is identical at 21.
tools/perf/util/build-id.c | 12 +++++++----
tools/perf/util/disasm.c | 8 ++++++-
tools/perf/util/dso.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/build-id.c b/tools/perf/util/build-id.c
index eb95ab90f974..02233ef0eaff 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/build-id.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/build-id.c
@@ -586,9 +586,9 @@ static char *build_id_cache__find_debug(const char *sbuild_id,
const char *dirname = "/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/";
char *realname = NULL;
char dirbuf[PATH_MAX];
+ char pathbuf[PATH_MAX];
char *debugfile;
struct nscookie nsc;
- size_t len = 0;
debugfile = calloc(1, PATH_MAX);
if (!debugfile)
@@ -599,9 +599,13 @@ static char *build_id_cache__find_debug(const char *sbuild_id,
dirname = dirbuf;
}
- len = __symbol__join_symfs(debugfile, PATH_MAX, dirname);
- snprintf(debugfile + len, PATH_MAX - len, "%.2s/%s.debug", sbuild_id,
- sbuild_id + 2);
+ /* See the build id note in dso__read_binary_type_filename(). */
+ if (symbol_conf.symfs_layout_flat)
+ scnprintf(pathbuf, PATH_MAX, "/%s.debug", sbuild_id);
+ else
+ scnprintf(pathbuf, PATH_MAX, "%s%.2s/%s.debug", dirname,
+ sbuild_id, sbuild_id + 2);
+ __symbol__join_symfs(debugfile, PATH_MAX, pathbuf);
nsinfo__mountns_enter(nsi, &nsc);
realname = realpath(debugfile, NULL);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/disasm.c b/tools/perf/util/disasm.c
index 6cfdbabbb8c7..1148dde6c975 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/disasm.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/disasm.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include "map.h"
#include "maps.h"
#include "namespaces.h"
+#include "path.h"
#include "srcline.h"
#include "symbol.h"
#include "thread.h"
@@ -1173,7 +1174,12 @@ static int dso__disassemble_filename(struct dso *dso, char *filename, size_t fil
build_id_filename = dso__build_id_filename(dso, NULL, 0, false);
if (build_id_filename) {
- __symbol__join_symfs(filename, filename_size, build_id_filename);
+ /*
+ * This is a path in perf's own build id cache, not a path on
+ * the profiled system, so the symfs layout does not apply.
+ */
+ path__join(filename, filename_size, symbol_conf.symfs,
+ build_id_filename);
free(build_id_filename);
} else {
if (dso__has_build_id(dso))
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.c b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
index 42bfe30a3b51..e52de7cc1bc6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/dso.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ int dso__read_binary_type_filename(const struct dso *dso,
const char *root_dir, char *filename, size_t size)
{
char build_id_hex[SBUILD_ID_SIZE];
+ char relative[PATH_MAX];
int ret = 0;
size_t len;
@@ -167,13 +168,15 @@ int dso__read_binary_type_filename(const struct dso *dso,
break;
case DSO_BINARY_TYPE__FEDORA_DEBUGINFO:
- len = __symbol__join_symfs(filename, size, "/usr/lib/debug");
- snprintf(filename + len, size - len, "%s.debug", dso__long_name(dso));
+ snprintf(relative, sizeof(relative), "/usr/lib/debug%s.debug",
+ dso__long_name(dso));
+ __symbol__join_symfs(filename, size, relative);
break;
case DSO_BINARY_TYPE__UBUNTU_DEBUGINFO:
- len = __symbol__join_symfs(filename, size, "/usr/lib/debug");
- snprintf(filename + len, size - len, "%s", dso__long_name(dso));
+ snprintf(relative, sizeof(relative), "/usr/lib/debug%s",
+ dso__long_name(dso));
+ __symbol__join_symfs(filename, size, relative);
break;
case DSO_BINARY_TYPE__MIXEDUP_UBUNTU_DEBUGINFO:
@@ -187,8 +190,9 @@ int dso__read_binary_type_filename(const struct dso *dso,
ret = -1;
break;
}
- len = __symbol__join_symfs(filename, size, "/usr/lib/debug");
- snprintf(filename + len, size - len, "%s", dso__long_name(dso) + 4);
+ snprintf(relative, sizeof(relative), "/usr/lib/debug%s",
+ dso__long_name(dso) + 4);
+ __symbol__join_symfs(filename, size, relative);
break;
case DSO_BINARY_TYPE__OPENEMBEDDED_DEBUGINFO:
@@ -200,15 +204,15 @@ int dso__read_binary_type_filename(const struct dso *dso,
while (last_slash != dso__long_name(dso) && *last_slash != '/')
last_slash--;
- len = __symbol__join_symfs(filename, size, "");
dir_size = last_slash - dso__long_name(dso) + 2;
- if (dir_size > (size - len)) {
+ if (dir_size > sizeof(relative)) {
ret = -1;
break;
}
- len += scnprintf(filename + len, dir_size, "%s", dso__long_name(dso));
- len += scnprintf(filename + len , size - len, ".debug%s",
- last_slash);
+ len = scnprintf(relative, dir_size, "%s", dso__long_name(dso));
+ scnprintf(relative + len, sizeof(relative) - len, ".debug%s",
+ last_slash);
+ __symbol__join_symfs(filename, size, relative);
break;
}
@@ -219,9 +223,20 @@ int dso__read_binary_type_filename(const struct dso *dso,
}
build_id__snprintf(dso__bid(dso), build_id_hex, sizeof(build_id_hex));
- len = __symbol__join_symfs(filename, size, "/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/");
- snprintf(filename + len, size - len, "%.2s/%s.debug",
- build_id_hex, build_id_hex + 2);
+ /*
+ * The build id cache layout splits the first two characters off
+ * into a directory name, so the basename of the hierarchy path
+ * is only part of the build id. Name the flat file after the
+ * whole build id instead.
+ */
+ if (symbol_conf.symfs_layout_flat)
+ snprintf(relative, sizeof(relative), "/%s.debug",
+ build_id_hex);
+ else
+ snprintf(relative, sizeof(relative),
+ "/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/%.2s/%s.debug",
+ build_id_hex, build_id_hex + 2);
+ __symbol__join_symfs(filename, size, relative);
break;
case DSO_BINARY_TYPE__VMLINUX:
base-commit: f0100363d8c374bd8e9ea7c9ba02744f0b802ca4
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-22 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 13:19 Zhan Xusheng [this message]
2026-09-22 13:27 ` [PATCH v3] perf symbols: Apply the symfs flat layout to the composed filename sashiko-bot
2026-09-24 22:30 ` Namhyung Kim
2026-09-25 12:07 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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