Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] perf symbol: Minor fixing

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hi Leo,

On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 11:00 PM Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> This patch set contains two minor fixing for parsing symbols.
>
> The first patch changes to use program header for parsing symbols of
> user space executable and shared objects.  Since kernel's symbol parsing
> is more complex than userspace for support both kernel symbols and module
> symbols, this is why this patch set uses conservative way and doesn't
> change kernel symbols parsing.
>
> The second patch is to detect symbols from sections without setting
> attribute flag SHF_ALLOC, these symbols are used for linker warning,
> skip to record them to avoid spurious symbols.
>
> Changes from v2:
> - Changed to use more gernal way to check the attribute bit SHF_ALLOC
>   for sections rather than check the section string name (Fangrui).
>
> Changes from v1:
> - Changed to use program header / PT_LOAD segments to parse symbols for
>   userspace executable and shared object files (Fangrui).
>
>
> Leo Yan (2):
>   perf symbol: Correct address for bss symbols
>   perf symbol: Skip symbols if SHF_ALLOC flag is not set

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Thanks,
Namhyung


>
>  tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>