Re: [BUG] perf top reports not being able to resolve kernel symbols

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 12:58:54PM -0800, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 04:51:06PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > So there are symbols that are not being resolved anymore that were
> > before your patch, namely:

> > arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S

> > nmi_no_fsgsbase:
> >         /* EBX == 0 -> invoke SWAPGS */
> >         testl   %ebx, %ebx
> >         jnz     nmi_restore

> > nmi_swapgs:
> >         swapgs

> > nmi_restore:
> >         POP_REGS
 
> Sorry about that, maybe I should've done this instead.  Can you check
> if it works correctly?

Its late here, but basic test shows samples being resolved to
nmi_restore, when using the TUI 'perf top' interface and pressing / to
ask for samples resolved to samples with 'nmi' on its name, several
other such routines appeared on the radar, including:

Samples: 2K of event 'cpu_atom/cycles/P', 4000 Hz, Event count (approx.): 496683332 lost: 0/0 drop: 0/0
Overhead  Shared O  Symbol
   0.05%  [kernel]  [k] ct_nmi_enter
   0.04%  [kernel]  [k] local_touch_nmi
   0.01%  [kernel]  [k] ct_nmi_exit
   0.01%  [kernel]  [k] nmi_restore
   0.00%  [kernel]  [k] nmi_handle

[1]+  Stopped                 perf top
root@number:~#

So:

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

And preliminarly:

Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Thanks, I'll submit the other patch, that now doesn't need to go into
the 6.13 window and thus can be added to the perf-tools-next branch,
tomorrow.

- Arnaldo