Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] tools/perf: Add text_end to "struct dso" to save .text section size

[Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>]

On 17/08/23 20:18, Athira Rajeev wrote:
> Update "struct dso" to include new member "text_end".
> This new field will represent the offset for end of text
> section for a dso. This value is derived as:
> sh_size (Size of section in byes) + sh_offset (Section file
> offst) of the elf header for text.
> 
> To resolve the address from a sample, perf looks at the
> DSO maps. In case of address from a kernel module, there
> were some address found to be not resolved. This was
> observed while running perf test for "Object code reading".
> Though the ip falls beteen the start address of the loaded
> module (perf map->start ) and end address ( perf map->end),
> it was unresolved.
> 
> Example:
> 
>     Reading object code for memory address: 0xc008000007f0142c
>     File is: /lib/modules/6.5.0-rc3+/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
>     On file address is: 0x1114cc
>     Objdump command is: objdump -z -d --start-address=0x11142c --stop-address=0x1114ac /lib/modules/6.5.0-rc3+/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
>     objdump read too few bytes: 128
>     test child finished with -1
> 
> Here, module is loaded at:
>     # cat /proc/modules | grep xfs
>     xfs 2228224 3 - Live 0xc008000007d00000
> 
> From objdump for xfs module, text section is:
>     text 0010f7bc  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000a0 2**4
> 
> Here the offset for 0xc008000007f0142c ie  0x112074 falls out
> .text section which is up to 0x10f7bc.
> 
> In this case for module, the address 0xc008000007e11fd4 is pointing
> to stub instructions. This address range represents the module stubs
> which is allocated on module load and hence is not part of DSO offset.
> 
> To identify such  address, which falls out of text
> section and within module end, added the new field "text_end" to
> "struct dso".
> 
> Reported-by: Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> Changelog:
>    v1 -> v2:
>    Changed commit message to explain need for "text_end"
> 
>  tools/perf/util/dso.h        | 1 +
>  tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 4 +++-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.h b/tools/perf/util/dso.h
> index b41c9782c754..70fe0fe69bef 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/dso.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.h
> @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ struct dso {
>  	u8		 rel;
>  	struct build_id	 bid;
>  	u64		 text_offset;
> +	u64		 text_end;
>  	const char	 *short_name;
>  	const char	 *long_name;
>  	u16		 long_name_len;
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
> index 8bd466d1c2bd..252d26a59e64 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
> @@ -1512,8 +1512,10 @@ dso__load_sym_internal(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, struct symsrc *syms_ss,
>  	}
>  
>  	if (elf_section_by_name(runtime_ss->elf, &runtime_ss->ehdr, &tshdr,
> -				".text", NULL))
> +				".text", NULL)) {
>  		dso->text_offset = tshdr.sh_addr - tshdr.sh_offset;
> +		dso->text_end = tshdr.sh_offset + tshdr.sh_size;
> +	}
>  
>  	if (runtime_ss->opdsec)
>  		opddata = elf_rawdata(runtime_ss->opdsec, NULL);

Should probably amend dso__load_bfd_symbols() also