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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [BUG] perf report: fails to symbolize when vaddr is non zero for shared objects
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:24:04 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150617192404.GD2368@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPqkBTG++sr8G8bceLc+6LXHydCT2OZCm8+fR+QHQrSd6fDVQ@mail.gmail.com>

Em Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:54:12AM -0700, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Em Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:03:01AM -0700, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> >> If you get samples in the shared lib, they will be off, possibly
> >> attributed to the wrong
> >> functions.
> >>
> >> Could this be fixed quickly?
> >
> > You tell me, do you have a patch to propose? :-)

> Well, need to make sure I understand the code flow in dso__load_sym()
> and callers.

> You have elf_read_maps() which seems to be reading the phdr but, it
> would need to be called systematically for ET_DYN. I will experiment
> with this.

> Worst case, we need to add another function to read the phdr and use
> the p_vaddr.

Ok, that symbols* code grew unwieldly complex, need to give it some love and
refactoring care at some point...

Thanks!

- Arnaldo

      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-17 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-16  7:03 [BUG] perf report: fails to symbolize when vaddr is non zero for shared objects Stephane Eranian
2015-06-16 14:34 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-17 18:54   ` Stephane Eranian
2015-06-17 19:24     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]

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