Re: perf probe issues

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

Em Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:02:01AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:05:04 -0300
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 	While investigating a problem in the annotation code reported by
> > Linus, with "kaslr" on the kernel command line and this in .config:

> > [root@jouet ~]# egrep 'CONFIG_(RANDOMIZE_BASE|DEBUG_INFO)' ~acme/git/build/v4.7.0-rc3/.config
> > CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y
> > # CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set
> > [root@jouet ~]#

> > [root@jouet ~]# grep -w vfs_write /proc/kallsyms 
> > ffffffffac2404c0 T vfs_write
> > [root@jouet ~]# perf probe vfs_write
> > vfs_write is out of .text, skip it.
> >   Error: Failed to add events.
> > [root@jouet ~]# perf probe -v vfs_write
> > probe-definition(0): vfs_write 
> > symbol:vfs_write file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null)
> > 0 arguments
> > Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
> > Using /lib/modules/4.7.0-rc3/build/vmlinux for symbols
> > Could not open debuginfo. Try to use symbols.
> > vfs_write is out of .text, skip it.
> >   Error: Failed to add events. Reason: No such file or directory (Code: -2)
> > [root@jouet ~]# 

> > Can you try to test with this config to investigate this problem?
 
> Yes, I guess it missed to get start_text because of KASLR...
 
> > We need to improve the error messages, for instance:

> > "Could not open debuginfo. Try to use symbols."

> > I think should be rewritten as: "Trying to use kallsyms", no? I.e. if it
> > doesn't manage to find a vmlinux file, it will try to use kallsyms as a
> > fallback, is that what is happening here?
 
> Let me check that the perf symbol/map object uses kallsyms for kernel.
> Anyway, if the target is not the kernel, do we change the message
> as "trying to use symbols"?

Well, it is _always_ trying to use "symbols" as in "information to map
an address to a symbol", but this information can come from DWARF,
kallsyms, ELF symbol tables, JIT /tmp/ maps, etc :-)

So, if it is going to use kallsyms:

"Trying to use kallsyms"

ELF symtol tables:

"Trying to use the ELF symbol table"

etc.

- Arnaldo