Re: [RFC] perf tools: Filter out hidden symbols from labels

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-01-15T16:35:46Z

Em Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 04:13:16PM +0000, Nick Clifton escreveu:
> Hi Jiri,
>
> > When perf is built with annobin plugin (RHEL8 build) extra symbols
> > are added to its binary:
>
> A bit of background for those wondering why annobin is creating
> these symbols: Annobin is a plugin for gcc that records data
> about how object file were built. It is specifically designed
> to be able to cope with files that are built using multiple
> different sets of optimization options. (Eg because of #pragma
> directives or function specific optimization attributes). It
> generates notes to cover each compiled region of code, and it
> needs the symbols in order to be able to determine exactly which
> areas in a linked binary were compiled with which options.

Humm, it would be nice for perf annotate to show those options when one
navigates the annotation, something like press some hotkey and see the
optimization flags used. Is there any library that gets those
annotations and put them in some linked list that we could use in
tools/perf/?

- Arnaldo

> In the course of developing this plugin I encountered various
> problems with tools not expecting to find extra symbols in a
> binary. Hence I made the symbols local, hidden and with no type.
> It was the best I could do to say "ignore these symbols - they
> are not meant to be seen by anyone but annobin".
>
>
> > + elf_sym__visibility(sym) != STV_HIDDEN;
>
> Just to be awkward, if you are going to ignore STV_HIDDEN
> symbols then you should probably also ignore STV_INTERNAL ones
> as well... Annobin does not generate them, but you never know,
> one day some other tool might create some.
>
> Cheers
> Nick
>
>
>

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- Arnaldo