Re: [PATCH -tip 3/3] perf-probe: Use the actual address as a hint for uprobes

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 06:54:38 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> (2013/12/21 3:03), Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> Em Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:03:02AM +0000, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
> BTW, I'm not sure why debuginfo and nm shows symbol address + 0x400000,
> and why the perf's map/symbol can remove this offset. Could you tell me
> how it works?
> If I can get the offset (0x400000) from binary, I don't need this kind
> of ugly hacks...

AFAIK the actual symbol address is what nm (and debuginfo) shows.  But
perf adjusts symbol address to have a relative address from the start of
mapping (i.e. file offset) like below:

	sym.st_value -= shdr.sh_addr - shdr.sh_offset;

This way, we can handle mmap and symbol address almost uniformly
(i.e. ip = map->start + symbol->address).  But this requires the mmap
event during perf record.  For perf probe, we might need to synthesize
mapping info from the section/segment header since it doesn't have the
mmap event.  Currently, the dso__new_map() just creates a map starts
from 0.

Thanks,
Namhyung