Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf symbol: Set binary_type of dso when loading

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 08:04:00PM +0300, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> 
> > For the kernel dso, it sets the binary type of dso when loading the
> > symbol table.  But it seems not to do that for user DSOs.  Actually
> > it sets the symtab type only.  It's not clear why we want to maintain
> > the two separately but it uses the binary type info before getting
> > the disassembly.
> > 
> > Let's use the symtab type as binary type too if it's not set.  I think
> > it's ok to set the binary type when it founds a symsrc whether or not
> > it has actual symbols.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> 
> Any chance this can be applied and propagated to stable? Annotating
> functions outside of the main executable is broken otherwise (regressed
> since 873a83731f1c ("perf annotate: Skip DSOs not found")).
> 
> Tested-by: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>

Thanks for the test.  For some reason, it doesn't seem to be merged
while patch 2/2 is.  I'll add this with above information.

Thanks,
Namhyung

> 
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> > index 7772a4d3e66c..63936269ec15 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> > @@ -1927,6 +1927,9 @@ int dso__load(struct dso *dso, struct map *map)
> >  		if (next_slot) {
> >  			ss_pos++;
> >  
> > +			if (dso__binary_type(dso) == DSO_BINARY_TYPE__NOT_FOUND)
> > +				dso__set_binary_type(dso, symtab_type);
> > +
> >  			if (syms_ss && runtime_ss)
> >  				break;
> >  		} else {
> >