[tip:perf/core] perf symbols: Adjust symbol for shared objects

From: tip-bot for Wang Nan
Date: Wed Apr 13 2016 - 03:20:39 EST


Commit-ID: 99e87f7bb7268cf644add87130590966fd5d0d17
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/99e87f7bb7268cf644add87130590966fd5d0d17
Author: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 10:24:31 +0000
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 09:58:15 -0300

perf symbols: Adjust symbol for shared objects

He Kuang reported a problem that perf fails to get correct symbol on
Android platform in [1]. The problem can be reproduced on normal x86_64
platform. I will describe the reproducing steps in detail at the end of
commit message.

The reason of this problem is the missing of symbol adjustment for normal
shared objects. In most of the cases skipping adjustment is okay. However,
when '.text' section have different 'address' and 'offset' the result is wrong.
I checked all shared objects in my working platform, only wine dll objects and
debug objects (in .debug) have this problem. However, it is common on Android.
For example:

$ readelf -S ./libsurfaceflinger.so | grep \.text
[10] .text PROGBITS 0000000000029030 00012030

This patch enables symbol adjustment for dynamic objects so the symbol
address got from elfutils would be adjusted correctly.

Now nearly all types of ELF files should adjust symbols. Makes
ss->adjust_symbols default to true.

Steps to reproduce the problem:

$ cat ./Makefile
PWD := $(shell pwd)
LDFLAGS += "-Wl,-rpath=$(PWD)"
CFLAGS += -g
main: main.c libbuggy.so
libbuggy.so: buggy.c
gcc -g -shared -fPIC -Wl,-Ttext-segment=0x200000 $< -o $@
clean:
rm -rf main libbuggy.so *.o

$ cat ./buggy.c
int fib(int x)
{
return (x == 0) ? 1 : (x == 1) ? 1 : fib(x - 1) + fib(x - 2);
}

$ cat ./main.c
#include <stdio.h>

extern int fib(int x);
int main()
{
int i;

for (i = 0; i < 40; i++)
printf("%d\n", fib(i));
return 0;
}

$ make
$ perf record ./main
...
$ perf report --stdio
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ................. ...............................
#
14.97% main libbuggy.so [.] 0x000000000000066c
8.68% main libbuggy.so [.] 0x00000000000006aa
8.52% main libbuggy.so [.] fib@plt
7.95% main libbuggy.so [.] 0x0000000000000664
5.94% main libbuggy.so [.] 0x00000000000006a9
5.35% main libbuggy.so [.] 0x0000000000000678
...

The correct result should be (after this patch):

# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ................. ...............................
#
91.47% main libbuggy.so [.] fib
8.52% main libbuggy.so [.] fib@plt
0.00% main [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_free

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1452567507-54013-1-git-send-email-hekuang@xxxxxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <dev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: pi3orama@xxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460024671-64774-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 13 +++----------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
index bc229a7..3f9d679 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
@@ -709,17 +709,10 @@ int symsrc__init(struct symsrc *ss, struct dso *dso, const char *name,
if (ss->opdshdr.sh_type != SHT_PROGBITS)
ss->opdsec = NULL;

- if (dso->kernel == DSO_TYPE_USER) {
- GElf_Shdr shdr;
- ss->adjust_symbols = (ehdr.e_type == ET_EXEC ||
- ehdr.e_type == ET_REL ||
- dso__is_vdso(dso) ||
- elf_section_by_name(elf, &ehdr, &shdr,
- ".gnu.prelink_undo",
- NULL) != NULL);
- } else {
+ if (dso->kernel == DSO_TYPE_USER)
+ ss->adjust_symbols = true;
+ else
ss->adjust_symbols = elf__needs_adjust_symbols(ehdr);
- }

ss->name = strdup(name);
if (!ss->name) {