Re: [PATCH 0/4] Handle chroot tasks properly (v2)

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Feb 10 2022 - 13:35:09 EST


Em Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 11:08:24PM -0800, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Hello,
>
> I found that perf tools don't work well with tasks in a chroot. The
> filenames in MMAP record are from the root directory of the task so
> it's different than what it sees from outside.
>
> * changes in v2)
> - add Jiri's Acked-by
> - split stderr setup for objdump

Applied 1/4 to perf/urgent, its already upstream.

The others are bit big for this time, so I've added it to perf/core.

Thanks,

- Arnaldo

> I've tested it with a simple program (myprog - statically built) which
> just consumes cpu cycles in a loop for a while (default 1 sec, can by
> overridden by a command-line argument).
>
> # cd $HOME
> # mkdir -p myroot/bin
> # cp myprog myroot/bin
>
> # perf record chroot myroot myprog
> # perf report -D | grep MMAP | grep myprog
> 2084916774977911 0xa2e4 [0x70]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 3363818/3363818: \
> [0x401000(0x80000) @ 0x1000 fe:01 4346398 2543719070]: r-xp /bin/myprog
>
> So it's reported as /bin/myprog and then it's unable to symbolize the
> samples. It seems hard to fix it for the above use case as the record
> ended after the task exited. It cannot know the root directory of the
> task anymore. But we can fix it for real-time use cases like perf top
> or pipe-mode at least.
>
> I tested it again with the following command.
>
> # perf record -o- chroot myroot myprog | perf report -i-
> ...
> #
> # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
> # ........ ....... ................. ................................
> #
> 46.02% myprog myprog [.] 0x000000000000178a
> 36.71% myprog myprog [.] 0x0000000000001792
> 17.12% myprog myprog [.] 0x000000000000178e
> 0.05% myprog myprog [.] 0x0000000000001796
> 0.05% chroot ld-2.33.so [.] intel_check_word.constprop.0
>
> The symbols are not resolved because it failed to load the symbol
> table as it didn't find the file in the given path.
>
> So I modified the code to try a new name prepended with the task's
> root directory when it's not "/". With this change, I can see the
> symbols of myprog. In fact, it depends on timing if perf report hits
> the file before the task is gone. Increasing the loop time to 3 sec
> helped it to get symbols reliably.
>
> # perf record -o- chroot myroot myprog 3 | perf report -i-
> ...
> #
> # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
> # ........ ....... ................. .............................
> #
> 99.83% myprog myprog [.] loop
> 0.04% chroot [kernel.kallsyms] [k] fxregs_fixup
> 0.04% chroot [kernel.kallsyms] [k] rsm_load_seg_32
> 0.03% chroot [kernel.kallsyms] [k] show_cpuinfo_cur_freq
> 0.01% myprog [kernel.kallsyms] [k] alarmtimer_fired
>
>
> I also found that perf inject and perf annotate need the similar changes.
>
> You can get it from 'perf/dso-chroot-v2' branch at
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/namhyung/linux-perf.git
>
>
> Thanks,
> Namhyung
>
>
> Namhyung Kim (4):
> perf annotate: Set error stream of objdump process for TUI
> perf tools: Try chroot'ed filename when opening dso/symbol
> perf inject: Try chroot directory when reading build-id
> perf annotate: Try chroot filename for objdump
>
> tools/perf/builtin-inject.c | 10 ++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 11 +++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/dso.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
> tools/perf/util/dsos.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 10 ++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/util.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/util.h | 2 ++
> 7 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: e783362eb54cd99b2cac8b3a9aeac942e6f6ac07
> --
> 2.35.0.rc2.247.g8bbb082509-goog

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- Arnaldo