Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf symbol: Skip recording symbols in '.gnu.warning.*' sections

[Leo Yan]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 08:42:20PM -0700, Fangrui Song wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 7:29 PM Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Some symbols are observed their 'st_value' field are zeros.  E.g.
> > libc.so.6 in Ubuntu contains a symbol '__evoke_link_warning_getwd' which
> > resides in the '.gnu.warning.getwd' section, unlike normal symbols, this
> > kind of symbols are only used for linker warning.
> >
> > This patch skips to record symbols from '.gnu.warning.*' sections by
> > detecting the sub string '.gnu.warning' is contained in section name.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Presumably __evoke_link_warning_getwd is due to `clang -fuse-ld=lld
> -static ...` on a file calling the deprecated getwd.
> GNU ld and gold implement a .gnu.warning.* feature which removes the
> section. ld.lld just ignores this section as the usefulness of the
> functionality is unclear.
> 
> The section .gnu.warning.getwd does not have the SHF_ALLOC flag. Such
> sections are not part of memory images and I think it is more generic
> ignoring all symbols residing in a non-SHF_ALLOC section.

Good point!  Will refine the patch for this and send out soon.

Thanks a lot, Fangrui.