[PATCH] perf tools: Fixup module symbol end address properly

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Mon Feb 12 2024 - 18:33:34 EST


I got a strange error on ARM to fail on processing FINISHED_ROUND
record. It turned out that it was failing in symbol__alloc_hist()
because the symbol size is too big.

When a sample is captured on a specific BPF program, it failed. I've
added a debug code and found the end address of the symbol is from
the next module which is placed far way.

ffff800008795778-ffff80000879d6d8: bpf_prog_1bac53b8aac4bc58_netcg_sock [bpf]
ffff80000879d6d8-ffff80000ad656b4: bpf_prog_76867454b5944e15_netcg_getsockopt [bpf]
ffff80000ad656b4-ffffd69b7af74048: bpf_prog_1d50286d2eb1be85_hn_egress [bpf] <---------- here
ffffd69b7af74048-ffffd69b7af74048: $x.5 [sha3_generic]
ffffd69b7af74048-ffffd69b7af740b8: crypto_sha3_init [sha3_generic]
ffffd69b7af740b8-ffffd69b7af741e0: crypto_sha3_update [sha3_generic]

The logic in symbols__fixup_end() just uses curr->start to update the
prev->end. But in this case, it won't work as it's too different.

I think ARM has a different kernel memory layout for modules and BPF
than on x86. Actually there's a logic to handle kernel and module
boundary. Let's do the same for symbols between different modules.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 35975189999b..9ebdb8e13c0b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -248,14 +248,31 @@ void symbols__fixup_end(struct rb_root_cached *symbols, bool is_kallsyms)
* segment is very big. Therefore do not fill this gap and do
* not assign it to the kernel dso map (kallsyms).
*
+ * Also BPF code can be allocated separately from text segments
+ * and modules. So the last entry in a module should not fill
+ * the gap too.
+ *
* In kallsyms, it determines module symbols using '[' character
* like in:
* ffffffffc1937000 T hdmi_driver_init [snd_hda_codec_hdmi]
*/
if (prev->end == prev->start) {
+ const char *prev_mod;
+ const char *curr_mod;
+
+ if (!is_kallsyms) {
+ prev->end = curr->start;
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ prev_mod = strchr(prev->name, '[');
+ curr_mod = strchr(curr->name, '[');
+
/* Last kernel/module symbol mapped to end of page */
- if (is_kallsyms && (!strchr(prev->name, '[') !=
- !strchr(curr->name, '[')))
+ if (!prev_mod != !curr_mod)
+ prev->end = roundup(prev->end + 4096, 4096);
+ /* Last symbol in the previous module */
+ else if (prev_mod && strcmp(prev_mod, curr_mod))
prev->end = roundup(prev->end + 4096, 4096);
else
prev->end = curr->start;
--
2.43.0.687.g38aa6559b0-goog