Messages in this thread Patches in this message | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:51:06 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf symbols: Ignore mapping symbols on aarch64 | From | Victor Kamensky <> |
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On 14 January 2015 at 16:03, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:38:38AM -0800, Victor Kamensky wrote: >> >From fed6caab410ddcaf487ff23a3908eca129e50b89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky@linaro.org> >> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 07:42:41 -0800 >> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] perf symbols: improve abi compliance in arm mapping >> symbols handling >> >> Both Arm and Aarch64 ELF ABI allow mapping symbols be in from >> either "$d" or "$d.<any>". But current code that handles mapping >> symbols only deals with the first, dollar character and a single >> letter, case. >> >> The patch adds handling of the second case with period >> followed by any characters. >> >> Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> >> Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky@linaro.org> > > I wonder if it would make more sense to re-use the "is_arm_mapping_symbol" > thing which we have in kernel/module.c and scripts/kallsyms.c - it > seems silly to re-invent code which we already have to detect these > symbols.
Thanks for pointing this out. I did not know about "is_arm_mapping_symbol" function.
Do you suggest we copy one of those functions into tools/perf? Since tools/perf is separate user-land utility I don't see easy way how can we reuse those directly.
Also those functions check for mapping symbols seems to be more efficient that one I come with, for example one from scripts/kallsyms.c
static inline int is_arm_mapping_symbol(const char *str) { return str[0] == '$' && strchr("axtd", str[1]) && (str[2] == '\0' || str[2] == '.'); }
But it seems that they are somewhat accurate: because they bundle EM_ARM and EM_AARCH64 into one case. According to ABIs for EM_ARM we have $a, $t, $d, $a.<any>, $t.<any>, $d.<any>; and for EM_AARCH64 we have $x, $d, $x.<any>, $d.<any>.
How about the following two variants of the patch. It follows the same mapping handling logic as in other 3 copies of is_arm_mapping_symbol function in kernel, but it still separate copy in tools/perf code. Personally I prefer variant 1, but I am fine with variant 2 too, because practically it will be OK.
Variant 1 (as addition to this patch, as above):
From e08d348bd72d406d8939993d266729d805577c4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky@linaro.org> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 07:42:41 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] perf symbols: improve abi compliance in arm mapping symbols handling
Both Arm and Aarch64 ELF ABI allow mapping symbols be in from either "$d" or "$d.<any>". But current code that handles mapping symbols only deals with the first, dollar character and a single letter, case.
The patch adds handling of the second case with period followed by any characters.
Suggested-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky@linaro.org> --- tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c index 1e188dd..a038c98 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c @@ -857,17 +857,16 @@ int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, * don't identify functions, so will confuse the profile * output: */ if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_ARM) { - if (!strcmp(elf_name, "$a") || - !strcmp(elf_name, "$d") || - !strcmp(elf_name, "$t")) + if (elf_name[0] == '$' && strchr("adt", elf_name[1]) + && (elf_name[2] == '\0' || elf_name[2] == '.')) continue; } /* Reject Aarch64 ELF "mapping symbols": these aren't unique and * don't identify functions, so will confuse the profile * output: */ if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_AARCH64) { - if (!strcmp(elf_name, "$x") || - !strcmp(elf_name, "$d")) + if (elf_name[0] == '$' && strchr("dx", elf_name[1]) + && (elf_name[2] == '\0' || elf_name[2] == '.')) continue; }
-- 1.9.3 Variant 2 instead of patch posted with current subject:
From c8d08ebddc61203daf21b17c891c26c1d08e14f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky@linaro.org> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:13:36 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] perf symbols: Ignore mapping symbols on aarch64
Aarch64 ELF files use mapping symbols with special names $x, $d to identify regions of Aarch64 code (see Aarch64 ELF ABI - "ARM IHI 0056B", section "4.5.4 Mapping symbols").
The patch filters out these symbols at load time, similar to "696b97a perf symbols: Ignore mapping symbols on ARM" changes done for ARM before V8.
Also added handling of mapping symbols that has format "$d.<any>" and similar for both cases.
Note we are not making difference between EM_ARM and EM_AARCH64 mapping symbols instead code handles superset of both.
Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@cloudius-systems.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> --- tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c index 06fcd1b..b2eb0f9 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c @@ -856,10 +856,9 @@ int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, /* Reject ARM ELF "mapping symbols": these aren't unique and * don't identify functions, so will confuse the profile * output: */ - if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_ARM) { - if (!strcmp(elf_name, "$a") || - !strcmp(elf_name, "$d") || - !strcmp(elf_name, "$t")) + if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_ARM || ehdr.e_machine == EM_AARCH64) { + if (elf_name[0] == '$' && strchr("adtx", elf_name[1]) + && (elf_name[2] == '\0' || elf_name[2] == '.')) continue; }
-- 1.9.3 Thanks, Victor
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