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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] perf report: ensure the perf DSO mapping matches what libdw sees
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 04:37:52PM +0200, Milian Wolff wrote:
> In some situations the libdw unwinder stopped working properly.
> I.e. with libunwind we see:
>
> ~~~~~
> heaptrack_gui 2228 135073.400112: 641314 cycles:
> e8ed _dl_fixup (/usr/lib/ld-2.25.so)
> 15f06 _dl_runtime_resolve_sse_vex (/usr/lib/ld-2.25.so)
> ed94c KDynamicJobTracker::KDynamicJobTracker (/home/milian/projects/compiled/kf5/lib64/libKF5KIOWidgets.so.5.35.0)
> 608f3 _GLOBAL__sub_I_kdynamicjobtracker.cpp (/home/milian/projects/compiled/kf5/lib64/libKF5KIOWidgets.so.5.35.0)
> f199 call_init.part.0 (/usr/lib/ld-2.25.so)
> f2a5 _dl_init (/usr/lib/ld-2.25.so)
> db9 _dl_start_user (/usr/lib/ld-2.25.so)
> ~~~~~
>
> But with libdw and without this patch this sample is not properly
> unwound:
>
> ~~~~~
> heaptrack_gui 2228 135073.400112: 641314 cycles:
> e8ed _dl_fixup (/usr/lib/ld-2.25.so)
> 15f06 _dl_runtime_resolve_sse_vex (/usr/lib/ld-2.25.so)
> ed94c KDynamicJobTracker::KDynamicJobTracker (/home/milian/projects/compiled/kf5/lib64/libKF5KIOWidgets.so.5.35.0)
> ~~~~~
>
> Debug output showed me that libdw found a module for the last frame
> address, but it thinks it belongs to /usr/lib/ld-2.25.so. This patch
> double-checks what libdw sees and what perf knows. If the mappings
> mismatch, we now report the elf known to perf. This fixes the
> situation above, and the libdw unwinder produces the same stack as
> libunwind.

hum, sounds like libdw bug right? CC-ing Jan... any idea?

anyway, I think we can keep that as sanity check

thanks,
jirka

>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
> index b4c20124d2ee..da45c4be5fb3 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ static int __report_module(struct addr_location *al, u64 ip,
> return 0;
>
> mod = dwfl_addrmodule(ui->dwfl, ip);
> + if (mod) {
> + Dwarf_Addr s;
> +
> + dwfl_module_info(mod, NULL, &s, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
> + if (s != al->map->start)
> + mod = 0;
> + }
> +
> if (!mod)
> mod = dwfl_report_elf(ui->dwfl, dso->short_name,
> dso->long_name, -1, al->map->start,
> --
> 2.13.0
>

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