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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] perf map: Set kmap->kmaps backpointer for main kernel map chunks
Em Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 03:10:38PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria escreveu:
> Hi Arnaldo,
>
> On 12/23/19 7:02 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> >
> > When a map is create to represent the main kernel area (vmlinux) with
> > map__new2() we allocate an extra area to store a pointer to the 'struct
> > maps' for the kernel maps, so that we can access that struct when
> > loading ELF files or kallsyms, as we will need to split it in multiple
> > maps, one per kernel module or ELF section (such as ".init.text").
> >
> > So when map->dso->kernel is non-zero, it is expected that
> > map__kmap(map)->kmaps to be set to the tree of kernel maps (modules,
> > chunks of the main kernel, bpf progs put in place via
> > PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL, the main kernel).
> >
> > This was not the case when we were splitting the main kernel into chunks
> > for its ELF sections, which ended up making 'perf report --children'
> > processing a perf.data file with callchains to trip on
> > __map__is_kernel(), when we press ENTER to see the popup menu for main
> > histogram entries that starts at a symbol in the ".init.text" ELF
> > section, e.g.:
> >
> > - 8.83% 0.00% swapper [kernel.vmlinux].init.text [k] start_kernel
> > start_kernel
> > cpu_startup_entry
> > do_idle
> > cpuidle_enter
> > cpuidle_enter_state
> > intel_idle
> >
> > Fix it.
>
> perf top from perf/core has started crashing at __map__is_kernel():
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0 __map__is_kernel (map=<optimized out>) at util/map.c:935
> #1 0x000000000045551d in perf_event__process_sample (machine=0xbab8f8,
> sample=0x7fffe5ffa6d0, evsel=0xba7570, event=0xbcac50, tool=0x7fffffff84e0)
> at builtin-top.c:833
> #2 deliver_event (qe=<optimized out>, qevent=<optimized out>) at builtin-top.c:1192
> #3 0x000000000050b9fb in do_flush (show_progress=false, oe=0x7fffffff87e0)
> at util/ordered-events.c:244
> #4 __ordered_events__flush (oe=oe@entry=0x7fffffff87e0, how=how@entry=OE_FLUSH__TOP,
> timestamp=timestamp@entry=0) at util/ordered-events.c:323
> #5 0x000000000050c1b5 in __ordered_events__flush (timestamp=<optimized out>,
> how=<optimized out>, oe=<optimized out>) at util/ordered-events.c:339
> #6 ordered_events__flush (how=OE_FLUSH__TOP, oe=0x7fffffff87e0) at util/ordered-events.c:341
> #7 ordered_events__flush (oe=oe@entry=0x7fffffff87e0, how=how@entry=OE_FLUSH__TOP)
> at util/ordered-events.c:339
> #8 0x0000000000454e21 in process_thread (arg=0x7fffffff84e0) at builtin-top.c:1104
> #9 0x00007ffff7f2c4e2 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> #10 0x00007ffff76086d3 in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>
> I haven't debugged it much but seems like the actual patch that's causing the
> crash is de90d513b246 ("perf map: Use map->dso->kernel + map__kmaps() in
> map__kmaps()").
>
> Did you face this / aware of it?

No, I wasn't aware of this, will check, getting back from vacations
today, so may take some time,

- Arnaldo

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