Re: [PATCH v4 dwarves 0/2] fixes for memory optimized BTF

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On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 09:17:23AM +0100, Alan Maguire wrote:
> This series is identical in effect to [1], it is simply applied
> on top of the "next" branch which now includes v2 of the series.
> 
> Patch 1 fixes issues identified in code review around use of
> func->state, strncpy issues.
> 
> Patch 2 speeds up the btf_functions.sh test by reducing the
> number of greps/pipes, shaving ~1 minute off execution time.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/dwarves/20240925091734.1943742-1-alan.maguire@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Changes since v2:
> 
> - fixed checks of func->state since it is always non-NULL and removed
>   now-unneeded fields from dwarves.h; added assertions that either
>   ELF or DWARF data is present for func encoding (Jiri, patch 1)

lgtm

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

jirka

> - fixed strncpy() issues, improved equality comparions between types
>   (Eduard, patch 1)
> - reworked btf_functions test to minimize overheads (patch 2)
> 
> Changes since RFC:
> 
> - fixed free issues (Jiri, patch 1)
> - embed func state into struct elf_function as each function
>   has state, and we can use the stack for state comparison
>   avoiding the cost of additional allocations (patch 1)
> - fix an intermittent coredump that resulted from using
>   btf__str_by_offset() string in adding function prototype;
>   needing more space could sometimes result in strset memory
>   movement which would in turn invalidate the char * string,
>   so copy it to a char array for param name/tag value encoding
>   (patch 1)
> - improve logging of decision to skip functions so that we can
>   gather that info more easily for testing in patch 3
> - added new option to pfunct to show all instances of a function
>   prototype and - if no function is specified - use the stealer
>   to dump out all prototypes more rapidly to aid quicker testing
> - added test covering BTF function generation, checking that
>   DWARF/BTF are consistent and that for skipped functions the
>   skip rationale was valid (Jiri, patch 3)
> 
> Alan Maguire (2):
>   btf_encoder: fix strncpy issues, other issues identified in code
>     review
>   tests: improve btf_functions.sh by reducing greps/pipes
> 
>  btf_encoder.c          | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  tests/btf_functions.sh | 22 +++++---------
>  2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.43.5
> 




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