On Wed 2024-08-07 20:48:48, Song Liu wrote: > > > > On Aug 7, 2024, at 8:33 AM, Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 3:08 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:19:20 +0000 > >> Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>> Do you mean we do not want patch 3/3, but would like to keep 1/3 and part > >>> of 2/3 (remove the _without_suffix APIs)? If this is the case, we are > >>> undoing the change by Sami in [1], and thus may break some tracing tools. > >> > >> What tracing tools may be broke and why? > > > > This was a few years ago when we were first adding LTO support, but > > the unexpected suffixes in tracing output broke systrace in Android, > > presumably because the tools expected to find specific function names > > without suffixes. I'm not sure if systrace would still be a problem > > today, but other tools might still make assumptions about the function > > name format. At the time, we decided to filter out the suffixes in all > > user space visible output to avoid these issues. > > > >> For this suffix problem, I would like to add another patch to allow probing on > >> suffixed symbols. (It seems suffixed symbols are not available at this point) > >> > >> The problem is that the suffixed symbols maybe a "part" of the original function, > >> thus user has to carefully use it. > >> > >>> > >>> Sami, could you please share your thoughts on this? > >> > >> Sami, I would like to know what problem you have on kprobes. > > > > The reports we received back then were about registering kprobes for > > static functions, which obviously failed if the compiler added a > > suffix to the function name. This was more of a problem with ThinLTO > > and Clang CFI at the time because the compiler used to rename _all_ > > static functions, but one can obviously run into the same issue with > > just LTO. > > I think newer LLVM/clang no longer add suffixes to all static functions > with LTO and CFI. So this may not be a real issue any more? > > If we still need to allow tracing without suffix, I think the approach > in this patch set is correct (sort syms based on full name, Yes, we should allow to find the symbols via the full name, definitely. > remove suffixes in special APIs during lookup). Just an idea. Alternative solution would be to make make an alias without the suffix when there is only one symbol with the same name. It would be complementary with the patch adding aliases for symbols with the same name, see https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231204214635.2916691-1-alessandro.carminati@xxxxxxxxx I would allow to find the symbols with and without the suffix using a single API. Best Regards, Petr
