This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf tools: Fix DSO filtering when not finding a map for a sampled address to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: perf-tools-fix-dso-filtering-when-not-finding-a-map-.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e5c27fa4cf6ca4670a2e6d3e9f3dd214db6a7c60 Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jan 28 09:52:47 2021 -0300 perf tools: Fix DSO filtering when not finding a map for a sampled address [ Upstream commit c69bf11ad3d30b6bf01cfa538ddff1a59467c734 ] When we lookup an address and don't find a map we should filter that sample if the user specified a list of --dso entries to filter on, fix it. Before: $ perf script sleep 274800 2843.556162: 1 cycles:u: ffffffffbb26bff4 [unknown] ([unknown]) sleep 274800 2843.556168: 1 cycles:u: ffffffffbb2b047d [unknown] ([unknown]) sleep 274800 2843.556171: 1 cycles:u: ffffffffbb2706b2 [unknown] ([unknown]) sleep 274800 2843.556174: 6 cycles:u: ffffffffbb2b0267 [unknown] ([unknown]) sleep 274800 2843.556176: 59 cycles:u: ffffffffbb2b03b1 [unknown] ([unknown]) sleep 274800 2843.556180: 691 cycles:u: ffffffffbb26bff4 [unknown] ([unknown]) sleep 274800 2843.556189: 9160 cycles:u: 7fa9550eeaa3 __GI___tunables_init+0xf3 (/usr/lib64/ld-2.32.so) sleep 274800 2843.556312: 86937 cycles:u: 7fa9550e157b _dl_lookup_symbol_x+0x4b (/usr/lib64/ld-2.32.so) $ So we have some samples we somehow didn't find in a map for, if we now do: $ perf report --stdio --dso /usr/lib64/ld-2.32.so # dso: /usr/lib64/ld-2.32.so # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 8 of event 'cycles:u' # Event count (approx.): 96856 # # Overhead Command Symbol # ........ ....... ........................ # 89.76% sleep [.] _dl_lookup_symbol_x 9.46% sleep [.] __GI___tunables_init 0.71% sleep [k] 0xffffffffbb26bff4 0.06% sleep [k] 0xffffffffbb2b03b1 0.01% sleep [k] 0xffffffffbb2b0267 0.00% sleep [k] 0xffffffffbb2706b2 0.00% sleep [k] 0xffffffffbb2b047d $ After this patch we get the right output with just entries for the DSOs specified in --dso: $ perf report --stdio --dso /usr/lib64/ld-2.32.so # dso: /usr/lib64/ld-2.32.so # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 8 of event 'cycles:u' # Event count (approx.): 96856 # # Overhead Command Symbol # ........ ....... ........................ # 89.76% sleep [.] _dl_lookup_symbol_x 9.46% sleep [.] __GI___tunables_init $ # Fixes: 96415e4d3f5fdf9c ("perf symbols: Avoid unnecessary symbol loading when dso list is specified") Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210128131209.GD775562@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.c b/tools/perf/util/event.c index 05616d4138a96..7e440fa90c938 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/event.c @@ -673,6 +673,8 @@ int machine__resolve(struct machine *machine, struct addr_location *al, } al->sym = map__find_symbol(al->map, al->addr); + } else if (symbol_conf.dso_list) { + al->filtered |= (1 << HIST_FILTER__DSO); } if (symbol_conf.sym_list) {