This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf symbol: Correct address for bss symbols
to the 4.19-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-symbol-correct-address-for-bss-symbols.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5912671ed38ff5a8dabcdf46974a55ae17ff3f92
Author: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Jul 24 14:00:12 2022 +0800
perf symbol: Correct address for bss symbols
[ Upstream commit 2d86612aacb7805f72873691a2644d7279ed0630 ]
When using 'perf mem' and 'perf c2c', an issue is observed that tool
reports the wrong offset for global data symbols. This is a common
issue on both x86 and Arm64 platforms.
Let's see an example, for a test program, below is the disassembly for
its .bss section which is dumped with objdump:
...
Disassembly of section .bss:
0000000000004040 <completed.0>:
...
0000000000004080 <buf1>:
...
00000000000040c0 <buf2>:
...
0000000000004100 <thread>:
...
First we used 'perf mem record' to run the test program and then used
'perf --debug verbose=4 mem report' to observe what's the symbol info
for 'buf1' and 'buf2' structures.
# ./perf mem record -e ldlat-loads,ldlat-stores -- false_sharing.exe 8
# ./perf --debug verbose=4 mem report
...
dso__load_sym_internal: adjusting symbol: st_value: 0x40c0 sh_addr: 0x4040 sh_offset: 0x3028
symbol__new: buf2 0x30a8-0x30e8
...
dso__load_sym_internal: adjusting symbol: st_value: 0x4080 sh_addr: 0x4040 sh_offset: 0x3028
symbol__new: buf1 0x3068-0x30a8
...
The perf tool relies on libelf to parse symbols, in executable and
shared object files, 'st_value' holds a virtual address; 'sh_addr' is
the address at which section's first byte should reside in memory, and
'sh_offset' is the byte offset from the beginning of the file to the
first byte in the section. The perf tool uses below formula to convert
a symbol's memory address to a file address:
file_address = st_value - sh_addr + sh_offset
^
` Memory address
We can see the final adjusted address ranges for buf1 and buf2 are
[0x30a8-0x30e8) and [0x3068-0x30a8) respectively, apparently this is
incorrect, in the code, the structure for 'buf1' and 'buf2' specifies
compiler attribute with 64-byte alignment.
The problem happens for 'sh_offset', libelf returns it as 0x3028 which
is not 64-byte aligned, combining with disassembly, it's likely libelf
doesn't respect the alignment for .bss section, therefore, it doesn't
return the aligned value for 'sh_offset'.
Suggested by Fangrui Song, ELF file contains program header which
contains PT_LOAD segments, the fields p_vaddr and p_offset in PT_LOAD
segments contain the execution info. A better choice for converting
memory address to file address is using the formula:
file_address = st_value - p_vaddr + p_offset
This patch introduces elf_read_program_header() which returns the
program header based on the passed 'st_value', then it uses the formula
above to calculate the symbol file address; and the debugging log is
updated respectively.
After applying the change:
# ./perf --debug verbose=4 mem report
...
dso__load_sym_internal: adjusting symbol: st_value: 0x40c0 p_vaddr: 0x3d28 p_offset: 0x2d28
symbol__new: buf2 0x30c0-0x3100
...
dso__load_sym_internal: adjusting symbol: st_value: 0x4080 p_vaddr: 0x3d28 p_offset: 0x2d28
symbol__new: buf1 0x3080-0x30c0
...
Fixes: f17e04afaff84b5c ("perf report: Fix ELF symbol parsing")
Reported-by: Chang Rui <changruinj@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220724060013.171050-2-leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
index 166c621e0223..bd33d6613929 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
@@ -201,6 +201,33 @@ Elf_Scn *elf_section_by_name(Elf *elf, GElf_Ehdr *ep,
return NULL;
}
+static int elf_read_program_header(Elf *elf, u64 vaddr, GElf_Phdr *phdr)
+{
+ size_t i, phdrnum;
+ u64 sz;
+
+ if (elf_getphdrnum(elf, &phdrnum))
+ return -1;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < phdrnum; i++) {
+ if (gelf_getphdr(elf, i, phdr) == NULL)
+ return -1;
+
+ if (phdr->p_type != PT_LOAD)
+ continue;
+
+ sz = max(phdr->p_memsz, phdr->p_filesz);
+ if (!sz)
+ continue;
+
+ if (vaddr >= phdr->p_vaddr && (vaddr < phdr->p_vaddr + sz))
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ /* Not found any valid program header */
+ return -1;
+}
+
static bool want_demangle(bool is_kernel_sym)
{
return is_kernel_sym ? symbol_conf.demangle_kernel : symbol_conf.demangle;
@@ -1063,6 +1090,7 @@ int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, struct symsrc *syms_ss,
sym.st_value);
used_opd = true;
}
+
/*
* When loading symbols in a data mapping, ABS symbols (which
* has a value of SHN_ABS in its st_shndx) failed at
@@ -1099,11 +1127,20 @@ int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, struct symsrc *syms_ss,
goto out_elf_end;
} else if ((used_opd && runtime_ss->adjust_symbols) ||
(!used_opd && syms_ss->adjust_symbols)) {
+ GElf_Phdr phdr;
+
+ if (elf_read_program_header(syms_ss->elf,
+ (u64)sym.st_value, &phdr)) {
+ pr_warning("%s: failed to find program header for "
+ "symbol: %s st_value: %#" PRIx64 "\n",
+ __func__, elf_name, (u64)sym.st_value);
+ continue;
+ }
pr_debug4("%s: adjusting symbol: st_value: %#" PRIx64 " "
- "sh_addr: %#" PRIx64 " sh_offset: %#" PRIx64 "\n", __func__,
- (u64)sym.st_value, (u64)shdr.sh_addr,
- (u64)shdr.sh_offset);
- sym.st_value -= shdr.sh_addr - shdr.sh_offset;
+ "p_vaddr: %#" PRIx64 " p_offset: %#" PRIx64 "\n",
+ __func__, (u64)sym.st_value, (u64)phdr.p_vaddr,
+ (u64)phdr.p_offset);
+ sym.st_value -= phdr.p_vaddr - phdr.p_offset;
}
demangled = demangle_sym(dso, kmodule, elf_name);
