This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf header: Set proper module name when build-id event found
to the 4.9-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-header-set-proper-module-name-when-build-id-event-found.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 21:01:03 +0900
Subject: perf header: Set proper module name when build-id event found
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 1deec1bd96ccd8beb04d2112a6d12fe20505c3a6 ]
When perf processes build-id event, it creates DSOs with the build-id.
But it didn't set the module short name (like '[module-name]') so when
processing a kernel mmap event of the module, it cannot found the DSO as
it only checks the short names.
That leads for perf to create a same DSO without the build-id info and
it'll lookup the system path even if the DSO is already in the build-id
cache. After kernel was updated, perf cannot find the DSO and cannot
show symbols in it anymore.
You can see this if you have an old data file (w/ old kernel version):
$ perf report -i perf.data.old -v |& grep scsi_mod
build id event received for /lib/modules/3.19.2-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz : cafe1ce6ca13a98a5d9ed3425cde249e57a27fc1
Failed to open /lib/modules/3.19.2-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz, continuing without symbols
...
The second message didn't show the build-id. With this patch:
$ perf report -i perf.data.old -v |& grep scsi_mod
build id event received for /lib/modules/3.19.2-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz: cafe1ce6ca13a98a5d9ed3425cde249e57a27fc1
/lib/modules/3.19.2-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz with build id cafe1ce6ca13a98a5d9ed3425cde249e57a27fc1 not found, continuing without symbols
...
Now it shows the build-id but still cannot load the symbol table. This
is a different problem which will be fixed in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170531120105.21731-1-namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx
[ Fix the build on older compilers (debian <= 8, fedora <= 21, etc) wrt kmod_path var init ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/header.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -1454,8 +1454,16 @@ static int __event_process_build_id(stru
dso__set_build_id(dso, &bev->build_id);
- if (!is_kernel_module(filename, cpumode))
- dso->kernel = dso_type;
+ if (dso_type != DSO_TYPE_USER) {
+ struct kmod_path m = { .name = NULL, };
+
+ if (!kmod_path__parse_name(&m, filename) && m.kmod)
+ dso__set_short_name(dso, strdup(m.name), true);
+ else
+ dso->kernel = dso_type;
+
+ free(m.name);
+ }
build_id__sprintf(dso->build_id, sizeof(dso->build_id),
sbuild_id);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/perf-report-fix-off-by-one-for-non-activation-frames.patch
queue-4.9/perf-trace-add-mmap-alias-for-s390.patch
queue-4.9/perf-report-ensure-the-perf-dso-mapping-matches-what-libdw-sees.patch
queue-4.9/perf-tools-fix-copyfile_offset-update-of-output-offset.patch
queue-4.9/perf-tools-decompress-kernel-module-when-reading-dso-data.patch
queue-4.9/perf-tests-decompress-kernel-module-before-objdump.patch
queue-4.9/perf-header-set-proper-module-name-when-build-id-event-found.patch