> On 14-Sep-2023, at 11:49 PM, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/09/23 19:45, Athira Rajeev wrote:
>> Update "struct dso" to include new member "text_end".
>> This new field will represent the offset for end of text
>> section for a dso. For elf, this value is derived as:
>> sh_size (Size of section in byes) + sh_offset (Section file
>> offst) of the elf header for text.
>>
>> For bfd, this value is derived as:
>> 1. For PE file,
>> section->size + ( section->vma - dso->text_offset)
>> 2. Other cases:
>> section->filepos (file position) + section->size (size of
>> section)
>>
>> To resolve the address from a sample, perf looks at the
>> DSO maps. In case of address from a kernel module, there
>> were some address found to be not resolved. This was
>> observed while running perf test for "Object code reading".
>> Though the ip falls beteen the start address of the loaded
>> module (perf map->start ) and end address ( perf map->end),
>> it was unresolved.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> Reading object code for memory address: 0xc008000007f0142c
>> File is: /lib/modules/6.5.0-rc3+/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
>> On file address is: 0x1114cc
>> Objdump command is: objdump -z -d --start-address=0x11142c
>> --stop-address=0x1114ac /lib/modules/6.5.0-rc3+/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
>> objdump read too few bytes: 128
>> test child finished with -1
>>
>> Here, module is loaded at:
>> # cat /proc/modules | grep xfs
>> xfs 2228224 3 - Live 0xc008000007d00000
>>
>> From objdump for xfs module, text section is:
>> text 0010f7bc 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000a0 2**4
>>
>> Here the offset for 0xc008000007f0142c ie 0x112074 falls out
>> .text section which is up to 0x10f7bc.
>>
>> In this case for module, the address 0xc008000007e11fd4 is pointing
>> to stub instructions. This address range represents the module stubs
>> which is allocated on module load and hence is not part of DSO offset.
>>
>> To identify such address, which falls out of text
>> section and within module end, added the new field "text_end" to
>> "struct dso".
>>
>> Reported-by: Disha Goel <disg...@linux.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atraj...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com>
Hi Adrian
Thanks for the review
>
>> ---
>> Changelog:
>> v1 -> v2:
>> Added text_end for bfd also by updating dso__load_bfd_symbols
>> as suggested by Adrian.
>>
>> tools/perf/util/dso.h | 1 +
>> tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 4 +++-
>> tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 2 ++
>> 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.h b/tools/perf/util/dso.h
>> index b41c9782c754..70fe0fe69bef 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/dso.h
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.h
>> @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ struct dso {
>> u8 rel;
>> struct build_id bid;
>> u64 text_offset;
>> + u64 text_end;
>> const char *short_name;
>> const char *long_name;
>> u16 long_name_len;
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
>> index 95e99c332d7e..9e7eeaf616b8 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
>> @@ -1514,8 +1514,10 @@ dso__load_sym_internal(struct dso *dso, struct map
>> *map, struct symsrc *syms_ss,
>> }
>>
>> if (elf_section_by_name(runtime_ss->elf, &runtime_ss->ehdr, &tshdr,
>> - ".text", NULL))
>> + ".text", NULL)) {
>> dso->text_offset = tshdr.sh_addr - tshdr.sh_offset;
>> + dso->text_end = tshdr.sh_offset + tshdr.sh_size;
>> + }
>>
>> if (runtime_ss->opdsec)
>> opddata = elf_rawdata(runtime_ss->opdsec, NULL);
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
>> index 3f36675b7c8f..f25e4e62cf25 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
>> @@ -1733,8 +1733,10 @@ int dso__load_bfd_symbols(struct dso *dso, const char
>> *debugfile)
>> /* PE symbols can only have 4 bytes, so use .text high bits */
>> dso->text_offset = section->vma - (u32)section->vma;
>> dso->text_offset += (u32)bfd_asymbol_value(symbols[i]);
>> + dso->text_end = (section->vma - dso->text_offset) + section->size;
>> } else {
>> dso->text_offset = section->vma - section->filepos;
>> + dso->text_end = section->filepos + section->size;
>> }
>> }
