linux/tools
Matija Glavinic Pecotic 9343e45bf6 perf unwind: Fix looking up dwarf unwind stack info
Using perf with call graph method dwarf fails to provide backtrace
support for stripped binary even though .gnu_debuglink points to *.dbg
flavor with properly populated debug symbols.

Problem is reproduced on ARM (v7, v8), kernels 3.14.y, 4.4.y and
4.10.rc3.  Perf is configured with libunwind, and unwind dwarf support
[1]. Test code (stress_bt.c) can be found on [2].

Running (explicitly disable other unwinding methods):

  $ gcc -g -o stress_bt -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-unwind-tables \
	-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables stress_bt.c
  $ perf record -N --call-graph dwarf ./stress_bt
  $ perf report

results in properly generated call graph. Stripping the binary and running
it results with missing call graph. Expected result is to have call graph:

  $ gcc -g -o stress_bt -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-unwind-tables \
	  -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables stress_bt.c
  $ objcopy --only-keep-debug stress_bt stress_bt.dbg
  $ objcopy --strip-debug stress_bt
  $ objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=stress_bt.dbg stress_bt
  $ perf record -N --call-graph dwarf ./stress_bt
  $ perf report

Problem is that perf doesn't try to read symbols pointed by gnu
debuglink.  Patch adds checking, and reading of the symbols from
debuglink and symsrc.  Order of the check is to first check within dso,
then check whether symsrc is defined and try to read from it. Finally,
debuglink is checked. Default locations of debug files are discussed in
[3] and [4]. Comments on RFC are on [5].

[1] https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/TOOLS/perf-callstack-unwinding
[2] [1]#Backtrace_stress_application
[3] https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Separate-Debug-Files.html
[4] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/binutils/objcopy.html
[5] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/22/473

Signed-off-by: Matija Glavinic Pecotic <matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d309d40a-463f-482b-68e1-1465326efdc1@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-01-18 12:29:52 -03:00
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accounting tools: move accounting tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:15 -06:00
arch tools: Sync x86's vmx.h with the kernel 2017-01-11 16:48:02 -03:00
build Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-12-17 16:24:13 -08:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-12-17 16:24:13 -08:00
hv Char/Misc driver patches for 4.10-rc1 2016-12-13 12:11:01 -08:00
iio tools: iio: iio_generic_buffer: drop unneeded parentheses 2016-10-23 19:34:10 +01:00
include Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-23 16:49:12 -08:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools: kvm_stat: Add comments 2016-05-25 16:12:06 +02:00
laptop tools: move laptops dslm tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:21 -06:00
leds tools/leds: Add uledmon program for monitoring userspace LEDs 2016-11-22 12:07:02 +01:00
lguest tools/lguest: Don't bork the terminal in case of wrong args 2016-09-08 08:05:24 +02:00
lib tools lib subcmd: Fix missing member name 2017-01-16 14:59:15 -03:00
net tools: bpf_jit_disasm: check for klogctl failure 2016-05-08 23:32:59 -04:00
nfsd
objtool Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-12-17 16:24:13 -08:00
pcmcia tools: move pcmcia crc32hash tool from Documentation 2016-09-23 13:07:27 -06:00
perf perf unwind: Fix looking up dwarf unwind stack info 2017-01-18 12:29:52 -03:00
power Merge branch 'turbostat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2016-12-25 14:01:28 -08:00
scripts tools build: Fix objtool build with ARCH=x86_64 2016-07-22 16:37:44 -03:00
spi spi: spidev_test: Fix input file check when transferring file 2016-11-04 09:56:09 -06:00
testing libnvdimm for 4.10 2016-12-18 15:49:10 -08:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb usbip: add missing compile time generated files to .gitignore 2016-12-06 08:37:41 +01:00
virtio tools/virtio: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in uaccess.h 2016-12-16 00:13:37 +02:00
vm tools/vm/page_owner: increase temporary buffer size 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
Makefile tools/leds: Add uledmon program for monitoring userspace LEDs 2016-11-22 12:07:02 +01:00