Fix perf probe to handle aliased symbols correctly in glibc. In the
glibc, several symbols are defined as an alias of __libc_XXX, e.g.
malloc is an alias of __libc_malloc.
In such cases, dwarf has no subroutine instances of the alias functions
(e.g. no "malloc" instance), but the map has that symbol and its
address.
Thus, if we search the alieased symbol in debuginfo, we always fail to
find it, but it is in the map.
To solve this problem, this fails back to address-based alternative
search, which searches the symbol in the map, translates its address to
alternative (correct) function name by using debuginfo, and retry to
find the alternative function point from debuginfo.
This adds fail-back process to --vars, --lines and --add options. So,
now you can use those on malloc@libc :)
Without this patch;
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# ./perf probe -x /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so -V malloc
Failed to find the address of malloc
Error: Failed to show vars.
# ./perf probe -x /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so -a "malloc bytes"
Probe point 'malloc' not found in debuginfo.
Error: Failed to add events.
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With this patch;
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# ./perf probe -x /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so -V malloc
Available variables at malloc
@<__libc_malloc+0>
size_t bytes
# ./perf probe -x /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so -a "malloc bytes"
Added new event:
probe_libc:malloc (on malloc in /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so with bytes)
You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1
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Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150306073120.6904.13779.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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