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Commit b93b0967 authored by Wang Nan's avatar Wang Nan Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf test: Fix dwarf unwind using libunwind.



Perf tool fails to unwind user stack if the event raises in a shared
object. This patch improves tests/dwarf-unwind.c to demonstrate the
problem by utilizing commonly used glibc function "bsearch". If perf is
not statically linked, the testcase will try to unwind a mixed call
trace.

By debugging libunwind I found that there is a bug in unwind-libunwind:
it always passes 0 as segbase to libunwind, cause libunwind unable to
locate debug_frame entry fir first level ip address (I add some more
debugging output into libunwind to make things clear):

               >_Uarm_dwarf_find_debug_frame: start_ip = 10be98, end_ip = 10c2a4
               >_Uarm_dwarf_find_debug_frame: found debug_frame table `/lib/libc-2.18.so': segbase=0x0, len=7, gp=0x0, table_data=0x449388
               >_Uarm_dwarf_search_unwind_table: call lookup:ip = b6cd3bcc, segbase = 0, rel_ip = b6cd3bcc
               >lookup: e->start_ip_offset = bcf18 (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
               >lookup: e->start_ip_offset = 6d314 (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
               >lookup: e->start_ip_offset = 33d0c (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
                ...
               >lookup: e->start_ip_offset = 15d0c (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
               >lookup: e->start_ip_offset = 15c40 (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
 >_Uarm_dwarf_search_unwind_table: IP b6cd3bcc inside range b6c12000-b6d4c000, but no explicit unwind info found
                >put_rs_cache: unmasking signals/interrupts and releasing lock
               >_Uarm_dwarf_step: returning -10
 >_Uarm_step: dwarf_step()=-10

This patch passes map->start as segbase to dwarf_find_debug_frame(), so
di will be initialized correctly.

In addition, dso and executable are different when setting segbase. This
patch first check whether the elf is executable, and pass segbase only
for shared object.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421203007-75799-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent ea1fe3a8
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