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Commit ee11b90b authored by Kirill Smelkov's avatar Kirill Smelkov Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf top: Fix annotate for userspace



First, for programs and prelinked libraries, annotate code was
fooled by objdump output IPs (src->eip in the code) being
wrongly converted to absolute IPs. In such case there were no
conversion needed, but in

   src->eip = strtoull(src->line, NULL, 16);
   src->eip = map->unmap_ip(map, src->eip); // = eip + map->start - map->pgoff

we were reading absolute address from objdump (e.g. 8048604) and
then almost doubling it, because eip & map->start are
approximately close for small programs.

Needless to say, that later, in record_precise_ip() there was no
matching with real runtime IPs.

And second, like with `perf annotate` the problem with
non-prelinked *.so was that we were doing rip -> objdump address
conversion wrong.

Also, because unlike `perf annotate`, `perf top` code does
annotation based on absolute IPs for performance reasons(*), new
helper for mapping objdump addresse to IP is introduced.

(*) we get samples info in absolute IPs, and since we do lots of
    hit-testing on absolute IPs at runtime in record_precise_ip(), it's
    better to convert objdump addresses to IPs once and do no conversion
    at runtime.

I also had to fix how objdump output is parsed (with hardcoded
8/16 characters format, which was inappropriate for ET_DYN dsos
with small addresses like '4ac')

Also note, that not all objdump output lines has associtated
IPs, e.g. look at source lines here:

    000004ac <my_strlen>:
    extern "C"
    int my_strlen(const char *s)
     4ac:   55                      push   %ebp
     4ad:   89 e5                   mov    %esp,%ebp
     4af:   83 ec 10                sub    $0x10,%esp
    {
        int len = 0;
     4b2:   c7 45 fc 00 00 00 00    movl   $0x0,-0x4(%ebp)
     4b9:   eb 08                   jmp    4c3 <my_strlen+0x17>

        while (*s) {
            ++len;
     4bb:   83 45 fc 01             addl   $0x1,-0x4(%ebp)
            ++s;
     4bf:   83 45 08 01             addl   $0x1,0x8(%ebp)

So we mark them with eip=0, and ignore such lines in annotate
lookup code.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
[ Note: one hunk of this patch was applied by Mike in 57d81889 ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1265550376-12665-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 5ecaafdb
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