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This problem was encountered on an arm64 system with a lot of memory. Without kernel debug symbols installed, and with both kcore and kallsyms available, perf managed to get confused and returned "unknown" for all of the kernel symbols that it tried to look up. On this system, stext fell within the vmalloc segment. The kcore symbol matching code tries to find the first segment that contains stext and uses that to replace the segment generated from just the kallsyms information. In this case, however, there were two: a very large vmalloc segment, and the text segment. This caused perf to get confused because multiple overlapping segments were inserted into the RB tree that holds the discovered segments. However, that alone wasn't sufficient to cause the problem. Even when we could find the segment, the offsets were adjusted in such a way that the newly generated symbols didn't line up with the instruction addresses in the trace. The most obvious solution would be to consult which segment type is text from kcore, but this information is not exposed to users. Instead, select the smallest matching segment that contains stext instead of the first matching segment. This allows us to match the text segment instead of vmalloc, if one is contained within the other. Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Reaver <me@davidreaver.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230125183418.GD1963@templeofstupid.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.