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Krister Johansen 1c24956542 perf symbols: Symbol lookup with kcore can fail if multiple segments match stext
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>
2023-02-02 16:32:19 -03:00
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accounting tools/accounting/procacct: remove some unused variables 2022-11-18 13:55:09 -08:00
arch tools headers arm64: Sync arm64's cputype.h with the kernel sources 2023-01-18 10:07:42 -03:00
bootconfig
bpf bpftool: Fix linkage with statically built libllvm 2022-12-22 20:09:43 +01:00
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edid
firewire
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hv
iio tools: iio: iio_generic_buffer: Fix read size 2022-11-01 08:48:13 +00:00
include tools headers: Syncronize linux/build_bug.h with the kernel sources 2023-01-18 10:31:11 -03:00
io_uring
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: update exit reasons for vmx/svm/aarch64/userspace 2022-11-09 12:26:52 -05:00
laptop
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lib libperf: Fix install_pkgconfig target 2022-12-16 10:04:06 -03:00
memory-model
objtool objtool: Tolerate STT_NOTYPE symbols at end of section 2023-01-09 17:53:46 +01:00
pci
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perf perf symbols: Symbol lookup with kcore can fail if multiple segments match stext 2023-02-02 16:32:19 -03:00
power ACPI updates for 6.2-rc1 2022-12-12 13:38:17 -08:00
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testing linux-kselftest-fixes-6.2-rc5 2023-01-20 11:35:21 -08:00
thermal
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tracing rtla: Fix exit status when returning from calls to usage() 2022-12-09 18:06:24 -05:00
usb tools: usb: ffs-aio-example: Fix build error with aarch64-*-gnu-gcc toolchain(s) 2022-11-09 12:37:56 +01:00
verification Tracing fix for 6.2: 2022-12-21 19:03:42 -08:00
virtio tools/virtio: remove smp_read_barrier_depends() 2022-12-28 05:28:11 -05:00
vm MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-13 19:29:45 -08:00
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