From 8731acc5068eb3f422a45c760d32198175c756f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ilya Leoshkevich Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 21:17:06 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] scripts/gdb: fix debugging modules compiled with hot/cold partitioning gcc's -freorder-blocks-and-partition option makes it group frequently and infrequently used code in .text.hot and .text.unlikely sections respectively. At least when building modules on s390, this option is used by default. gdb assumes that all code is located in .text section, and that .text section is located at module load address. With such modules this is no longer the case: there is code in .text.hot and .text.unlikely, and either of them might precede .text. Fix by explicitly telling gdb the addresses of code sections. It might be tempting to do this for all sections, not only the ones in the white list. Unfortunately, gdb appears to have an issue, when telling it about e.g. loadable .note.gnu.build-id section causes it to think that non-loadable .note.Linux section is loaded at address 0, which in turn causes NULL pointers to be resolved to bogus symbols. So keep using the white list approach for the time being. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191028152734.13065-1-iii@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka Cc: Kieran Bingham Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Vasily Gorbik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py index 7b7c2fafbc68..be984aa29b75 100644 --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py @@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ lx-symbols command.""" attrs[n]['name'].string(): attrs[n]['address'] for n in range(int(sect_attrs['nsections']))} args = [] - for section_name in [".data", ".data..read_mostly", ".rodata", ".bss"]: + for section_name in [".data", ".data..read_mostly", ".rodata", ".bss", + ".text", ".text.hot", ".text.unlikely"]: address = section_name_to_address.get(section_name) if address: args.append(" -s {name} {addr}".format(