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Song Liu says: ==================== This work follows up discussion at Plumbers'17 on improving addr->sym resolution of user stack traces. The following links have more information of the discussion: http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2017/ocw/proposals/4764 https://lwn.net/Articles/734453/ Section "Stack traces and kprobes" Currently, bpf stackmap store address for each entry in the call trace. To map these addresses to user space files, it is necessary to maintain the mapping from these virtual address to symbols in the binary. Usually, the user space profiler (such as perf) has to scan /proc/pid/maps at the beginning of profiling, and monitor mmap2() calls afterwards. Given the cost of maintaining the address map, this solution is not practical for system wide profiling that is always on. This patch tries to address this with a variation to stackmap. Instead of storing addresses, the variation stores ELF file build_id + offset. After profiling, a user space tool will look up these functions with build_id (to find the binary or shared library) and the offset. I also updated bcc/cc library for the stackmap (no python/lua support yet). You can find the work at: https://github.com/liu-song-6/bcc/commits/bpf_get_stackid_v02 Changes v5 -> v6: 1. When kernel stack is added to stackmap with build_id, use fallback mechanism to store ip (status == BPF_STACK_BUILD_ID_IP). Changes v4 -> v5: 1. Only allow build_id lookup in non-nmi context. Added comment and commit message to highlight this limitation. 2. Minor fix reported by kbuild test robot. Changes v3 -> v4: 1. Add fallback when build_id lookup failed. In this case, status is set to BPF_STACK_BUILD_ID_IP, and ip of this entry is saved. 2. Handle cases where vma is only part of the file (vma->vm_pgoff != 0). Thanks to Teng for helping me identify this issue! 3. Address feedbacks for previous versions. ==================== Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.