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Using perf with call graph method dwarf fails to provide backtrace support for stripped binary even though .gnu_debuglink points to *.dbg flavor with properly populated debug symbols. Problem is reproduced on ARM (v7, v8), kernels 3.14.y, 4.4.y and 4.10.rc3. Perf is configured with libunwind, and unwind dwarf support [1]. Test code (stress_bt.c) can be found on [2]. Running (explicitly disable other unwinding methods): $ gcc -g -o stress_bt -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-unwind-tables \ -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables stress_bt.c $ perf record -N --call-graph dwarf ./stress_bt $ perf report results in properly generated call graph. Stripping the binary and running it results with missing call graph. Expected result is to have call graph: $ gcc -g -o stress_bt -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-unwind-tables \ -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables stress_bt.c $ objcopy --only-keep-debug stress_bt stress_bt.dbg $ objcopy --strip-debug stress_bt $ objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=stress_bt.dbg stress_bt $ perf record -N --call-graph dwarf ./stress_bt $ perf report Problem is that perf doesn't try to read symbols pointed by gnu debuglink. Patch adds checking, and reading of the symbols from debuglink and symsrc. Order of the check is to first check within dso, then check whether symsrc is defined and try to read from it. Finally, debuglink is checked. Default locations of debug files are discussed in [3] and [4]. Comments on RFC are on [5]. [1] https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/TOOLS/perf-callstack-unwinding [2] [1]#Backtrace_stress_application [3] https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Separate-Debug-Files.html [4] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/binutils/objcopy.html [5] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/22/473 Signed-off-by: Matija Glavinic Pecotic <matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d309d40a-463f-482b-68e1-1465326efdc1@nokia.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
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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.