linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf unwind: Do not fail due to missing unwind support

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Date:   Tue,  4 Jul 2017 15:11:31 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     Hekuang <hekuang@...wei.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf unwind: Do not fail due to missing unwind support

We currently fail the MMAP event processing if we don't have
the MMAP event's specific arch unwind support compiled in.

That's wrong and can lead to unresolved mmaps in report
output for 32bit binaries on 64bit server, like in this
example on x86_64 server:

  $ cat ex.c
  int main(int argc, char **argv)
  {
          while (1) {}
  }
  $ gcc -o ex -m32 ex.c
  $ perf record ./ex
  ^C[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.371 MB perf.data (9322 samples) ]

Before:
  $ perf report --stdio

  SNIP

  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
  # ........  .......  ................  ......................
  #
     100.00%  ex       [unknown]         [.] 0x00000000080483de
       0.00%  ex       [unknown]         [.] 0x00000000f76dba4f
       0.00%  ex       [unknown]         [.] 0x00000000f76e4c11
       0.00%  ex       [unknown]         [.] 0x00000000f76daa30

After:
  $ perf report --stdio

  SNIP

  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object  Symbol
  # ........  .......  .............  ...............
  #
     100.00%  ex       ex             [.] main
       0.00%  ex       ld-2.24.so     [.] _dl_start
       0.00%  ex       ld-2.24.so     [.] do_lookup_x
       0.00%  ex       ld-2.24.so     [.] _start

The fix is not to fail, just warn if there's not unwind
support compiled in.

Cc: Hekuang <hekuang@...wei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cm8sdv60vroypck9n65rsmo4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
---
 tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c
index 6d542a4e0648..8aef572d0889 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ int unwind__prepare_access(struct thread *thread, struct map *map,
 
 	if (!ops) {
 		pr_err("unwind: target platform=%s is not supported\n", arch);
-		return -1;
+		return 0;
 	}
 out_register:
 	unwind__register_ops(thread, ops);
-- 
2.9.4