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Message-Id: <20160426234547.034adc8688d4da3cd965ea1a@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 23:45:47 +0900
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, acme@...nel.org,
peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, mhiramat@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf probe: Fix module probe issue if no dwarf
support
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:55:40 +0530
Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Perf is not able to register probe in kernel module when dwarf supprt
> is not there(and so it goes for symtab). Perf passes full path of
> module where only module name is required which is causing the problem.
> This patch fixes this issue.
>
> Before applying patch:
>
> $ dpkg -s libdw-dev
> dpkg-query: package 'libdw-dev' is not installed and no information is...
>
> $ sudo ./perf probe -m /linux/samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.ko kprobe_init
> Added new event:
> probe:kprobe_init (on kprobe_init in /linux/samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.ko)
>
> You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
>
> perf record -e probe:kprobe_init -aR sleep 1
>
> $ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
> p:probe/kprobe_init /linux/samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.ko:kprobe_init
>
> $ sudo ./perf record -a -e probe:kprobe_init
> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.105 MB perf.data ]
>
> $ sudo ./perf script # No output here
>
> After applying patch:
>
> $ sudo ./perf probe -m /linux/samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.ko kprobe_init
> Added new event:
> probe:kprobe_init (on kprobe_init in kprobe_example)
>
> You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
>
> perf record -e probe:kprobe_init -aR sleep 1
>
> $ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
> p:probe/kprobe_init kprobe_example:kprobe_init
>
> $ sudo ./perf record -a -e probe:kprobe_init
> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.105 MB perf.data (2 samples) ]
>
> $ sudo ./perf script
> insmod 13990 [002] 5961.216833: probe:kprobe_init: ...
> insmod 13995 [002] 5962.889384: probe:kprobe_init: ...
>
Looks good to me!
Thanks for updating.
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Thank you!
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
> index 8319fbb..d58de20 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
> @@ -265,6 +265,65 @@ static bool kprobe_warn_out_range(const char *symbol, unsigned long address)
> return true;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * NOTE:
> + * '.gnu.linkonce.this_module' section of kernel module elf directly
> + * maps to 'struct module' from linux/module.h. This section contains
> + * actual module name which will be used by kernel after loading it.
> + * But, we cannot use 'struct module' here since linux/module.h is not
> + * exposed to user-space. Offset of 'name' has remained same from long
> + * time, so hardcoding it here.
> + */
> +#ifdef __LP64__
> +#define MOD_NAME_OFFSET 24
> +#else
> +#define MOD_NAME_OFFSET 12
> +#endif
> +
> +/*
> + * @module can be module name of module file path. In case of path,
> + * inspect elf and find out what is actual module name.
> + * Caller has to free mod_name after using it.
> + */
> +static char *find_module_name(const char *module)
> +{
> + int fd;
> + Elf *elf;
> + GElf_Ehdr ehdr;
> + GElf_Shdr shdr;
> + Elf_Data *data;
> + Elf_Scn *sec;
> + char *mod_name = NULL;
> +
> + fd = open(module, O_RDONLY);
> + if (fd < 0)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + elf = elf_begin(fd, PERF_ELF_C_READ_MMAP, NULL);
> + if (elf == NULL)
> + goto elf_err;
> +
> + if (gelf_getehdr(elf, &ehdr) == NULL)
> + goto ret_err;
> +
> + sec = elf_section_by_name(elf, &ehdr, &shdr,
> + ".gnu.linkonce.this_module", NULL);
> + if (!sec)
> + goto ret_err;
> +
> + data = elf_getdata(sec, NULL);
> + if (!data || !data->d_buf)
> + goto ret_err;
> +
> + mod_name = strdup((char *)data->d_buf + MOD_NAME_OFFSET);
> +
> +ret_err:
> + elf_end(elf);
> +elf_err:
> + close(fd);
> + return mod_name;
> +}
> +
> #ifdef HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT
>
> static int kernel_get_module_dso(const char *module, struct dso **pdso)
> @@ -2516,6 +2575,7 @@ static int find_probe_trace_events_from_map(struct perf_probe_event *pev,
> struct probe_trace_point *tp;
> int num_matched_functions;
> int ret, i, j, skipped = 0;
> + char *mod_name;
>
> map = get_target_map(pev->target, pev->uprobes);
> if (!map) {
> @@ -2600,9 +2660,19 @@ static int find_probe_trace_events_from_map(struct perf_probe_event *pev,
> tp->realname = strdup_or_goto(sym->name, nomem_out);
>
> tp->retprobe = pp->retprobe;
> - if (pev->target)
> - tev->point.module = strdup_or_goto(pev->target,
> - nomem_out);
> + if (pev->target) {
> + if (pev->uprobes) {
> + tev->point.module = strdup_or_goto(pev->target,
> + nomem_out);
> + } else {
> + mod_name = find_module_name(pev->target);
> + tev->point.module =
> + strdup(mod_name ? mod_name : pev->target);
> + free(mod_name);
> + if (!tev->point.module)
> + goto nomem_out;
> + }
> + }
> tev->uprobes = pev->uprobes;
> tev->nargs = pev->nargs;
> if (tev->nargs) {
> --
> 1.9.1
>
--
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
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