linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] perf tools: Tidy up symbol end fixup (v3)

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Date:   Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:59:03 -0700
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To:     Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Michael Petlan <mpetlan@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] perf tools: Tidy up symbol end fixup (v3)

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 5:40 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This work is a follow-up of Ian's previous one at
>   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220412154817.2728324-1-irogers@google.com/
>
> Fixing up more symbol ends as introduced in:
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220317135536.805-1-mpetlan@redhat.com/
>
> it caused perf annotate to run into memory limits - every symbol holds
> all the disassembled code in the annotation, and so making symbols
> ends further away dramatically increased memory usage (40MB to >1GB).
>
> Modify the symbol end fixup logic so that special kernel cases aren't
> applied in the common case.
>
> v3 changes)
>  * rename is_kernel to is_kallsyms
>  * move the logic to generic function
>  * remove arch-specific functions
>
> Thanks,
> Namhyung

Thanks Namhyung! The series:

Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>

> Namhyung Kim (3):
>   perf symbol: Pass is_kallsyms to symbols__fixup_end()
>   perf symbol: Update symbols__fixup_end()
>   perf symbol: Remove arch__symbols__fixup_end()
>
>  tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/machine.c   | 21 ---------------
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build     |  1 -
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/machine.c | 25 -----------------
>  tools/perf/arch/s390/util/machine.c    | 16 -----------
>  tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c           |  2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.c               | 37 +++++++++++++++++++-------
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.h               |  3 +--
>  7 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/machine.c
>
>
> base-commit: 41204da4c16071be9090940b18f566832d46becc
> --
> 2.36.0.rc0.470.gd361397f0d-goog
>