linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf probe: read DWARF files from the correct CU

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Date:   Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:41:58 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Georg Müller <georgmueller@....net>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        regressions@...ts.linux.dev,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf probe: read DWARF files from the correct CU

Em Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 10:20:00PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:57:45 -0300 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org> wrote:
> > Em Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 10:01:37PM +0200, Georg Müller escreveu:
> > > The problem is that die_get_decl_file() uses the wrong CU to search for
> > > the file. elfutils commit e1db5cdc9f has some good explanation for this:
> > > 
> > >     dwarf_decl_file uses dwarf_attr_integrate to get the DW_AT_decl_file
> > >     attribute. This means the attribute might come from a different DIE
> > >     in a different CU. If so, we need to use the CU associated with the
> > >     attribute, not the original DIE, to resolve the file name.
> > > 
> > > This patch uses the same source of information as elfutils: use attribute
> > > DW_AT_decl_file and use this CU to search for the file.
> > 
> > Thanks, applied to the perf-tools branch, that will be submitted for
> > Linux v6.5.
 
> Thanks Arnaldo and Georg,
 
> It sounds perfect reason why that happened. I didn't expect the case that
> the attribute comes from another CU...
 
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
 
Thanks, added it to the cset.

- Arnaldo