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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 20:48:48 +0000
From: Song Liu <songliubraving@...a.com>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tracing/kprobes: Use APIs that matches symbols
without .XXX suffix
> On Aug 7, 2024, at 8:33 AM, Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 3:08 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 00:19:20 +0000
>> Song Liu <songliubraving@...a.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Do you mean we do not want patch 3/3, but would like to keep 1/3 and part
>>> of 2/3 (remove the _without_suffix APIs)? If this is the case, we are
>>> undoing the change by Sami in [1], and thus may break some tracing tools.
>>
>> What tracing tools may be broke and why?
>
> This was a few years ago when we were first adding LTO support, but
> the unexpected suffixes in tracing output broke systrace in Android,
> presumably because the tools expected to find specific function names
> without suffixes. I'm not sure if systrace would still be a problem
> today, but other tools might still make assumptions about the function
> name format. At the time, we decided to filter out the suffixes in all
> user space visible output to avoid these issues.
>
>> For this suffix problem, I would like to add another patch to allow probing on
>> suffixed symbols. (It seems suffixed symbols are not available at this point)
>>
>> The problem is that the suffixed symbols maybe a "part" of the original function,
>> thus user has to carefully use it.
>>
>>>
>>> Sami, could you please share your thoughts on this?
>>
>> Sami, I would like to know what problem you have on kprobes.
>
> The reports we received back then were about registering kprobes for
> static functions, which obviously failed if the compiler added a
> suffix to the function name. This was more of a problem with ThinLTO
> and Clang CFI at the time because the compiler used to rename _all_
> static functions, but one can obviously run into the same issue with
> just LTO.
I think newer LLVM/clang no longer add suffixes to all static functions
with LTO and CFI. So this may not be a real issue any more?
If we still need to allow tracing without suffix, I think the approach
in this patch set is correct (sort syms based on full name, remove
suffixes in special APIs during lookup).
Thanks,
Song
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