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Message-ID: <e3e57e5e-70dc-420c-9f98-2278c2505979@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 01:05:56 +0530
From: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@...cle.com>
To: Rong Xu <xur@...gle.com>, Han Shen <shenhan@...gle.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [Query] Generating profile for propeller fails
Hi Rong and Han,
Thanks for your work on auofdo and propeller.
I was trying autofdo and propeller with the latest 6.17-rc4 linux kernel.
I have built the kernel rpm with LLVM=1 and I have installed LLVM from
latest source from the git. (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git
93c2eecda521049ca6334830a69fdff54967b440)
# grep -e "AUTOFDO" /boot/config-6.17.0-rc4
CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AUTOFDO_CLANG=y
CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG=y
# grep -e "PROPELLER" /boot/config-6.17.0-rc4
CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_PROPELLER_CLANG=y
CONFIG_PROPELLER_CLANG=y
# uname -a
Linux hamogala-vm-1 6.17.0-rc4 #17 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Sep 8
07:49:54 GMT 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Collected the profile using:
# perf record --pfm-events BR_INST_RETIRED.NEAR_TAKEN:k -a -N -b -c
500009 -o rc4-propeller-intel.data -- load.sh
# dmesg | grep -i lbr
[ 0.289671] Performance Events: PEBS fmt4+-baseline, AnyThread
deprecated, Icelake events, 32-deep LBR, full-width counters, Intel PMU
driver.
Now when I copy this perf data to the other machine where I compiled my
kernel and tried to create a profile with create_llvm_prof tool from the
latest autofdo project like this:
# time ./create_llvm_prof --binary=vmlinux
--profile=rc4-propeller-intel.data --format=propeller
--propeller_output_module_name --out=prop_cc_profile.txt
--propeller_symorder=prop_ld_profile.txt
I run into this error: ( Note the kernel is autofdo trained kernel yet,
but I am trying propeller directly:)
W20250908 19:18:38.009934 2251492
llvm_propeller_perf_lbr_aggregator.cc:103] not a
potentially-control-flow-affecting instruction at address:
0xffffffff8184d60a with counter sum 2090, instruction name: NOOP
I20250908 19:18:38.013391 2251492
llvm_propeller_binary_address_mapper.cc:463] Started reading the binary
content from: vmlinux
E20250908 19:18:38.115377 2251492 create_llvm_prof.cc:238] INTERNAL:
Failed to read the LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP section from vmlinux: unable to read
SHT_LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP section with index 59: unsupported
SHT_LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP version: 3.
Any suggestions/thoughts on why this could happen ?
Thanks,
Harshit
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