perf unwind: Fix looking up dwarf unwind stack info
authorMatija Glavinic Pecotic <matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com>
Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:50:35 +0000 (15:50 +0100)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:29:52 +0000 (12:29 -0300)
commit9343e45bf6cc4a05f6e271e9f8d06bc87875c604
treeb9009c84e437ddc3ca7850e1a96ad6750274a6d9
parent9f6f941e25bad8fcffc24d10762962d62edba767
perf unwind: Fix looking up dwarf unwind stack info

Using perf with call graph method dwarf fails to provide backtrace
support for stripped binary even though .gnu_debuglink points to *.dbg
flavor with properly populated debug symbols.

Problem is reproduced on ARM (v7, v8), kernels 3.14.y, 4.4.y and
4.10.rc3.  Perf is configured with libunwind, and unwind dwarf support
[1]. Test code (stress_bt.c) can be found on [2].

Running (explicitly disable other unwinding methods):

  $ gcc -g -o stress_bt -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-unwind-tables \
-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables stress_bt.c
  $ perf record -N --call-graph dwarf ./stress_bt
  $ perf report

results in properly generated call graph. Stripping the binary and running
it results with missing call graph. Expected result is to have call graph:

  $ gcc -g -o stress_bt -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-unwind-tables \
  -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables stress_bt.c
  $ objcopy --only-keep-debug stress_bt stress_bt.dbg
  $ objcopy --strip-debug stress_bt
  $ objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=stress_bt.dbg stress_bt
  $ perf record -N --call-graph dwarf ./stress_bt
  $ perf report

Problem is that perf doesn't try to read symbols pointed by gnu
debuglink.  Patch adds checking, and reading of the symbols from
debuglink and symsrc.  Order of the check is to first check within dso,
then check whether symsrc is defined and try to read from it. Finally,
debuglink is checked. Default locations of debug files are discussed in
[3] and [4]. Comments on RFC are on [5].

[1] https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/TOOLS/perf-callstack-unwinding
[2] [1]#Backtrace_stress_application
[3] https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Separate-Debug-Files.html
[4] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/binutils/objcopy.html
[5] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/22/473

Signed-off-by: Matija Glavinic Pecotic <matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d309d40a-463f-482b-68e1-1465326efdc1@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/dso.c
tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c