Commit 257623ea authored by Jiri Olsa's avatar Jiri Olsa Committed by Khalid Elmously

perf tests: Use arch__compare_symbol_names to compare symbols

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1775771

[ Upstream commit ab6e9a99 ]

The symbol search called by machine__find_kernel_symbol_by_name is using
internally arch__compare_symbol_names function to compare 2 symbol
names, because different archs have different ways of comparing symbols.
Mostly for skipping '.' prefixes and similar.

In test 1 when we try to find matching symbols in kallsyms and vmlinux,
by address and by symbol name. When either is found we compare the pair
symbol names  by simple strcmp, which is not good enough for reasons
explained in previous paragraph.

On powerpc this can cause lockup, because even thought we found the
pair, the compared names are different and don't match simple strcmp.
Following code path is executed, that leads to lockup:

   - we find the pair in kallsyms by sym->start
next_pair:
   - we compare the names and it fails
   - we find the pair by sym->name
   - the pair addresses match so we call goto next_pair
     because we assume the names match in this case
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fixes: 031b84c4 ("perf probe ppc: Enable matching against dot symbols automatically")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180215122635.24029-10-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKhalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
parent ab0d91ad
......@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ int test__vmlinux_matches_kallsyms(void)
if (pair && UM(pair->start) == mem_start) {
next_pair:
if (strcmp(sym->name, pair->name) == 0) {
if (arch__compare_symbol_names(sym->name, pair->name) == 0) {
/*
* kallsyms don't have the symbol end, so we
* set that by using the next symbol start - 1,
......
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