perf symbol: Correct address for bss symbols
When using 'perf mem' and 'perf c2c', an issue is observed that tool reports the wrong offset for global data symbols. This is a common issue on both x86 and Arm64 platforms. Let's see an example, for a test program, below is the disassembly for its .bss section which is dumped with objdump: ... Disassembly of section .bss: 0000000000004040 <completed.0>: ... 0000000000004080 <buf1>: ... 00000000000040c0 <buf2>: ... 0000000000004100 <thread>: ... First we used 'perf mem record' to run the test program and then used 'perf --debug verbose=4 mem report' to observe what's the symbol info for 'buf1' and 'buf2' structures. # ./perf mem record -e ldlat-loads,ldlat-stores -- false_sharing.exe 8 # ./perf --debug verbose=4 mem report ... dso__load_sym_internal: adjusting symbol: st_value: 0x40c0 sh_addr: 0x4040 sh_offset: 0x3028 symbol__new: buf2 0x30a8-0x30e8 ... dso__load_sym_internal: adjusting symbol: st_value: 0x4080 sh_addr: 0x4040 sh_offset: 0x3028 symbol__new: buf1 0x3068-0x30a8 ... The perf tool relies on libelf to parse symbols, in executable and shared object files, 'st_value' holds a virtual address; 'sh_addr' is the address at which section's first byte should reside in memory, and 'sh_offset' is the byte offset from the beginning of the file to the first byte in the section. The perf tool uses below formula to convert a symbol's memory address to a file address: file_address = st_value - sh_addr + sh_offset ^ ` Memory address We can see the final adjusted address ranges for buf1 and buf2 are [0x30a8-0x30e8) and [0x3068-0x30a8) respectively, apparently this is incorrect, in the code, the structure for 'buf1' and 'buf2' specifies compiler attribute with 64-byte alignment. The problem happens for 'sh_offset', libelf returns it as 0x3028 which is not 64-byte aligned, combining with disassembly, it's likely libelf doesn't respect the alignment for .bss section, therefore, it doesn't return the aligned value for 'sh_offset'. Suggested by Fangrui Song, ELF file contains program header which contains PT_LOAD segments, the fields p_vaddr and p_offset in PT_LOAD segments contain the execution info. A better choice for converting memory address to file address is using the formula: file_address = st_value - p_vaddr + p_offset This patch introduces elf_read_program_header() which returns the program header based on the passed 'st_value', then it uses the formula above to calculate the symbol file address; and the debugging log is updated respectively. After applying the change: # ./perf --debug verbose=4 mem report ... dso__load_sym_internal: adjusting symbol: st_value: 0x40c0 p_vaddr: 0x3d28 p_offset: 0x2d28 symbol__new: buf2 0x30c0-0x3100 ... dso__load_sym_internal: adjusting symbol: st_value: 0x4080 p_vaddr: 0x3d28 p_offset: 0x2d28 symbol__new: buf1 0x3080-0x30c0 ... Fixes: f17e04af ("perf report: Fix ELF symbol parsing") Reported-by: Chang Rui <changruinj@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220724060013.171050-2-leo.yan@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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