Commit 68566a7c authored by Adrian Hunter's avatar Adrian Hunter Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix dso_id inode generation comparison

Synthesized MMAP events have zero ino_generation, so do not compare
them to DSOs with a real ino_generation otherwise we end up with a DSO
without a build id.

Fixes: 0e3149f8 ("perf dso: Move dso_id from 'struct map' to 'struct dso'")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220711093218.10967-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
[ Added clarification to the comment from Ian + more detailed explanation from Adrian ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent a6bd98c4
......@@ -23,8 +23,19 @@ static int __dso_id__cmp(struct dso_id *a, struct dso_id *b)
if (a->ino > b->ino) return -1;
if (a->ino < b->ino) return 1;
if (a->ino_generation > b->ino_generation) return -1;
if (a->ino_generation < b->ino_generation) return 1;
/*
* Synthesized MMAP events have zero ino_generation, avoid comparing
* them with MMAP events with actual ino_generation.
*
* I found it harmful because the mismatch resulted in a new
* dso that did not have a build ID whereas the original dso did have a
* build ID. The build ID was essential because the object was not found
* otherwise. - Adrian
*/
if (a->ino_generation && b->ino_generation) {
if (a->ino_generation > b->ino_generation) return -1;
if (a->ino_generation < b->ino_generation) return 1;
}
return 0;
}
......
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