From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
dwarves@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>,
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH dwarves] btf_encoder: Fix handling of percpu symbols on s390
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 09:54:26 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YWl6Au74co0UNMq2@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211012022637.399365-1-iii@linux.ibm.com>
Em Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 04:26:37AM +0200, Ilya Leoshkevich escreveu:
> pahole does not generate VARs for percpu symbols on s390. A percpu
> symbol definition on a typical x86_64 kernel looks like this:
>
> [33] .data..percpu PROGBITS 0000000000000000 01c00000
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ sh_addr
> LOAD 0x0000000001c00000 0x0000000000000000 0x000000000286f000
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ p_vaddr
> 13559: 000000000001ba50 4 OBJECT LOCAL DEFAULT 33 cpu_profile_flip
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ st_value
>
> Most importantly, .data..percpu's sh_addr is 0, and this is what pahole
> is currently assuming. However, on s390 this is different:
>
> [37] .data..percpu PROGBITS 00000000019cd000 018ce000
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ sh_addr
> LOAD 0x000000000136e000 0x000000000146d000 0x000000000146d000
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ p_vaddr
> 80377: 0000000001ba1440 4 OBJECT WEAK DEFAULT 37 cpu_profile_flip
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ st_value
>
> Fix by restructuring the code to always use section-relative offsets
> for symbols. Change the comment to focus on this invariant.
Thanks, applied.
- Arnaldo
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> btf_encoder.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/btf_encoder.c b/btf_encoder.c
> index c341f95..16e90c3 100644
> --- a/btf_encoder.c
> +++ b/btf_encoder.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ struct btf_encoder {
> raw_output,
> verbose,
> force,
> - gen_floats;
> + gen_floats,
> + is_rel;
> uint32_t array_index_id;
> struct {
> struct var_info vars[MAX_PERCPU_VAR_CNT];
> @@ -1104,6 +1105,13 @@ static int btf_encoder__collect_percpu_var(struct btf_encoder *encoder, GElf_Sym
> if (encoder->verbose)
> printf("Found per-CPU symbol '%s' at address 0x%" PRIx64 "\n", sym_name, addr);
>
> + /* Make sure addr is section-relative. For kernel modules (which are
> + * ET_REL files) this is already the case. For vmlinux (which is an
> + * ET_EXEC file) we need to subtract the section address.
> + */
> + if (!encoder->is_rel)
> + addr -= encoder->percpu.base_addr;
> +
> if (encoder->percpu.var_cnt == MAX_PERCPU_VAR_CNT) {
> fprintf(stderr, "Reached the limit of per-CPU variables: %d\n",
> MAX_PERCPU_VAR_CNT);
> @@ -1195,12 +1203,9 @@ static int btf_encoder__encode_cu_variables(struct btf_encoder *encoder, struct
> addr = var->ip.addr;
> dwarf_name = variable__name(var);
>
> - /* DWARF takes into account .data..percpu section offset
> - * within its segment, which for vmlinux is 0, but for kernel
> - * modules is >0. ELF symbols, on the other hand, don't take
> - * into account these offsets (as they are relative to the
> - * section start), so to match DWARF and ELF symbols we need
> - * to negate the section base address here.
> + /* Make sure addr is section-relative. DWARF, unlike ELF,
> + * always contains virtual symbol addresses, so subtract
> + * the section address unconditionally.
> */
> if (addr < encoder->percpu.base_addr || addr >= encoder->percpu.base_addr + encoder->percpu.sec_sz)
> continue;
> @@ -1322,6 +1327,8 @@ struct btf_encoder *btf_encoder__new(struct cu *cu, const char *detached_filenam
> goto out_delete;
> }
>
> + encoder->is_rel = ehdr.e_type == ET_REL;
> +
> switch (ehdr.e_ident[EI_DATA]) {
> case ELFDATA2LSB:
> btf__set_endianness(encoder->btf, BTF_LITTLE_ENDIAN);
> --
> 2.31.1
--
- Arnaldo
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2021-10-12 2:26 [PATCH dwarves] btf_encoder: Fix handling of percpu symbols on s390 Ilya Leoshkevich
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