[RFC PATCH 2/8] perf probe powerpc: Fix symbol fixup issues due to ELF type

[Naveen N. Rao]

On 2014/12/10 08:50PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 23:04 +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> > If using the symbol table, symbol addresses are not being fixed up
> > properly, resulting in probes being placed at wrong addresses:
> > 
> >   # perf probe do_fork
> >   Added new event:
> >     probe:do_fork        (on do_fork)
> > 
> >   You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
> > 
> > 	  perf record -e probe:do_fork -aR sleep 1
> > 
> >   # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
> >   p:probe/do_fork _text+635952
> >   # printf "%x" 635952
> >   9b430
> >   # grep do_fork /boot/System.map
> >   c0000000000ab430 T .do_fork
> 
> OK, but why is that happening? And why does checking for ET_DYN fix it?

The section header indicates 0x10000 as the offset:

Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name              Type             Address           Offset
       Size              EntSize          Flags  Link  Info  Align
  [ 0]                   NULL             0000000000000000  00000000
       0000000000000000  0000000000000000           0     0     0
  [ 1] .text             PROGBITS         c000000000000000  00010000
       0000000000806678  0000000000000000  AX       0     0     256

This is used during fixup and perf only expects this to be needed for
ET_EXEC, though we use ET_DYN on ppc64.

> > Fix by checking for ELF type ET_DYN used by ppc64 kernels.
> 
> We sometimes produce ET_DYN kernels, but only if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.

Ok.

- Naveen