[PATCH] Remove kretprobe_trampoline_holder.
Thiago Jung Bauermann
bauerman at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Mar 29 07:06:32 AEDT 2016
Fixes the following testsuite failure:
$ sudo ./perf test -v kallsyms
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 12489
Using /proc/kcore for kernel object code
Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
Using /boot/vmlinux for symbols
0xc00000000003d300: diff name v: .kretprobe_trampoline_holder k: kretprobe_trampoline
Maps only in vmlinux:
c00000000086ca38-c000000000879b6c 87ca38 [kernel].text.unlikely
c000000000879b6c-c000000000bf0000 889b6c [kernel].meminit.text
c000000000bf0000-c000000000c53264 c00000 [kernel].init.text
c000000000c53264-d000000004250000 c63264 [kernel].exit.text
d000000004250000-d000000004450000 0 [libcrc32c]
d000000004450000-d000000004620000 0 [xfs]
d000000004620000-d000000004680000 0 [autofs4]
d000000004680000-d0000000046e0000 0 [x_tables]
d0000000046e0000-d000000004780000 0 [ip_tables]
d000000004780000-d0000000047e0000 0 [rng_core]
d0000000047e0000-ffffffffffffffff 0 [pseries_rng]
Maps in vmlinux with a different name in kallsyms:
Maps only in kallsyms:
d000000000000000-f000000000000000 1000000000010000 [kernel.kallsyms]
f000000000000000-ffffffffffffffff 3000000000010000 [kernel.kallsyms]
test child finished with -1
---- end ----
vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: FAILED!
The problem is that the kretprobe_trampoline symbol looks like this:
$ eu-readelf -s /boot/vmlinux G kretprobe_trampoline
2431: c000000001302368 24 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 37 kretprobe_trampoline_holder
2432: c00000000003d300 8 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 1 .kretprobe_trampoline_holder
97543: c00000000003d300 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 kretprobe_trampoline
Its type is NOTYPE, and its size is 0, and this is a problem because
symbol-elf.c:dso__load_sym skips function symbols that are not STT_FUNC
or STT_GNU_IFUNC (this is determined by elf_sym__is_function). Even
if the type is changed to STT_FUNC, when dso__load_sym calls
symbols__fixup_duplicate, the kretprobe_trampoline symbol is dropped in
favour of .kretprobe_trampoline_holder because the latter has non-zero
size (as determined by choose_best_symbol).
With this patch, all vmlinux symbols match /proc/kallsyms and the
testcase passes.
Commit c1c355c gets rid of kretprobe_trampoline_holder altogether on
x86. This commit does the same on powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Notes:
With this patch, all ftrace startup tests still pass. There's one ftrace
testcase failure:
[4] Kprobe dynamic event with function tracer [FAIL]
execute:
/home/bauermann/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_ftrace.tc
+ .
/home/bauermann/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_ftrace.tc
++ '[' -f kprobe_events ']'
++ grep function available_tracers
blk function_graph wakeup_dl wakeup_rt wakeup function nop
++ echo nop
++ echo _do_fork
/home/bauermann/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_ftrace.tc:
line 9: echo: write error: Invalid argument
But even without my patch that testcase fails in the same way, so this
is not a problem introduced by the patch.
arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
index 7c053f2..417c0ea 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -278,12 +278,11 @@ no_kprobe:
* - When the probed function returns, this probe
* causes the handlers to fire
*/
-static void __used kretprobe_trampoline_holder(void)
-{
- asm volatile(".global kretprobe_trampoline\n"
- "kretprobe_trampoline:\n"
- "nop\n");
-}
+asm(".global kretprobe_trampoline\n"
+ ".type kretprobe_trampoline, @function\n"
+ "kretprobe_trampoline:\n"
+ "nop\n"
+ ".size kretprobe_trampoline, .-kretprobe_trampoline\n");
/*
* Called when the probe at kretprobe trampoline is hit
--
1.9.1
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