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Sandipan Das 354b064b8e perf probe powerpc: Fix trace event post-processing
In some cases, a symbol may have multiple aliases. Attempting to add an
entry probe for such symbols results in a probe being added at an
incorrect location while it fails altogether for return probes. This is
only applicable for binaries with debug information.

During the arch-dependent post-processing, the offset from the start of
the symbol at which the probe is to be attached is determined and added
to the start address of the symbol to get the probe's location.  In case
there are multiple aliases, this offset gets added multiple times for
each alias of the symbol and we end up with an incorrect probe location.

This can be verified on a powerpc64le system as shown below.

  $ nm /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/vmlinux | grep "sys_open$"
  ...
  c000000000414290 T __se_sys_open
  c000000000414290 T sys_open

  $ objdump -d /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/vmlinux | grep -A 10 "<__se_sys_open>:"

  c000000000414290 <__se_sys_open>:
  c000000000414290:       19 01 4c 3c     addis   r2,r12,281
  c000000000414294:       70 c4 42 38     addi    r2,r2,-15248
  c000000000414298:       a6 02 08 7c     mflr    r0
  c00000000041429c:       e8 ff a1 fb     std     r29,-24(r1)
  c0000000004142a0:       f0 ff c1 fb     std     r30,-16(r1)
  c0000000004142a4:       f8 ff e1 fb     std     r31,-8(r1)
  c0000000004142a8:       10 00 01 f8     std     r0,16(r1)
  c0000000004142ac:       c1 ff 21 f8     stdu    r1,-64(r1)
  c0000000004142b0:       78 23 9f 7c     mr      r31,r4
  c0000000004142b4:       78 1b 7e 7c     mr      r30,r3

  For both the entry probe and the return probe, the probe location
  should be _text+4276888 (0xc000000000414298). Since another alias
  exists for 'sys_open', the post-processing code will end up adding
  the offset (8 for powerpc64le) twice and perf will attempt to add
  the probe at _text+4276896 (0xc0000000004142a0) instead.

Before:

  # perf probe -v -a sys_open

  probe-definition(0): sys_open
  symbol:sys_open file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null)
  0 arguments
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /lib/modules/4.18.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux for symbols
  Open Debuginfo file: /lib/modules/4.18.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux
  Try to find probe point from debuginfo.
  Symbol sys_open address found : c000000000414290
  Matched function: __se_sys_open [2ad03a0]
  Probe point found: __se_sys_open+0
  Found 1 probe_trace_events.
  Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events write=1
  Writing event: p:probe/sys_open _text+4276896
  Added new event:
    probe:sys_open       (on sys_open)
  ...

  # perf probe -v -a sys_open%return $retval

  probe-definition(0): sys_open%return
  symbol:sys_open file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:1 lazy:(null)
  0 arguments
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /lib/modules/4.18.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux for symbols
  Open Debuginfo file: /lib/modules/4.18.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux
  Try to find probe point from debuginfo.
  Symbol sys_open address found : c000000000414290
  Matched function: __se_sys_open [2ad03a0]
  Probe point found: __se_sys_open+0
  Found 1 probe_trace_events.
  Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/README write=0
  Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events write=1
  Parsing probe_events: p:probe/sys_open _text+4276896
  Group:probe Event:sys_open probe:p
  Writing event: r:probe/sys_open__return _text+4276896
  Failed to write event: Invalid argument
    Error: Failed to add events. Reason: Invalid argument (Code: -22)

After:

  # perf probe -v -a sys_open

  probe-definition(0): sys_open
  symbol:sys_open file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null)
  0 arguments
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /lib/modules/4.18.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux for symbols
  Open Debuginfo file: /lib/modules/4.18.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux
  Try to find probe point from debuginfo.
  Symbol sys_open address found : c000000000414290
  Matched function: __se_sys_open [2ad03a0]
  Probe point found: __se_sys_open+0
  Found 1 probe_trace_events.
  Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events write=1
  Writing event: p:probe/sys_open _text+4276888
  Added new event:
    probe:sys_open       (on sys_open)
  ...

  # perf probe -v -a sys_open%return $retval

  probe-definition(0): sys_open%return
  symbol:sys_open file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:1 lazy:(null)
  0 arguments
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /lib/modules/4.18.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux for symbols
  Open Debuginfo file: /lib/modules/4.18.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux
  Try to find probe point from debuginfo.
  Symbol sys_open address found : c000000000414290
  Matched function: __se_sys_open [2ad03a0]
  Probe point found: __se_sys_open+0
  Found 1 probe_trace_events.
  Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/README write=0
  Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events write=1
  Parsing probe_events: p:probe/sys_open _text+4276888
  Group:probe Event:sys_open probe:p
  Writing event: r:probe/sys_open__return _text+4276888
  Added new event:
    probe:sys_open__return (on sys_open%return)
  ...

Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 99e608b595 ("perf probe ppc64le: Fix probe location when using DWARF")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180809161929.35058-1-sandipan@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.