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Revision b93b0967826a4a00297dde1cbbda8df673c1689e authored by Wang Nan on 14 January 2015, 02:36:47 UTC, committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo on 16 January 2015, 20:49:29 UTC
Perf tool fails to unwind user stack if the event raises in a shared
object. This patch improves tests/dwarf-unwind.c to demonstrate the
problem by utilizing commonly used glibc function "bsearch". If perf is
not statically linked, the testcase will try to unwind a mixed call
trace.

By debugging libunwind I found that there is a bug in unwind-libunwind:
it always passes 0 as segbase to libunwind, cause libunwind unable to
locate debug_frame entry fir first level ip address (I add some more
debugging output into libunwind to make things clear):

               >_Uarm_dwarf_find_debug_frame: start_ip = 10be98, end_ip = 10c2a4
               >_Uarm_dwarf_find_debug_frame: found debug_frame table `/lib/libc-2.18.so': segbase=0x0, len=7, gp=0x0, table_data=0x449388
               >_Uarm_dwarf_search_unwind_table: call lookup:ip = b6cd3bcc, segbase = 0, rel_ip = b6cd3bcc
               >lookup: e->start_ip_offset = bcf18 (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
               >lookup: e->start_ip_offset = 6d314 (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
               >lookup: e->start_ip_offset = 33d0c (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
                ...
               >lookup: e->start_ip_offset = 15d0c (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
               >lookup: e->start_ip_offset = 15c40 (rel_ip = b6cd3bcc)
 >_Uarm_dwarf_search_unwind_table: IP b6cd3bcc inside range b6c12000-b6d4c000, but no explicit unwind info found
                >put_rs_cache: unmasking signals/interrupts and releasing lock
               >_Uarm_dwarf_step: returning -10
 >_Uarm_step: dwarf_step()=-10

This patch passes map->start as segbase to dwarf_find_debug_frame(), so
di will be initialized correctly.

In addition, dso and executable are different when setting segbase. This
patch first check whether the elf is executable, and pass segbase only
for shared object.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421203007-75799-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tip revision: b93b0967826a4a00297dde1cbbda8df673c1689e authored by Wang Nan on 14 January 2015, 02:36:47 UTC
perf test: Fix dwarf unwind using libunwind.
Tip revision: b93b096
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