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| author | Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> | 2022-07-24 14:00:13 +0800 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2022-07-27 11:17:50 -0300 |
| commit | 882528d2e77687c3ef26abb9c490f77a9c1f6e1a (patch) | |
| tree | 6b02b93266429559cb90d58b922268cf192f831b /tools/perf | |
| parent | 2d86612aacb7805f72873691a2644d7279ed0630 (diff) | |
perf symbol: Skip symbols if SHF_ALLOC flag is not set
Some symbols are observed with the 'st_value' field zeroed. E.g.
libc.so.6 in Ubuntu contains a symbol '__evoke_link_warning_getwd' which
resides in the '.gnu.warning.getwd' section.
Unlike normal sections, such kind of sections are used for linker
warning when a file calls deprecated functions, but they are not part of
memory images, the symbols in these sections should be dropped.
This patch checks the section attribute SHF_ALLOC bit, if the bit is not
set, it skips symbols to avoid spurious ones.
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chang Rui <changruinj@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220724060013.171050-3-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c index ef6ced5c5746..b3be5b1d9dbb 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c @@ -1255,6 +1255,17 @@ dso__load_sym_internal(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, struct symsrc *syms_ss, gelf_getshdr(sec, &shdr); + /* + * If the attribute bit SHF_ALLOC is not set, the section + * doesn't occupy memory during process execution. + * E.g. ".gnu.warning.*" section is used by linker to generate + * warnings when calling deprecated functions, the symbols in + * the section aren't loaded to memory during process execution, + * so skip them. + */ + if (!(shdr.sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC)) + continue; + secstrs = secstrs_sym; /* |