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![]() On s390x the kernel text segment starts at address 0x0. When perf report reads kernel symbols from vmlinux file it adds an offset of 0x1000. For example see symbol set_reset_devices: [root@s8360047 linux-devel]# nm -A vmlinux| fgrep set_reset_devices vmlinux:0000000001379000 t set_reset_devices [root@s8360047 linux-devel]# [root@s8360047 linux-devel]# fgrep set_reset_devices /proc/kallsyms 0000000001379000 t set_reset_devices [root@s8360047 linux-devel]# The kernel symbol table and the vmlinux file have the same address for symbol set_reset_devices namely 1379000. When perf report reads this symbols it displays it with address symbol__new: set_reset_devices 0x137a000-0x137a018 There is a difference between perf report and vmlinux of 0x1000. The reason for the difference is at kernel symbol load time in function dso__load_sym(). The vmlinux file is investigated with its ELF header. Command readelf shows this: 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 0000000000000000 00001000 0000000000b0e0c2 0000000000000000 AX 0 0 128 This leads to an invalid calculation of the symbol start address, see file utit/symbol-elf.c line 974: /* Adjust symbol to map to file offset */ if (adjust_kernel_syms) sym.st_value -= shdr.sh_addr - shdr.sh_offset; With shdr.sh_addr set to 0x0 and shdr.sh_offset set to 0x1000 as read from the ELF .text section 0x1000 is added to the symbol address. I would like to fix this by introducing an archticture specific function named elf__needs_adjust_symbols(). This is the same approach as done by PowerPC. The function currently does not exist for s390x and the default weak one is used. The s390x specific one returns false when symsrc_init() is invoked for kernel symbols and results in variable adjust_kernel_syms being false. This omits the adjustment and the correct address is displayed (when symbol resolvement does not work). The s390x specific function returns false for kernel symbol adjustment and returns true for kernel modules, processes and shared libraries. Signed-off-by: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LPU-Reference: 20170713130252.6167-1-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. 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.