RE: Question: perf dso support for /proc/kallsyms

[Al Grant <Al.Grant@arm.com>]

> root@debian:~/coresight_test# perf buildid-list
> 0242d9154c78df1d8fe1d0512c36a236d0861a18 [kernel.kallsyms]
> b8c89e8ba41a2ea486c66a50c29c60d38c34a759 /root/coresight_test/main
> 26b12a9d1a54ed2b0478cb0203435b76aabab3fb /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-
> 2.27.so
> 8fca7ed524c9469b065af83bc8a529fe72858f53 [vdso]
> 25829a59e21012cfde7850b30a310cd3a58f531c
> /root/coresight_test/libcstest.so
> 70512527439ef76c8802a7a2a546bde6a5a6e967 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-
> gnu/libc-2.27.so
> root@debian:~/coresight_test# ls
> ~/.debug/\[kernel.kallsyms\]/0242d9154c78df1d8fe1d0512c36a236d0861a18/
> kallsyms

What's in that last file? I've seen it happen that the copy of kallsyms
in ~/.debug has the symbol addresses as zeroes - possibly because it
was created when you didn't have permissions. That's really a bug
in perf, as cacheing a copy of this file with the addresses zeroed out
is kind of pointless. Again, this happens on Intel too.

Then, you can give yourself permissions - but perf's already cached
the file and won't update it!

If you delete it, and then rerun perf record (either as sudo or now
that you've got kptr_restrict=0) you should see it reappear, with
correct kernel addresses.

Perhaps nobody spotted this on Intel because perf report goes directly
to /proc/kallsyms. But it would be an issue if you ran a perf report
on a perf.data from an older kernel and it had to go to ~/.debug.
At that point the fact that ~/.debug/[kernel.kallsyms] had zeroes would
mean you couldn't symbolicate any addresses.

Al



>
> > Does it all work if you run perf record as sudo? Or if you do
> >
> >    sudo sysctl kernel.kptr_restrict=0
> >
> > before you run perf record?
>
> Yes, tested this on Juno board with Debian rootFS and logined in with 'root' user.
> I suspected the pointer permission issue so checked with below command:
>
> root@debian:~/coresight_test# cat /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
> 0
>
> Thanks,
> Leo Yan
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