On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 17:24 +0530, Hemant Kumar wrote:
PPC64 ELF ABI v2 has a Global entry point and a local entry point for the
functions. We need the Local entry point in order to probe these functions.
However, the DIE for these functions in debuginfo return the function.entrypc
which is same as the global entry point. The local entry point is not encoded
in the debuginfo of the ELFs.
BTW. Would it make sense to let GCC encode this in the DWARF output?
DWARF 4, 2.18 Entry Address says:
Any debugging information entry describing an entity that has a
range of code addresses, which includes compilation units,
module initialization, subroutines, ordinary blocks, try/catch
blocks, and the like, may have a DW_AT_entry_pc attribute to
indicate the first executable instruction within that range of
addresses. The value of the DW_AT_entry_pc attribute is a
relocated address. If no DW_AT_entry_pc attribute is present,
then the entry address is assumed to be the same as the value of
the DW_AT_low_pc attribute, if present; otherwise, the entry
address is unknown.
Which seems to describe the situation exactly. And would make elfutils
libdw dwarf_entrypc () do the right thing automagically (it will fall
back to low_pc as described) without needing any extra lookups through
symbol tables.
The offset to local entry point is however encoded in the st_other field of
these symbols in the symbol table. We need to use this field to adjust the
sym.st_value to actually point to the local entry point instead of the global
entry point.
This patch is in relation to this bug :
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17638
So, while adding symbols to the sym_table, we add an offset of
PPC64_LOCAL_ENTRY_OFFSET(sym.st_other) to st_value.
And when the function address is queried in query_dwarf_func(), we give priority
to the cached sym_table, where we can retrieve the adjusted entry address of the
function. If we don't get any address from the symbol table, then we proceed to
get from the debuginfo.
The function_entrypc () part looks good (see some small nitpicks below).
But I think the priority/fixup needs to be done the other way around
(see also below).
Signed-off-by: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
tapsets.cxx | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tapsets.cxx b/tapsets.cxx
index 85fd76b..d1382e4 100644
--- a/tapsets.cxx
+++ b/tapsets.cxx
@@ -2099,7 +2099,19 @@ query_dwarf_func (Dwarf_Die * func, dwarf_query * q)
q->dw.function_line (&func.decl_line);
Dwarf_Addr entrypc;
- if (q->dw.function_entrypc (&entrypc))
+ func.entrypc = 0;
+ /* Giving priority to sym_table */
+ if (q->dw.mod_info->sym_table)
+ {
+ func_info * fi;
+ fi = q->dw.mod_info->sym_table->lookup_symbol(func.name);
+ if (fi)
+ {
+ func.entrypc = fi->addr;
+ q->filtered_functions.push_back(func);
+ }
+ }
+ if (!func.entrypc && q->dw.function_entrypc (&entrypc))
{
func.entrypc = entrypc;
q->filtered_functions.push_back (func);
I think this should be the other way around. q->dw.function_entrypc ()
will normally do the right thing (and take DW_AT_entrypc into account,
which might be important for some cases, even if it isn't currently used
for the PPC64 ELF ABI v2 case). Then when you do get the func.entrypc
and func.name you look the name up in the symbol table and adjust it if
the entrypc matches the symbol value.
@@ -8154,6 +8166,26 @@ symbol_table::get_from_elf()
reject = reject_section(section);
#endif
+/*
+ * For ELF ABI v2 on PPC64 LE, we need to adjust sym.st_value corresponding
+ * to the bits of sym.st_other. These bits will tell us what's the offset
+ * of the local entry point from the global entry point.
+ */
+#if defined(_CALL_ELF) && _CALL_ELF == 2
This won't work correctly when stap is ran remotely on a different
architecture. That is not a very common situation, but I believe we do
want to support that. So you will just have to always inspect the Elf
ehdr.
+ Dwarf_Addr bias;
+ Elf* elf = (dwarf_getelf (dwfl_module_getdwarf (mod, &bias))
+ ?: dwfl_module_getelf (mod, &bias));
+
+ GElf_Ehdr ehdr_mem;
+ GElf_Ehdr* em = gelf_getehdr (elf, &ehdr_mem);
+ if (em == 0) { DWFL_ASSERT ("dwfl_getehdr", dwfl_errno()); }
+ assert(em);
+
+ if ((em->e_machine == EM_PPC64) && (GELF_ST_TYPE(sym.st_info) == STT_FUNC)
+ && sym.st_other)
+ addr = addr + PPC64_LOCAL_ENTRY_OFFSET(sym.st_other);
Here you also want to have a check for EF_PPC64_ABI in e_flags then.