We'll use location in the DWARF sense, i.e. location lists, etc, i.e.
where is this variable? In a register? The stack? etc.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As Thomas Gleixner wisely pointed out, using 'self' is stupid, it
doesn't convey useful information, so use sensible names.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
C++ is not properly supported in CTF anyway... And this was
causing a bug, so don't encode DW_TAG_inheritance entries.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
That can happen, for instance, when the symtabs are NOBITS. When that
happened we ended up in an infinite loop. Call it earlier and check the
result.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Next we'll add a new kind of tag, DW_TAG_perf_counter, that will come
from perf.data generated by 'perf report'.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There is still the problem of handing the strings table to the CTF encoder, but
that will be fixed another day.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Temporary hack till I figure out how to do more filtering on the variables on
the symtab that aren't in the DWARF info.
Problem is that if we don't put something on the table at encode time, we won't
find it at decode time, when we don't have DWARF to notice that its not there
because its not in DWARF.
We then discard it at load time, as "void foo;" doesn't make sense.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Temporary hack till I figure out how to do more filtering on the functions on
the symtab that aren't in the DWARF info.
Problem is that if we don't put something on the table at encode time, we won't
find it at decode time, when we don't have DWARF to notice that its not there
because its not in DWARF.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Encoding all the non UNDEF OBJECT entries in the symtab. Some must be filtered
in upcoming patches, but for at least kernel/sched.o it works just fine.
To test it I used DaveM's ctfdump and also pdwtags on a --strip-debug, pahole
-Z CTF encoded object.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We need it to be able to call cu__for_each_cached_symtab_entry more
than once in the same function.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Finally we can use the Elf file already opened in dwarf_load, call
cu__for_each_cached_symtab_entry to iterate over the symtab entries,
this iterator will first call dwfl_module_getsymtab, that will do the
relocation that will allow us to go from the symtab address to the one
in the DWARF DW_TAG_subprogram tag DW_AT_low_pc attribute.
And voila, for a relatively complex single unit Linux kernel object
file, kernel/sched.o, we go from:
Just DWARF (gcc -g):
$ ls -la kernel/sched.o
1979011 kernel/sched.o
Then we run this to encode the CTF section:
$ pahole -Z kernel/sched.o
And get a file with both DWARF and CTF ELF sections:
$ ls -la kernel/sched.o
2019848 kernel/sched.o
We still need to encode the "OBJECTS", i.e. variables, but this
gets us from 1979011 (just DWARF) to:
$ strip--strip-debug kernel/sched.o
$ ls -la kernel/sched.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 acme acme 507008 2009-03-30 23:01 kernel/sched.o
25% of the original size.
Of course we don't have inline expansion information, parameter names,
goto labels, etc, but should be good enough for most use cases.
See, without DWARF data, if we ask for it to use DWARF, nothing will be
printed, if we don't speficy the format, it will try first DWARF, it
will not find anything, it will try CTF:
$ pahole -F dwarf kernel/sched.o
$ pahole -C seq_operations kernel/sched.o
struct seq_operations {
void * (*start)(struct seq_file *, loff_t *); /* 0 8 */
void (*stop)(struct seq_file *, void *); /* 8 8 */
void * (*next)(struct seq_file *, void *, loff_t *); /* 16 8 */
int (*show)(struct seq_file *, void *); /* 24 8 */
/* size: 32, cachelines: 1, members: 4 */
/* last cacheline: 32 bytes */
};
$ $ pfunct -Vi -f schedule kernel/sched.o
void schedule(void);
{ /* low_pc=0xe01 */
}/* size: 83 */
$
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Moving more CTF only stuff out of the dwarves land and into something that can
be more easily stolen by other projects not interested in funny named stuff
such as pahole.
This also will help with encoding, as we will normally be recoding data from
DWARF, so the ELF file will be available and we will just add a new section to
it.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
"pahole -Z foo" will create foo.SUNW_ctf, that if objcopy
--add-section'ed to the right word-sized object will work, sans VARARGS,
that will get fixed soon (as in, probably, tomorrow).
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cody P Schafer