To find members that are pointers to the specified class:
[acme@tab pahole]$ pahole -f sock /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-49.fc8/vmlinux
tcp_iter_state: syn_wait_sk
ip_ra_chain: sk
netlink_set_err_data: exclude_sk
netlink_broadcast_data: exclude_sk
cn_dev: nls
cn_callback_entry: nls
cn_queue_dev: nls
sk_security_struct: sk
unix_sock: peer
unix_sock: other
request_sock: sk
mqueue_inode_info: notify_sock
sock_iocb: sk
socket: sk
sk_buff: sk
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So that we can expand pointer types, useful for ABI signature checking. And to
fully browse a type, when using --expand_types is also of interest.
I have yet to disable printing the offsets when expanding pointers, where the
information is not useful at all, for now just ignore it, it gets back to a
sane state in the next field, after the pointer type expansion.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
For now it just suppresses the struct statistics at the end of the output, but
will also suppress the comments about holes.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
To indicate wheter the semicolon should be supressed. Useful for
prototype/function emission, etc.
Also move the struct stats to be inside its body, to simplify tag__fprintf,
that now looks at conf.no_semicolon after calling the tag type specific
__fprintf method.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
So that tools can specify if they are interested in printing just the members
that use space in the class layout (DW_TAG_inheritance, DW_TAG_member) and not
things like constructors, private type definitions, etc.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
C++ uses this, and to cache the result of the lookup at type__name time we need
to pass the cu to class__name and type__name. Big fallout because of that :-\
But now the output is mucho embelished by the humongous strings representing
C++ templates.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Using it in the --dwarf_offset/-O new pahole command line option, useful in
debugging. Prints the tag in the dwarf offset supplied.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
For now its just the direct ancestor of struct type. But it will exists by
itself, to represent the DW_TAG_namespace DWARF tag, that is how the C++
'namespace' (and other languages too, heck, I'd love to get my hands on a
binary with DWARF info built from, say, ADA source code, objectiveC... COBOL!
:-P).
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
This is in preparation for the introduction of struct namespace, that will be
struct type ancestor.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
For now only affects the --contains output.
Example showing the structs that include struct list_head in a linux kernel module:
[acme@filo pahole]$ pahole --recursive --contains list_head examples/ipv6.ko.debug.x86-64
inet_protosw
proto
sock_iocb
key_type
msg_queue
msg_msg
nf_hook_ops
softnet_data
net_device
softnet_data
dma_device
dma_client
dma_chan
class_device
net_device
softnet_data
dma_chan
class
klist_node
device_driver
device
klist
device_driver
bus_type
device
file_system_type
nfs_lock_info
file_lock
block_device
address_space
inode
dquot
mem_dqinfo
super_block
inode
signal_struct
page
kioctx
file
kiocb
work_struct
delayed_work
kioctx
timer_list
ifmcaddr6
inet6_dev
inet6_ifaddr
neigh_table
neighbour
net_device
softnet_data
sock
inet_sock
delayed_work
kioctx
plist_head
task_struct
sigpending
signal_struct
task_struct
user_struct
device
dev_pm_info
device
mutex_waiter
mutex
seq_file
block_device
quota_info
super_block
dquot
super_block
inode
zone
per_cpu_pages
free_area
kset
bus_type
subsystem
class
bus_type
__wait_queue_head
__wait_queue
rw_semaphore
quota_info
super_block
super_block
inode
key
blocking_notifier_head
bus_type
subsystem
class
bus_type
mm_struct
dentry
vm_area_struct
kobject
class_device
net_device
softnet_data
dma_chan
device_driver
module_kobject
module
device
kset
bus_type
subsystem
class
bus_type
lock_class
module
mm_struct
task_struct
Handling in multi-cu objects is not very precise, as the same struct has
different dwarf offsets (id) in each CU. A mitigation for this problem will be
provided with the --cu_list and --cu_name upcoming options, where one will be
able to get a list of the object files in a, for instance, linux kernel .ko
module and also to specify a cu name to be the only to be considered when
processing multi-cu files (again, such as .ko linux kernel modules).
This ends up being also useful to generate a reverse class hierarchy :-)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
First user is pahole, that now has a --contains CLASS_NAME option, that will
show which classes contains CLASS_NAME, i.e.:
struct foo {
struct bar baz;
int i;
};
on an object file called with '--contains bar' will produce:
foo
if --verbose is used it will tell the number of CLASS_NAME members, so, in the
above example:
foo:1
Next thing will be a --recursive flag, that will show all the structs that
contains CLASS_NAME and the ones that contains the ones which contains and...
:-)
Useful to evaluate the impact that increasing or decreasing the size of some
important struct will have on the whole project that uses the struct.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
By default, pahole will display the offsets of the inner struct members from
the top level struct. If the user wants to focus on some inner structs, just
call the tool with the -r option to use relative offset instead of the base
offset.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
So that we can go on adding more config knobs without requiring adding new
parameters to lots of functions.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Just look for a typedef that points to the anonymous struct, if it matches
the -x prefix, exclude it.
[acme@filo pahole]$ pahole -PAae examples/anonymous_struct_typedef
/home/acme/git/pahole/examples/anonymous_struct_typedef.c:12 12 8 4
teste_t 12 8 4
[acme@filo pahole]$ pahole -x teste -PAae examples/anonymous_struct_typedef
/home/acme/git/pahole/examples/anonymous_struct_typedef.c:12 12 8 4
[acme@filo pahole]$
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
For example, the inner, anonymous struct here:
struct {
int d;
int z;
struct {
short a;
int b;
char c;
};
} biba = { .d = 2, };
[acme@filo pahole]$ pahole --packable --anon_include --nested_anon_include -e examples/anonymous_struct_typedef
/home/acme/git/pahole/examples/anonymous_struct_typedef.c:12 12 8 4
teste_t 12 8 4
[acme@filo pahole]$
The long options can be shortened to -PAae :-)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Suggested by: Jeff Muizelaar.
And it was wrong in the sense that the help was like:
--executable|-e FILE <SNIP lots of other options> FILE
So now its a bit redundant, like:
--executable|-e FILE <SNIP lots of other options> -e FILE
But as this is the most common usage pattern, give it more visibility.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
A more brute force approach: create a clone, reorganize it, if the resulting
size is less than the cloned class, it is packable.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Now we have:
[acme@filo pahole]$ pahole --help
Usage: pahole [OPTION...] [FILE] {[CLASS]}
-a, --anon_include include anonymous classes
-A, --nested_anon_include include nested (inside other structs) anonymous
classes
-B, --bit_holes=NR_HOLES Show only structs at least NR_HOLES bit holes
-c, --cacheline_size=SIZE set cacheline size to SIZE
-D, --decl_exclude=PREFIX exclude classes declared in files with PREFIX
-E, --expand_types expand class members
-H, --holes=NR_HOLES show only structs at least NR_HOLES holes
-m, --nr_methods show number of methods
-n, --nr_members show number of members
-N, --class_name_len show size of classes
-P, --packable show only structs that has holes that can be
packed
-R, --reorganize reorg struct trying to kill holes
-s, --sizes show size of classes
-S, --show_reorg_steps show the struct layout at each reorganization step
-t, --nr_definitions show how many times struct was defined
-V, --verbose be verbose
-x, --exclude=PREFIX exclude PREFIXed classes
-X, --cu_exclude=PREFIX exclude PREFIXed compilation units
Input Selection:
--debuginfo-path=PATH Search path for separate debuginfo files
-e, --executable=FILE Find addresses in FILE
-k, --kernel Find addresses in the running kernel
-K, --offline-kernel[=RELEASE] Kernel with all modules
-M, --linux-process-map=FILE Find addresses in files mapped as read from
FILE in Linux /proc/PID/maps format
-p, --pid=PID Find addresses in files mapped into process PID
-?, --help Give this help list
--usage Give a short usage message
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional
for any corresponding short options.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
[acme@mica pahole]$ pahole lala
pahole: Permission denied
[acme@mica pahole]$ pahole foo
pahole: No such file or directory
[acme@mica pahole]$ pahole ctracer.c
pahole: couldn't load DWARF info from ctracer.c
[acme@mica pahole]$
Thanks to Matthew Wilcox for noticing how lame it was :-)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
So that in tools like ctracer we can print to a file, most of the tools just
pass stdout, keeping the previous behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Will be used in ctracer to create a struct subset with just the types for which
we have "collectors", i.e. functions that reduce complex types to base types
that will be put in the mini-struct, that will be as tightly packed as it can
be.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This cset also does a fixup for cases where the compiler keeps the type
specified by the programmer for a bitfield but uses less space to combine with
the next, non-bitfield member, these cases can be caught using plain pahole and
will appear with this comment:
/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
int bitfield1:1; /* 64 4 */
int bitfield2:1; /* 64 4 */
/* XXX 14 bits hole, try to pack */
/* Bitfield WARNING: DWARF size=4, real size=2 */
short int d; /* 66 2 */
The fixup is done prior to reorganizing the fields.
Now an example of this code in action:
[acme@filo examples]$ cat swiss_cheese.c
<SNIP>
struct cheese {
char id;
short number;
char name[52];
int a:1;
int b;
int bitfield1:1;
int bitfield2:1;
short d;
short e;
short last:5;
};
<SNIP>
[acme@filo examples]$
Lets look at the layout:
[acme@filo examples]$ pahole swiss_cheese cheese
/* <11b> /home/acme/git/pahole/examples/swiss_cheese.c:3 */
struct cheese {
char id; /* 0 1 */
/* XXX 1 byte hole, try to pack */
short int number; /* 2 2 */
char name[52]; /* 4 52 */
int a:1; /* 56 4 */
/* XXX 31 bits hole, try to pack */
int b; /* 60 4 */
/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
int bitfield1:1; /* 64 4 */
int bitfield2:1; /* 64 4 */
/* XXX 14 bits hole, try to pack */
/* Bitfield WARNING: DWARF size=4, real size=2 */
short int d; /* 66 2 */
short int e; /* 68 2 */
short int last:5; /* 70 2 */
}; /* size: 72, cachelines: 2 */
/* sum members: 71, holes: 1, sum holes: 1 */
/* bit holes: 2, sum bit holes: 45 bits */
/* bit_padding: 11 bits */
/* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
[acme@filo examples]$
Full of holes, has bit padding and uses more than one 64 bytes cacheline.
Now lets ask pahole to reorganize it:
[acme@filo examples]$ pahole --reorganize --verbose swiss_cheese cheese
/* Demoting bitfield ('a' ... 'a') from 'int' to 'unsigned char' */
/* Demoting bitfield ('bitfield1' ... 'bitfield2') from 'short unsigned int' to 'unsigned char' */
/* Demoting bitfield ('last') from 'short int' to 'unsigned char' */
/* Moving 'bitfield2:1' from after 'bitfield1' to after 'a:1' */
/* Moving 'bitfield1:1' from after 'b' to after 'bitfield2:1' */
/* Moving 'last:5' from after 'e' to after 'bitfield1:1' */
/* Moving bitfield('a' ... 'last') from after 'name' to after 'id' */
/* Moving 'e' from after 'd' to after 'b' */
/* <11b> /home/acme/git/pahole/examples/swiss_cheese.c:3 */
struct cheese {
char id; /* 0 1 */
unsigned char a:1; /* 1 1 */
unsigned char bitfield2:1; /* 1 1 */
unsigned char bitfield1:1; /* 1 1 */
unsigned char last:5; /* 1 1 */
short int number; /* 2 2 */
char name[52]; /* 4 52 */
int b; /* 56 4 */
short int e; /* 60 2 */
short int d; /* 62 2 */
/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
}; /* size: 64, cachelines: 1 */
/* saved 8 bytes and 1 cacheline! */
[acme@filo examples]$
Instant karma, it gets completely packed, and look ma, no
__attribute__((packed)) :-)
With this struct task_struct in the linux kernel is shrunk by 12 bytes, there
is more 4 bytes to save with another technique that involves not combining
holes, but using the last single hole to fill it with members at the tail of
the struct.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This allows us to save 4 more bytes in struct task_struct, for instance, now we
need to combine whole bitfields with other fields if some bitfield has a size
less than sizeof(void *) and there is a suitable hole.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Using export CFLAGS="-Wall -Wfatal-errors -Wformat=2 -Wsequence-point -Wextra
-Wno-parentheses -g", suggested by Davi Arnault, amazing how cruft piles up
when one is not looking ;)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Some are just typedefs, others are inside structs and in some cases its
useful to see the statistics for them, so add two new cmd line options:
-a, --anon_include include anonymous classes\
-A, --nested_anon_include include nested (inside other structs) anonymous classes
Commiter note: I've reworked several aspects of the patch, but mostly to
give better names for the new find_first_typedef_of_type function, adding
a clarifying comment and introducing --nested_anon_include so that we
can select just the typedef'ed anonymous structs.
Damn, I had commited just dwarves.c, here is the dwarves.h and pahole.c bits.
Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi@haxent.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To show how many non inline functions receive as a parameter each of the structs
in a project, example:
[acme@newtoy ctracer_example]$ pahole --nr_methods vmlinux | sort -k2 -nr | head -5
file: 526
inode: 479
sk_buff: 386
sock: 383
dentry: 295
[acme@newtoy ctracer_example]$
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
For now it just affects showing differences in definitions of structs with the
same name found in different object files, that could be a real problem but
could as well be just a namespace colision not affecting the project's build
process as they were be local to specific objects.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Out of struct typedef_tag, that now becomes the superclass of struct class, and
that also will be for struct enumeration, struct union_type and then finally
for struct struct_type, when struct class finally dies.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
By having its own class, struct typedef_tag.
As it, as structs, unions and enums have a common part, the node and visited
fields, required when emitting its definitions there is an opportunity for
consolidation, that will be explored when adding the specific classes for
DW_TAG_enumeration & DW_TAG_union.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Almost mirroring the DWARF on-disk linkage on memory, more to come before
getting over these simplification refactorings.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
So far struct class was being used as the main data structure, switch to struct
tag, that already was the top of the tag hierarchy, being a struct class
ancestor, so reflect that and stop using struct class as the catch all class,
as a started DW_TAG_array_type tags are now represented by a new class, struct
array_type, reducing the size of struct class and reducing DW__TAG_array_type
instance memory usage.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
So that we can extract bits from one and combine it bits from other instances,
like we'll do in ctracer, where we want to have a cus instance just to get the
kprobes definitions and forward declarations but not handle the methods in it.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
So that we can load many object files, that is what the next csets will
do, to recursively look for files with debug info in a build tree, such
as the kernel one.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
An example to illustrate the kind of checks done:
[acme@newtoy multi-cu]$ cat a.c
struct foo {
int a;
char b;
};
void a_foo_print(struct foo *f)
{
printf("f.a=%d\n", f->a);
}
[acme@newtoy multi-cu]$ cat main.c
struct foo {
int a;
char b;
char c;
};
extern void a_foo_print(struct foo *f);
int main(void)
{
struct foo f = { .a = 10, };
a_foo_print(&f);
return 0;
}
[acme@newtoy multi-cu]$ cc -g -c a.c -o a.o
[acme@newtoy multi-cu]$ cc -g -c main.c -o main.o
[acme@newtoy multi-cu]$ cc a.o main.o -o m
[acme@newtoy multi-cu]$ pahole m
class: foo
first: a.c
current: main.c
nr_members: 2 != 3
padding: 3 != 2
[acme@newtoy multi-cu]$
Gotcha? In the above case this inconsistency wouldn't cause problems, as the
'c' member doesn't makes the struct bigger, it uses the padding, but what if we
inverted the members 'a' and 'b'?
Upcoming csets will check if the type and order of the members are the same,
should help in some complex projects where people insist on using #ifdefs in
struct definitions.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Simplifying options processing by using just pair of cu and class iterators and
using the list we were building just for --total_structure_stats for all
options, this way we don't print multiple times structures that are defined in
more than one object file when processing a multi-object file.
With this in place all the options will check if a struct definition in one
object file somehow doesn't matches the same struct definition in some other
object file, more checks will be put in place in the upcoming csets.
And, to show that this besides simplifying reduces the code size, lets use
codiff:
[acme@newtoy pahole]$ codiff build/pahole.before build/pahole
/home/acme/pahole/pahole.c:
structures__add | -143
class__filter | +147
main | -263
3 functions changed, 147 bytes added, 406 bytes removed
[acme@newtoy pahole]$
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
That is to find structs that have combinable holes, trying to pack the struct
by suggesting a move, for now it just prints structs that have holes that can
be combined, but these hints are not guaranteed to generate struct size
reductions, more has to be done and that involves understanding the alignment
rules that depend on the arch being 32 or 64 bits, but it at least reduces the
number of packing candidates.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
So that we can see only the structs that have more than the specified number of
bit holes.
Can be combined with --holes to see structs that have bit and byte holes.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
These are currently only used by pahole and would live in classes otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Fischer <rep.nop@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
The minimum number of holes that a struct must have for it to be
reported, to help in combining holes.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
pahole -D /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/include/net/ \
../OUTPUT/qemu/net-2.6.20/net/ipv4/tcp.o
Will exclude all the classes that were defined in files in the
/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/include/net/ directory, note that its
a prefix, not a directory, so one could as well pass
/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/include/net/tcp_ to exclude just the
files in the include/net directory and that start with 'tcp_'.
Now I think I implemented what Bernard wanted, and that is useful for me
as well, of course :-)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
To simplify the callsites and make implementing the same thing on the other
dwarves (prefcnt, pfunct, etc) easy.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Doesn't make that much sense for structs, because of the usual includes hell in
most projects, but makes sense for pfunct, so implement it now and later move
it to classes.c.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
That checks for constraints, the first one being a exclude prefix, and is used
by all the iterators.
Additional constraints can be things like specifying prefixes for compilation
unit names, i.e. "show me only the object files which name starts with
net/ipv4/", etc.
Initial patch provided by Bernhard Fischer, who also had the --exclude idea.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Correct short option for nr_members in help text.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Fischer <rep.nop@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
This should have been done from the start: all DW_TAG_s will be represented by
structs that has as its first member a struct tag, so that we can fully
represent the DWARF information, following csets will take continue the
restructuring.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
[acme@newtoy guinea_pig-2.6]$ pahole -t ../../acme/OUTPUT/qemu/net-2.6/vmlinux | sort -k2 -nr | head -5
list_head 468
__wait_queue_head 466
timespec 466
rw_semaphore 466
plist_head 466
[acme@newtoy guinea_pig-2.6]$
Which leads to another, more non-trivia question, what if a struct
definition is included but there are no references to this function?
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
With some of the options in pfunct, such as:
[acme@newtoy guinea_pig-2.6]$ pahole --sizes kernel/sched.o | sort -k2 -nr | head -5
pglist_data: 3456
task_struct: 2704
rq: 2480
mmu_gather: 2040
zone: 1664
[acme@newtoy guinea_pig-2.6]$
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Eugene Teo
Davi Arnaut
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
KOVACS Krisztian
Bernhard Fischer