From: Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de>
To: elfutils-devel@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: How to debug broken unwinding?
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5090592.NEB05k1TTb@agathebauer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2244170.M6KXmO4ZXp@agathebauer>
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On Donnerstag, 1. Juni 2017 22:57:12 CEST Milian Wolff wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> on my ArchLinux box I regularly see cases where libdw fails to unwind
> properly. I can reproduce this both with upstream perf as well as with the
> perfparser utility.
>
> How should I debug this, or how can I report a good bug report for this? I
> guess I could upload a perf archive and document the steps required to build
> perf with libdw as the unwinder, as it allows to easily compare libunwind
> and libdw for unwinding. When I then diff the output of `perf script` for
> the two unwinders for one and the same perf.data file, I see issues like
> this:
>
> $ diff -u script.libunwind script.elfutils
> --- script.libunwind 2017-06-01 22:30:52.418029474 +0200
> +++ script.elfutils2 2017-06-01 22:35:10.987823055 +0200
> @@ -510,10 +510,6 @@
> e8ed _dl_fixup (/usr/lib/ld-2.25.so)
> 15f06 _dl_runtime_resolve_sse_vex (/usr/lib/ld-2.25.so)
> ed94c KDynamicJobTracker::KDynamicJobTracker
> (/home/milian/ projects/compiled/kf5/lib64/libKF5KIOWidgets.so.5.35.0)
> - 608f3 _GLOBAL__sub_I_kdynamicjobtracker.cpp
> (/home/milian/ projects/compiled/kf5/lib64/libKF5KIOWidgets.so.5.35.0)
> - f199 call_init.part.0 (/usr/lib/ld-2.25.so)
> - f2a5 _dl_init (/usr/lib/ld-2.25.so)
> - db9 _dl_start_user (/usr/lib/ld-2.25.so)
>
> NOTE: it seems as if unwinding through _GLOBAL__sub* always fails?
This part I now investigated with extensive debug output and figured out the
issue: For the last frame that works in both cases, i.e. ed94c, libdwfl says
it knows that this address belongs to /usr/lib/ld-2.25.so. In reality, it
belongs to libKF5KIOWidgets.so.5.35.0.
Previously, perf just checked whether any module is known to libdwfl for a
given address and then trusted it to do the right thing. Now I created a patch
that double-checks whether the mapping known to libdwfl matches what perf
knows. If not, we report the correct map (as known to perf) and this fixes the
issue.
In general, I believe that libdwfl's API is lacking here. Both perf and
perfparser know the exact mapping of a file, i.e. the file, it's start and end
address, as well as the pgoff. But the integration with dwfl simply calls
dwfl_report_elf, which only takes a start address. For things like ld-2.25.so
this is often not enough. Is there any chance to expand the API to let us set
the explicit mapping addresses?
I see there's dwfl_report_module, which at least takes start and end address,
but so far I always failed to use it for unwinding - it seems as if that
function is not setting up the internal ELF file and thus all of the functions
relying on that will break.
Thanks
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Milian Wolff
mail@milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-02 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-02 11:53 Milian Wolff
2017-06-02 15:03 ` Milian Wolff [this message]
2017-06-07 12:16 ` Milian Wolff
2017-06-07 18:41 ` Milian Wolff
2017-06-14 18:27 ` Mark Wielaard
2017-06-15 17:45 ` Mark Wielaard
2017-06-13 16:17 ` Mark Wielaard
2017-06-14 13:12 ` Milian Wolff
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