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authorTörök Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>2008-11-22 14:28:48 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-23 11:45:42 +0300
commitb54d3de9f3b8956653b06f1a32e9f9321c6d9027 (patch)
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tracing: identify which executable object the userspace address belongs to
Impact: modify+improve the userstacktrace tracing visualization feature Store thread group leader id, and use it to lookup the address in the process's map. We could have looked up the address on thread's map, but the thread might not exist by the time we are called. The process might not exist either, but if you are reading trace_pipe, that is unlikely. Example usage: mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl echo sym-userobj >iter_ctrl echo sched_switch >current_tracer echo 1 >tracing_enabled cat trace_pipe >/tmp/trace& .... run application ... echo 0 >tracing_enabled cat /tmp/trace You'll see stack entries like: /lib/libpthread-2.7.so[+0xd370] You can convert them to function/line using: addr2line -fie /lib/libpthread-2.7.so 0xd370 Or: addr2line -fie /usr/lib/debug/libpthread-2.7.so 0xd370 For non-PIC/PIE executables this won't work: a.out[+0x73b] You need to run the following: addr2line -fie a.out 0x40073b (where 0x400000 is the default load address of a.out) Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ output. To see what is available, simply cat the file:
cat /debug/tracing/trace_options
print-parent nosym-offset nosym-addr noverbose noraw nohex nobin \
- noblock nostacktrace nosched-tree nouserstacktrace
+ noblock nostacktrace nosched-tree nouserstacktrace nosym-userobj
To disable one of the options, echo in the option prepended with "no".
@@ -381,6 +381,17 @@ Here are the available options:
userstacktrace - This option changes the trace.
It records a stacktrace of the current userspace thread.
+ sym-userobj - when user stacktrace are enabled, look up which object the
+ address belongs to, and print a relative address
+ This is especially useful when ASLR is on, otherwise you don't
+ get a chance to resolve the address to object/file/line after the app is no
+ longer running
+
+ The lookup is performed when you read trace,trace_pipe,latency_trace. Example:
+
+ a.out-1623 [000] 40874.465068: /root/a.out[+0x480] <-/root/a.out[+0
+x494] <- /root/a.out[+0x4a8] <- /lib/libc-2.7.so[+0x1e1a6]
+
sched-tree - TBD (any users??)