perf symbols: Allow user probes on versioned symbols

Symbol versioning, as in glibc, results in symbols being defined as:

  <real symbol>@[@]<version>

(Note that "@@" identifies a default symbol, if the symbol name is
repeated.)

perf is currently unable to deal with this, and is unable to create user
probes at such symbols:

  --
  $ nm /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 | grep pthread_create
  0000000000008d30 t __pthread_create_2_1
  0000000000008d30 T pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.17
  $ /usr/bin/sudo perf probe -v -x /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 pthread_create
  probe-definition(0): pthread_create
  symbol:pthread_create file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null)
  0 arguments
  Open Debuginfo file: /usr/lib/debug/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.19.so
  Try to find probe point from debuginfo.
  Probe point 'pthread_create' not found.
     Error: Failed to add events. Reason: No such file or directory (Code: -2)
  --

One is not able to specify the fully versioned symbol, either, due to
syntactic conflicts with other uses of "@" by perf:

  --
  $ /usr/bin/sudo perf probe -v -x /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.17
  probe-definition(0): pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.17
  Semantic error :SRC@SRC is not allowed.
  0 arguments
     Error: Command Parse Error. Reason: Invalid argument (Code: -22)
  --

This patch ignores versioning for default symbols, thus allowing probes to be
created for these symbols:

  --
  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf probe -x /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 pthread_create
  Added new event:
     probe_libpthread:pthread_create (on pthread_create in /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.19.so)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

           perf record -e probe_libpthread:pthread_create -aR sleep 1

  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf record -e probe_libpthread:pthread_create -aR ./test 2
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.052 MB perf.data (2 samples) ]
  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf script
               test  2915 [000] 19124.260729: probe_libpthread:pthread_create: (3fff99248d38)
               test  2916 [000] 19124.260962: probe_libpthread:pthread_create: (3fff99248d38)
  $ /usr/bin/sudo ./perf probe --del=probe_libpthread:pthread_create
  Removed event: probe_libpthread:pthread_create
  --

Committer note:

Change the variable storing the result of strlen() to 'int', to fix the build
on debian:experimental-x-mipsel, fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc, ubuntu:16.04-x-arm,
etc:

  util/symbol.c: In function 'symbol__match_symbol_name':
  util/symbol.c:422:11: error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Werror=sign-compare]
     if (len < versioning - name)
             ^

Signed-off-by: Paul A. Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c2b18d9c-17f8-9285-4868-f58b6359ccac@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
index 7acd70fce68e..41ebba9a2eb2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
@@ -348,8 +348,19 @@ void arch__sym_update(struct symbol *s, GElf_Sym *sym);
 #define SYMBOL_A 0
 #define SYMBOL_B 1
 
+int arch__compare_symbol_names(const char *namea, const char *nameb);
+int arch__compare_symbol_names_n(const char *namea, const char *nameb,
+				 unsigned int n);
 int arch__choose_best_symbol(struct symbol *syma, struct symbol *symb);
 
+enum symbol_tag_include {
+	SYMBOL_TAG_INCLUDE__NONE = 0,
+	SYMBOL_TAG_INCLUDE__DEFAULT_ONLY
+};
+
+int symbol__match_symbol_name(const char *namea, const char *nameb,
+			      enum symbol_tag_include includes);
+
 /* structure containing an SDT note's info */
 struct sdt_note {
 	char *name;			/* name of the note*/