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From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
To: duchangbin <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	"Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
	"linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"llvm@lists.linux.dev" <llvm@lists.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf: disasm: prefer symsrc_filename for filename
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:26:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6abf540f-5f11-4b2b-b8c1-69783a71277b@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39be46d6a5194b6390ed31be67689c6c@huawei.com>

On 13/06/24 12:43, duchangbin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 11:15:28AM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> On 13/06/24 09:35, Changbin Du wrote:
>>> If we already found a debugging version when loading symbols for that dso,
>>> then use the same file for disasm instead of looking up in buildid-cache.
>>
>> In the past, there have been cases where the debugging version has not
>> worked for reading object code.  I don't remember the details, but the
>> symbols and debugging information was OK while the object code was not.
>>
>> In general, using anything other than the file that was actually executed
>> for reading object code seems like a bad idea.
>>
> Is this a platform specific issue? AFAIK, the binary code in debugging and
> non-debugging version should be identical. 

"should be" != "guaranteed to be".  Simpler to avoid the issue and
stick with the file that was actually executed.  We already support
having separate symbol sources, so there should not really be a
problem.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-13 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-13  6:35 [PATCH 0/2] perf: support specify vdso path in cmdline Changbin Du
2024-06-13  6:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Changbin Du
2024-06-13  8:23   ` Adrian Hunter
2024-06-13  9:49     ` duchangbin
2024-06-13 10:19       ` Adrian Hunter
2024-06-14  3:55         ` duchangbin
2024-06-13  6:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf: disasm: prefer symsrc_filename for filename Changbin Du
2024-06-13  8:15   ` Adrian Hunter
2024-06-13  9:43     ` duchangbin
2024-06-13 10:26       ` Adrian Hunter [this message]
2024-06-14  3:48         ` duchangbin

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