Re: [RFC PATCH] ftrace: Skip __fentry__ location of overridden weak functions

[Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>]

On 2024/6/11 17:21, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 09:56:51AM +0800, Zheng Yejian wrote:
>> On 2024/6/7 23:02, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
>>> Oh gawd, sodding weak functions again.
>>>
>>> I would suggest changing scipts/kallsyms.c to emit readily identifiable
>>> symbol names for all the weak junk, eg:
>>>
>>>     __weak_junk_NNNNN
>>>
>>
>> Sorry for the late reply, I just had a long noon holiday :>
>>
>> scripts/kallsyms.c is compiled and used to handle symbols in vmlinux.o
>> or vmlinux.a, see kallsyms_step() in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh, those
>> overridden weak symbols has been removed from symbol table of vmlinux.o
>> or vmlinux.a. But we can found those symbols from original xx/xx.o file,
>> for example, the weak free_initmem() in in init/main.c is overridden,
>> its symbol is not in vmlinx but is still in init/main.o .
>>
>> How about traversing all origin xx/xx.o and finding all weak junk symbols ?
> 
> You don't need to. ELF symbl tables have an entry size for FUNC type
> objects, this means that you can readily find holes in the text and fill
> them with a symbol.
> 
> Specifically, you can check the mcount locations against the symbol
> table and for every one that falls in a hole, generate a new junk
> symbol.
> 
> Also see 4adb23686795 where objtool adds these holes to the
> ignore/unreachable code check.
> 
> 
> The lack of size for kallsyms is in a large part what is causing the
> problems.

Thanks for your suggestions, I'll try it soon.

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Thanks,
ZYJ