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perf symbol: Do not fixup end address of labels
When it loads symbols from an ELF file, it loads label symbols which is 0 size. Sometimes it has the same address with other symbols and might shadow the original symbols because it fixes up the size of the symbol. For example, in my system __do_softirq is shadowed and only accepts the __softirqentry_text_start instead. But it should accept __do_softirq. $ readelf -sW vmlinux | grep -e __do_softirq -e __softirqentry_text_start 105089: ffffffff82000000 814 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 __do_softirq 111954: ffffffff82000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 __softirqentry_text_start $ perf annotate --stdio __do_softirq Error: The perf.data data has no samples! $ perf annotate --stdio __softirqentry_text_start | head Percent | Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux for cycles (26 samples, percent: local period) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : 0 0xffffffff82000000 <__softirqentry_text_start>: 0.00 : ffffffff82000000: nopl (%rax,%rax) 30.77 : ffffffff82000005: pushq %rbp 3.85 : ffffffff82000006: movq %rsp, %rbp 0.00 : ffffffff82000009: pushq %r15 3.85 : ffffffff8200000b: pushq %r14 3.85 : ffffffff8200000d: pushq %r13 0.00 : ffffffff8200000f: pushq %r12 We can ignore NOTYPE symbols in the symbols__fixup_end() so that it can pick the __do_softirq() in choose_best_symbol(). This should be fine since most symbols have either STT_FUNC or STT_OBJECT. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240912224208.3360116-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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