[PATCH v2 00/31] Libdw/dwarf build clean up
Ian Rogers
irogers at google.com
Wed Oct 16 10:21:55 PDT 2024
On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 12:55 PM Ian Rogers <irogers at google.com> wrote:
>
> There patches are on top of:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240924003720.617258-1-irogers@google.com/
> where it was pointed out that a lot of the libdw conditional
> compilation was due to features that have now been standard for 10 or
> 15 years. The patches remove the conditional compilation assuming the
> features are in libdw where the feature test is expanded to check
> there pressence.
>
> In the Makefile code, and for `perf record --call-graph`, dwarf tends
> to mean unwind or libdw support for dwarf things. To make it clearer
> when dwarf really just means libdw numerous build variables and
> defines are renamed. PERF_HAVE_DWARF_REGS was particularly tricky and
> has been removed as it isn't necessary as was somewhat inversely
> guarding libdw support. The Makefile variable indicated an
> architecture having a dwarf-regs.c file. This file contained code for
> BPF prologues, which were removed with BPF event support. The files
> also often just contained a redundant get_arch_regstr function. The
> function was redundant as get_dwarf_regstr would do the appropriate
> thing if the ELF machine were given. To remove get_arch_regstr the ELF
> machine is computed for the host machine. This now makes the logic
> work across platforms, but the testing I was able to do across
> platforms was minimal.
It would be nice if these patches could land as they remove quite a
bit of code and complexity. To recap:
1) there are initial patches trying to renaming dwarfy things to libdw
things to be more intention revealing. There was some initial concern
wrt PERF_HAVE_DWARF_REGS and so the series has now removed that
variable as explained next. I believe landing the first part of the
patches was agreed upon as okay (Masami/Namhyung).
2) PERF_HAVE_DWARF_REGS indicated the presence of dwarf-regs.c in the
arch directory. dwarf-regs.c provided upto 3 functions:
2.1) regs_query_register_offset would translate a register name into a
pt_regs offset and was used by BPF prologues. BPF prologues existed
for BPF events and support for these was removed many releases ago.
This code was dead and could be removed.
2.2) get_arch_regstr duplicated get_dwarf_regstr and so it could be
removed as Masami agreed:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241007171942.e96d5c520e065bbe4cf8ae5f@kernel.org/
The case for csky was a little more complicated as the ABI controlled
the string. The callers of get_dwarf_regstr were updated to also pass
the ELF flags so that on csky the appropriate table could be used. As
the argument is only used on csky this a no-op for everything else.
2.3) get_arch_regnum translated a register name back to a dwarf number
and only existed on x86 where "al", "ax", "eax" and "rax" could all
mean register 0. This code was moved to util with similar
machine/flags logic to get_arch_regstr and for consistency with it.
2.2 and 2.3 required the wiring through of the ELF machine and flags
in callers to get_dwarf_regstr and get_dwarf_regnum. When these values
weren't dependent on an ELF file a new EM_HOST and EF_HOST were added
to give the host ELF machine and flags. These 2 #defines got rid of
the existing separate arch files and #ifdefs.
So what's changed? On most architectures we're now passing ELF flags
to get_dwarf_regstr/regnum but these are unused unless we're on csky.
There's the get_dwarf_regstr simplification in 2.2, but I think we're
agreed that's fine. For 2.3 most of the concern seemed to be whether
we should put it in the arch directory or util, I prefer util so that
cross-platform perf.data recording/reporting is supported. Other than
this there was a call for demonstrating what happens with the wiring
up the cross-platform ELF machine/flags. To some extent this worked
before this series, this series really just fixes the plumbing so it
will work in more EM_NONE machine type cases, etc. Fixing
cross-platform isn't the intent of the series, cleaning up the code
base is, so I don't think this should gate landing the work. The code
is all well tested on the normal non-cross-platform case.
Removing 21 files, 703 lines of code and making the build variables
and defines more intention revealing feels like progress, so I'd like
for this to land.
Thanks,
Ian
> There is some tech debt in the changes as perf check still reports the
> values using the old name and for features that are no longer
> tested. This can be cleanup for another day.
>
> v2: Instead of renaming PERF_HAVE_DWARF_REGS to PERF_HAVE_LIBDW_REGS,
> remove it.
>
> Ian Rogers (31):
> perf build: Fix !HAVE_DWARF_GETLOCATIONS_SUPPORT
> perf build: Rename NO_DWARF to NO_LIBDW
> perf build: Remove defined but never used variable
> perf build: Rename test-dwarf to test-libdw
> perf build: Combine libdw-dwarf-unwind into libdw feature tests
> perf build: Combine test-dwarf-getlocations into test-libdw
> perf build: Combine test-dwarf-getcfi into test-libdw
> perf probe: Move elfutils support check to libdw check
> perf libdw: Remove unnecessary defines
> perf build: Rename HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT to HAVE_LIBDW_SUPPORT
> perf build: Rename CONFIG_DWARF to CONFIG_LIBDW
> perf bpf-prologue: Remove unused file
> perf dwarf-regs: Remove PERF_HAVE_ARCH_REGS_QUERY_REGISTER_OFFSET
> perf dwarf-regs: Add EM_HOST and EF_HOST defines
> perf disasm: Add e_machine/e_flags to struct arch
> perf dwarf-regs: Pass accurate disassembly machine to get_dwarf_regnum
> perf dwarf-regs: Pass ELF flags to get_dwarf_regstr
> perf dwarf-regs: Move x86 dwarf-regs out of arch
> perf arm64: Remove dwarf-regs.c
> perf arm: Remove dwarf-regs.c
> perf dwarf-regs: Move csky dwarf-regs out of arch
> perf loongarch: Remove dwarf-regs.c
> perf mips: Remove dwarf-regs.c
> perf dwarf-regs: Move powerpc dwarf-regs out of arch
> perf riscv: Remove dwarf-regs.c and add dwarf-regs-table.h
> perf s390: Remove dwarf-regs.c
> perf sh: Remove dwarf-regs.c
> perf sparc: Remove dwarf-regs.c
> perf xtensa: Remove dwarf-regs.c
> perf dwarf-regs: Remove get_arch_regstr code
> perf build: Remove PERF_HAVE_DWARF_REGS
>
> tools/build/Makefile.feature | 11 +-
> tools/build/feature/Makefile | 24 +--
> tools/build/feature/test-all.c | 16 +-
> tools/build/feature/test-dwarf.c | 11 --
> tools/build/feature/test-dwarf_getcfi.c | 9 --
> tools/build/feature/test-dwarf_getlocations.c | 13 --
> tools/build/feature/test-libdw-dwarf-unwind.c | 14 --
> tools/build/feature/test-libdw.c | 56 +++++++
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-check.txt | 6 +-
> tools/perf/Makefile.config | 58 ++-----
> tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 2 +-
> tools/perf/arch/arc/annotate/instructions.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/arch/arm/Makefile | 3 -
> tools/perf/arch/arm/annotate/instructions.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/arch/arm/util/Build | 2 -
> tools/perf/arch/arm/util/dwarf-regs.c | 61 -------
> tools/perf/arch/arm64/Makefile | 4 -
> tools/perf/arch/arm64/annotate/instructions.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build | 1 -
> tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/dwarf-regs.c | 92 -----------
> tools/perf/arch/csky/Makefile | 4 -
> tools/perf/arch/csky/annotate/instructions.c | 7 +-
> tools/perf/arch/csky/util/Build | 1 -
> tools/perf/arch/loongarch/Makefile | 4 -
> .../arch/loongarch/annotate/instructions.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/arch/loongarch/util/Build | 1 -
> tools/perf/arch/loongarch/util/dwarf-regs.c | 44 -----
> tools/perf/arch/mips/Makefile | 4 -
> tools/perf/arch/mips/annotate/instructions.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/arch/mips/util/Build | 1 -
> tools/perf/arch/mips/util/dwarf-regs.c | 38 -----
> tools/perf/arch/powerpc/Makefile | 5 -
> .../perf/arch/powerpc/annotate/instructions.c | 6 +-
> tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build | 3 +-
> tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/dwarf-regs.c | 153 ------------------
> tools/perf/arch/riscv/Makefile | 5 +-
> .../arch/riscv/include/dwarf-regs-table.h | 42 +++++
> tools/perf/arch/riscv/util/Build | 1 -
> tools/perf/arch/riscv/util/dwarf-regs.c | 72 ---------
> .../perf/arch/riscv64/annotate/instructions.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/arch/s390/Makefile | 4 -
> tools/perf/arch/s390/annotate/instructions.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/arch/s390/util/Build | 1 -
> tools/perf/arch/s390/util/dwarf-regs.c | 43 -----
> tools/perf/arch/sh/Build | 1 -
> tools/perf/arch/sh/Makefile | 4 -
> tools/perf/arch/sh/util/Build | 1 -
> tools/perf/arch/sh/util/dwarf-regs.c | 41 -----
> tools/perf/arch/sparc/Build | 1 -
> tools/perf/arch/sparc/Makefile | 4 -
> tools/perf/arch/sparc/annotate/instructions.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/arch/sparc/util/Build | 1 -
> tools/perf/arch/sparc/util/dwarf-regs.c | 39 -----
> tools/perf/arch/x86/Makefile | 4 -
> tools/perf/arch/x86/annotate/instructions.c | 5 +-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build | 3 -
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/dwarf-regs.c | 153 ------------------
> tools/perf/arch/xtensa/Build | 1 -
> tools/perf/arch/xtensa/Makefile | 4 -
> tools/perf/arch/xtensa/util/Build | 1 -
> tools/perf/arch/xtensa/util/dwarf-regs.c | 21 ---
> tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-check.c | 6 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-probe.c | 14 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/util/Build | 15 +-
> tools/perf/util/annotate-data.h | 8 +-
> tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 6 +-
> tools/perf/util/bpf-prologue.h | 37 -----
> tools/perf/util/debuginfo.h | 6 +-
> tools/perf/util/disasm.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/util/disasm.h | 8 +-
> tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c | 6 -
> tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.h | 53 ------
> .../dwarf-regs.c => util/dwarf-regs-csky.c} | 19 +--
> tools/perf/util/dwarf-regs-powerpc.c | 61 +++++++
> tools/perf/util/dwarf-regs-x86.c | 50 ++++++
> tools/perf/util/dwarf-regs.c | 38 +++--
> tools/perf/util/genelf.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/util/genelf.h | 2 +-
> tools/perf/util/include/dwarf-regs.h | 114 ++++++++++---
> tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 4 +-
> tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 19 +--
> tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h | 9 +-
> 84 files changed, 454 insertions(+), 1157 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-dwarf.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-dwarf_getcfi.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-dwarf_getlocations.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-libdw-dwarf-unwind.c
> create mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-libdw.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/dwarf-regs.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/dwarf-regs.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/csky/Makefile
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/loongarch/util/dwarf-regs.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/mips/util/dwarf-regs.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/dwarf-regs.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/riscv/include/dwarf-regs-table.h
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/riscv/util/dwarf-regs.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/s390/util/dwarf-regs.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/sh/Build
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/sh/Makefile
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/sh/util/Build
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/sh/util/dwarf-regs.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/sparc/Build
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/sparc/util/Build
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/sparc/util/dwarf-regs.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/dwarf-regs.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/xtensa/Build
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/xtensa/Makefile
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/xtensa/util/Build
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/xtensa/util/dwarf-regs.c
> delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-prologue.h
> rename tools/perf/{arch/csky/util/dwarf-regs.c => util/dwarf-regs-csky.c} (74%)
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/dwarf-regs-powerpc.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/dwarf-regs-x86.c
>
> --
> 2.47.0.rc0.187.ge670bccf7e-goog
>
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