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[4.2.y-ckt,stable] Patch "perf test: Ignore kcore files in the "vmlinux matches kallsyms" test" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

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Kamal Mostafa June 9, 2016, 2:36 p.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    perf test: Ignore kcore files in the "vmlinux matches kallsyms" test

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt12.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From e1b6bf742aae2a50bfb20b2f1b806d2f80d5075f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:16:55 -0300
Subject: perf test: Ignore kcore files in the "vmlinux matches kallsyms" test

commit 53d0fe68275dbdaf6a532bb4e87f00db5d36c140 upstream.

Before:

  # perf test -v kallsyms
<SNIP>
  Maps only in vmlinux:
   ffffffff81d5e000-ffffffff81ec3ac8 115e000 [kernel].init.text
   ffffffff81ec3ac8-ffffffffa0000000 12c3ac8 [kernel].exit.text
   ffffffffa0000000-ffffffffa000c000 0 [fjes]
   ffffffffa000c000-ffffffffa0017000 0 [video]
   ffffffffa0017000-ffffffffa001c000 0 [grace]
<SNIP>
   ffffffffa0a7f000-ffffffffa0ba5000 0 [xfs]
   ffffffffa0ba5000-ffffffffffffffff 0 [veth]
  Maps in vmlinux with a different name in kallsyms:
  Maps only in kallsyms:
   ffff880000100000-ffff88001000b000 80000103000 [kernel.kallsyms]
   ffff88001000b000-ffff880100000000 8001000e000 [kernel.kallsyms]
   ffff880100000000-ffffc90000000000 80100003000 [kernel.kallsyms]
<SNIP>
   ffffffffa0000000-ffffffffff600000 7fffa0003000 [kernel.kallsyms]
   ffffffffff600000-ffffffffffffffff 7fffff603000 [kernel.kallsyms]
  test child finished with -1
  ---- end ----
  vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: FAILED!
  #

After:

  # perf test -v 1
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms                          :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 7058
  Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
  Using /lib/modules/4.6.0-rc1+/build/vmlinux for symbols
  0xffffffff81076870: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec v: 0xffffffff810791f2 k: 0xffffffff81076902
  0xffffffff81079200: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc v: 0xffffffff8107bb03 k: 0xffffffff81079292
  0xffffffff8107e8d0: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc_avx_gen2 v: 0xffffffff81083e76 k: 0xffffffff8107e943
  0xffffffff81083e80: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec_avx_gen2 v: 0xffffffff81089611 k: 0xffffffff81083ef3
  0xffffffff81089990: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_enc_avx_gen4 v: 0xffffffff8108e7c4 k: 0xffffffff81089a03
  0xffffffff8108e7d0: diff end addr for aesni_gcm_dec_avx_gen4 v: 0xffffffff810937ef k: 0xffffffff8108e843
  Maps only in vmlinux:
   ffffffff81d5e000-ffffffff81ec3ac8 115e000 [kernel].init.text
   ffffffff81ec3ac8-ffffffffa0000000 12c3ac8 [kernel].exit.text
  Maps in vmlinux with a different name in kallsyms:
  Maps only in kallsyms:
  test child finished with -1
  ---- end ----
 vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: FAILED!
  #

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Fixes: 8e0cf965f95e ("perf symbols: Add support for reading from /proc/kcore")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-n6vrwt9t89w8k769y349govx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c b/tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c
index b34c5fc..8de34ea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/vmlinux-kallsyms.c
@@ -54,8 +54,14 @@  int test__vmlinux_matches_kallsyms(void)
 	 * Step 3:
 	 *
 	 * Load and split /proc/kallsyms into multiple maps, one per module.
+	 * Do not use kcore, as this test was designed before kcore support
+	 * and has parts that only make sense if using the non-kcore code.
+	 * XXX: extend it to stress the kcorre code as well, hint: the list
+	 * of modules extracted from /proc/kcore, in its current form, can't
+	 * be compacted against the list of modules found in the "vmlinux"
+	 * code and with the one got from /proc/modules from the "kallsyms" code.
 	 */
-	if (machine__load_kallsyms(&kallsyms, "/proc/kallsyms", type, NULL) <= 0) {
+	if (__machine__load_kallsyms(&kallsyms, "/proc/kallsyms", type, true, NULL) <= 0) {
 		pr_debug("dso__load_kallsyms ");
 		goto out;
 	}