perf symbol: Skip symbols if SHF_ALLOC flag is not set
authorLeo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Sun, 24 Jul 2022 06:00:13 +0000 (14:00 +0800)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:17:50 +0000 (11:17 -0300)
commit882528d2e77687c3ef26abb9c490f77a9c1f6e1a
tree6b02b93266429559cb90d58b922268cf192f831b
parent2d86612aacb7805f72873691a2644d7279ed0630
perf symbol: Skip symbols if SHF_ALLOC flag is not set

Some symbols are observed with the 'st_value' field zeroed.  E.g.
libc.so.6 in Ubuntu contains a symbol '__evoke_link_warning_getwd' which
resides in the '.gnu.warning.getwd' section.

Unlike normal sections, such kind of sections are used for linker
warning when a file calls deprecated functions, but they are not part of
memory images, the symbols in these sections should be dropped.

This patch checks the section attribute SHF_ALLOC bit, if the bit is not
set, it skips symbols to avoid spurious ones.

Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chang Rui <changruinj@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220724060013.171050-3-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c