DTrace: stack() does not print kernel module functions for i386

Shrikanth Kamath shrikanth07 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 8 22:06:40 UTC 2014


I verified this on a FreeBSD 10.0 STABLE, the stack() feature does not
appear to print functions from kernel modules. I believe there is a
glitch in libdtrace in the function "dt_module_update"
(cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libdtrace/common/dt_module.c).

The section header address computation which is currently being done
in the function dt_module_update for elf type ET_REL, a similar
computation needs to be done for the ET_DYN maybe. I lack background
on the elf types but for experiment sakes I changed the line

@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ dt_module_update(dtrace_hdl_t *dtp, struct kld_fil
 #if defined(__FreeBSD__)
        mapbase = (uintptr_t)k_stat->address;
        gelf_getehdr(dmp->dm_elf, &ehdr);
-       is_elf_obj = (ehdr.e_type == ET_REL);
+      is_elf_obj = (ehdr.e_type == ET_REL) || (ehdr.e_type == ET_DYN);
        if (is_elf_obj) {
                dmp->dm_sec_offsets =
                    malloc(ehdr.e_shnum * sizeof(*dmp->dm_sec_offsets));

So from a previous run where I was running a dtrace one liner
%dtrace -n 'fbt:hwpmc:: { stack(); }'
The output without the above change shows a sample as

 0  50825 pmc_find_process_descriptor:entry
              0xc3c35bf5                                  <-- Address
not matched to symbol
              kernel`syscall+0x48b
              kernel`0xc0fd2121

whereas with the above nit change to include ET_DYN for section offset
adjustment I get the complete stack trace as

 0  50825 pmc_find_process_descriptor:entry
              hwpmc.ko`pmc_hook_handler+0x6a5   <--address matched to symbol
              kernel`syscall+0x48b
              kernel`0xc0fd2121

I believe without the correct section offset adjustment the following
check in the function dtrace_lookup_by_addr fails to match the address
to the correct symbol

            if (addr - dmp->dm_text_va < dmp->dm_text_size ||
                    addr - dmp->dm_data_va < dmp->dm_data_size ||
                    addr - dmp->dm_bss_va < dmp->dm_bss_size)

because dml->dm_text_va was not setup correctly in dt_module_update.

Can somebody help clarify this?

Reference: commit revision 210425.

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Shrikanth R K


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