perf kallsyms: Introduce tool to look for extended symbol information on the running kernel

Its similar to doing grep on a /proc/kallsyms, but it also shows extra
information like the path to the kernel module and the unrelocated
addresses in it, to help in diagnosing problems.

It is also helps demonstrate the use of the symbols routines so that
tool writers can use them more effectively.

Using it:

  $ perf kallsyms e1000_xmit_frame netif_rx usb_stor_set_xfer_buf
  e1000_xmit_frame: [e1000e] /lib/modules/4.9.0+/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko 0xffffffffc046fc10-0xffffffffc0470bb0 (0x19c80-0x1ac20)
  netif_rx: [kernel] [kernel.kallsyms] 0xffffffff916f03a0-0xffffffff916f0410 (0xffffffff916f03a0-0xffffffff916f0410)
  usb_stor_set_xfer_buf: [usb_storage] /lib/modules/4.9.0+/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko 0xffffffffc057aea0-0xffffffffc057af19 (0xf10-0xf89)
  $

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

Author: acmel

tools/perf/Build

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ perf-y += builtin-help.o
 perf-y += builtin-sched.o
 perf-y += builtin-buildid-list.o
 perf-y += builtin-buildid-cache.o
+perf-y += builtin-kallsyms.o
 perf-y += builtin-list.o
 perf-y += builtin-record.o
 perf-y += builtin-report.o

tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kallsyms.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+perf-kallsyms(1)
+==============
+
+NAME
+----
+perf-kallsyms - Searches running kernel for symbols
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'perf kallsyms <options> symbol_name[,symbol_name...]'
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+This command searches the running kernel kallsyms file for the given symbol(s)
+and prints information about it, including the DSO, the kallsyms begin/end
+addresses and the addresses in the ELF kallsyms symbol table (for symbols in
+modules).
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+-v::
+--verbose=::
+	Increase verbosity level, showing details about symbol table loading, etc.

tools/perf/builtin-help.c

@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 	const char * const builtin_help_subcommands[] = {
 		"buildid-cache", "buildid-list", "diff", "evlist", "help", "list",
 		"record", "report", "bench", "stat", "timechart", "top", "annotate",
-		"script", "sched", "kmem", "lock", "kvm", "test", "inject", "mem", "data",
+		"script", "sched", "kallsyms", "kmem", "lock", "kvm", "test", "inject", "mem", "data",
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
 		"probe",
 #endif

tools/perf/builtin-kallsyms.c

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+/*
+ * builtin-kallsyms.c
+ *
+ * Builtin command: Look for a symbol in the running kernel and its modules
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2017, Red Hat Inc, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
+ *
+ * Released under the GPL v2. (and only v2, not any later version)
+ */
+#include "builtin.h"
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
+#include "debug.h"
+#include "machine.h"
+#include "symbol.h"
+
+static int __cmd_kallsyms(int argc, const char **argv)
+{
+	int i;
+	struct machine *machine = machine__new_kallsyms();
+
+	if (machine == NULL) {
+		pr_err("Couldn't read /proc/kallsyms\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	for (i = 0; i < argc; ++i) {
+		struct map *map;
+		struct symbol *symbol = machine__find_kernel_function_by_name(machine, argv[i], &map);
+
+		if (symbol == NULL) {
+			printf("%s: not found\n", argv[i]);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		printf("%s: %s %s %#" PRIx64 "-%#" PRIx64 " (%#" PRIx64 "-%#" PRIx64")\n",
+			symbol->name, map->dso->short_name, map->dso->long_name,
+			map->unmap_ip(map, symbol->start), map->unmap_ip(map, symbol->end),
+			symbol->start, symbol->end);
+	}
+
+	machine__delete(machine);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int cmd_kallsyms(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
+{
+	const struct option options[] = {
+	OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose, "be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc)"),
+	OPT_END()
+	};
+	const char * const kallsyms_usage[] = {
+		"perf kallsyms [<options>] symbol_name",
+		NULL
+	};
+
+	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, kallsyms_usage, 0);
+	if (argc < 1)
+		usage_with_options(kallsyms_usage, options);
+
+	symbol_conf.sort_by_name = true;
+	symbol_conf.try_vmlinux_path = (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name == NULL);
+	if (symbol__init(NULL) < 0)
+		return -1;
+
+	return __cmd_kallsyms(argc, argv);
+}

tools/perf/builtin.h

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 int cmd_evlist(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 int cmd_sched(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
+int cmd_kallsyms(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 int cmd_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);

tools/perf/command-list.txt

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ perf-diff			mainporcelain common
 perf-config			mainporcelain common
 perf-evlist			mainporcelain common
 perf-inject			mainporcelain common
+perf-kallsyms			mainporcelain common
 perf-kmem			mainporcelain common
 perf-kvm			mainporcelain common
 perf-list			mainporcelain common

tools/perf/perf.c

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static struct cmd_struct commands[] = {
 	{ "diff",	cmd_diff,	0 },
 	{ "evlist",	cmd_evlist,	0 },
 	{ "help",	cmd_help,	0 },
+	{ "kallsyms",	cmd_kallsyms,	0 },
 	{ "list",	cmd_list,	0 },
 	{ "record",	cmd_record,	0 },
 	{ "report",	cmd_report,	0 },