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From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC bpf-next 1/4] kallsyms: Add kallsyms_lookup_names function
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On Thu,  7 Apr 2022 14:52:21 +0200
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> wrote:

> Adding kallsyms_lookup_names function that resolves array of symbols
> with single pass over kallsyms.
> 
> The user provides array of string pointers with count and pointer to
> allocated array for resolved values.
> 
>   int kallsyms_lookup_names(const char **syms, u32 cnt,
>                             unsigned long *addrs)
> 
> Before we iterate kallsyms we sort user provided symbols by name and
> then use that in kalsyms iteration to find each kallsyms symbol in
> user provided symbols.
> 
> We also check each symbol to pass ftrace_location, because this API
> will be used for fprobe symbols resolving. This can be optional in
> future if there's a need.

I like this idea very much :-)

> 
> Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/kallsyms.h |  6 +++++
>  kernel/kallsyms.c        | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 54 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/kallsyms.h b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
> index ce1bd2fbf23e..5320a5e77f61 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kallsyms.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
> @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ int kallsyms_on_each_symbol(int (*fn)(void *, const char *, struct module *,
>  #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
>  /* Lookup the address for a symbol. Returns 0 if not found. */
>  unsigned long kallsyms_lookup_name(const char *name);
> +int kallsyms_lookup_names(const char **syms, u32 cnt, unsigned long *addrs);
>  
>  extern int kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(unsigned long addr,
>  				  unsigned long *symbolsize,
> @@ -103,6 +104,11 @@ static inline unsigned long kallsyms_lookup_name(const char *name)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +int kallsyms_lookup_names(const char **syms, u32 cnt, unsigned long *addrs)
> +{
> +	return -ERANGE;
> +}
> +
>  static inline int kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(unsigned long addr,
>  					      unsigned long *symbolsize,
>  					      unsigned long *offset)
> diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
> index 79f2eb617a62..a3738ddf9e87 100644
> --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
> +++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
>  #include <linux/compiler.h>
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/bsearch.h>
> +#include <linux/sort.h>
>  
>  /*
>   * These will be re-linked against their real values
> @@ -572,6 +574,52 @@ int sprint_backtrace_build_id(char *buffer, unsigned long address)
>  	return __sprint_symbol(buffer, address, -1, 1, 1);
>  }
>  
> +static int symbols_cmp(const void *a, const void *b)
> +{
> +	const char **str_a = (const char **) a;
> +	const char **str_b = (const char **) b;
> +
> +	return strcmp(*str_a, *str_b);
> +}
> +
> +struct kallsyms_data {
> +	unsigned long *addrs;
> +	const char **syms;
> +	u32 cnt;
> +	u32 found;

BTW, why do you use 'u32' for this arch independent code?
I think 'size_t' will make its role clearer.

> +};
> +
> +static int kallsyms_callback(void *data, const char *name,
> +			     struct module *mod, unsigned long addr)
> +{
> +	struct kallsyms_data *args = data;
> +
> +	if (!bsearch(&name, args->syms, args->cnt, sizeof(*args->syms), symbols_cmp))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	addr = ftrace_location(addr);
> +	if (!addr)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	args->addrs[args->found++] = addr;
> +	return args->found == args->cnt ? 1 : 0;
> +}
> +
> +int kallsyms_lookup_names(const char **syms, u32 cnt, unsigned long *addrs)

Ditto. I think 'size_t cnt' is better. 

Thank you,

> +{
> +	struct kallsyms_data args;
> +
> +	sort(syms, cnt, sizeof(*syms), symbols_cmp, NULL);
> +
> +	args.addrs = addrs;
> +	args.syms = syms;
> +	args.cnt = cnt;
> +	args.found = 0;
> +	kallsyms_on_each_symbol(kallsyms_callback, &args);
> +
> +	return args.found == args.cnt ? 0 : -EINVAL;
> +}
> +
>  /* To avoid using get_symbol_offset for every symbol, we carry prefix along. */
>  struct kallsym_iter {
>  	loff_t pos;
> -- 
> 2.35.1
> 


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>