From: Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com
[ Upstream commit 5b427df27b94aec1312cace48a746782a0925c53 ]
/proc/kallsyms and /proc/modules are compared before and after the copy in order to ensure no changes during the copy.
However /proc/modules also might change due to reference counts changing even though that does not make any difference.
Any modules loaded or unloaded should be visible in changes to kallsyms, so it is not necessary to check /proc/modules also anyway.
Remove the comparison checking that /proc/modules is unchanged.
Fixes: fc1b691d7651d949 ("perf buildid-cache: Add ability to add kcore to the cache") Reported-by: Daniel Dao dqminh@cloudflare.com Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com Tested-by: Daniel Dao dqminh@cloudflare.com Acked-by: Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org Cc: Ian Rogers irogers@google.com Cc: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220914122429.8770-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c index e155783c601a..0a7e1543ce8f 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c @@ -1694,8 +1694,8 @@ static int kcore_copy__compare_file(const char *from_dir, const char *to_dir, * unusual. One significant peculiarity is that the mapping (start -> pgoff) * is not the same for the kernel map and the modules map. That happens because * the data is copied adjacently whereas the original kcore has gaps. Finally, - * kallsyms and modules files are compared with their copies to check that - * modules have not been loaded or unloaded while the copies were taking place. + * kallsyms file is compared with its copy to check that modules have not been + * loaded or unloaded while the copies were taking place. * * Return: %0 on success, %-1 on failure. */ @@ -1758,9 +1758,6 @@ int kcore_copy(const char *from_dir, const char *to_dir) kci.modules_map.len)) goto out_extract_close;
- if (kcore_copy__compare_file(from_dir, to_dir, "modules")) - goto out_extract_close; - if (kcore_copy__compare_file(from_dir, to_dir, "kallsyms")) goto out_extract_close;