[llvm-commits] [Sanitizer] PATCH: external llvm-symbolizer tool for sanitizers

Alexey Samsonov samsonov at google.com
Thu Aug 23 04:52:58 PDT 2012


On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Alexey Samsonov <samsonov at google.com>wrote:
>
>> And a follow-up from looking at the output. File/line numbers seem to be
>> fetched correctly, but that isn't always true for function names:
>> if instruction belongs to inlined instance of a function, then we may
>> (and often do) instead return the function it is inlined into.
>>
>
> It is the correct behavior.
>

Not quite :) I mean, we output file/line/column of inlined function and
function name of function it is inlined into.


> As a bonus we may also output inlined frames, but by default we must
> output inlined-into frame.
>

>
>
>>  This
>> should be fixed in DebugInfo library, I'll work on that.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Kostya Serebryany <kcc at google.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Excellent numbers!
>>> addr2line performance and memory usage has been the greatest
>>> inconvenience for many users.
>>> Please commit unless there are objections from someone else.
>>>
>>> --kcc
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Alexey Samsonov <samsonov at google.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> For the record, I've ran some measurements on Chromium (fetched random
>>>> instruction addresses from binary and symbolized them with a tool):
>>>>
>>>> chrome + "-gline-tables-only" (0.5G binary)
>>>> tool             # of addresses       time                memory
>>>> addr2line     1                          0m16.803s
>>>> symbolizer   1                          0m0.501s
>>>> addr2line     100                       0m22.474s
>>>> symbolizer   100                       0m1.417s
>>>> addr2line     10k                       1m45.055s     2.1G
>>>> symbolizer   10k                       1m23.271s     440 Mb
>>>>
>>>> chrome + "-g" (2G binary):
>>>> addr2line     1                          0m36.101s
>>>> symbolizer   1                          0m10.101s
>>>> addr2line     100                       0m46.125s
>>>> symbolizer   100                       0m10.005s
>>>> addr2line     10k                       2m32.614s     9.2G
>>>> symbolizer   10k                       1m41.288s     3.9G
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Alexey Samsonov <samsonov at google.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> This code contains a stand-alone file that makes use of existing LLVM
>>>>> libraries to symbolize instruction addresses of a module.
>>>>> Though it looks like an another llvm tool, we can temporary keep it at
>>>>> //projects/compiler-rt (as currently we're the only interested users,
>>>>> and we need to compile this tool for the same targets we build
>>>>> ASan/TSan for). This file may be run in a separate process, and
>>>>> communicate with caller via stdin/stdout. The key differences from
>>>>> addr2line is that the tool is capable of symbolizing code from
>>>>> different modules and is able to consult both symbol table and debug
>>>>> info for fetching function name (which would be helpful
>>>>> if the binary is compiled with -gline-tables-only).
>>>>>
>>>>> Code review: http://codereview.appspot.com/6465080/
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Alexey Samsonov, MSK
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Alexey Samsonov, MSK
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alexey Samsonov, MSK
>>
>>
>


-- 
Alexey Samsonov, MSK
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