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authorZhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>2022-11-15 16:33:48 +0800
committerLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>2022-11-15 00:42:02 -0800
commit30f3bb09778de64ef9f23fb4bb5f868c4728a071 (patch)
tree1244a04afb676e9f71765e0bf37297e6e26eec49 /init
parent9cb37357dfce1b596041ad68a20407c8b4e76635 (diff)
downloadlinux-30f3bb09778de64ef9f23fb4bb5f868c4728a071.tar.gz
kallsyms: Add self-test facility
Added test cases for basic functions and performance of functions kallsyms_lookup_name(), kallsyms_on_each_symbol() and kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol(). It also calculates the compression rate of the kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set. The basic functions test begins by testing a set of symbols whose address values are known. Then, traverse all symbol addresses and find the corresponding symbol name based on the address. It's impossible to determine whether these addresses are correct, but we can use the above three functions along with the addresses to test each other. Due to the traversal operation of kallsyms_on_each_symbol() is too slow, only 60 symbols can be tested in one second, so let it test on average once every 128 symbols. The other two functions validate all symbols. If the basic functions test is passed, print only performance test results. If the test fails, print error information, but do not perform subsequent performance tests. Start self-test automatically after system startup if CONFIG_KALLSYMS_SELFTEST=y. Example of output content: (prefix 'kallsyms_selftest:' is omitted start --------------------------------------------------------- | nr_symbols | compressed size | original size | ratio(%) | |---------------------------------------------------------| | 107543 | 1357912 | 2407433 | 56.40 | --------------------------------------------------------- kallsyms_lookup_name() looked up 107543 symbols The time spent on each symbol is (ns): min=630, max=35295, avg=7353 kallsyms_on_each_symbol() traverse all: 11782628 ns kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol() traverse all: 9261 ns finish Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index abf65098f1b6bf..c45935cd2f1f47 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1723,6 +1723,19 @@ config KALLSYMS
symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
+config KALLSYMS_SELFTEST
+ bool "Test the basic functions and performance of kallsyms"
+ depends on KALLSYMS
+ default n
+ help
+ Test the basic functions and performance of some interfaces, such as
+ kallsyms_lookup_name. It also calculates the compression rate of the
+ kallsyms compression algorithm for the current symbol set.
+
+ Start self-test automatically after system startup. Suggest executing
+ "dmesg | grep kallsyms_selftest" to collect test results. "finish" is
+ displayed in the last line, indicating that the test is complete.
+
config KALLSYMS_ALL
bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS