The fprintf_sym() and fprintf_callchain() methods now allow users to
change the existing behaviour of showing "[unknown]" as the name of
unresolved symbols to instead show "[0x123456]", i.e. its address.
The current patch doesn't change tools to use this facility, the results
from 'perf trace' and 'perf script' cotinue like:
70.109 ( 0.001 ms): qemu-system-x8/10153 poll(ufds: 0x7f2d93ffe870, nfds: 1) = 0 Timeout
                                   [unknown] (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so)
                                   [unknown] (/usr/lib64/libspice-server.so.1.10.0)
                                   [unknown] (/usr/lib64/libspice-server.so.1.10.0)
                                   [unknown] (/usr/lib64/libspice-server.so.1.10.0)
                                   start_thread+0xca (/usr/lib64/libpthread-2.22.so)
                                   __clone+0x6d (/usr/lib64/libc-2.22.so)
The next patch will make 'perf trace' use the new formatting.
Suggested-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fja1ods5vqpg42mdz09xcz3r@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
        int print_symoffset = print_opts & PRINT_IP_OPT_SYMOFFSET;
        int print_oneline = print_opts & PRINT_IP_OPT_ONELINE;
        int print_srcline = print_opts & PRINT_IP_OPT_SRCLINE;
+       int print_unknown_as_addr = print_opts & PRINT_IP_OPT_UNKNOWN_AS_ADDR;
        char s = print_oneline ? ' ' : '\t';
 
        if (sample->callchain) {
 
                        if (print_sym) {
                                printed += fprintf(fp, " ");
+                               node_al.addr = addr;
+                               node_al.map  = node->map;
+
                                if (print_symoffset) {
-                                       node_al.addr = addr;
-                                       node_al.map  = node->map;
-                                       printed += symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(node->sym, &node_al, fp);
-                               } else
-                                       printed += symbol__fprintf_symname(node->sym, fp);
+                                       printed += __symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(node->sym, &node_al,
+                                                                                 print_unknown_as_addr, fp);
+                               } else {
+                                       printed += __symbol__fprintf_symname(node->sym, &node_al,
+                                                                            print_unknown_as_addr, fp);
+                               }
                        }
 
                        if (print_dso) {
        int print_dso = print_opts & PRINT_IP_OPT_DSO;
        int print_symoffset = print_opts & PRINT_IP_OPT_SYMOFFSET;
        int print_srcline = print_opts & PRINT_IP_OPT_SRCLINE;
+       int print_unknown_as_addr = print_opts & PRINT_IP_OPT_UNKNOWN_AS_ADDR;
 
        if (symbol_conf.use_callchain && sample->callchain) {
                printed += perf_evsel__fprintf_callchain(evsel, sample, al, left_alignment,
 
                if (print_sym) {
                        printed += fprintf(fp, " ");
-                       if (print_symoffset)
-                               printed += symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(al->sym, al, fp);
-                       else
-                               printed += symbol__fprintf_symname(al->sym, fp);
+                       if (print_symoffset) {
+                               printed += __symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(al->sym, al,
+                                                                         print_unknown_as_addr, fp);
+                       } else {
+                               printed += __symbol__fprintf_symname(al->sym, al,
+                                                                    print_unknown_as_addr, fp);
+                       }
                }
 
                if (print_dso) {
 
 #define PRINT_IP_OPT_SYMOFFSET (1<<3)
 #define PRINT_IP_OPT_ONELINE   (1<<4)
 #define PRINT_IP_OPT_SRCLINE   (1<<5)
+#define PRINT_IP_OPT_UNKNOWN_AS_ADDR (1<<6)
 
 struct perf_tool;
 
 
                       sym->name);
 }
 
-size_t symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(const struct symbol *sym,
-                                   const struct addr_location *al, FILE *fp)
+size_t __symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(const struct symbol *sym,
+                                     const struct addr_location *al,
+                                     bool unknown_as_addr, FILE *fp)
 {
        unsigned long offset;
        size_t length;
                        length += fprintf(fp, "+0x%lx", offset);
                }
                return length;
-       } else
+       } else if (al && unknown_as_addr)
+               return fprintf(fp, "[%#" PRIx64 "]", al->addr);
+       else
                return fprintf(fp, "[unknown]");
 }
 
+size_t symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(const struct symbol *sym,
+                                   const struct addr_location *al,
+                                   FILE *fp)
+{
+       return __symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(sym, al, false, fp);
+}
+
+size_t __symbol__fprintf_symname(const struct symbol *sym,
+                                const struct addr_location *al,
+                                bool unknown_as_addr, FILE *fp)
+{
+       return __symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(sym, al, unknown_as_addr, fp);
+}
+
 size_t symbol__fprintf_symname(const struct symbol *sym, FILE *fp)
 {
-       return symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(sym, NULL, fp);
+       return __symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(sym, NULL, false, fp);
 }
 
 void symbols__delete(struct rb_root *symbols)
 
 void symbol__exit(void);
 void symbol__elf_init(void);
 struct symbol *symbol__new(u64 start, u64 len, u8 binding, const char *name);
+size_t __symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(const struct symbol *sym,
+                                     const struct addr_location *al,
+                                     bool unknown_as_addr, FILE *fp);
 size_t symbol__fprintf_symname_offs(const struct symbol *sym,
                                    const struct addr_location *al, FILE *fp);
+size_t __symbol__fprintf_symname(const struct symbol *sym,
+                                const struct addr_location *al,
+                                bool unknown_as_addr, FILE *fp);
 size_t symbol__fprintf_symname(const struct symbol *sym, FILE *fp);
 size_t symbol__fprintf(struct symbol *sym, FILE *fp);
 bool symbol_type__is_a(char symbol_type, enum map_type map_type);