Fantastic Symbols and Where to Find Them - Part 2

• linux

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  Linux kernel source tree

  perf defines an interface to resolve symbols for dynamically generated code by a JIT compiler. These files usually can be found in /tmp/perf-$PID.map, where $PID is the process ID of the process of the runtime that is running on the system.

• perf-map-agent

  2 1,537 10.0 C

  A java agent to generate method mappings to use with the linux `perf` tool

  

  The runtimes usually don't enable providing symbol mappings by default. You might need to change a configuration, run the virtual machine with a specific flag/environment variable or run an additional program to obtain these mappings. For example, JVM needs an agent to provide supplemental symbol mapping files, called perf-map-agent.

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• parca-agent

  5 295 7.2 Go

  eBPF based always-on profiler auto-discovering targets in Kubernetes and systemd, zero code changes or restarts needed!

  

  Let's see an example perf map file for NodeJS. The runtimes out there output this file with more or less the same format, more or less!

• rbspy

  0 2,383 6.9 Rust

  Sampling CPU profiler for Ruby

  

  As a result, you need to craft a specific routine for each interpreter runtime (in some cases, each version of that runtime) to obtain symbol information. Educated eyes might have already noticed, it's not an easy undertaking considering the sheer amount of interpreted languages out there. For example, a very well known Ruby profiler, rbspy, generates code for reading internal structs of the Ruby runtime for each version.

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