perf tests: Fix flaky test 'Object code reading'
This test occasionally fails on aarch64 when a sample is taken in free@plt and it fails with "Bytes read differ from those read by objdump". This is because that symbol is near a section boundary in the elf file. Despite the -z option to always output zeros, objdump uses bfd_map_over_sections() to iterate through the elf file so it doesn't see outside of the sections where these zeros are and can't print them. For example this boundary proceeds free@plt in libc with a gap of 48 bytes between .plt and .text: objdump -d -z --start-address=0x23cc8 --stop-address=0x23d08 libc-2.30.so libc-2.30.so: file format elf64-littleaarch64 Disassembly of section .plt: 0000000000023cc8 <*ABS*+0x7fd00@plt+0x8>: 23cc8: 91018210 add x16, x16, #0x60 23ccc: d61f0220 br x17 Disassembly of section .text: 0000000000023d00 <abort@@GLIBC_2.17-0x98>: 23d00: a9bf7bfd stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]! 23d04: 910003fd mov x29, sp Taking a sample in free@plt is very rare because it is so small, but the test can be forced to fail almost every time on any platform by linking the test with a shared library that has a single empty function and calling it in a loop. The fix is to zero the buffers so that when there is a jump in the addresses output by objdump, zeros are already filled in between. Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210906152238.3415467-1-james.clark@arm.comSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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