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So for example for a function object (i.e. type 45'STT_FUNC') the symbol table's 'st_value' and 'st_size' fields directly 46represent the starting address and size of that function. On PPC64 however, the 47symbol table's 'st_value' field only contains an index into another, PPC64 48specific '.opd' (official procedure descriptors) section, while the 'st_size' 49field still holds the size of the corresponding function. In order to get the 50actual start address of a function, it is necessary to read the corresponding 51function descriptor entry in the '.opd' section at the corresponding index and 52extract the start address from there. 53 54That's exactly what this 'ElfFuncDescTable' class is used for. If the HotSpot 55runs on a PPC64 machine, and the corresponding ELF files contains an '.opd' 56section (which is actually mandatory on PPC64) it will be read into an object 57of type 'ElfFuncDescTable' just like the string and symbol table sections. 58Later on, during symbol lookup in 'ElfSymbolTable::lookup()' this function 59descriptor table will be used if available to find the real function address. 60 61All this is how things work today (2013) on contemporary Linux distributions 62(i.e. SLES 10) and new version of GCC (i.e. > 4.0). However there is a history, 63and it goes like this: 64 65In SLES 9 times (sometimes before GCC 3.4) gcc/ld on PPC64 generated two 66entries in the symbol table for every function. The value of the symbol with 67the name of the function was the address of the function descriptor while the 68dot '.' prefixed name was reserved to hold the actual address of that function 69(http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi-1.9.html#FUNC-DES). 70 71For a C-function 'foo' this resulted in two symbol table entries like this 72(extracted from the output of 'readelf -a <lib.so>'): 73 74Section Headers: 75 [ 9] .text PROGBITS 0000000000000a20 00000a20 76 00000000000005a0 0000000000000000 AX 0 0 16 77 [21] .opd PROGBITS 00000000000113b8 000013b8 78 0000000000000138 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 8 79 80Symbol table '.symtab' contains 86 entries: 81 Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name 82 76: 00000000000114c0 24 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 21 foo 83 78: 0000000000000bb0 76 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 9 .foo 84 85You can see now that the '.foo' entry actually points into the '.text' segment 86('Ndx'=9) and its value and size fields represent the functions actual address 87and size. On the other hand, the entry for plain 'foo' points into the '.opd' 88section ('Ndx'=21) and its value and size fields are the index into the '.opd' 89section and the size of the corresponding '.opd' section entry (3 pointers on 90PPC64). 91 92These so called 'dot symbols' were dropped around gcc 3.4 from GCC and BINUTILS, 93see http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-08/msg00557.html. 94But nevertheless it may still be necessary to support both formats because we 95either run on an old system or because it is possible at any time that functions 96appear in the stack trace which come from old-style libraries. 97 98Therefore we not only have to check for the presence of the function descriptor 99table during symbol lookup in 'ElfSymbolTable::lookup()'. We additionally have 100to check that the symbol table entry references the '.opd' section. Only in 101that case we can resolve the actual function address from there. Otherwise we 102use the plain 'st_value' field from the symbol table as function address. This 103way we can also lookup the symbols in old-style ELF libraries (although we get 104the 'dotted' versions in that case). However, if present, the 'dot' will be 105conditionally removed on PPC64 from the symbol in 'ElfDecoder::demangle()' in 106decoder_linux.cpp. 107 108Notice that we can not reliably get the function address from old-style 109libraries because the 'st_value' field of the symbol table entries which point 110into the '.opd' section denote the size of the corresponding '.opd' entry and 111not that of the corresponding function. This has changed for the symbol table 112entries in new-style libraries as described at the beginning of this 113documentation. 114 115*/ 116 117class ElfFuncDescTable: public CHeapObj<mtInternal> { 118 friend class ElfFile; 119 public: 120 ElfFuncDescTable(FILE* file, Elf_Shdr shdr, int index); 121 ~ElfFuncDescTable(); 122 123 // return the function address for the function descriptor at 'index' or NULL on error 124 address lookup(Elf_Word index); 125 126 int get_index() { return m_index; }; 127 128 NullDecoder::decoder_status get_status() { return m_status; }; 129 130 protected: 131 // holds the complete function descriptor section if 132 // we can allocate enough memory 133 address* m_funcDescs; 134 135 // file contains string table 136 FILE* m_file; 137 138 // section header 139 Elf_Shdr m_shdr; 140 141 // The section index of this function descriptor (i.e. '.opd') section in the ELF file 142 int m_index; 143 144 NullDecoder::decoder_status m_status; 145}; 146 147#endif // !_WINDOWS && !__APPLE__ 148 149#endif // SHARE_VM_UTILITIES_ELF_FUNC_DESC_TABLE_HPP 150