The compiler may choose to inline multiple layers of function call, such
that A calling B calling C may end up with all of the instructions for B
and C written as part of A's function body.
Within that function body, some PCs will represent code from function A.
Some will represent code from function B, and for each of those the
runtime will have an instruction attributable to A that it can report as
its caller. Others will represent code from function C, and for each of
those the runtime will have an instruction attributable to B and an
instruction attributable to A that it can report as callers.
When a profiling signal arrives at an instruction in B (as inlined in A)
that the runtime also uses to describe calls to C, the profileBuilder
ends up with an incorrect cache of allFrames results. That PC should
lead to a location record in the profile that represents the frames
B<-A, but the allFrames cache's view should expand the PC only to the B
frame.
Otherwise, when a profiling signal arrives at an instruction in C (as
inlined in B in A), the PC stack C,B,A can get expanded to the frames
C,B<-A,A as follows: The inlining deck starts empty. The first tryAdd
call proposes PC C and frames C, which the deck accepts. The second
tryAdd call proposes PC B and, due to the incorrect caching, frames B,A.
(A fresh call to allFrames with PC B would return the frame list B.) The
deck accepts that PC and frames. The third tryAdd call proposes PC A and
frames A. The deck rejects those because a call from A to A cannot
possibly have been inlined. This results in a new location record in the
profile representing the frames C<-B<-A (good), as called by A (bad).
The bug is the cached expansion of PC B to frames B<-A. That mapping is
only appropriate for the resulting protobuf-format profile. The cache
needs to reflect the results of a call to allFrames, which expands the
PC B to the single frame B.
For #50996
For #52693
Fixes #52764
Change-Id: I36d080f3c8a05650cdc13ced262189c33b0083b0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/404995 Reviewed-by: Bryan Mills <bcmills@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Rhys Hiltner <rhys@justin.tv> Reviewed-by: Cherry Mui <cherryyz@google.com>