Commit 8d0591f6 authored Jan 14, 2010 by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Committed by Ingo Molnar Jan 16, 2010

perf symbols: Don't try to load kallsyms if doesn't match the record build-id



Now a perf.data file collected on a x86_64 fedora 12 machine
gets properly parsed on a Debian testing PARISC64 machine with
32-bit userland:

  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report 2> /dev/null | head -15
  # Samples: 293085637
  #
  # Overhead          Command                      Shared Object  Symbol
  # ........  ...............  .................................  ......
  #
      35.11%             find  [kernel.kallsyms]                  [k] 0xffffffff81002b5a
      18.25%             perf  [kernel.kallsyms]                  [k] 0xffffffff8102235f
       9.07%             find  find                               [.] 0x0000000000fb0e
       5.80%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]                  [k] 0xffffffff8102235f
       3.29%             perf  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] __GI_strcmp
       2.70%             find  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] __GI_memmove
       2.33%             init  [kernel.kallsyms]                  [k] 0xffffffff810091b9
       2.03%             find  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] _int_malloc
       1.67%             find  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
       1.65%             sshd  libcrypto.so.0.9.8k                [.] 0x00000000105440
  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1263501006-14185-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

parent 1b75962e

tools/perf/util/symbol.c

+8 −5

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1608,11 +1608,11 @@ static int dso__load_kernel_sym(struct dso self, struct map map,
		u8 kallsyms_build_id[BUILD_ID_SIZE];

		if (sysfs__read_build_id("/sys/kernel/notes", kallsyms_build_id,
		sizeof(kallsyms_build_id)) == 0)

		sizeof(kallsyms_build_id)) == 0) {
		is_kallsyms = dso__build_id_equal(self, kallsyms_build_id);
		if (is_kallsyms)
		goto do_kallsyms;
		}
		goto do_vmlinux;
		}

		@@ -1623,6 +1623,9 @@ static int dso__load_kernel_sym(struct dso self, struct map map,
		do_vmlinux:
		err = dso__load_vmlinux(self, map, session, self->long_name, filter);
		if (err <= 0) {
		if (self->has_build_id)
		return -1;

		pr_info("The file %s cannot be used, "
		"trying to use /proc/kallsyms...", self->long_name);
		do_kallsyms:

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