Re: [PATCH -tip 0/8] perf-probe updates

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Dec 11 2009 - 16:29:36 EST


Em Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:15:30PM -0500, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 04:41:39PM -0500, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
> >> Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> >>>> Here the failure was because the symbol does not exist.
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, so that's what I'm expecting to be implemented with below item :-)
> >>>
> >>> - Symbol search by libelf/kallsyms
> >>>
> >>> I guess it will be done by using symbol.c.
> >>> (Actually, current
> >>
> >> Oops, I might miss something, forgot it.
> >> actually, current perf probe doesn't decode kallsyms/elf, it just depends on
> >> kprobe-tracer. And kprobe-tracer will return -EINVAL not only if the symbol
> >> was not found, but also other reasons.
> >>
> >> So, if we want to show below message, we need to decode elf or kallsyms.
> >
> > Should be easy now with my latest patch :-)
>
> Thanks! that's looks very useful for me!

Please let me know of any shortcomings you may find!

- Arnaldo
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