Re: fix callgraphs of 32-bit processes on 64-bit kernels.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Mar 16 2010 - 04:47:50 EST



* T??r??k Edwin <edwintorok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 03/15/2010 06:23 PM, T??r??k Edwin wrote:
> > On 03/15/2010 05:34 PM, T??r??k Edwin wrote:
> >>
> >> It would be good if perf knew how to lookup symbols in kernel modules!
> >
> > BTW perf report -m -k /home/edwin/builds/linux-2.6/vmlinux doesn't show
> > the symbols either.
>
> I always forget that, unlike every other program, perf doesn't install
> by default to /usr/local!
> So I was running the wrong version of perf (from an older kernel), since
> perf was installed to $HOME/bin (which of course isn't in sudo's path).
>
> Sorry for the confusion, the 2.6.33 perf DOES know how to lookup the
> symbols:
> 9.92% glxgears [radeon] [k]
> r600_packet3_check
> |
> --- r600_packet3_check
> |
> |--96.80%-- r600_cs_parse

Ok, great!

I suspect we could install into /usr/local too. Do you want to send a patch
for that?

Ingo
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