Re: perf archive warning

From: Han Pingtian
Date: Wed Mar 02 2011 - 23:17:54 EST


On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 08:38:25AM +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 16:53 +0800, Han Pingtian wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:29:41PM +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> > > >
> > > > root@intel-s3e36-01 perf]# ./perf-archive
> > > > tar: .build-id/b2/370e39ea2898c6e11c188e2f3879e4e3d6d1ef: Cannot stat:
> > > > No such file or directory
> > > > tar: .build-id/b2/370e39ea2898c6e11c188e2f3879e4e3d6d1ef: Cannot stat:
> > > > No such file or directory
> > > > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> > >
> > > kernel.kallsyms is not created successfully in the buildid-cache.
> > > Could you have a try below patch?
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> > > index 72c124d..d3b5062 100644
> > > --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
> > > +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> > > @@ -271,11 +271,16 @@ int build_id_cache__add_s(const char *sbuild_id, const char *debugdir,
> > > const char *name, bool is_kallsyms)
> > > {
> > > const size_t size = PATH_MAX;
> > > - char *realname = realpath(name, NULL),
> > > + char *realname,
> > > *filename = malloc(size),
> > > *linkname = malloc(size), *targetname;
> > > int len, err = -1;
> > >
> > > + if (is_kallsyms)
> > > + realname = (char *)name;
> > > + else
> > > + realname = realpath(name, NULL);
> > > +
> > > if (realname == NULL || filename == NULL || linkname == NULL)
> > > goto out_free;
> > >
> > > @@ -307,7 +312,8 @@ int build_id_cache__add_s(const char *sbuild_id, const char *debugdir,
> > > if (symlink(targetname, linkname) == 0)
> > > err = 0;
> > > out_free:
> > > - free(realname);
> > > + if (!is_kallsyms)
> > > + free(realname);
> > > free(filename);
> > > free(linkname);
> > > return err;
> > >
> > The patch didn't fix this problem.
>
> Did you re-run perf command?
> Need to re-run it to generate kernel.kallsyms build-id cache.
>
> For example,
>
> $ perf record -- sleep 3
> $ perf-archive
I think I must do something wrong yesterday when testing your patch. It
works just fine today, the problem has been fixed by it. Thanks!
>
> If the problem is still there, please attach below output:
>
> $ tree ~/.debug
>
> Thanks,
> Lin Ming
>
> > >
> > > > Now please run:
> > > >
> > > > $ tar xvf perf.data.tar.bz2 -C ~/.debug
> > > >
> > > > wherever you need to run 'perf report' on.
> > > > [root@intel-s3e36-01 perf]# ./perf --version
> > > > perf version 2.6.38.rc6.166.g493f33
> > > > [root@intel-s3e36-01 perf]# ./perf buildid-list
> > > > b2370e39ea2898c6e11c188e2f3879e4e3d6d1ef [kernel.kallsyms]
> > > > dd95cb496ebc4ed922eeb5640965f1243fcfcd9a
> > > > /lib/modules/2.6.32-118.el6.x86_64/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko
> > > > 9e1aca88b83308cec7574d74975fa6f7d654c96e /lib64/libc-2.12.so
> > > > d880be15bf992b5fbcc629e6bbf1c747a928ddd5 /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.5
> > > > d1b2ca4e1ec8f81ba820e5f1375d960107ac7e50 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.13
> > > > [root@intel-s3e36-01 perf]#
> > > >
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