Re: [PATCH 3/8] perf symbol: Save vmlinux or kallsyms path loaded

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Nov 22 2013 - 13:45:14 EST


Em Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 01:32:46PM -0700, David Ahern escreveu:
> Save vmlinux or kallsyms path loaded using embedded default lookup (ie.,
> not a user specified path). Upcoming perf sched timehist command requires
> kernel symbols for properly computing idle times and prints a warning
> if the kernel symbols are not loaded.

What would happen if strdup failed here?

Why don't we undo anything done so far in this function and return an
error?

- Arnaldo

> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> index f55c18da1e40..915eb6c4a248 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> @@ -1437,6 +1437,8 @@ int dso__load_vmlinux(struct dso *dso, struct map *map,
> dso->data_type = DSO_BINARY_TYPE__VMLINUX;
> dso__set_long_name(dso, (char *)vmlinux);
> dso__set_loaded(dso, map->type);
> + if (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name == NULL)
> + symbol_conf.vmlinux_name = strdup(symfs_vmlinux);
> pr_debug("Using %s for symbols\n", symfs_vmlinux);
> }
>
> @@ -1629,8 +1631,11 @@ static int dso__load_kernel_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map,
>
> do_kallsyms:
> err = dso__load_kallsyms(dso, kallsyms_filename, map, filter);
> - if (err > 0)
> + if (err > 0) {
> + if (symbol_conf.kallsyms_name == NULL)
> + symbol_conf.kallsyms_name = strdup(kallsyms_filename);
> pr_debug("Using %s for symbols\n", kallsyms_filename);
> + }
> free(kallsyms_allocated_filename);
>
> if (err > 0 && !dso__is_kcore(dso)) {
> --
> 1.8.3.4 (Apple Git-47)
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