Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Jan 07 2016 - 18:47:56 EST


Em Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 07:47:03AM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> On January 8, 2016 7:00:35 AM GMT+09:00, Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> ><acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Em Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:56:14PM -0800, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Whenever you do:
> >>>
> >>> $ perf record -g -a sleep 10
> >>>
> >>> Perf will collect the callstack for each sample. At the end of the
> >>> run, perf record
> >>> adds the buildid for all dso with at least one sample. But when it
> >does this, it
> >>> only looks at the sampled IP and ignore the modules traversed by the
> >callstack.
> >>> That means that, it is not possible to uniquely identify the modules
> >executed,
> >>> unless they had at least one IP sample captured. But this is not
> >>> always the case.
> >>>
> >>> How about providing an option to perf record to force collecting
> >>> buildid for all IPs
> >>> captured in the callstack? I understand that would cost more at the
> >end of the
> >>> collection, but this would be beneficial to several monitoring
> >scenarios.
> >>
> >> I agree, would consider applying a patch that provides the option but
> >> does not do this by default.
> >>
> >I agree, not the default.
>
> Hi Stephane,
>
> Please see
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/22/249


Oops, Stephane, please try this, so that we can finally merge it :-\

- Arnaldo