Modules installed outside of the kernel's build system should go into
"%s/lib/modules/%s/extra", but at present, perf will only look at them
when they are in "%s/lib/modules/%s/kernel". Lets encourage good
citizenship by relaxing this requirement to "%s/lib/modules/%s". This
way open source modules that are out-of-tree have no incentive to start
populating a directory reserved for in-kernle modules and I can stop hex
editing my system's perf binary when profiling OSS out-of-tree modules.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/machine.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index a53cd0b..116842e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ static int machine__set_modules_path(struct machine *machine)
if (!version)
return -1;
- snprintf(modules_path, sizeof(modules_path), "%s/lib/modules/%s/kernel",
+ snprintf(modules_path, sizeof(modules_path), "%s/lib/modules/%s",
machine->root_dir, version);
free(version);