Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix build-id matching on vmlinux

[Namhyung Kim]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Em Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 09:09:49AM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
>> The perf report rebuilds machine states from the event records only.  In
>> this case, the kernel map was recorded in the name of [kernel.kallsyms]
>> so it couldn't find the build-id from the table.
>
> Ok, but then we can special case this one, no?
>
> Somehow mark in the buildid table that that entry is the one for the
> kernel and hook it up to the synthesized event that has the
> [kernel.kallsyms].ref_reloc_sym entry.

Maybe we can search vmlinux in machine->kernel_dsos first when
processing kernel mmap event.  And in this case do you want replace
the name of mapping to a fullname of vmlinux?

Thanks,
Namhyung
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