Re: [PATCH v2] perf tools: Fix build-id matching on vmlinux

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Sep 05 2014 - 10:11:42 EST


Em Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 10:22:40AM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
> On 09/05/2014 07:59 AM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> > @@ -1060,10 +1060,14 @@ static int machine__process_kernel_mmap_event(struct machine *machine,
> > strlen(kmmap_prefix));
> > /*
> > * Should be there already, from the build-id table in
> > - * the header.
> > + * the header (but maybe with a different name: "vmlinux").
> > */
> > - struct dso *kernel = __dsos__findnew(&machine->kernel_dsos,
> > - kmmap_prefix);
> > + struct dso *kernel = dsos__find(&machine->kernel_dsos,
> > + "vmlinux", true);

> Isn't "vmlinux" just the basename of the original file name, so if it had a
> different name this wouldn't work e.g. if the filename had been
> /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-26-generic then you would need
> "vmlinuz-3.11.0-26-generic" for this to work?

Yeah, looking for well known pathnames to then check if the build-id
matches the one we're looking for, be it because we obtained it from
/sys/kernel/notes (for the running kernel), or from the perf.data file
build-id table is ok, as we don't know where it is.

Plain sticking "vmlinux" there is not.

- Arnaldo
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