[PATCH] perf: Ignore stripped vmlinux and fallback to kallsyms

[Anton Blanchard]

If a vmlinux is stripped, perf will use it and ignore kallsyms. We
end up with useless profiles where everything maps to a few
runtime symbols:

    63.39%       swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] hcall_real_table
     4.90%      beam.smp  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] hcall_real_table
     4.44%      beam.smp  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __sched_text_start
     3.72%      beam.smp  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __run_at_kexec

Detect this case and fallback to using kallsyms. This fixes the issue:

    62.81%       swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] snooze_loop
     4.44%      beam.smp  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __schedule
     0.91%      beam.smp  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] _switch
     0.73%      beam.smp  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_prev_entity

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Index: b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
===================================================================
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
@@ -712,6 +712,14 @@ int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struc
 		symbols__delete(&dso->symbols[map->type]);
 
 	if (!syms_ss->symtab) {
+		/*
+		 * If the vmlinux is stripped, fail so we will fall back
+		 * to using kallsyms. The vmlinux runtime symbols aren't
+		 * of much use.
+		 */
+		if (dso->kernel)
+			goto out_elf_end;
+
 		syms_ss->symtab  = syms_ss->dynsym;
 		syms_ss->symshdr = syms_ss->dynshdr;
 	}
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