Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix annotation with kcore

From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Tue Nov 11 2014 - 08:57:56 EST


On 11/11/14 15:05, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:04:54PM +0200, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
>> Patch "perf tools: Fix build-id matching on vmlinux"
>
> So, I will check this, but please state for which branch this is
> supposed to be applied, i.e. does it fixes perf/urgent stuff and thus
> needs to go ASAP, or is this something that affects perf/core and thus
> can wait till I process more urgent stuff?

It is perf/core so it can wait.

>
> - Arnaldo
>
>> breaks annotation with kcore. The problem is that
>> symbol__annotate() first gets the filename based on
>> the build-id which was previously not set.
>> This patch provides a quick fix, however there should
>> probably be only one way to determine the filename. e.g.
>> symbol__annotate() should use the same way as
>> dso__data_fd().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 2 ++
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
>> index 7dabde1..873c877 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
>> @@ -915,6 +915,8 @@ int symbol__annotate(struct symbol *sym, struct map *map, size_t privsize)
>> return -ENOMEM;
>> }
>> goto fallback;
>> + } else if (dso__is_kcore(dso)) {
>> + goto fallback;
>> } else if (readlink(symfs_filename, command, sizeof(command)) < 0 ||
>> strstr(command, "[kernel.kallsyms]") ||
>> access(symfs_filename, R_OK)) {
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>
>

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