[PATCH 0/3] perf report: Recognize hugetlb mapping as anon mapping

From: Wang Nan
Date: Fri Sep 02 2016 - 10:00:57 EST


The requirement of this function is first proposed at 2015.
Please refer to

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.2/02372.html
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.3/02290.html
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.3/03512.html

For systems which use hugetlbfs, if a sample is captured inside
hugetlbfs, perf should not resolve symbols from the file shown in
/prof/<pid>/mmap, because 'files' in hugetlbfs are constructed
during execution and not ELF files. If user knows positions of
symbols, he/she should provide /tmp/perf-<pid>.map file.

This 3 patches makes perf recognize hugetlbfs mapping as anon mapping.
Before this 3 patches user has no chance to use his/her own .map file
to resolve symbols because perf tries to use hugetlbfs file.

Wang Nan (3):
perf tools: Recognize hugetlb mapping as anon mapping
tools lib api fs: Add hugetlbfs filesystem detector
perf record: Mark MAP_HUGETLB during synthesizing mmap events

tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
tools/lib/api/fs/fs.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/event.c | 7 +++++++
tools/perf/util/map.c | 8 +++++---
4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hou Pengyang <houpengyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
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